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1800x Rumoured to be a great overclocker. Beats 6950x & 7700K Single thread!

Ayahuasca said:
That doesn't seem very high to be honest but it's still early days, I'd expect max clocks for most folk on standard cooling to be at least a full ghz lower than that.
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On the 1800x which is 4.0 stock and has a TDP dependent boost to 4.1 also stock?

Seems unlikely to the point of crazy that it would then fail to go above 4.2 with ambient cooling and actual effort put into overclocking it.
 
Hotwired said:
On the 1800x which is 4.0 stock and has a TDP dependent boost to 4.1 also stock?

Seems unlikely to the point of crazy that it would then fail to go above 4.2 with ambient cooling and actual effort put into overclocking it.
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I suspect we'll see higher extreme cooling clocks soon enough, so yeah 4.4 should be achievable I think.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I suspect we'll see higher extreme cooling clocks soon enough, so yeah 4.4 should be achievable I think.
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Stop this. Gibbo already said 4G and around that....very selected samples 4.2 all cores and threads.

Ln2 5.2 or so.
 
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Wasn't Gibbo talking about the 65W TDP R7 1700?? Now are you saying the R7 1800X has the same overclock limit??

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That makes the R7 1700 pretty decent - spend a bit extra on a motherboard,and still significantly cheaper than a Core i7 6900K,which even at its new price will still cost more the double.
 
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I think people are forgetting this is an eight core CPU and it is a brand new architecture and the first attempt at that architecture. We all like AMD but too much optimism won't do them any favours if expectations are set unrealistically high.
 
five8five said:
No Gibbo said 3.9-4.1 for the 1700
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Well another retailer is selling 4.2GHZ pre-overclocked bundles for the R7 1800X and their Core i7 6900K pre-overclocked bundles are also running at 4.2GHZ too.

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So that means it kind of confirms 4.2GHZ is at least possible.

The hype tram is still not dead(yet)!!

:p
 
If they are selling 4.2ghz bundles this early, that to me indicates 4.2ghz is easy to achieve. So yeh, 4.3 or 4.4 should be within reach for a lot of chips I reckon.
 
8 Pack said:
Stop this. Gibbo already said 4G and around that....very selected samples 4.2 all cores and threads.

Ln2 5.2 or so.
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Below is what what Gibbo reportedly said.
"We just tested a 1700, it hit 4.0GHz stable in everything, but ONLY in the Crosshair mainboard, the lower-end boards it was hovering around 3.80GHz as the VRM’s were cooking with extra voltage. It however was maxing around 4050MHz, so I’d say 1700 can do 3.9-4.1GHz, of course the 1800X will probably do 4.1-4.3 as no doubt better binned, but if your clocking the motherboard has a big impact on the overclock and so far Asus Crosshair and Asrock Taichi seem the best two."

As the 1800x does 4.1 out of the box. I think 4.1 is the bare minimum people can expect. i.e. You would have to be incredibly unlucky if your 1800x doesn't go beyond that.
I'm also assuming Gibbo might be airing on the side of caution here with his estimations.
 
An Exception said:
If they are selling 4.2ghz bundles this early, that to me indicates 4.2ghz is easy to achieve. So yeh, 4.3 or 4.4 should be within reach for a lot of chips I reckon.
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I also get the impression they tend to not do the special binning some retailers might do,so will err on the side of caution. For example their R7 1700 bundle runs at 3.8GHZ which again is a few 100mhz under what Gibbo said was possible.
 
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