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Illuminist said:
I'm still ummin and ahhing
What do you guys think is the best upgrade from my 2700x ? Purely for gaming.
I know you might say wait for reviews, but right now with paper details what do you think?
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3600 will match your multicore and be faster for games.
Thats the baseline, everything above it will be even faster.
 
I'll admit, it's obviously not for everyone. But I've done it several times with great success. And yes, it takes 48 hours now, with free shipping. Hell I paid like £400 for a 9900k that was £650 on OCUK. had it on my desk 48 hours later. Obviously, if UK retailers keeps prices reasonable ($ conversion plus VAT) then I'll just buy in the UK. makes sense. But I won't be made a mug off and will import if I deem it worth while. I suggest others try the same. About time UK gouging was put to bed.
 
Nerusy said:
Free shipping for members:
  • OcUK Forums members who have 250 or more posts and have been registered for over 90 days, or
  • OcUK Forums members who have been registered for over 12 months and made at least 100 posts
Do check if the requirement changed though. Then it's just a matter of linking your forum account to your ocuk store account for free shipping.

Edit: I think you're just 15 posts away from free shipping, go to General Discussion and type away :D
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Thanks for that :) I should have the 100 by the 7th haha
 
Tested more on 3600x with B450... Its working fine with all core OC and 3200mhz RAM C14... The efficiency is defo off though...... Especially at stock as PBO is not as advanced on older chipsets...

With OC efficiency is closer but still down... Seems like the vendors built the Bios on old Agesa code as results with OC are comparable to X570 of a good while ago..... So to get B450 to X570 perf you need to OC first, then rely on MB vendors having spare resources to adopt and validate latest Agesa tuning. Which believe me is being updated very often right now and gaining each time...
 
8 Pack said:
Tested more on 3600x with B450... Its working fine with all core OC and 3200mhz RAM C14... The efficiency is defo off though...... Especially at stock as PBO is not as advanced on older chipsets...

With OC efficiency is closer but still down... Seems like the vendors built the Bios on old Agesa code as results with OC are comparable to X570 of a good while ago..... So to get B450 to X570 perf you need to OC first, then rely on MB vendors having spare resources to adopt and validate latest Agesa tuning. Which believe me is being updated very often right now and gaining each time...
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Is that on Win10 1903 & using the new AMD chipset which is due to be a public release on the 7th July?
 
8 Pack said:
Tested more on 3600x with B450... Its working fine with all core OC and 3200mhz RAM C14... The efficiency is defo off though...... Especially at stock as PBO is not as advanced on older chipsets...

With OC efficiency is closer but still down... Seems like the vendors built the Bios on old Agesa code as results with OC are comparable to X570 of a good while ago..... So to get B450 to X570 perf you need to OC first, then rely on MB vendors having spare resources to adopt and validate latest Agesa tuning. Which believe me is being updated very often right now and gaining each time...
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Just tell us the max OC you've got on the 3900x. It's what we all want to know!
 
Fair do's it looks like the prices here are going to be very competitive, nice to see! Now if only i wasnt such a lurker and actually posted more I could get free shipping as well!
 
chroniclard said:
Get chatty, you only need 51 more posts to qualify as you joined in 2016. :p
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I'll give it a shot :)

On a more relevant and technical note, as you can see in my sig I'm currently running my 1600 at an all core 3.8Ghz, but I think with the new 3000 cpu (whichever I decide to get) I may well let XFR and PBO do their thing as its mostly gaming I do anyway. So no need really for more than a couple of cores maxing at once I suspect.

Given that I'm planning to hang onto my Gigabyte Gaming 5 X370 board, which has been solid as a rock, am I still likely to get the majority of those XFR/PBO benefits on such an old board? I keep reading conflicting reports about XFR working but possibly not PBO, or it is but not as good etc. As anything official been mentioned on this or is it still all speculation?
 
8 Pack said:
Tested more on 3600x with B450... Its working fine with all core OC and 3200mhz RAM C14... The efficiency is defo off though...... Especially at stock as PBO is not as advanced on older chipsets...

With OC efficiency is closer but still down... Seems like the vendors built the Bios on old Agesa code as results with OC are comparable to X570 of a good while ago..... So to get B450 to X570 perf you need to OC first, then rely on MB vendors having spare resources to adopt and validate latest Agesa tuning. Which believe me is being updated very often right now and gaining each time...
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what brand b450 did you use?
 
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