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Cinebench scores normal?

Tris1066

Tris1066

Tris1066

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Just curious if my cinebench scores are within normal range for an 8700k as I've seen a lot higher than these..

@5GHz 1652pts
@5.1GHz 1670pts
@5.2GHz 1693pts

I've seen claimed scores of 1650-1670pts @4.7GHz which seems quite high compared to my own.

I can't push to 5.3GHz without going past 1.4v which I'm not prepared to do (don't want to cook my CPU!).
 
No worries, the variance in scores will likely be attributable to the other components in your system as it is impossible to completely replicate these in any test. Its worth doing a broad suite of benchmarks to get a better picture of your system performance. Hitting 5.2GHz seems the opposite of dud compared with other overclockers, Steve from Hardware Unboxed compared 10 8700ks and only three samples managed 5.2 GHz, so you are likely to have a good'un!
 
ChocoViennese said:
No worries, the variance in scores will likely be attributable to the other components in your system as it is impossible to completely replicate these in any test. Its worth doing a broad suite of benchmarks to get a better picture of your system performance. Hitting 5.2GHz seems the opposite of dud compared with other overclockers, Steve from Hardware Unboxed compared 10 8700ks and only three samples managed 5.2 GHz, so you are likely to have a good'un!
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It was only 1 chip out of the 10 which hit 5.2Ghz, the other two where Intel samples.

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ChocoViennese said:
Hitting 5.2GHz seems the opposite of dud compared with other overclockers....
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Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be comfortable running 5.2 all the time, I did it just for benchmarking purposes. It takes around 1.38-1.39v to get a stable 5.2ghz, which makes things a bit toasty, hitting around 90 degrees during my hour long stress testing.

For actual use I stick to a nice round 5GHz @ 1.29v.
 
RSR said:
It was only 1 chip out of the 10 which hit 5.2Ghz, the other two where Intel samples.

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Very interesting that three of those chips seems to draw more than twenty percent less power than the others. Performance increasing by less than 5%. I think i might prefer to save the electric, lol.
 
Destination said:
Very interesting that three of those chips seems to draw more than twenty percent less power than the others. Performance increasing by less than 5%. I think i might prefer to save the electric, lol.
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After a point Intel's ringbus becomes saturated and that becomes the bottleneck.
 
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