Could this be the steal of the century...... ?

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A bit better at 4.3

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Starting to get my head round it.

Think 4.4 should be doable.

Need to hit the sack and pick it up tomorrow

 

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Getting there

I reseated the cpu block as a I think I had too much TIM on it. Seems to have helped a little.

Think I'll stick with 4.3 for the time being.

Doing well in Adobe Premier editing a 4K video

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Still messing about with the settings. Now got my 2400 Ram at 2933 and it seems happy ( not fully tested yet )

4.3 seems like the sweet-spot for this CPU without delidding.

Ran CPU-Z and benched against a stock 5960, then just a straight bench.

 

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Have to say I did have a Picard moment the first time I powered it up.

I know I can clock it harder but I'm interested in 24/7 not benching ( other than testing stability )

 

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Good find - I can squeeze out a little extra single thread performance from my 7820X but obviously the extra cores in your (only slightly more expensive) chip blow mine out of the water. I get similar temps at the 4.5-4.6 level so yours at 4.4 with double the cores is impressive.

Thanks Mate.

I'd love to see what delidding would do, but that's maybe for another day

 

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Playing about with 4.6 at Auto volts, just for a bit of fun. Premier Pro seems happy with it but Cinebench gets it a bit toasty

Dammed close to 4,000 though in CB

Going to try 4.4 now and see if it's liveable 24/7

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Thanks guys

I hand one go at a silly overclock. 4.7Ghz with adaptive voltage and a -.020V offset

Managed to break the 4K Cinebench barrier. Time so scale it back to the land of sensible

Back to 4.4

Re Ram:- nothing special, just my trusty DDR4 2400 with not great timings. I can overclock it to 2933 on this Mobo, not sure how much difference it will make though.

 

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What are your memory speeds and timings like? They really like fast RAM + low latency.

IS your Mesh stuck at 2.7GHz?

Excuse the X299 Noob question

How on earth do I find out what my Mesh settings are. A bit of research suggests that this is " Uncore " on the Asus boards, is that correct.

If so what bios settings can I mess about with and what are good target values. Thanks

 

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It is labeled CPU Cache ratio for ASUS boards. There is a minimum and maximum value in the section above your screenshot. Leave minimum as Auto and tweak the maximum from Auto. At stock its at x27 (so 2.7 GHz Mesh). Most will do around x29 - x31. For voltages you will want to be around the 1v-1.15v mark, don't want to juice the voltages too much here so that's a solid 24/7 long term number, could increase it I guess if your benching. Its the Uncore voltage offset for voltages related to cache. Would set it to manual or use offset with base voltages being 0.9v so you would be looking to offset by around 0.1v-0.25v

Thanks

I'll have a play about with it.

 

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Interesting, seems to have gone just a little off the rails in the last month

Must have just got lucky with the 7960