Lightroom / Casual Gaming - £2k

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Having a play with OCing the 9700K. Doesn't look too promising TBH. 5Ghz on all cores requires 1.3vcore with LLC level 2 which sees vcore hit 1.47 when doing a cinebench run.
 
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Oynas said:
Mate, on your spec how do you find Lightroom performance? Noticeable improvement over your previous build?
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Well it's a big improvement on the Lenovo Thinkpad 13 I was using previously, that would choke. Everything is instant as you'd expect and imports/previews are very quick.
 
I think I'm going to grab the Cryorig slim fan and install that at the top of the case. Undecided if I'll run as intake or exhaust. Currently the only exhaust is at the rear practically attached to the CPU cooler.
 
LiE said:
Having a play with OCing the 9700K. Doesn't look too promising TBH. 5Ghz on all cores requires 1.3vcore with LLC level 2 which sees vcore hit 1.47 when doing a cinebench run.
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worth having a look with asrock forums, no the aorus doesn;t pull that much even with MCE on - might have to increase LLC levels and voltage slightly higher to combat spikes

key thing is voltage when doing workloads and not benchmarks :)

have exhaust ! little rpm but should help
 
orbitalwalsh said:
worth having a look with asrock forums, no the aorus doesn;t pull that much even with MCE on - might have to increase LLC levels and voltage slightly higher to combat spikes

key thing is voltage when doing workloads and not benchmarks :)

have exhaust ! little rpm but should help
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Would a good starting point be to set something like 1.4v and a high LLC to see if this is stable and helps with spikes?
 
Using this settings as a starting point, can't get anywhere near the voltages under load mentioned.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1002428-9700k-overclock-results-good-or-bad/

So looks like this chip doesn't want to stay under 1.4 when doing 5Ghz all core. Even tried 4.8Ghz all cores and that was still 1.429.

The only thing I noticed from the link was performance boost disable, I can't see this setting in my BIOS.

I'm pretty confused how I can set a fixed voltage with LLC1 (aka keep it fixed) and it still goes over by some margin.

I assume leaving on speed speed and turbo boost in the BIOS is OK?
 
@LiE sorr, havent used an ASRock in a long while mate so couldn't comment .

tried M.C.E briefly to see how that reacts ? as a rule is does bump more voltage but might get different from what your manual overclock has done

passed the 14 days return period im guessing ?
 
Fixed it. Updated the BIOS to version 1.6 which was released today actually. Within BIOS there is now a Voltage Mode - Extreme or Normal. I presume previously it was always on Extreme meaning it would ramp voltages more. Now 5Ghz on all cores running Cinebench I'm hitting 1.364 max voltage.

Temps sit around 66-70 which seems good.
 
LiE said:
Fixed it. Updated the BIOS to version 1.6 which was released today actually. Within BIOS there is now a Voltage Mode - Extreme or Normal. I presume previously it was always on Extreme meaning it would ramp voltages more. Now 5Ghz on all cores running Cinebench I'm hitting 1.364 max voltage.

Temps sit around 66-70 which seems good.
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nice :)

though would have though that would have been at launch lol. now you should be able to up voltage and push overclock ;)
 
My RMA was processed today for the Kraken. The good news is that they agree it's not good, the bad-ish new is they can only give me store credit (FYI I didn't order from OcUK). So I've used the credit to buy another Samsung 1TB EVO 860, I'm sure it will come in handy.
 
LiE said:
My RMA was processed today for the Kraken. The good news is that they agree it's not good, the bad-ish new is they can only give me store credit (FYI I didn't order from OcUK). So I've used the credit to buy another Samsung 1TB EVO 860, I'm sure it will come in handy.
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:D

store credit... it was within 14/30 days right ?
 
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