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ryzen clock speed question?

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I am still using my trusty old 2500k . When i bought it a couple of tweeks in bios sent it fron 3.3 ghz to 4.6 ghz where it has been sitting happily now for years,which is over 30% free power ... Now from what i have read Ryzen is prety much full throttle out of the box? so what i buy is what i get. A small overclock posible but nothing groundbreaking .. I am still going to buy in a few weeks as obviously there are lots of improvements over just clock speed,but i will be waiting for full revues not the leaks we are being fed at the moment though .. Or am i missing something?
 
Tomorrow the NDA drops if I'm not wrong so we should find out more.

I'm more interested when the PROs over on overclock.net get there CPUs and create an advanced OC guide.
 
Tomorrow the NDA drops if I'm not wrong so we should find out more.

I'm more interested when the PROs over on overclock.net get there CPUs and create an advanced OC guide.
I think someone made up this date 28th here on forum. Nowhere said/confirmed 28th and more websites actually state 2nd.:rolleyes:
 
I am still using my trusty old 2500k . When i bought it a couple of tweeks in bios sent it fron 3.3 ghz to 4.6 ghz where it has been sitting happily now for years,which is over 30% free power ... Now from what i have read Ryzen is prety much full throttle out of the box? so what i buy is what i get. A small overclock posible but nothing groundbreaking .. I am still going to buy in a few weeks as obviously there are lots of improvements over just clock speed,but i will be waiting for full revues not the leaks we are being fed at the moment though .. Or am i missing something?


You don't really get decent % overclocks with CPU's anymore.
CPU designers are upping stock clock speeds instead of dedicating more die area to CPU core transistors.
What Intel could have done with it's latest desktop chips (6700k/7700k), is doubled the die area of the CPU cores so that the CPU IPC performance would be WAY higher (nearly double).
Then to keep the TDP in check, it would down clock the CPU to something like 3.0GHZ with an appropriate low voltage.
This would mean, an overclocker could clock the chip to something like 4Ghz+ and get a big % overclock with appropriate cooling.

The reason this no longer happens with Intel chips, is the igpu takes up 50% of the CPU.
Gone are the i7 920 days when you got a 2.6ghz chip that you could then clock to 4Ghz+.

With AMD's Ryzen, instead of adding an ipgu, they doubled the core count.
 
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