AMD confirms that their mainstream B650 AM5 chipset will support overclocking

[WYP]

Put away your pitchforks folks.



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[AlienALX]

No pitchforks here

I just hope that the overclocking bit is meaningful, and not a total waste of time like it has been since Ryzen came out.

I suppose it depends on how much they have to push it, given Intel catching them up.

 

[Dawelio]

I just hope that the overclocking bit is meaningful, and not a total waste of time like it has been since Ryzen came out.

I suppose it depends on how much they have to push it, given Intel catching them up.

I wouldn't hold my breath here, I think the days of overclocking are like SLI. They are gone. Not many people overclock their systems these days, mostly just enthusiasts. Especially given that Ryzen etc are basically at their limits out of the box.

 

[demonking]

I wouldn't hold my breath here, I think the days of overclocking are like SLI. They are gone. Not many people overclock their systems these days, mostly just enthusiasts. Especially given that Ryzen etc are basically at their limits out of the box.

I agree with you here, but more like GPU overclocking. Pre- boosting you'd have a set speed, i.e 3.4ghz. put any old cooler on it in any old case with next to no cooling, you'd be running at 3.4 and getting 4.2 would be easy with a good cooler, I ran a 3770 at 4.2 for nearly 7 years on a £65 scythe cooler

Now keeping any kind of clocks is reliant on good cooling, I mean 230 watts is a mental amount of heat to deal with on a processor! 10 years ago being able to pump enough power into a cpu to generate that sort of heat was extreme overclocking, huge open loops or sub zero.

Overclockings not what it was. it was for the nerds that wanted to spend a little extra money and lots of time, its the other way round now. You can spend hours now and get maybe a few points. Then some kids mum buys him the top board, sticks on auto and is just behind your 4 hour investment.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I agree with you here, but more like GPU overclocking. Pre- boosting you'd have a set speed, i.e 3.4ghz. put any old cooler on it in any old case with next to no cooling, you'd be running at 3.4 and getting 4.2 would be easy with a good cooler, I ran a 3770 at 4.2 for nearly 7 years on a £65 scythe cooler

Now keeping any kind of clocks is reliant on good cooling, I mean 230 watts is a mental amount of heat to deal with on a processor! 10 years ago being able to pump enough power into a cpu to generate that sort of heat was extreme overclocking, huge open loops or sub zero.

Overclockings not what it was. it was for the nerds that wanted to spend a little extra money and lots of time, its the other way round now. You can spend hours now and get maybe a few points. Then some kids mum buys him the top board, sticks on auto and is just behind your 4 hour investment.

In fairness, a 3770K is a very different CPU than current architectures. Obviously we don't want to go back to those days because processors are now lightyears ahead.

Shrinking silicon down introduces heat. Adding cores adds heat. Adding all of the advancements adds heat. Increasing clock speeds adds heat. I completely expected processors to go this way. I'm glad they are.

If AMD and Intel deliberately held back performance by limiting TDP and kept the price the same, we'd all be praising them for being great overclockers. But because AMD and Intel are doing that work for us, they're criticised.