AMD's Zen powered Summit Ridge CPUs are rumoured to have dedicated overclocking varia

[WYP]

AMD's upcoming Zen-powered Summit Ridge CPUs are rumoured to have dedicated overclocking variants, similar to Intel's K-series CPUs.



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[Kleptobot]

haven't AMD been using the 'black edition' monicker for overclocking or enthusiast targeted chips for a while now? I kinda just assumed that they would be launching with some BE zen chips

 

[Kourgath223]

haven't AMD been using the 'black edition' monicker for overclocking or enthusiast targeted chips for a while now? I kinda just assumed that they would be launching with some BE zen chips

I could be wrong but I think in the case of AMD all of their CPUs are able to be overclocked but the ones labeled Black Edition are better at it. Unlike Intel were some CPUs can overclock (ix xxxxk) while others just can't (ix xxxx).

 

[AlienALX]

Looking at that diagram it looks like the chipsets are what allow the overclock. X370 has overclocking enabled and dual X16 lanes. This will be your X99 board. Then there's the B350 that has overclocking (though with less lanes it seems, maybe the lanes are on the chipset not the CPUs?) And then your boggy standard A320 which is probably those turds we saw last week (the Gigabyte ones with no VRM cooling and crap VRMs etc).

AMD stopped rationing overclocks (though this did cause problems with boards that really weren't compatible) but only because they had to. With weaker CPUs you absolutely must enable overclocking or people would go elsewhere.

That will probably change if Zen is any good though. Intel have been charging for air for years.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Looking at that diagram it looks like the chipsets are what allow the overclock. X370 has overclocking enabled and dual X16 lanes. This will be your X99 board. Then there's the B350 that has overclocking (though with less lanes it seems, maybe the lanes are on the chipset not the CPUs?) And then your boggy standard A320 which is probably those turds we saw last week (the Gigabyte ones with no VRM cooling and crap VRMs etc).

AMD stopped rationing overclocks (though this did cause problems with boards that really weren't compatible) but only because they had to. With weaker CPUs you absolutely must enable overclocking or people would go elsewhere.

That will probably change if Zen is any good though. Intel have been charging for air for years.

Those "turds" don't need vrm cooling. Like we said in that other thread. It's a budget oriented board meant for very simple uses.

These OC chips are binned btw WYP. They will come with higher clocks out of the box which is why they need to be binned to maintain the same TDP. All there chips can overclock, the dedicated ones will just be guaranteed to be better at it

 

[Kushiro]

Thats good news then, if they can all OC then at least people have a choice whether or not to pay for a guarruntee. Makes one wonder what the pricing difference would be then.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Prices for Binned chips? Probably quite a bit. Costs a lot more to select each specific core from each wafer. Means they got to cut them out individually, or at least that's how I think it works