Ryzen, a return to the glory days of overclocking?

[WYP]

With all AMD Ryzen CPUs supporting overclocking and a range of both premium and affordable overclocking ready motherboards, will Ryzen start an overclocking revolution?



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[wozza365]

I actually have a feeling these chips won't actually overclock all that well. Not sure why, but the stock and boost clock speeds are all fairly low in the leaks, which leads me to believe that the top ones can't all reliable hit much more than 4GHz.

But I really hope I'm wrong!

 

[WYP]

I actually have a feeling these chips won't actually overclock all that well. Not sure why, but the stock and boost clock speeds are all fairly low in the leaks, which leads me to believe that the top ones can't all reliable hit much more than 4GHz.

But I really hope I'm wrong!

Yeah, but look at Intel CPUs, only recent generations have had high base/boost clocks at stock, though they have easily OC'd to 4.5 since Sandy Bridge.

 

[Armageddon]

I actually have a feeling these chips won't actually overclock all that well. Not sure why, but the stock and boost clock speeds are all fairly low in the leaks, which leads me to believe that the top ones can't all reliable hit much more than 4GHz.

But I really hope I'm wrong!

We can only have hope ....

Remember i7 920 from 2,6Ghz to 4Ghz ~ 4,2Ghz

 

[Dark NighT]

I actually have a feeling these chips won't actually overclock all that well. Not sure why, but the stock and boost clock speeds are all fairly low in the leaks, which leads me to believe that the top ones can't all reliable hit much more than 4GHz.

But I really hope I'm wrong!

Thing is though, with intel's marketing shouting about 4, 5 ghz cpu's, people get into the mindset that higher frequencies is better and think that 3 to 4 ghz isn't gonna cut it against higher clocked competitors products, which is completely silly.

I won't dispute higher clocks wont ever be worse, but if a 3.6 ghz amd can keep up or beat a 5 ghz intel, then those numbers are completely useless for comparisons sake, but knowing that obnoxious group of pc master race, im sure they will make a lot of noise about most likely most amd's not even reaching 5ghz.

 

[Ando]

I have an i5 6500 OC to 4.4, I did this mainly to defy intel! I can see Ryzen bringing in a wave of new overclockers, there is a special feeling when you get that extra performance out of your comp.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Thing is though, with intel's marketing shouting about 4, 5 ghz cpu's, people get into the mindset that higher frequencies is better and think that 3 to 4 ghz isn't gonna cut it against higher clocked competitors products, which is completely silly.

I won't dispute higher clocks wont ever be worse, but if a 3.6 ghz amd can keep up or beat a 5 ghz intel, then those numbers are completely useless for comparisons sake, but knowing that obnoxious group of pc master race, im sure they will make a lot of noise about most likely most amd's not even reaching 5ghz.

Yeah, and 5Ghz is pointless in gaming from what I've seen. After 4.6Ghz Intel's Skylake/Kabylake CPU's just don't scale that well, at least from what I've seen. If AMD can reach 4.5Ghz without ridiculous cooling, that's excellent. Even 4.3 or 4.4Ghz would satiate my hunger. That's all my 4670K could reach without piling on more voltage with diminishing returns.

 

[NeverBackDown]

What's even better for the OC, is that since XFR is going to scale with cooling, people who are afraid to OC basically can still get a free performance boost. Kinda like how Nvidia cards OC automatically. That should attract a lot of people.
Now not every CPU will have an unlimited boost range(the 65watt TDP skus), but for the most part free performance for everyone

 

[Warchild]

Yeah, and 5Ghz is pointless in gaming from what I've seen. After 4.6Ghz Intel's Skylake/Kabylake CPU's just don't scale that well, at least from what I've seen. If AMD can reach 4.5Ghz without ridiculous cooling, that's excellent. Even 4.3 or 4.4Ghz would satiate my hunger. That's all my 4670K could reach without piling on more voltage with diminishing returns.

Well for gaming only, anything over 4.4 is negligible and you are just putting more stress on the CPU/power consumption/CPU lifespan. Ok if you can get a high clock and keep the volts low then great, but if you have to fight and tweak your way for countless hours to get it higher, and then only focus on gaming, I think its a total waste of time and energy.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Well for gaming only, anything over 4.4 is negligible and you are just putting more stress on the CPU/power consumption/CPU lifespan. Ok if you can get a high clock and keep the volts low then great, but if you have to fight and tweak your way for countless hours to get it higher, and then only focus on gaming, I think its a total waste of time and energy.

Pretty much, yeah. Overclocking is fun and I enjoy doing a little benchmarking, but 24/7 overclock at 5Ghz is just pointless when I'd rather have a silent system that is more stable at 4.6Ghz.