Overclocking

Fourth dimension to overclock and delight notation we didn't take a huge corporeality of time to delve into overclocking and it certainly wasn't the focus of our testing. We may follow upwardly after with more overclocking results merely for now here's a sense of taste.

For this review I tried two methods of overclocking, using the ROG Zenith Extreme I tried the Asus Precision Boost Override method and then with the MSI MEG X399 Creation the old fashion multiplier and fix voltage method. Both methods resulted in adequately like multicore performance, but the Asus PBO method provides significantly better unmarried core performance.

Here nosotros see that the fixed frequency overclock yields slightly better results in the Blender test, though I should emphasise just very slightly. The 2950X was able to complete the return 12% quicker while the 2990WX was just 4% faster which is disappointing given we saw a 20% boost in score with Cinebench.

Here we have some pretty alarming results. Overclocked the 2990WX saw at to the lowest degree an 81% increment in total system power depict and up to 97% with the fixed overclocked. Here we can see why fixing 32-cores at 4 GHz using 1.4 volts is a bad idea, the idle consumption was 182 watts, more than a stock Ryzen seven 1800X at full steam and virtually what the 1920X draws nether load.

Using the Asus PBO method the idle draw is roughly halved downward to 95 watts merely notwithstanding the load consumption yet hits an centre watering 694 watts, in this test. I say in this test because I obscured total power draw striking 780 watts in Cinebench and 848 watts for the fixed voltage overclock. This is probably why AMD suggests you pack at least a grand watt power supply if y'all plan on overclocking. Interestingly despite promoting overclocking on these unlocked parts AMD says if you overclock or utilise PBO you volition void your warranty, non sure how they will enforce that but they are claiming any form of overclocking will void your warranty with these 2nd gen Threadripper CPUs.