Hearthly wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
JohnCoffey wrote:
All hardware now has boost/turbo clocks.
Which is not overclocking.
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You can push it farther yourself
Which is overclocking.
I think what JC is getting at is that at default settings most hardware will boost itself as far as it's likely go even if you try and overclock it manually, depending on power and thermal limits.
TBH I actually prefer this, I just bought a 1080 with a really good cooler on it and when under load it will cheerfully boost itself up to around 2050MHz without me having to do anything. (A clock speed that is beyond anything that cards marketed as 'pre-overclocked' are advertised as boosting to.)
(And with Ryzen 2xxx CPUs, even Custom PC are recommending leaving the thing untouched, and letting XFR2 (think it's called that....) handle the boosting for you as it does a better job than overclocking most of the time.)
Yes that is what I mean. For example back in the day you could get up to 80% overclocks (mostly on the Opterons etc) but then when the companies realised this they started speed binning parts. IMO Intel Turbo is overclocking. It pushes up the core speeds, mostly dependent on cooling, to a set figure. However, if for example your cooling is pony it will not turbo has high or for long.
For overclocking yourself you can easily use the actual Turbo Boost app and do it there, though there are tons of other apps that allow you to do exactly the same.
I must admit I prefer it too tbh. It is much easier, though you are paying for it.
I can get about 2100mhz out of my XP (from the "stock" 1800 or so mhz) but I noticed even without any power increase or thermal limit increase it was happily boosting to 2000 without me even touching it, once I put it under water.
The two guys I know that bought Titan V noted that it was "only" about 15% faster than the Xp (with the Xp under water and able to stretch its legs) whereas the Titan V was throttling like absolute mad. It should have been 25-40% faster than the Xp, but the FE cooler was really limiting it.
1080Ti are the same (FE). They will boost to 2050 but only for as long as they remain within the thermal limit. It is very difficult to get a Ti to stay at 2050 or above without water cooling. Some of the larger cards (Zotac Amp and EVGA FTW) had massive air coolers so were OK on air, but yeah it was time for Nvidia to rethink the FE cooler.
I hope this thing doesn't dump the heat in the case as it would ruin an ITX build.
Edit, just seen Doc's post. Intel CPUs have quite a chunk of OC headroom left in yes. However, that isn't strictly true for anything else. Ryzen CPUs for example don't go much farther than the software app (IIRC Wattman? something like that) can push them and cooling dependent GPUs only go up about 100mhz or so over a decent boost on a decent card.