btw if your desktop CPU isn’t boosting particularly high for thermal reasons, you should check what your mainboard is doing to the voltage

not to get better performance but because most mainboard vendors have extremely aggressive defaults that will shorten your CPU’s lifespan, which given the market situation is probably something you want to avoid

@mia how

@yew the sensors command should display voltages. you monitor that under various load scenarios and compare to what the CPU vendor says is the normal range

the settings you need to adjust are vendor-specific and also specific to the CPU model

@yew i think it was fine for yours tho

@yew which is probably because you don’t have some high-end gaming board. i suspect those are more likely to do that to achieve higher clocks

@snacks @yew yeah true

@mia @snacks

@yew @snacks yeah that’s the wonderful thing, lots of big made-up words that the manual never explains

@snacks @yew on my previous intel setup (i7-6700k) the voltage went up to 1.6V which is way up in the red zone lmao

it could reach the same clock speed at 1.1V

thanks asus

@snacks @phnt @yew people are noticing degradation with zen 3 CPUs lately as well. shows up as RAM errors too when it’s really the CPU that’s about to die

@lanodan the ideal voltage is the lowest your particular CPU can go without instability. i dunno if AMD even publishes a “nominal range” anymore
it’s likely that your mainboard’s loadline calibration boosts this higher than it needs to be, and PBO settings can be used to influence it as well (but be very careful with these because the default configuration some vendors have in their firmware after enabling the settings page is bogus values and has literally caused fires)