Multi-chip Intel Core i9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
by Gavin Bonshor on August 30, 2021 9:00 AM ESTOverclocking Results Continued
Synthetic - GeekBench 5: Link
As a common tool for cross-platform testing between mobile, PC, and Mac, GeekBench is an ultimate exercise in synthetic testing across a range of algorithms looking for peak throughput. Tests include encryption, compression, fast Fourier transform, memory operations, n-body physics, matrix operations, histogram manipulation, and HTML parsing.
In the single thread element to the Geekbench 5 benchmark, we saw an overall gain of 0.1% which is marginal at best. However, in the multi-thread section of the benchmark, our overclocked results account for an average uplight of around 4.5%. Again, The reason why the ST values aren't popping here is because the stock CPU enables turbo with TVB to 5.3 GHz, whereas we are fixing each chip to 5.2 GHz all-core.
Gaming - Civilization (DX11)
Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer underflow. Truth be told I never actually played the first version, but I have played every edition from the second to the sixth, including the fourth as voiced by the late Leonard Nimoy, and it is a game that is easy to pick up, but hard to master.
Benchmarking Civilization has always been somewhat of an oxymoron – for a turn based strategy game, the frame rate is not necessarily the important thing here and even in the right mood, something as low as 5 frames per second can be enough. With Civilization 6 however, Firaxis went hardcore on visual fidelity, trying to pull you into the game. As a result, Civilization can taxing on graphics and CPUs as we crank up the details, especially in DirectX 12.
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Marlin1975 - Monday, August 30, 2021 - link
Maybe I missed it, sorry if I did, but did you measure the VRM Temps as well? Many boards seem to come with lower quality VRMs and cover them up with heatsinks. But even heatsinks can't cover for low quality VRMs when doing overclocking like this.Ian Cutress - Monday, August 30, 2021 - link
On each of the board pages there are links to their respective full reviews. OC testing there with full 360mm AIO and VRM temps with thermal images.blanarahul - Tuesday, August 31, 2021 - link
Would it be possible to do similar overclocking tests for the Ryzen 5950X?Pinoy tv - Saturday, September 4, 2021 - link
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Chugging along with my 10900f for the next 8 years i hope.. didn't see any benefit doing overclocking these days. Just have enough core and cache and you're all set.TheinsanegamerN - Monday, August 30, 2021 - link
I mean if you still use a 60hz monitor, as most do, a sandy bridge quad core can still maintain 60 FPS in all modern titles. Games are nowhere near as intensive as people make them out to be.Makaveli - Monday, August 30, 2021 - link
Nah Quad cores are out for gaming.https://www.techspot.com/article/2315-pc-gaming-qu...
Frequensee - Tuesday, August 31, 2021 - link
Quad cores can still hold 60 FPS just fine with an AMD GPU, while rarely dropping a few frames below 60 on an RTX 3090. I’d say quad cores are still good enough for gaming for a few more years.usiname - Wednesday, September 1, 2021 - link
You will play 1080p with rtx 3090? Also this is Skylake, Sandy will be even lowerTheinsanegamerN - Thursday, September 2, 2021 - link
>literally every game has a 1% low higher then 60 in all tests except the slowest core i3 in tomb raiderPlease explain how this makes them “out” for gaming? Seems they’re holding up really well.