Another Crafter

I have PPT at 720 so it never gets hit, I personally either try to have EDC + TDC hit or only PPT, but not all three

Got TDC and EDC at 77 rn, 75-80A seems to be the sweet spot for my CPU. If I wasn't running F@H I'd probably keep it closer to 90.

All scores are multicore Cinebench R23: Stock - 14961 (83C Tdie) PBO with max limits - 15015 (80C) PPT max, TDC 120 + EDC 120 - 15264 (85C) PPT max, TDC 110 + EDC 110 - 15264 (!!! 87C) 100 + 100 - 15184 (86C) 90 + 90 - 15202 (84C) 80 + 80 - 15070 (76C) 75 + 75 - 14971 (72C) 70 + 70 - 14690 (68C, EDC not allowed to go lower) PPT 140, TDC + EDC max - 14922 (80C) PPT 120, TDC + EDC max - 14829 (73C) 110 - 14482 (68C) 100 - 14014 (63C) Looks like you can actually get higher performance than stock, though you can also make the temps higher oddly enough. I should probably do separate TDC testing, in all of the TDC + EDC tests it was mostly EDC that was hit. Same with single core tests but that would take forever so I might just not tbh PPT limits are not as bad as I remembered but the margin for good performance is smaller than EDC.

Keep PPT at max, run cinebench then lower TDC + EDC until you're happy with the temps. I find that hitting EDC limits tend to keep the clocks the most consistent, while hitting PPT or TDC makes the clocks jump around by a few hundred mhz or so. This is in the context of F@H though, an AVX multicore load, so hitting TDC in a game might be less of a big deal since the clocks tend to jump around anyways. I have a 5800x, so the equivalents on the 5600x might be a bit lower, but i find the lowest EDC limit that keeps the clocks running similar to stock speeds is around 100A. Personally I usually use 70-80A limits most of the time as I like to keep the CPU under 75C, but doing so also sacrifices about 100-200mhz on multicore loads. I'll do some cinebench runs in a bit to see how much it impacts score.

AMD Silently Launches The Radeon RX 6300 2GB Entry-Level RDNA 2 GPU With 32W TDP, $60 US WCCFTECH.COM AMD seems to have silently introduced its Radeon RX 6300 Entry-Level RDNA 2 GPU which features a sub-50W TDP design for desktop PCs. This thing looks absolutely awful, and I want one. Curious if it beats the 1630, I'd imagine it'd be pretty close if its not hitting the VRAM limit too hard, though not hitting a 2GB VRAM limit is a bit of an unfair limitation for testing. Also wonder how big the market is for these basic display adapters at this point, considering you pretty much have to go out of your way to get a CPU without an iGPU nowadays. Still cheaper than getting a new CPU + motherboard, I guess? That and maybe HEDT + server CPUs.

Definitely agree that curve optimizer + a good RAM OC is the best option if you want to keep equal or better performance. If you ever need a quick and dirty way that guarantees stability, just mess with the PBO limits, I've cranked down the TDC + EDC to keep my 5800x from cooking under F@H. Doing so will almost certainly lower performance, but depending on what limits you set the difference might be negligible for the temperature improvement. I've found that TDC + EDC limits cause the CPU to underclock less aggressively than when its hits a PPT limit or its on ECO mode (which I believe also sets a PPT limit, but don't quote me on that), but I'd need to do a bunch of cinebench runs to see if/how much that actually affects performance more than the other two or not.

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