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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

Certainly good news. Maybe it's what the article says, if the X670E is for "Extreme Overclocking" and the X670 is for "Enthusiast Overclocking", then what was left for the B650? "Mediocre Overclocking"?

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD confirms Ryzen 7000 “5.5 GHz demo” did not involve overclocking

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-ryzen-7000-5-5-ghz-demo-did-not-involve-overclocking

It could just be a single core boost so I wouldn't put too much stock into it. But AMD does seem to be making a big deal out of their overclocking which is interesting. Zen 1-3 all have been shat overclockers. So hopefully, that will change with Zen 4 and if it does, then 15% will be conservative.

Not according to Ian Cutress in the tweet: "Most threads around 5.5, depends on scene/game" & "5.2-5.5 on all threads was common on the game". It doesn't seem to be a single core boost.

I think they could have just put in "Overclocking Support" and left it at that where as not putting in anything is kind of miss leading.

His tweet is kind of vague because of how it ranges from 5.2 to 5.5 depending on the scene/game. In my experience with the 5950x, when you play a game like Starcraft 2 and you monitor through hwinfo, you can see the frequencies of the cores reporting at 4.7-5ghz on all core but in reality, it's doing that because the game is very single threaded heavy and the other threads aren't being utilized. Then when you run something like Cinebench multicore, it drops down to 4.5ghz all core in my setup. So 5.2ghz all core I can see but I'll see it to believe it if it can run 5.5ghz all core in heavy workloads without manual OC.

I agree that if both higher end chipsets had a note about overclocking, the low end one should have had one as well, if only to reassure future buyers that it was still possible to do it. It's a marketing mistake from AMD.

And well, Cinebench is not a game, is it? Not all the cores are used at the same time nor at 100% load in any game. That's why the frequencies will vary not only from game to game, but also in a game depending on what's going on in the screen.