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DAILY DRIVER SWEET SPOT POLL: Cooling vs. power draw / chip efficiency [speculative]

Would you like to see a sampling of "sweet spot" Daily Driver overclocking results by tier?

  • Yes! Show me what our chips can do!

    Votes: 7 87.5%

  • No, I have google...

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Maybe if you included... [add suggestion in comments].

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Total voters
    8
phanbuey

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Wanted to see if the forum was interested in compiling a database of the Daily Driver "sweet spots" of their chips (i.e. where the voltage has to spike to go another +50/100Mhz and they were no longer comfortable going in the *daily driver* (Prime95 2hr max heat or 7 day uptime screenshot required) category AND/OR the max OC they were able to achieve in the *Aggressive* category (with some sort of benchmark result)) by chip model...

Would compile into an aggregated graph....

Might help new overclockers decide on buys/gauge their results. Also would be interesting to know... let me know what you guys think.
 
phanbuey

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cadaveca said:
WE'd never get enough sample results for this to be truly useful, but the idea.. I think is fantastic.
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Great point... I think there are quite a few lurkers on here -- as well as a few elites with access to multiple SKUs (*ahem*). If we can log the results we can definitely get some samples. May have to limit model numbers though/explicitly state anything under a sample of 10/20 is not significant.

Is there any way to pull data from other sources?
 
cadaveca

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Might wanna post this on several forums and collate the results using google docs...
 
phanbuey

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cadaveca said:
Might wanna post this on several forums and collate the results using google docs...
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I will look into this... every review also has a MAX OC that they hit - maybe I can add like a rotten tomatoes Revs vs users... if I could help TPU aggregate and post it could be great.

Maybe only top selling/current gen processors? Start small with the best selling 6/7/8000K series Ryzen/+ and go from there?

thinking:
AMD:
1800x
1700x
1700
1600x
1600
1500
...
Intel:
8700K
8600K
7700K
7600K
6700K
6600K
5775/5665C series
...
Pentium G series...

OR open up to all results and include a 3dmark timespy and cinebench
 
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For my 2 cents, as an average recommendation on a FX 8350 daily I'd say 4.5-4.7GHz across all 8 cores, bear in mind base clock is 4.0 GHz with a turbo of 4.2 GHz.
 
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