As with the previous Ryzen 3rd Gen reviews, overclocking was no hugely beneficially. Locking the CPU at just 4.3 GHz does have its pros and cons. You no longer get a single-core boost to 4.5 GHz, which can speed up most regular applications. However, with applications that use all cores, you’re going to generate a lot more heat, for a fairly small performance gain.
Overclocking is a dying art, as the automatically core handling is bloody fantastic these days. Put your focus into cooling the CPU, and generally, the CPU will get you 99% of the thrills all by its self. As you can see, we did get a small performance boost, but at the cost of heat, noise, and power that just doesn’t seem all the necessary to me.
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