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Re:Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores by omegalulw on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:48PM (#31138944)
This, x100. Most people would know of overclocking but not undervolting, with the irony being that the latter can be far more useful for the average user.

For example, I have a stock air cooled Nvidia GPU. Standard overclocking doesn't get me much because I get temp throttled. However undervolting, i.e., you boost clocks at lower voltages while not at higher voltages, leads to higher sustained clocks with _similar_ power/temps.

This is a consequence of power generally being linearly related to frequency and super linearly (even quadratically) to voltage.

Re:Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores by mvkel on Sunday April 24, 2022 @12:22AM (#31141280)
Dumb question: why don't they do this from the factory?
Re:Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores by ehnto on Sunday April 24, 2022 @02:04AM (#31141656)
Maybe stability margins, undervolting can also introduce instability.