Not just useless, but potentially counter-productive when you're impacted by the increased latency between the two CCDs.
What i've been trying to point out in the intel threads/13900K review is the current single CCD core counts are the primary bottleneck - we can see this with the older ryzens with a 3+3 setup where games that need/use 4 cores are suffering pretty badly - and it scales up
Right now the most cores we can get in a single CPU is 8 from both camps, but we can still buy 4 and 6 core CPU's (with secondaries, be they identical or E-cores)
We're seeing this in things like the 7700x vs the 7900x, because it's a 6 core CPU - as soon as it needs more threads, you get the latency penalty and wattage limits lowering clocks
Got my new
Aorus B550-I PRO AX 1.2 in, bought some new RAM and threw the 3700x in there for now
The rev 1.2 changes to wifi 6E with an AMD chip,
weirdly it cant see one of my 5GHz networks but sees another one just fine (Was actually router issue)
So far, i really like the board. Great design, BIOS is great.
CMOS clears are really slow - seems to require PSU plugged in and switched on to work? Never seen that before.
Ram is 2x16GB single rank - i wanted dual rank, but for the future that's probably best anyway.
3600 C18 that rans 3800 C18 and 3200C14, but the CPU has WHEA errors above 3333 unless SoC is at 1.2v so 3200 C14 and tuning it is
Currently using a 100W PBO limit with undervolting, seeing 4.1GHz in R23 at 79C, and 4.6GHz max single thread boost - unsure if it will ever REACH it, but HWinfo reports that as the maximum
Ram doesnt want to run 14-16-16, but runs 14-18-18 happily
I *love* this BIOS feature
Edit: Those bastards, i thought they UPGRADED the wifi, but nooo
Apparently the intel bluetooth had issues, so they moved to the AMD/mediatek wifi to fix that, but halved the wifi speed to do so
XMP asks for more power from the RAM and the CPU's memory controller, but only marginally. You have nothing to lose by enabling it.
Even with extreme voltage increases for memory overclocking here, my SoC voltages have only gone up around 10W from stock - even on a 65W CPU (88W in reality) that performance difference is incredibly small since you get diminishing returns as the clocks raise up (10W could be 10% more power, but 2% performance)
