12700K OC Prospect

[Onyx Turbine]

Atm I have a 12700K running at stock settings in B760I Mb, when looking to overclock it, how much performance gain
would be to expected with a reasonable stable oc?
Also how would such changes impact power consumption

 

[N/A]

With B760 you have Zero prospects, just the memory. 12700K is pretty much maxed out at stock. 5.0 GHz 95C with power limits removed.

 

[Onyx Turbine]

With B760 you have Zero prospects, just the memory. 12700K is pretty much maxed out at stock. 5.0 GHz 95C with power limits removed.

Can you explain what b760 implies as such i bought a non oc mobo? And by default you suggest that there is not much to gain as stock settings are running close to a stable oc

 

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

Need a Z-Series motherboard to OC an Intel cpu (properly, at least). B, Q, or H series chipsets do not support it.

 

[dirtyferret]

And by default you suggest that there is not much to gain as stock settings are running close to a stable oc

even if you could OC the 12700k (already been posted you can't and why) the gains would be not worth it see, see W1zzards review with OC the 12700k

 

[bobbybluz]

I have a very early 12700k (has AVX 512) that's a lump. My 12600K from 9 months later kills it in performance when OC'd to 5.4GHz. Both are in identical ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi mobos with DDR4 3600 RAM. The 12700K tops out at 5.1GHz.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Whilst Multiplier overclocking is locked, some B760's can overclock the BCLK (Selected MSI and Asrock boards for example) although the OP has not mentioned specifics with his board model, is it worth it in any case? Not so sure ...... Maybe.

 

[Onyx Turbine]

than bartlett will save the day for this platform.

 

[droopyRO]

12600K from 9 months later kills it in performance when OC'd to 5.4GHz.

What VID and temps do you have also what is your power consumption at that frequency ?

 

[bobbybluz]

What VID and temps do you have also what is your power consumption at that frequency ?

With 4 of these 169cfm fans in push/pull externally mounted on an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 it rarely reaches over 110 degrees F under load and idles very close to room temperature. I've never checked the VID or power draw because it runs so cool. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XLHCPWG?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

The case is a Corsair Carbide 500R and I had to do some Dremel surgery to enlarge the top fan openings from 240 to 280mm fans.

 

[droopyRO]

I've never checked the VID

That might kill your CPU way faster than temperature. That is why i undervolt mine. I can overclock it to 5.1 but the power draw triples from about 60W while gaming, to over 160W and that is just for only 600Mhz, not worth it IMHO. Thanks for the info!

 

[iameatingjam]

Yeah don't worry about overclocking, you wont gain much, even if you could, and if you could you might shorten its lifespan. Not worth it imo. You can overclock memory on your mobo which does affect cpu performance in many cases, maybe look down that alley if you want.

I just personally wouldn't take it too far since the IMC, part of the CPU does have to work harder to keep up with it. You can increase trefi, which is the amount of time between ram refreshes, and whenever ram is refreshing, its not working for you, so this improves memory performance a lot and should have no affect on the lifespan of the cpu that I'm aware of. I would use it in moderation though - as going too high ( some people go into hundreds of thousands - not necessary!!) can cause corruption of data in the ram and therefore result in a corrupted windows, especially when mixed with heat.

Not sure if you are on ddr4 or ddr5 but I'm on ddr5 and I like 40,000 at 6000 M/ts, it captures most of the benefit ( as there are sharp diminishing returns) and doesn't introduce much risk, and there are huge improvements to be had, to memory performance, and therefore CPU performance if its accessing memory. So thats one low risk option for you. Just as always, make sure to backup your important files just incase.

Trefi can be found where your memory timings are.

EDIT: I was going to say you might be able to undervolt for more performance as ucode 0x123 and later finally allowed B boards to turn cep off allowing undervolting via the loadine ( not the best way to undervolt, but a way), but I just looked it up and unfortunately it doesn't apply to 12th gen, sorry. You can undervolt via loadline with CEP on a little bit, but if you go too far it will give you a nice big performance penalty, so doing this is more for saving power/controlling heat and less for increasing performance.

That would leave the only possible option to undervolt, being going to ucode 104 ( an option your board does have I believe) but 104 is old and buggy and specifically called out on gamer's nexus for being so. It was also the ucode my first 14700kf died on. It is also happens to be the last ucode that allowed b boards to apply vid offsets which is why the option remains. 12th gen isn't as um, as vulnerable as RL, so maybe you can get away with doing this. But I wouldn't, even on 12th gen. I've had nothing but problems when trying to run on 104, though tbf I was always on RL.