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[GtehMVP]

@Madmick what do you think of this? I've never really messed with overclocking much, but I've never heard of underclocking/volting.

Any of you guys ever do this, is it difficult to do?

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[Slobodan]

@Madmick what do you think of this? I've never really messed with overclocking much, but I've never heard of underclocking/volting.

Any of you guys ever do this, is it difficult to do?

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Did this with my Radeon 5700XT, temps went down and so did power consumption.

Then I used PBO with my 5800X CPU, got it to boost close to 5ghz on some cores.

There is trial and error you have to go through

 

[GtehMVP]

Did this with my Radeon 5700XT, temps went down and so did power consumption.

Then I used PBO with my 5800X CPU, got it to boost close to 5ghz on some cores.

There is trial and error you have to go through

Thx man, did you notice a decent bump in frames on your gpu?

I'm seeing that the 9070 xt is matching the 5080 (as is) in certain cases through under volting.

 

[Slobodan]

Thx man, did you notice a decent bump in frames on your gpu?

I'm seeing that the 9070 xt is matching the 5080 (as is) in certain cases through under volting.

With the 5700xt there was some nice performance improvements, maintained the boost clock longer because of the lower temps.

I didn't mess with the 5800x till I got my 6800XT GPU, but the improvements for that were mostly synthetic benchmarks

 

[KaNesDeath]

Any of you guys ever do this, is it difficult to do?

Way back in the 2000's. Back then it was more beneficial than today. For we were gaming on single core CPU's off HDD's that had to be constantly defraged for faster read times. With RAM frequencies that hard capped how far we could push it.

Just be warned that if you go down this path. Your gaming sessions become testing sessions looking for artifacts with inevitable BSOD's. Spending a portion of your time looking over spreadsheet logs of temperatures and frequencies. Where in most games on the market a 5-20% frames per second boost wont do anything. For at the end of the day you are still locked to the game engines frametime generation and display device response time an refresh rate.

So it really has to be something you are interested in and find joy in.

 

[GtehMVP]

With the 5700xt there was some nice performance improvements, maintained the boost clock longer because of the lower temps.

I didn't mess with the 5800x till I got my 6800XT GPU, but the improvements for that were mostly synthetic benchmarks

Way back in the 2000's. Back then it was more beneficial than today. For we were gaming on single core CPU's off HDD's that had to be constantly defraged for faster read times. With RAM frequencies that hard capped how far we could push it.

Just be warned that if you go down this path. Your gaming sessions become testing sessions looking for artifacts with inevitable BSOD's. Spending a portion of your time looking over spreadsheet logs of temperatures and frequencies. Where in most games on the market a 5-20% frames per second boost wont do anything. For at the end of the day you are still locked to the game engines frametime generation and display device response time an refresh rate.

So it really has to be something you are interested in and find joy in.

Thanks fellas, I appreciate it!

 

[Brampton_Boy]

@Madmick what do you think of this? I've never really messed with overclocking much, but I've never heard of underclocking/volting.

Any of you guys ever do this, is it difficult to do?

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Yeah, I have undervolted both my GPU and Laptop CPU (13900HX).

Super easy to do with tools like MSI afterburner and XTU Tune (Or Ryzen Master if you use AMD CPUs).

Overclocking has become really strange these days - for decades, you wanted to increase voltage to maximize overclocks. Now, it may actually make more sense to undervolt so that your CPU/GPU can boost higher (and for longer) within a certain thermal envelope.

 

[HeLLMuTT]

 

[Slobodan]

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[My Spot]

MC also has a 9900X3D for $600.

7600X3D $300
7800X3D $420
9800X3D $480
9900X3D $600
9950X3D $700

 

[avenue94]

MC also has a 9900X3D for $600.

7600X3D $300
7800X3D $420
9800X3D $480
9900X3D $600
9950X3D $700

Supply and demand, 9000X3D inventory is going to be really tight for another quarter or two because they take longer to produce.

 

[KaNesDeath]

MC also has a 9900X3D for $600.

AMD has always priced their 8+ core X3D variant higher than the 8 core X3D version. Now that AMD seem to have a addressed 8+ core X3D game under performance the pricing structure is justified.

AMD now having the game performance lead. They will price their products similar to when Intel held that thrown. Something AMD showed they were wanting to do when 5000 series AM4 launched. Question should be what the 6 core X3D variant will cost. For thats the unit theyll move the most.

 

[Madmick]

 

[avenue94]

I wonder how long this joke will be salient/aka will the genrral public still call storage hard drives 50 years from now.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Cost per frame chart of GPU's from MSRP to actual retail price in the USA, Australia and Europe.



US markets cost per frame at MSRP:

US markets true cost per frame for what GPU's actually retail at:

 

[Madmick]

US markets true cost per frame for what GPU's actually retail at:

Since you're too daft to read a chart, FYI, that's not what it's telling you. It's evaluating the RX 9700 XT, RX 9700, RTX 5070, and RTX 5070 Ti at today's real-market price versus all of those other cards for the best price they were seen at any time in the middle of the year last year, 2024.

LMAO, so who cares? This just in! The GPU market in March 2025 is ass! Breaking!

 

[KaNesDeath]

all of those other cards for the best price they were seen at any time in the middle of the year last year, 2024.

Apologies for not writing a full detailed description in my summary when its explained in the video.

 

[Madmick]

Apologies for not writing a full detailed description in my summary when its explained in the video.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Just so we are clear moving forward. That post isnt acceptable to you or the forum posting guidelines?

 

[Madmick]

Just so we are clear moving forward. That post isnt acceptable to you or the forum posting guidelines?

Who said anything about your post being unacceptable? I responded to it. That's discussion. This is a discussion board, derp.

The point is this: who cares?