I just bought a new 9700K to upgrade my 8700K for S&G (price was good). My 8700K has been OC'd to 5.0GHz with Hyperthreading "off", as my main program (Photoshop) actually benchmarks faster with it off. I'm using a MSI Z370 SLI Plus mobo, rest of the specs are in my signature.
A basic test I did to compare (RAW to JPG export) took 1:12 with the OC'd 8700K. The stock 9700K with only XMP enabled did it in 1:03. So I'm thinking "Great, about 15% faster before overclocking". Right now I've got it at 5.0@1.33v, -2 AVX. Seems stable and temps have been good with basic stress testing. But when I re-ran the benchmark, I got exactly the same score. And this was a benchmark that previously showed good improvement with overclocking. It also maxes all cores out when running. So I'm a bit baffled why the OC didn't improve this here? Any ideas?
I did the overclocking following MSI's guide:
A basic test I did to compare (RAW to JPG export) took 1:12 with the OC'd 8700K. The stock 9700K with only XMP enabled did it in 1:03. So I'm thinking "Great, about 15% faster before overclocking". Right now I've got it at 5.0@1.33v, -2 AVX. Seems stable and temps have been good with basic stress testing. But when I re-ran the benchmark, I got exactly the same score. And this was a benchmark that previously showed good improvement with overclocking. It also maxes all cores out when running. So I'm a bit baffled why the OC didn't improve this here? Any ideas?
I did the overclocking following MSI's guide:
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