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"Am I wrong to conclude that over-clocking Zen 2 is a waste of effort?\n\nWith the boosting mechanisms we have today (from both Intel and AMD) overclocking anything is a waste of effort. Unless of course you have some extreme cooling that creates headroom well beyond what boosting is programmed to use (like in the video...).\nIf pushing it all the way up to 5GHz barely helps, why mess around at all?\nIt may barely help in games, but you would see decent gain in processing tasks (encoding, rendering, simulations).\nI'm not saying it makes sense or that people will suddenly OC their workstations (they won't).\n\nIt's just that gaming is interactive, latency-dependent and extremely specific in general."
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