Custom PC – October 2019

Stockspeed Overclocked

4,738 4,923

CINEBENCHR20

Multi-threadedtest

0 1,500 3,000 4,500 6,000

Write Read

4,288 4,990

CRYSTALDISKMARK

Sequential32-queuedepth

00 1,500 3,000 4,500 6,000MB/Sec

81fps 106fps

84fps 110fps

0 30 60 90 120

0 30 60 90 120

SHADOWOFTHETOMBRAIDER

1.920x 1,080,Highestsettingspreset

55fps 70fps

59fps 74 f p s

2,560x 1,440,Highestsettingspreset

CPC8-coregamingPC

CPC8-coregamingPC

CPC8-coregamingPC(OC)

CPC 8-core gaming PC (OC)

0 30 60 90 120

0 30 60 90 120

90fps 116fps

94fps 117fps

FARCRY 5

1,920x 1,080,Ultradetail

70fps 87fps

72fps91fps

2,560 x 1,440, Ultra detail

CPC 8-core gaming PC

CPC 8-core gaming PC

CPC 8-core gaming PC (OC)

CPC 8-core gaming PC (OC)

Overclockedmin Overclockedavg

Idle

TOTAL SYSTEM POWER CONSUMPTION

101W 102W

0 100 200 300 400

Load

341W 397W

0 100 200 300 400

Stock speed Overclocked

GIMPIMAGEEDITING

0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000

CPC 8-core gaming PC 63,844 64,360

HANDBRAKEH.264VIDEO ENCODING

0 250,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000

CPC 8-core gaming PC 581,885 601,777

HEAVYMULTITASKING

0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000

CPC 8-core gaming PC 254,124 260,002

Stockspeed Overclocked

SYSTEMSCORE

0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000

CPC 8-core gaming PC 230,785 237,356

PERFOR

4.4GHz boost – this will give us good

gaming performance, while reducing power

when the system is idle.

Head into the EFI, go to Settings/

Advanced/AMD Overclocking, and find

the Precision Boost Overdrive option.

Select Advanced, set the PBO limits to

motherboard, then dial in 200MHz to the

maximum CPU boost clock

override. We found that, with

our setup, the all-core boost

increased from between

3.95-4GHz up to 4.15GHz

under load.

Our memory overclock

and CPU tweaking boosted

the RealBench system score

from 230,785 to 237,356,

and increased the Cinebench

R20 multi-threaded score

from 4,738 to 4,923.

Meanwhile, manual 4.3GHz

overclock saw a score of over

5,200 points in the multi-

threaded Cinebench test,

but a noticeably slower result in the single-

threaded test.

These tweaks, combined with our graphics

card overclock, increased the minimum

frame rate by 2-4fps in Shadow of the Tomb

Raider, and they only added 56W to the load

power draw of our PC, so it’s definitely worth

overclocking these components.

Use AMD’s Precision Boost Overdrive

software to get a gaming performance boost

Stock speed min Stock speed avg