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automatically adjusts voltage, clock speeds, and other settings to eke out as
much power from the CPU as the system thinks is possible without crashing.
It’s highly dependent on the CPU cooler you’re using, and since we’re using the
stock cooler, a trivial performance gain isn’t entirely unexpected. But it was an
improvement essentially gained by a click of a button.
If you’ve got a more aggressive liquid cooler and the time to adjust the clock
speed of the memory and each core manually, you can likely achieve a better
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however, so I appreciate that AMD includes an automatic feature that will give
you a small boost. As with any overclocking adjustments, using Precision Boost
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CONCLUSIONS
The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is an excellent, top-value choice to power a high-end
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comparable performance to the low-end Ryzen Threadripper chips while
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wallet. Even better, it outperforms its main Intel competitor, the Core i9-
9900K, in many multithreaded computing scenarios thanks to its higher core
and thread count.