Zen4 7950X Benchmarks

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by James Heinrich

2) You can save a fair amount of power and heat and not lose much performance. I actually dropped the thermal limit from 90°C to 70°C in the BIOS. My PRP iteration times are perhaps 1% slower, but CPU power consumption is down from 235W to 195W, temperature down from 92C to 72C, and (important to me) the fan noise is down from very-noticeable to barely-there. For me at least it's a hugely worthwhile tradeoff.

Do you have ECO mode enabled in the BIOS?

[James Heinrich]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Do you have ECO mode enabled in the BIOS?

No, not the 65W/105W "ECO" mode, but elsewhere under PBO there's a thermal target setting, the default is 90°C and there's options for setting the target to 80°C or 70°C.