We’re followers of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D round right here. Certain, it is expensive for what it’s; that a lot is inarguable. Nonetheless, the truth that you may slap a brand-new processor right into a two- or three-year-old motherboard and instantly get chart-topping gaming efficiency is extraordinarily cool. Your creator right here threw one into his ASRock X570 Taichi and noticed speedy enhancements in just a few video games—though he was coming from a higher-clocked Ryzen 7 5800X.
Nonetheless, gaming efficiency apart, AMD’s 3D V-Cache wunderkind does fall down a bit typically efficiency resulting from its decrease clock price. Do not get us flawed—any Zen 3 processor at over 4 GHz continues to be a lightning-fast CPU within the broader scheme of issues. The usual-issue 5800X can scrape the sting of 5 GHz with none guide OC, although, and that is lots of clock price to make up, significantly contemplating that the 5800X3D is locked for overclocking.
House owners of sure MSI motherboards may be in luck, in the event that they need to attempt bumping the clock price of their AMD stacked-cache CPU. The corporate simply launched beta BIOS information for a handful of B550 and X570 motherboards that add a characteristic referred to as “Kombo Strike”. This oddly-named perform has three settings, cryptically labeled 1, 2, and three (in addition to “Disabled”, after all.)
MSI says Kombo Strike will enhance the efficiency of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D by as a lot as 5% on the most degree, however that it is best to “make certain CPU Cooler is powerful sufficient to deal with the warmth.” Going by that description and what we all know of the lockdown on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, we suspect MSI’s discovered a strategy to bump the facility restrict for the chip, which might enable it to spice up larger.
This expectation is corroborated by some testing carried out over at WCCFTech. These fellas examined Cinebench in each ST and MT varieties on the 5800X3D at all the attainable Kombo Strike settings, and located that the upper the quantity, the extra it improved multi-threaded scores—certainly by about 5% on the highest degree. Single-threaded outcomes had been primarily unaffected by Kombo Strike, which is per what we might count on assuming that it’s a tweak to the facility restrict.
Nevertheless, these beta BIOS information additionally allow under-volting for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. See, together with the overclocking lockdown, AMD additionally disabled all voltage controls on its latest child. Meaning no Curve Optimizer, or any undervolting in any respect—until you’ve got a board that helps it.
ASUS has apparently supplied undervolting management for this CPU on a few of its boards, and now we see MSI following go well with. For those who’re questioning why undervolting may enhance single-threaded efficiency, it is as a result of it may considerably scale back the quantity of present drawn and warmth produced by the CPU, permitting it to spice up larger.
When you’ve got one of many above-listed MSI motherboards, you may head over to the discussion board moderators’ Google Drive to seize the file.
