'The tool itself is free and can be downloaded from here. For added peace of mind, Intel now sells performance tuning protection plans for each of the supported processors, priced at $19.99. This expands the warranty to cover damage caused to the CPU by overclocking'
Don't most mobo manufacturers have similar software? 1.7GB is insane
Samuel Adams
no fucking way. you have to be trolling.
Elijah Scott
>wtf, 1.5gb for some oc'ing software >oc'ing software >not realizing he's downloading 1.5gb of botnet backdoor
Hudson Young
OC utilities from mobo manufacturers usually suck. This one looks pretty cool actually. May be a bit extreme in therms of voltage, but with somewhat decent cooling it's not easy to kill a CPU
Blake Diaz
>spending an extra $20 so you can fry your CPU
Austin Kelly
>it allows me to use the security "features" properly.
The state of inturds. Literally paying Intel for "features"
Gabriel Jackson
>The state of inturds. Literally paying Intel for "features" What? Utility is free. If you're good with overclocking it can at least help you find an upper limit for CPU without reboots/bluescreens/lots of wasted time and tune down manually from that point. It literally saves time if you want to OC. How is this bad?
Cameron White
Spot the retards.
Wyatt Clark
>1.5GB of a thing that's usually in-UEFI for your Z390 board >not a botnet insertion tool Really? Are you really that dumb?
Daniel Watson
Just delete it afterwards then. Nothing stop you from doing that. It's kind of useless anyway after you figured out what CPU limit is.
Joshua Russell
This is literally bullshit. The great thing about overclocking is tuning the system. This literally takes out the fun of it.
Even longtime Intel fans, who've overclocked Celerons since the technique was discovered would spit at the existence of this.
Your generation is too prideful to accept a slight lead by AMD. You could keep shitposting, or you could patiently wait for fucking Sunny Cove just like we waited for Core 2.
Ayden Sullivan
This has to be bait
Jacob Jenkins
Why can't they just dispense with the smoke and mirrors and tune chips to their maximum ability at the binning stage?
Kayden Collins
Because not everyone spends $70+ on a high end cooler.
Alexander Clark
>bait The problem with you children is that you fucking need to get everything served in a silver platter. Even if you have dosh out money. Be a man and tune the system like a man.
Ryder Jackson
>LARPing as a CPU technician just so you can feel slightly in control of your life Don't do that.
Jonathan Torres
>we waited for Core 2. Lol. Dude, chill. I was overclocking shit since my old AMD K5 (well..changing jumper position on mobo is a bit of a sketch for overclocking, but you get the idea). If you want fun, overclock your RAM with all of the secondary and tertiary timings. CPU is like evening or two worth of time. And I'm totally fine if people don't want to waste it.
Carter King
Because not everyone owns an industrial chiller.
Eli Flores
Is this what it's doing?
Kayden Reyes
>I'm too stupid for overclocking that I need a tool from Intel to guide me through overclocking. >the DRAM calculator for Ryzen is literally a fraction of Intel's shovelware, hell, any Motherboard Overclock assistance software is smaller.
>Inturds willing to install Spyware for "Overclocking" No wonder they think that Zombieload is nothing, to them, IT'S A FEATURE.
Owen Nguyen
No, and he has zero proof to back up what he's claiming.
He's just shitting on intel because it's the popular thing to do.
Tyler White
You have zero proof it's doing ANYTHING like what you're claiming
If you actually think it's doing any of that, use a pfsense box or similar to monitor out going network connections for anything going to intel, report back with your findings.
Hunter Perry
>This literally takes out the fun of it. You could still do it the regular way if that's what you're into.
Hunter Lee
if you buy a mostly overpriced intel CPU that should be included wtf
remember that they have difficulty stocking 14nm parts.
You could imagine how badly binned that replacement CPU will be.
Benjamin Torres
Lol, you actually think they have the time to bother wasting specifically binning worse CPUs for replacments?
Come on, that would be a fucking headache to actually implement on a production floor.
Nolan Ross
>OS The reason is, it is practically it's own OS in a UEFI Boot Image. Which is why there is a lot of limitations for what systems it can run on. - system must be in UEFI modus - Win 10 1809 or 1903 - must be on GPT partitioned system disk - only Z390 chipset
Andrew Harris
As per this german post -> heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Auto-Overclocking-mit-Intel-Performance-Maximizer-4448544.html it shrinks the system partition, creates a 16GB partitioon and installs the tool to it. Then it boots to that instead of windows and starts testing out the limits of the CPU. They tested with a i5-9600 and an undisclosed cooler and gained 500Mhz. When it's done it basically boots to the Tool, applies the overclock setting, then chainboots windows. That's how I understood it.
If you want to undo the overclock, you have to remove the tool, it won't clean up behind itself though, so you have to re-max the shrunk partition yourself.
Joshua Powell
>1.5GB download >16GB hard drive space They have to be trolling
> The tool itself is free and can bedownloaded from here. For added peace of mind, Intel now sells performance tuning protection plans for each of the supported processors,priced at $19.99. This expands the warranty to cover damage caused to the CPU by overclocking
Read the article first. If you're saying that i'm an intel shill, i use an amd processor ;)
Jacob Garcia
Jesus
Dylan Morgan
Honestly, for people who don't care enough to OC, it's a decent option.
Jayden Kelly
Ryzen Master - 99MB without injecting and ruining your UEFI boot In-bios overclocking - free Intel- 1.5GB that expands installs to a 16GB boot partition, 20$ if you fuck it up.
>20$ if you fuck it up Yeah, whereas with AMD you spend $200+ for a whole new CPU.
Parker Hill
PBO is not overclocking, If the CPU fails, we get a free replacement.
Also, people are already content with base speeds, especially for Ryzen having PBO and XFR
Isaac Nguyen
Not OP but >Lol, you actually think they have the time to bother wasting specifically binning worse CPUs for replacments? YES
>Come on, that would be a fucking headache to actually implement on a production floor. They already do it for other reasons.
Angel Thomas
>AMD offers "limited edition" cpus and gpus with different colour for $50 more >no one says anything >Intel offers a useful tool for brainlets >muh jews I wonder whos behind this post
PBO is only officially supported on Threadripper 2nd gen. Most motherboard manufacturers allow you to enable it on any Ryzen CPU, but it's not at all covered under your warranty.
Brody Jackson
You're a retard
They're not picking and choosing beyond the normal classifications.
Yes, they bin. But they're not FURTHER binning between NEW 9700k and a replacement 9700k. A 9700k is a 9700k.
Isaac Morgan
OR it's just a ploy by intel make an OC software that fries your cpu deny RMA since it was OCed UNLESS you buy the warranty which is only there so they can't get sued
Bruh, AMD's starting to offer this kind of capability out of the box with automatic PBO
Sebastian Garcia
>since it was OCed literally no way of knowing that dumbass
Carter Bennett
>jews cause you also get extra shit with them ... like games, stickers, shirt, ...
Leo Cox
>PBO see
Lincoln Cooper
I'm saying it right now because I don't give a fuck. If AMD's Ryzen 3xxx series is dog shit for any reason, I'll be getting a 9900k to replace my R7-1700X. I'll even buy this merchant's trick of $20 to warranty my overclocked 9900k. Vulnerabilities be damned. Sick of bottlenecking my 2080Ti
Tyler Nguyen
Pbo is garbage and much worse than manual oc anyways.
Bentley Parker
CPUs used to literally explode before thermal throttling was a thing.
Nathan Smith
>PBO is garbage The only thing it's garbage at is voltage boosting. I enabled PBO on my buddy's 2700X and it wanted to boost to almost 1.5v at peak spikes for 4.3GHz. If you know what you're doing, manual OC is always best because you can also limit voltage ceiling and LLC. But for your general user, PBO just takes care of everything for you.
Carter Lopez
Source?
Parker Robinson
Precision Boost 2 is literally just on every Ryzen 3rd gen, have you guys been paying attention at all
Samuel Clark
Then better wait a week after 3xxx launches and intel releases patches for all the security flaws. They intentionally aren't releasing them before 3xxx reviews are out.
Blake Russell
>Source? anyone with a brain?
Brayden Bailey
I undervolt instead and use voltage smoothing to keep it in line.
Nathan Long
PB2 is not PBO
as far as I know, there has been no official word on PBO for Ryzen 3000 chips.
Caleb Price
>They intentionally aren't releasing them before 3xxx reviews are out lmao source besides your ass?
Jack Fisher
I'm going to be a day one buyer of the Ryzen 3900X 12c24t and Asus ROG Crosshair Hero motherboard, reviewers can get fucked. Do my own. Since I'm buying from Microcenter, I can return it for any reason within 2 weeks, 2 years if I get warranty (which I will). I'll get it, set it all up, bench it. I'll even give AMD a chance to throw at patches in regards to 7nm growing pains. But if it stays shit, back to the store it goes.
Leo Brooks
>day one buyer >if I get warranty (which I will) good goy
Levi Kelly
>time replacement >replacement time 3-6 months + another 2-3 weeks duty + you pay duty and tax for importing a replacement
Jason Powell
>voltage smoothing What's that? Google only brings up shit about capacitors. Is that any more efficient than just doing what I am?
It ships from the same place they ship their retail partner shit from.
Adam Cox
Thanks! It's great not being poor.
Cooper Barnes
I always forget the name. It's a BIOS setting where you have 8 different voltage states. Usually between 3 and 4 smooths the voltage ripples out and stablizes an overclock or undervolt. Someone will tell me what it is I am sure.
You fucking retard, it doesn't cost 20 bucks to OC your processor, the $20 is an option to expand the factory warranty to include damage from OCing. But fuck reading comprehension, right?
David Bailey
You don't understand, just do the needful and buy AMD goy.
Jacob Morris
LLC? Load Line Calibration? Prevents voltage droop or boost. Sets a minimum and maximum allowed voltage.