What's hot in the DIY market lately? That must be overclocked on the B660 motherboard and non-K processor. According to our conventional understanding, non-K processors are not as free to control frequency multiplication as with K processors, so non-K processors cannot be multiplied and overclocked, but in fact, when motherboard manufacturers want to make some flowers, B660 motherboard added external frequency clock controller, non-K processors can also play super external frequency, DIY market has also become active.
i5-12490F silent vs overclocked 5.0GHz CPU-Z running score
i3-12100 silent vs overclocked 5.1GHz CPU-Z running score
According to our previous evaluation of the ROGSTRIXB660-GGAMINGWIFI motherboard, we have already conducted the i3-12100 and i5-12490F processor external frequency overclocking test. The i5-12490F, which is overclocked to 5.0GHz, has improved its running score by 11% to 803.9 points compared to the silent single-core state, and the multi-core has increased by 21% to 6069 points; After overclocking the i3-12100 to 5.1GHz, the single-core score even reached 813 points, and the IPC performance has touched the butt of the i9-12900K silent clocking state. It all looks so good, you can get more powerful performance for free for less money, and it's what players want.
However, when the i5-12490F processor is overclocked to the 5G frequency, even if the AIO360 integrated water-cooled radiator is used, the temperature of the processor is still at a high level, and the CPU package temperature has reached 90 degrees when fully loaded, of course, there is no frequency drop at this time, and the whole core is running stably on the 5GHz frequency.
Many netizens are worried that you are testing with AIO360 water cooling, but our host is equipped with an ordinary radiator, so can ordinary air cooling really press the 5G frequency i5-12490F processor? So with the question, we once again got the more popular 6 heat pipe radiator on the market and AGHP gravity 4 heat pipe heat pipe radiator for a new round of testing, what will be the temperature performance of the i5-12490F processor at the 5G frequency? Let's take a look together.
The test platform is basically the same as the previous ROGSTRIXB660-GGAMINGWIFI, but the radiator is different, from the original AIO360 integrated processor heat dissipation to an air-cooled radiator priced only about 100 yuan.
The same as the previous overclocking operation, directly in the motherboard BIOS to pull the BCLK frequency to 125MHz, the full core multiplication control at 40 times, so that the processor reaches the 5GHz frequency, and the memory frequency is controlled in DDR5-6000, at this time the whole platform is theoretically in the best state, AIDA64 performance is also quite fierce.
Of course, whether the actual operating frequency of the processor will be downclocked depends entirely on the heatsink, which is the meaning of this article, whether the air-cooled heat dissipation can be controlled to overclock the i5-12490F processor overclocked to 5GHz.
Hundred yuan six-heat pipe radiator
First of all, let's try the hundred yuan level six-heat pipe radiator, the default bottom of this radiator is a heat pipe direct contact design, and with a single 12CM fan, which is also the most common air-cooled radiator we see in the market.
For the average user, PCMARK10EXTENDED can well reflect the situation when we use computers in our daily office, the average effective frequency of the processor reaches 5GHz of the full core, and the maximum temperature of the processor package is 89 degrees.
In the video editing test that came to ULPROCYON, the average effective frequency of i5-12490F of 5G high frequency was 3GHz, and the maximum temperature of the processor was 73 degrees.
Under da Vinci's video test, the average effective frequency of i5-12490F with 5G high frequency is 5G, and the maximum temperature of the processor is 84 degrees.
On running the "Metro: Departure Enhanced Edition" game, the average effective frequency of the i5-12490F with 5G high frequency is 4.5G, and the maximum processor temperature is 72 degrees.
After several test degrees and game tests, we found that the i5-12490F processor runs daily at the 5G frequency, and the maximum temperature is below 89 degrees, and there is no frequency drop at this time. The small conclusion is that the ordinary radiator is fully capable of coping with the i5-12490F processor at the 5G frequency in daily use, and will not drop the frequency due to the influence of temperature, nor will it affect the normal performance of the high-frequency processor.
Let's take a more extreme operation, using AIDA64FPU for heavy roaster oil shortage, in the case of 25 minutes of baking, the i5-12490F average effective frequency is 4.6G, and the full load temperature has reached 101 degrees, so the processor has been dropped. But even so, the six-core all-4.6G response to most games and applications fully meets our needs.
So what will be the performance of the radiator of the same hundred-dollar AGHP gravity 4 heat pipe? Under the same settings, we replaced the radiator, and this Xingu S4ARGB air-cooled CPU radiator fastener design is more used.
The use of AIDA64FPU for heavy roaster oil shortage, 25 minutes of baking, the stable temperature also came to 100 degrees and there was a frequency drop, but at this time the average effective frequency of i5-12490F reached 4.7G, and the frequency and temperature of replacing the stronger radiator were obviously better controlled. Of course, the hundred-dollar radiator in our daily use is indeed enough.
Summary:
1. If you want to play overclocking, you need to pay more attention in the direction of the radiator, especially the six-core twelve-thread level processor of i5-12490F The heat generation is not low after overclocking 5G, and it needs to be equipped with a cooler with more powerful heat dissipation efficiency. For example, AIO360 integrated water-cooled radiator, it is better if the fan is brought on the cold head.
2. The hundred-yuan radiator can also press the i5-12490F after overclocking 5G, and the FPU oven will drop the frequency; However, there will be no frequency drop in daily use, that is, the temperature is higher. If you control the external frequency at about 120 and control the voltage, it is estimated that the temperature performance will be better, and 4.8G is enough for the needs of most users.
3. There are not many B660 motherboards that can over-super-synthesize, such as the ROGSTRIXB660-GGAMINGWIFI motherboard we tested, and the MSI MAGB660MMORTARMAXwifiddr4 that just arrived in the evaluation room, and the B660MPGRiptide battle board of Youqing, etc., the cost performance is good, and you can buy different levels of products according to different budgets.
4. Overclocking the 12th generation Core processor, try to increase the voltage in small increments first, don't rush back the voltage, you can also look at our review article to copy the homework, which will be safer. After all, overclocking burns the processor, Intel official is not guaranteed.