*FUN FACT* : Running lower voltage on VCORE with 9950X resulted in decrease of performance by SIGNIFICANT margins in multi-threading and single threading. My Cinebench R23 Stock is 40274 While lowered voltage to 1.32v results in score of 30411. Simply because you lowered the voltage. Curve optimizer actually increases Cinebench score and performance (Negative Offset), but voltage reduction gimps the chip putting it into ECO Mode. I believe changing voltage like that results in hard limit of how much voltage each core can use, and thus results in a hard brick limiter to the frequencies. As I saw as little as 3.3 ghz in Multi-Thread test of Cinebench R23. Stock + Curve Optimizer is the way to go, but not the voltage itself. Unless your intent is to reduce overall voltage, at increased decrease of hit, but with a HUGE impact, essentially 25% or greater performance decrease, just by changing stock voltage of what was showing around 1.359v or so to 1.32v). Don't change voltage, unless it is your intent to limit heat and performance of the chip. Could be useful for small chassis PCs that are thermally limited by cooler choice, or you are limited electricity for non-gaming situations. I can see some scenarios for that, just not how Intel does things, so it was super interesting. All my benchmarks prior to today were ran on lower voltage, essentially limiting my chip's performance to a greater sense of a word. Returning to Stock improved gaming and operations of Windows dramatically.
*FUN FACT* : Running lower voltage on VCORE with 9950X resulted in decrease of performance by SIGNIFICANT margins in multi-threading and single threading.
My Cinebench R23 Stock is 40274
While lowered voltage to 1.32v results in score of 30411. Simply because you lowered the voltage.
Curve optimizer actually increases Cinebench score and performance (Negative Offset), but voltage reduction gimps the chip putting it into ECO Mode. I believe changing voltage like that results in hard limit of how much voltage each core can use, and thus results in a hard brick limiter to the frequencies. As I saw as little as 3.3 ghz in Multi-Thread test of Cinebench R23.
Stock + Curve Optimizer is the way to go, but not the voltage itself. Unless your intent is to reduce overall voltage, at increased decrease of hit, but with a HUGE impact, essentially 25% or greater performance decrease, just by changing stock voltage of what was showing around 1.359v or so to 1.32v). Don't change voltage, unless it is your intent to limit heat and performance of the chip. Could be useful for small chassis PCs that are thermally limited by cooler choice, or you are limited electricity for non-gaming situations. I can see some scenarios for that, just not how Intel does things, so it was super interesting.
All my benchmarks prior to today were ran on lower voltage, essentially limiting my chip's performance to a greater sense of a word. Returning to Stock improved gaming and operations of Windows dramatically.