CPU Frequency, Power, and Temperatures
The CPU power results are exactly what we expected. Using Intel defaults, the power limit is supposed to be around 241w give or take. When using MSI’s power limits, we see a relatively small increase in power consumption. However, we do not get a performance uplift much or if at all. However, this is partly because we are more or less at the limit of the AIO cooling used for our testing here.
As you can see, the temperature maximums were identical between MSI and Intel’s power settings. As a result, we can’t really get any more performance for our increased power limits as we are effectively limited by our cooling.
When looking at average CPU clocks, we can see broadly similar averages using the two power profiles. Again, I think this comes down to the limitations of our cooling. With more cooling, we might see some increase in clocks. This isn’t an issue with the MSI board either as I’ve broadly seen the same results from this CPU on multiple motherboards at this point.
In contrast, our maximum clocks are pretty good but unfortunately, MSI’s power limit increase doesn’t net us much here either. Only about 25MHz which as we saw in the benchmarks didn’t help or even hurt performance in some cases.