Is DCS using AVX??

[Wali763]

Hi.

 

Im doing some testing/oc'ing on my 9600K (with a Noctua aircooler) right now.

 

Always, when I use an AVX-offset, DCS is running with that offset; so, if I go to 51x and use offset of 3, DCS runs at 4800Mhz.

 

Seems strange. Does DCS really use AVX??

 

Yesterday I ran DCS and some Prime95 26.6 at 5,2Ghz (without offset) and with 1,38V it seemed ok. But Im not willing to go that high 24/7.

 

Im not sure, what to do right now: it seems I could go for 5,1Ghz stable for most things with decent Vcore, but using AVX-offset would give me the same 4,8Ghz I have right now with DCS. Or I could not use the offset with 5,1 Ghz, which would be for sure stable for everything except AVX-stresstesting.

 

But I dont think, 300Mhz more would make a huge difference; in a brief, unscientific comparison yesterday I did not see a difference looking at the fps-Chart in Afterburner.

 

Maybe 5,0Ghz with 1,28V regarding perf vs Vcore could be the sweetspot for me.

 

 

But the real joke here is, that Im doing this all on a 100Euros-Gigabye Z370P D3-board. From what many people are saying this should not be possible on such a cheap low-end board. VRMs are usually (according to HWInfo) in the mid 50s and only got up to 80 when the CPU was drawing 150W in Prime95 (with AVX).

Edited May 26, 2020 by Wali763

[BitMaster]

Afaik it does