PotentialAstronaut39@alien.topBtoIntel@hardware.watch•Score i5 13600k - 23964 (undervolt)English
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10 months agoIn a nutshell?
It’s the duration the motherboard will allow the CPU to use more power than it’s rated TDP.
Say if you got a chip rated for 125W, Tau/PL1 is the motherboard allowing 225W, but only for a certain period of time during which it can reach it’s rated turbo clockspeeds.
After the Tau/PL1 boosting period is over, it goes back down to 125W max and the clockspeeds follow by dropping too so as not to use more than 125W.
Performs around an Intel 10400 or Ryzen 3600 when not power restrained ( it runs at 4.3GHZ and boosts up to 4.6 on single threaded workloads. ) Still sips power in most games.
Have that CPU running along a 3070, it still purrs like a kitten in most games except a few exceptions that have crap optimisation that came out this year.
It’s 100% worth it if you got it for free, what do you have to lose?
But if you want to stream, it’ll be a no go unless you stream using the GPU.