You are not answering his question, BenchAndGames
For the 10700K, the Intel power limits are not as limiting yet (unless you run stresstests or very long benchmarks). Only the 10900K is quite limited by them, but that one is an actual beast, the power consumption is enormous without the limits. Your board's VRM and your cooling better be excellent if you disable the limits with a 10900K.
The 10700K has a PL1 of 125W, PL2 of 229W and Tau of 56 seconds (Tau = Greek letter T stands for the time period in physics). These limits work quite well with this CPU's power draw. On the 10900K for example, the 250W PL2 is limiting, and the PL1 even more so, because that CPU can continuously draw over 300W if you let it (and overwhelm almost all air coolers and some AIO water coolers).
I can't tell if the board is actually obeying the 125w PL1 (56 second) I've set, since cores seem to be constantly bouncing between 4.7 and down to 800Mhz with basically no loads.
I'm seeing clocks on some cores in hwinfo up to 5Ghz (assuming I'm missing any higher peaks due to slow polling).
4.7 to 5 GHz boost is normal for this CPU:
But don't look so much at the boost frequencies, look at the reported CPU power consumption. There you will see for sure if the limits are working or not.
Either use HWinfo64, or what i like to use is Core Temp:
https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
Here you can see a test i did with a 9600K:
The AIDA64 at the bottom left is just monitoring the fan RPMs, which i set to a temperature-dependant curve.
What you see here is, the 9600K has a Long Duration Power Limit of 95W, and a Short Duration Power Limit of 118W, with a Tau of 28 seconds. It's actually not far above those limits if you disable them all. But observe the fan curves: After 28 seconds, the power consumption drops to exactly 95W, and the temperature-controlled fans follow suit. You can see the slight kink halfway through each of the (almost) three test runs, where the RPMs become lower.
Here is an illustration of the limits for reference:
You can see, it sort of mimicks that graph, but in a flatter way, cause the 9600K, even with all limits disabled, doesn't go much above PL1.
For CPUs which are not too far over the limits anyway, you can disable the limits altogether without a big downside, or leave them in place, doesn't matter. Provided you have good cooling. The 10600K is not really limited by the power limits, because it will only go above the limits in Prime95, but not in normal applications. The 10700K is similar to a 9900K, but with much higher power limits. So it will be way faster for shorter full load. There are not many cases where long multi-core load will happen, certainly not in games (the power consumption stays below the limit there), more in encoding tasks. But still it's not a huge loss in performance if you apply the Intel limits.
For CPUs which are limited more by the Intel power limits, you have to look at it case-by-case. If you tell someone to disable the limits on a 10900K, a high-end board and high-end cooling are an absolute must. Otherwise it will quickly run too hot and you'll have CPU throttling, VRM throttling, or both, which will LOWER performance. With cheaper boards, you will also worsen the longevity from all components around the VRM heating up too much.
Anyone got any tips for running this board closer to intel stock?
Read this:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?...o-boost-max-3-0-with-tvb.345499/#post-2002278
By the way, here i talk more about efficiency and the limits, also follow the links,
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?...si-meg-z490-ace-and-whea.345960/#post-2001420
