A little birdie told me...

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There seems to be plenty of misunderstanding around the 8.722GHz run on FX-8370.

Unlike some of the news falsely claim not all of the 4 compute units (8 cores) were operating at the frequency of 8.722GHz.
I have never claimed otherwise and honestly no one except Christian Ney even bothered to ask me.

The other compute units were clocked down to a lower PState, yet they were neither clock or power gated but in full power state (effectively C0 state).
Clock and / or power gating the other compute units or cores is quite common now days but thats not something I do.
Just as shutting down 3/4 of the compute units of the processor is just not my thing.
The way I currently do it mimics the normal behavior of Turbo Core. During low loads the idling cores will be clocked down.

Thank you for the clarification. This is pretty much exactly what I thought was happening.

Also, thank you for your contributions to the community and your research. The information you're providing about the new Vishera models is quite intriguing... I think I may just buy one!

EDIT:
I'd like to add also that overclocking is a hobby for me and it's something I always look at with a light heart. I congratulate great talent and results and whenever I come up short I'm still proud that I accomplished something. I surely don't care if I'm 1st or 120th in some HWBOT ranking because I really only compete against myself. I wish all overclockers looked at it this way. Like Movieman said, it's how you play the game that matters the most...