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[Raja@ASUS]

This isn't just torture utilities though. I've been using an MP4 encoder to test real world usage/stress, and that's AVX enabled. I'm pretty sure people will be using AVX in the real world. For instance, it's used in the GRID 2 game that came free with my CPU.

Software, simply being AVX enabled does not ramp the VID as the heavy stress test utilities do. I had one user test Grid and he did not see the ramp at all. It seems very much load dependant. Not sure on your encoder, if you have checked then just set to a manual VID. That is why i said "AVX stress tests" and NOT AVX software. You are welcome to check of course and decide on what works better for you.

FWIW the VID ramp under "HEAVY" AVX loads is something programmed by Intel, not us. There is nothing we can do about that.




I will finish by saying just use 4-way as a staring point and make UEFI changes as you deem important for your system and usage scenario. We can't account for every CPU out there, so you can tune manually as needed.