With a new BIOS from MSI, the already fast Ryzen 7 5800X3D can be operated even faster.
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The Ryzen 7 5800X3D runs even faster with the MSI BIOS.
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For the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, AMD has used a trick for even more performance: Above the actual CPU there is a stack with an additional cache, which gives the CPU a performance boost in games and editing programs. In return, however, AMD had to reduce the clock a bit and also block other features of the CPU.
“Combo Strike” for more performance
The board manufacturer MSI is now circumventing these restrictions with a beta BIOS for its mainboards with a 500 chipset. With the new BIOS, functions for voltage, Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and Curve Optimizer that were actually blocked can be reactivated. A new feature called “Kombo Strike” also offers three levels of automatic improvement in power consumption, temperature and performance.
Less power consumption
The BIOS can actually tease out better values from the Ryzen 7 5800X3D on MSI mainboards. On Reddit, for example, a user reports a 19 watt reduction in power consumption and a temperature drop of 11 degrees Celsius. Nevertheless, there is even a performance plus of 2 to 3 percent.
Less hot CPU
Without the new function called “Kombo Strike”, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D scores 14,641 points in Cinebench R23. In level 1, the value increases to 14,732 points, level 2 provides a further increase in performance with 14,961 points. At level 3, 15,049 points can finally be achieved. This corresponds to a performance increase of 2.7 percent – hardly noticeable in practice. At the same time, however, the temperatures and power consumption of the CPU can also be reduced with the beta BIOS: The standard temperature is 81.3 degrees Celsius and 112.2 watts after ten minutes of Cinebench R23. Level 3 enables a temperature of 72.3 degrees Celsius and a power consumption of 98.2 watts.
MSI Beta BIOS for Ryzen 7 5800X3D free download
