Overclocking and MSFS SU5

Running MSFS 2020 SU5, I recently gave my overclocked i7 10700 a close look running a stressing location, a 6k' flight from KBUR to KSNA, using LOD 300/300 and 30 fps vsync (see my computer specs in my signature).  I originally tried using LOD 600/600 for this test but decided that such settings are impractical for my computer.  For this LOD 300/300 test I stepped back my 5.0 Ghz OC to 4.9, primarily to reduce the load voltage by about .1v (though I lost 2% of the effective OC in the process).  What I saw was surprising:  about half of my physical cores had max temps from 84c and 86c!  The average was around 63c.  Though I can't tell for sure, it looks that those high temps occurred over very sort intervals and had to be caused, IMO, by AVX instruction (FMA3?) execution.  Though these temps can be seen as alarming, I'm glad that Asobo is taking advantage of these instructions which GREATLY increase computational throughput; that is exactly why they exist and IMO it'd be foolish to leave such computational power "on the table".  If I run all stock clocks, including disabling XMP, the temps hit 77c though the processor is now pegging 100% occasionally in this test.  In the end, I figure I'll live with my 4.9 Ghz OC and these short high temp bursts, for there are not causing thermal throttling, and the power consumption max is staying below 130w and averaging well below that.  Seems that my NH-D15S cooler is being thrown to the wall here...plus my 10700 is a mediocre lottery pull...oh well, thanks for reading.

Edited August 15, 20214 yr by TheFamilyMan