9800x3d overclocking isn't really worth it
After I built my 9800x3d system I never really ran it or did any stress testing at stock clocks, after messing around with updating bios on my MSI x870 Tomahawk and enabling memory context restore and power down I turned on PBO, set it to -25 curve optimizer, +200mhz and 10x scalar. The temps were a tad high, holding 87, reaching 90 for brief moments on Cinebench on a 360 Thermalright AIO with quiet fan profile. Power usage was 135-140w. Its was in the safe zone but boost clocks were coming down to 5380 after a prolonged benchmark. Reseated my AIO block and repasted it with Noctua thermal paste, for a slight improvement to 85 and a more steady boost clock of 5425. Cinebench multicore score was 1385. During gaming the temp was usually in the 52-58 range.
After setting it to stock speeds temps are down to 65 during benchmark. Almost 25 degrees from applying such a mild overclock seems excessive. After setting the fans down to near silent I'm seeing 70 with less than 100w power draw. Cinebench multicore score was reduced to 1302. A 6% improvement in a synthetic benchmark for 35% more power usage and 20+ degree higher temps doesn't seem worth it especially since I'm not constrained by the CPUs performance with a mere 3080.
I'm going to continue messing around with the power curve and boost clocks but with a focus on keeping low temps and power draw to a minimum. Has anybody tried experimenting with this in mind? What were your results?