When you have been in an industry long enough you start to find the normal things a hobbyist would enjoy — for instance, overclocking on the latest high-end CPU like a 9950X — to be almost mundane. You long for the obscure and unique. So when an OC friend of mine said "hey, did you know they make a quad core AM5 CPU and it's EPYC?" I knew I had to give it a shot. Enter the AMD EPYC™ 4124P.
Will it be unlocked? Well, it's a "server named" part so probably not. OK, well we have BCLK we can overclock with. Will it even boot or be recognized in a "normal" AM5 socket motherboard without ECC memory, etc.? A lot of questions — but worth the risk if it pans out. These seem quite rare in the USA. I had to snag mine off eBay from Italy.
Fast forward 12 days and it's here, and guess what? "It drops right in, is fully unlocked and overclocks like hell!" AMD give the people what they want — the quad of the gods!
Water cooling: 5.5 GHz @ 1.35V (threaded benchmarks)
LN2: 6.4 GHz+ (destroys 4-core rankings at HWBot.org)
That is all for now. Keep some secrets for later.
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