Dear sylvia_intel,
Cc Slim_Jim,
Cc Intel VisualBios,
Please understand that we understand that the CPU multiplier and CPU bus frequency is locked, so
conventional overclocking by increasing one or other or both, perhaps with CPU core voltage is not
available to us. (However, _UNDER-volting_ the CPU, so that it spends more time using higher
multipliers and is below it's thermal limits eg. utilizing "Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0", is
rewarding.)
Increasing the operating frequency of the RAM simply reduces the time that the CPU is "cache starved"
otherwise known as "bus bound", allowing the CPU to run more often "CPU bound" thus improving it's
throughput. This "Overclocking" is not pushing the CPU beyond its specifications, because it must be able
to handle "CPU bound" jobs at any time because many jobs will fit nicely inside the Cache and do mostly
cache hits e.g. linpack ( a very extreme example ).
Another way to reduce the time the CPU is idle because it is "cache starved" is to improve the speed of Secondary Memory.
By your definition of “Overclocking” I should not use a faster SSD.
You state “NUCs are not meant to be customized because they use embedded processors.”
I bought a NUC because it is fun to tweak it a little. If I wanted a computer I could not customize, I would have bought an Apple.
Intel needs to understand it's customers motivations for their purchases.
If I bought a toy car it would be a die-cast classic made by “Matchbox” and I would put mag wheels on it and go-faster decals.
Note that Intel provide their “Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU)” so that a user can “Tweak to your heart’s content...”
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Respectfully yours,
OC_Freak.