That's essentially what it's supposed to do out of the box. The chip already communicates to the OS what its "best" and "good" cores are for single- and low-thr

That's essentially what it's supposed to do out of the box. The chip already communicates to the OS what its "best" and "good" cores are for single- and low-thread count workloads: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15137/amd-clarifies-best-cores-vs-preferred-cores https://www.anandtech.com/show/15137/amd-clarifies-best-core... These are the cores that can turbo the highest. You can attempt to manually OC higher, but that by & large doesn't work without extreme cooling. Typically instead it's about achieving higher all-core frequencies than the built in all-core turbo, typically via higher voltages & power limits (and of course much better-than-stock cooling) Indeed if you look at single-thread cinebench numbers you'll find the 3960x & 3970x right in the middle of the 3700x, 3800x, and 3900x pack: https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_threadripper_3960x_review,7.html https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_threadripper... They all hit around that same 4.5ghz single core turbo mark without any overclocking. And Zen2 by & large doesn't really go much beyond 4.5ghz anyway, so there's not all that much manual overclocking you can do without going sub-ambient cooling anyway. The only real downside to Threadripper 3rd gen is the price. It's already a pretty killer jack-of-all-trades CPUs otherwise. It's a very competent gaming CPU without any tweaks at all right out of the box. It doesn't at all have the cons of the 1st & 2nd gen Threadrippers, which were actually NUMA and therefore came with huge gaming downsides.