not necessarily. the "limits" exist in the context of reasonable cooling solutions and the power delivery capabilities of the cheapest supported motherboard. if

not necessarily. the "limits" exist in the context of reasonable cooling solutions and the power delivery capabilities of the cheapest supported motherboard. if intel could assume everyone had overbuilt VRMs and a 360mm radiator, they could push their top SKU further up the voltage/frequency curve. part of why overclocking is dying out is because of the increasingly sophisticated boosting rules for modern CPUs. traditionally, you would just set all cores to run at the same speed 24/7 and go as far as you could under that regime. if you try than with zen 3, you won't be able to hit max 1T boost. I believe you are able to set per-core overclocks with zen 3, but not sure if anyone does that in practice.