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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For C5H8 (1-pentyne)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002234 -0.008288 -0.008288 -0.006698 -0.024130 -0.025575 -0.026015 -0.092933 -0.094139 -0.040595 -0.085193 -0.012798 -0.077931 -0.014729
MP3=FULL         -0.023927   -0.035133              
Coupled Cluster CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.023972                  
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVDZ