These kind of 'reviews' bug me. He didn't even run it till like 2/3rds through the video, then instead of quickly running a few benchmarks to show the same performance on that as any other board he ran a pointless stability test that tells you nothing. Instead of putting his finger let alone a basic laser heat gun on the vrms to see if they were hotter than with a say 2700x, he just said oh, it's telling me 29C, that's wrong.
There is this inherent belief lately that if a motherboard doesn't have a 600amp VRM setup for LN2 cooling of the highest degree, then the VRMs are crap.
105W is 105W.
If you have even the cheapest motherboards capable of delivering well over 100W, and you're talking about a 12 core chip that is on a new node and has the same TDP... where do people get the magic idea that none of the chips will work because 'more corezzzzz'. On the same node adding another 100% cores and upping power usage by not far off 100%, sure, there is a power issue to consider, going from 8 cores on 14nm to 12 (or 16) cores on 7nm using the same TDP, urrgggh. This VRM snobbery going on where people believe cheaper boards won't run stock just fine is getting stupid.
The only reason I can see to go x570 is to get a pci-e 4 M2 drive and even then I think almost no one would even see a performance benefit of that.
People are spending imo absurd amounts for perceived performance gains that simply don't exist, largely because a few reviewers who get free kit from people trying to sell these products keep telling you that the VRMs are crap on cheaper boards.
IT's kind of absurd that almost everyone here could just save £100-200 on the motherboard and get 4 more cores or a more powerful gpu and instead are getting 3 times the VRM power they'll ever require.
