Soldato
What is it that's killing them?
I've just picked up a i5-13500 which, when running BIOS defaults will happily sit at 65w according to HWMonitor, with a brief stint at 135w when you initially kick Cinebench in.
I've got a beta BIOS on there with the new 0x129 microcode, which apparently fixes whatever issues there are, with that installed and the BIOS set to the 'Intel Performance' setting, rather than the defaults, it seems to run at 135w happily for the entire 10 minute Cinebench run and doesn't go above 71oC...
I'm guessing that sticking over 50% of its rated 65w wont be great for it, so will most likely knock off the overboost or whatever it is doing it, but it got me thinking what the actual issue is with these things...
I've just picked up a i5-13500 which, when running BIOS defaults will happily sit at 65w according to HWMonitor, with a brief stint at 135w when you initially kick Cinebench in.
I've got a beta BIOS on there with the new 0x129 microcode, which apparently fixes whatever issues there are, with that installed and the BIOS set to the 'Intel Performance' setting, rather than the defaults, it seems to run at 135w happily for the entire 10 minute Cinebench run and doesn't go above 71oC...
I'm guessing that sticking over 50% of its rated 65w wont be great for it, so will most likely knock off the overboost or whatever it is doing it, but it got me thinking what the actual issue is with these things...