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Youd be surprised by how efficient alderlake is when you put a 125w power limit. The 12900k scores 24+k in cbr23. I expect the 13900k to score way higher.
Im not talking about tweaking. Just putting a power limit. When you get into bios the first time to enable xmp for example, it asks you what power limit you want to run at. You choose 125w,voila.
system I have with 5900x max power at stock/default uses 133w , If I start tinkering in the bios I can set to much higher and get better bench scores etc all the reviews and slides show scores when its at stock , isnt that not the right way to go about it ?
What is less faff?
Have done many for others and never had an issue myself when people have asked me to help with that but I personally prefer a clean install anyways. But yeah I really don't see any faff personally.
The right way depends on what you want to test. Personally when it comes to efficiency i care about performance per watt at SAME wattage. I don't see any point having one cpu at 240w and the other one at 105w and comparing them for efficiency.
XMP is a basic profile change; changing power limits is not something the average user is going to think about. If Intel is so great with power limit tweaks, why don’t they sell it like that?
For the same reasons AMD doesn't sell it "like that". They want to top the benchmarks.
Tbh you are more selling there being issues with stability and XMP than anything with that response. It used to be pretty solid plug and play and turn on XMP.
