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Journey said:
I feel sorry for the motherboard VRM's tbh. The amount of current being drawn on a CPU with that many cores, at those frequencies will be just crazy. :o
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Yeah, it's not like x299 boards have a great history with VRMs. Wonder if we'll see a couple of new motherboards aimed at the higher SKUs?
 
amigafan2003 said:
Yeah, it's not like x299 boards have a great history with VRMs. Wonder if we'll see a couple of new motherboards aimed at the higher SKUs?
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What history is that? You know the VRM are more than capable of handling in excess of 700W, right? One just needs to understand that dissipating the heat from high current, active airflow is definitely needed or better still watercooling.
 
Silent_Scone said:
What history is that? You know the VRM are more than capable of handling in excess of 700W, right? One just needs to understand that dissipating the heat from high current, active airflow is definitely needed or better still watercooling.
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My VRMs are a nightmare. Almost got to 75 yesterday. I was sweating bullets!!:D:rolleyes:
 
james_2k said:
Bet there's not. It's easy to tell if it throttles. And mine will temp throttle the core way earlier than vrm
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Have you seen the tim logan and der8auer video? Its not easy to detect, in fact tim logan didn't even know it was throttling and told der8auer he was doing something wrong.
Its quite difficult to detect, task manger and the like don't pick it up.

Watch these if you get chance. Not saying that everyone runs these kinds of loads but prime + overclock really cooks these chips


 
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james_2k said:
Who cares what prime does? Furmark used to kill graphics cards. Doesn't mean they sucked. Pointless over stressing is pointless
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Someones defensive.
My point is that anyone looking to overclock these and run AVX2 are in for a surprise.

I find it funny that prime95 has been the go to stress test for CPU's since forever, yet as soon as an intel cpu/board cannot do it without throttling its "pointless"
 
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james_2k said:
No im not really, but is this avx2 or just prime..? Either way, haven't seen anything of the sort in my tests.
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Did you watch the video? Its detected through power draw, not clock frequencies.
In fact he said that the board you are using is one of the worst.
 
Oh he did? oh dear! i better sell it and buy something else immediately! No wait, artificially high power draws are not something i do. nevermind
 
Oh no! The only kind of stealth throttling i have heard of is when svid is enabled (on asus boards), which it isnt on mine. and the VRMs have never gone above 75 in anything i've done.

But hey, you watched a video so i should bow to your experience :)
 
james_2k said:
Oh no! The only kind of stealth throttling i have heard of is when svid is enabled (on asus boards), which it isnt on mine. and the VRMs have never gone above 75 in anything i've done.

But hey, you watched a video so i should bow to your experience :)
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As i said originally, run prime and tell me how hot they get.
Which is what the video is based on, prime.
If you don't run those kinds of loads, fine. Enjoy your board.
But people will want to run AVX2 loads on an overclocked chip to find its performing poorly because its throttling and that's because motherboard manufacturers are using crappy VRM coolers.
 
AVX loads is not the same as prime load. Just isnt.

If you want to run prime small fft all the time, then sure you quite probably do need more cooling on certain areas, this is to be expected. But why would you?
 
james_2k said:
AVX loads is not the same as prime load. Just isnt.
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Why are you getting so defensive? It is a fact that the motherboard manufacturers have been trying to address, by improving the VRM heatsinks as in certain circumstances the VRM's were reaching their peak allowed temperature, and then causing the throttling, and also not allowing the CPU to be overclocked to it's full potential. Again not because the VRM design was poor, just the cooling solution was not adequate for the power draw by the CPU at that time.
 
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