August 18, 20187 yr If check YouTube VRM TEMPS you will know why all the manufactures are now fitting heat pipes and fans to the VRM they would not admit to when it was discovered over a year ago, then last year at gamescon the same boards were sporting heatpipes or fans, after it was proved that some ROG boards were throttling due to the VRM heat and dropping the volts to cooldown, and in doing so clocking the CPU back down below the base clock in some cases. Some could argue that users who purchased these boards could have a case for replacement or refund. Raymond Fry.
August 19, 20187 yr 10 hours ago, rjfry said: If check YouTube VRM TEMPS you will know why all the manufactures are now fitting heat pipes and fans to the VRM they would not admit to when it was discovered over a year ago, then last year at gamescon the same boards were sporting heatpipes or fans, after it was proved that some ROG boards were throttling due to the VRM heat and dropping the volts to cooldown, and in doing so clocking the CPU back down below the base clock in some cases. Some could argue that users who purchased these boards could have a case for replacement or refund. Yep, as I say they are getting toastie. I saw most of those videos when they were published. I recall it was der8auer that spotted this in regard to X299 over a year ago. B450 too more recently. I recall der8auer blamed both the board manufacturers and Intel equally. Intel for not allowing enough time for board manufacturers to design their boards. In a recent board test and high overclock Tom Logan was directing a fan at the rear of a board. 🙂 Quote Some could argue that users who purchased these boards could have a case for replacement or refund. I guess that would depend on whether the board was capable of doing everything it was advertised to do. If not, I guess they might have a case. Edited August 19, 20187 yr by martin-w
August 19, 20187 yr Gamers Nexus did test clock the CPU up in steps and his results showed at 4.9 it worse then leaving the GPU at 4.5 and ROG boards are sold as gamers overclocking boards. You would have just as well saved your money and bought cheaper board and not overclocked. And when der8auer ask them why not use the VRM on the workstation boards which run cooler, there reply was it will make them look cheap and may put the buyer off, in other words if you pimp it they will buy it and won`t look under the hood. Edited August 19, 20187 yr by rjfry Raymond Fry.
August 19, 20187 yr Quote And when der8auer ask them why not use the VRM on the workstation boards which run cooler, there reply was it will make them look cheap and may put the buyer off, in other words if you pimp it they will buy it and won`t look under the hood. 😊 Manufcaturers do have strange thought processes from time to time. My board a prime example. Suddenly with the latest BIOS, the option to enable MCE when you set the XMP profile is disabled. The box still pops up asking you but when you select yes nothing happens. In addition, MCE has no "ON" now. The only way to switch on MCE is to set "Sync All Cores". Whether this is a temporary thing I've no idea, but no doubt stems from all the criticism for having MCE on by default. Crazy stuff, all Asus needed to do was leave the MCE option as "On or "Disabled".
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