Comment on Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 months agoFrom what I’m reading these aren’t enthusiasts running an overclock, but rather stock settings from aggressive boards put out by manufacturers?
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Yep, that’s the claim. Basically some enthusiast motherboards, cough cough asus cough cough, are shipping with stock settings that completely disable thermal throttling and allow essentially infinite voltage and current to the CPU! This wasn’t being done by people mucking with the settings after purchase this is how they were being shipped!
I’d surmise that it was being done so that those motherboards could be marketed as being faster than the competition.