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High temperature and throttling
It is a beast when combined with Asus z390 Maximus hero and 32gb gskill 3200 cl14 but..forget about overclocking though it runs very hot already Intel has push it as far as they could compete with the market right now with AMD,
it runs very fast but it also down clocks it itself a lot because of the temperature and the power limit,
I have Noctua NH-D15S with two installed fans and temperature rises up to high 70sC and spikes to mid 80sC while gaming that's just unacceptable high temperature comparing to an i7 5820k overclock to 4.2 was mid 50s c with a smaller CPU Cooler.
the clocks doesn't stay steady unless you fiddle with the BIOS and it takes a lot more than 95 watts and I have spiked up to 180 Watts just on the CPU.
This CPU obviously needed a die shrink but intel was in a rush to release this processor to compete in the market..
Other thoughts: it is a must have really good CPU Cooler and even then it will run very hot...
November 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase