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TBH does anyone expect much from Asus given their track record in recent years?

On the Desktop espeically DIY the CPU idle power is not actually the majority of total system power at idle. Most people don't expect (or don't care) how much power their case fans, RGB, and AIO pumps etc draw. AMD does have the SVI2/3 TFN sensors on die to priovide die sense voltage and power...

The issue with power draw at the outlet is it depends on the power supply and the VRM efficiency. The VRM on the high-end boards are often quite inefficient at idle because they are so over-built.

I read the actual power draw at the VRM output. The package power of Intel Desktop CPUs are not very accurate at idle. I make sure the voltage / Loadline sent the VRM is the ball park of the CPU VID as well. My CPU pulls around 25~30W idle when the package power says 10W. At load they match much...

I assume you mean Laptops. Because on Desktops the IO portion by itself can easily pull more than 5W idle. Also most Desktop motherboards have a lot of the power management features disabled by default. So most of the time they are sitting at a couple dozen Watts idle if not more.

Good luck going into the bios and changes it everytime you game. At 35W/65W you might as well get a MiniPC that will runs circles around Raptor Lake at those PL. Also do the same an AMD CPU and it will be more efficient still. Keep bending over backwards for Intel.

TBH customer / tech support can be hit and miss depending who you get as well. GN did a video a couple years back about Intel CS regarding things like XMP. One CS says its OC and thus not covered by warranty they other didn't even bother asking about XMP being enabled or not. Intel and AMD has...

FYI, AM5 does actually have 4 more CPU pcie lanes vs AM4. No one really cares is exactly why this CPU is now cheaper than the 7800X3D. Also due to scheduling issues, on average 14700K is pretty close to the 7900X3D in gaming. Yes the i7 also with 8 P-cores as the i9 is almost the same in gaming...

It does, this is what I am doing with the 12700k. Without it my steam downloads will be stuck at around 600Mbps instead of 1.6Gbps or so because the 4 E-cores are choking while the P-cores are AFK. The problem is with things like kernel-level anti-cheats that are common in Esports titles these...

Demand of this is pretty bad. It kind of wierd step child for gamers, since it bascially acts as a 6-core in games, and in other workloads it is a lower clocked 7900X. On top of that there is the scheduling issue. It really wasn't attractive at all given it launced at a price higher than the...

You know, maybe it is because Intel pushed 14th gen which are the exact same silicon even further than 13th gen, thus all the problems.

Oh it goes even further back then that. The board venders have been progressively ignoring every limit one by one and Intel turned a blind eye every time until now. https://gamersnexus.net/guides/3389-intel-tdp-investigation-9900k-violating-turbo-duration-z390 First it was the Turbo Duration...

It was in early Win XP, they introduced the app later.

M$ came full circle, once upon a time Windows Update was also web-based.

It seems that Gigabyte for some reason applied the PL of the non-K 14900 to the 14900K. EDIT: Nope, not even that, it is just some weird value. Also, speaking of "scam" since Intel decided for the 12 gen+ K series PL1=PL2, they should just have labeled the 14900K as 253W TDP.