Monday, September 2nd 2024
AMD to Extend Warranty Coverage to Ryzen 9600X and 9700X with 105W BIOS Mods
Motherboard manufacturers are beginning to roll out UEFI firmware updates that not just patch the Sinkclose critical vulnerability, but enable an experimental "105 W TDP mode" option as part of the processor's custom BIOS settings (CBS). The mode elevates the power limits of the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X "Zen 5" desktop processors, with up to 13%" performance gains being reported by the motherboard vendors themselves. By default, your motherboard will run these processors at their original 65 W TDP, and you're supposed to manually enable the setting in the UEFI firmware setup program. It could either be found in the overclocking/tuning page, or the AMD CBS section.
To remove the last bit of hesitation among users go turn this setting on, AMD is working to extend its processor warranty to cover the 105 W TDP mode, reports Wccftech editor Hassan Mujtaba. Currently, the setting is being shipped with AM5 AGESA version 1.2.0.1, which includes the Sinkclose vulnerability patch, but will "officially" release it with AM5 AGESA 1.2.0.2, along with warranty coverage. Mujtaba reports that firmware updated with AGESA 1.2.0.2 are expected to begin rolling out in late-September.
Sources:
Hassan Mujtaba (Twitter), VideoCardz
To remove the last bit of hesitation among users go turn this setting on, AMD is working to extend its processor warranty to cover the 105 W TDP mode, reports Wccftech editor Hassan Mujtaba. Currently, the setting is being shipped with AM5 AGESA version 1.2.0.1, which includes the Sinkclose vulnerability patch, but will "officially" release it with AM5 AGESA 1.2.0.2, along with warranty coverage. Mujtaba reports that firmware updated with AGESA 1.2.0.2 are expected to begin rolling out in late-September.
38 Comments on AMD to Extend Warranty Coverage to Ryzen 9600X and 9700X with 105W BIOS Mods
The issue with lunar lake is intel themselves. Meteor lake's limited testing shows severe compatibility regression in some games that were fixed on alchemist. Frankly I have no trust that intel is gonna get their GPU driver fully stable, especially for older games. That's a dealbreaker for me.I'm good for a long while. I'm going all the way to 2032 with this rig. We'll see what the market looks like by then. Maybe we'll have 200CU strix halo V6.9 CPUs with RTX 5090 performance by then.
Still for now I'd rather not deal with core-parking BS, so I'd be still more inclined to go Arrow Lake than dual ccd AMD model. With E-cores getting massive boost in performance, for me 20 core 265 will benefit me more than 12 cores for productivity and will still be great for gaming.
Already 14700K beats 9900X in majority of productivity apps and that's with weak E-cores. Arrow Lake with new E-cores is strong enough to match or beat Raptor Lake in multi-core performance despite lacking HT.
Obviously, I'll wait for real world tests on Arrow lake vs Zen 5 vs Zen 5 X3D before deciding. Also need to see if Intel is delivering on promised massive power reduction for Arrow Lake.
Still a stopgap though more excited for 9800X3D vs. Arrow Lake.
CPUs with high clock speeds and many cores with low TDP ratings generally suffer in terms of user experience. (The same reason why the non-K SKUs from Intel really suck for doing anything more than very light office work). Consistent performance is actually more important than peak performance, although benchmarks doesn't always reflect this.