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Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to have to under volt a desktop CPU (especially just 6 cores) to keep the heat down. You should not have to make that sacrifice with a desktop CPU, even if it is a small form factor build.
I'm not knocking AMD cause Intel has been building mini heaters for while now. But everyone says to just under volt the CPU to get rid of the heat. If you need to do that to keep the heat down then dont buy a $300 CPU. Why buy an expensive CPU if your just going to undervolt and slow down the chip. It's like driving a Ferrari with a governor installed to keep you from speeding.
I have undervolted CPUs in laptops before and it made more sense cause I dont like my chip running at +90C for a sustained gaming session. The CPU will lose long term performance to be under that much heat for extended periods of time. I think it is called electromigration, but I bet someone here knows and will correct me if I'm wrong on the terminology.
Just put a less powerful GPU in to lower the CPU heat. I'm running a 12700k which runs really cool gaming as i only have a 1080ti