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No. AMD boosts up until you reach any limit (power, thermal or max boost).
Setting your own max boost achieves nothing on modern AMD CPUs. You're basically restricting yourself to one performance limiter when you could let the chip run faster to hit another limit that it's designed to hit. You could set it up to boost to X MHz with 1 core, or Y MHz all-core, but why would you if it can boost higher in lighter workloads by default?
The max boost should have no limit. I guess it is tied to the max voltage. But I guess it should have an algorithm for automatic determination of the most optimal ratio for the particular die and its quality
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Socket AM5 must throw away any compatibility with am4 size for prevent this situation, with more bigger socket them can prevent this temperature situation
However said somethink like 95 degrees are perfectly safe and normalthat dont sound good, maybe seems a cheap trick to try sell a product with temperature problems
Personally seems something like that: you need buy new expensive cpu, new expensive mainboard, new expensive memories aka higher frecuencies memories but you dont need buy new cpu cooler
If buy new expensive components, buy new cooler dont be a problem because users buy am5 must be have enough moneyand new cooler dont change so much in money
Again personally i think ryzen 5 7600x dont must be exist (same than size dimensions of socket am5) because give a strange message in prices side
Because with all things showed this platform are high end and dont be avalaible for averaje joe users, for them amd still have am4
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I wouldn't say that AMD is stupid but that its engineers didn't make the best decision.
They needed new coolers for AM5 designed exclusively for high-TDP CPUs, because obviously this generation is the first from AMD to behave so badly.
And second - the IHS is indeed horrible - it introduced an additional thick layer of thermal resistance and naked dies is the solution to go - for such a premium and super expensive platform it would not be a problem - after all the people who assemble these configurations know what they do and have mastered this practice
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