Good to see board makers learned their lessons on VRM design, and arent segmenting the market or anything (With the average board handling 65W CPUs only, and needing pay a ton more to get mid-tier VRMs)
I just went and googled for Starcraft II (being heavily single threaded, one for the game and one for the rendering) and found results with older GPUs to cover the upgrade pretty well
If you focus on "max FPS 4% faster" you see nothing, but that min FPS going up 58% is life changing
Having watched the HUB video now, jesus christ they did NOT learn a thing.
AMD are making it clear all their boards are universal, but hey - buy an A620 and you know it's for 65W chips.
But this mess? They need to reign these idiots in for ruining their image.
HUB is clear this is at an enforced 21C ambient and say the VRM's are a minimum of 10c hotter since they're the other side of the PCB, and that hotter climates - like mine that gets into the 40c range, these would go beyond overheating and just crash or die. at stock.
None of this had GPU heat added in either
B series boards shouldnt be treated as overclocking boards, but these are *stock settings*
Look at the wild clock speed differences from 4870Mhz through 5070MHz and 291W through 396W
The Vcore goes wild from 1.157v through 1.347v. At. Stock.
This shit is why people have nightmares with stuttering issues, and even dead CPUs because to win at benchmarks or save a penny, they just cut every corner possible and do not learn.
That asrock board at the top in red? Hardlocked 75c limit for the CPU, so it throttled performance massively. Altering that setting had this board in the middle of the pack with good VRM temps, so it's ironic the one board with a default limit is the one that didn't need it.
The Asus Prime are so bad they released a II series, which only runs colder by having lower default power limits throttling the performance. Wooo. Go asus.
Performance was wildly different between them all, and they cover how shite memory support was - the same CPU that worked fine on the other boards just couldnt on some of these.
That asrock board at the top of the thermals chart reported really high clock speeds, but that temperature throttle made it run like ass.
The performance difference between these boards sits around 5.5% - Clearly lower wattage gaming wont be as big right?
Oh wait, now its a 9.1% difference
These shitty ass basic bitch motherboards are enough to make a 7950x run worse than a zen3 CPU