Not sure I'm an expert, but I've been following this closely. here's my understanding...
If you have Gigabyte or ASUS board you should have option to manually put a voltage limit, even without the microcode update.
No. The problem is CPU requesting too much voltage and possibly voltage provider (motherboard) not able to keep up with different voltage requests resulting in voltage overshoots, which destroy CPU. Heat may accelerate the degradation, but these overshoots actually rather won't happen under full load, as everything will slow down to escape heat... more likely would happen if one core is doing something at full speed and rest is idle.Does the problem with the over-voltaging stem entirely from the increased CPU temperatures this brings? So if you have adequate/excellent CPU cooling, the over-voltaging wouldn't be a problem?
Yes. However the voltage limit is still quite high, there's speculation than it is too high and it is middle ground, so the CPU won't die too fast. While lower limit would cripple performance of 14900 - read possible legal trouble.Is the microcode update a motherboard update? I.e., is it something you'd flash onto your motherboard?
If you have Gigabyte or ASUS board you should have option to manually put a voltage limit, even without the microcode update.
Statistics: Posted by Zombie Queen — Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:21 am