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Ryzen Burnout? AMD Board Power Cheats May Shorten CPU Lifespan (Updated)
Dialing up the power dials down CPU lifespan

IMPORTANT - Explaining the AMD Ryzen "Power Reporting Deviation" -metric in HWiNFO
Ryzen CPUs for AM4 platform rely on external, motherboard sourced telemetry to determine their power consumption. The voltage, current and power telemetry is provided to the processor by the motherboard VRM controller through the AMD SVI2 interface. This information is consumed by the processors...

Anyone heard about this? Have the identified the guilty parties?