And we never heard from him again.
Sorry, same BIOS/UEFI issues as before (except the machine still boots despite the fake “VGA” error, I just don’t see anything prior to Windows login) I actually got distracted, first by doing some productive stuff (Some software I compiled actually compiled in 30% of the time my 5950X took, the 5950X hummed along at 3.8ghz, however the 7950X had no issues with doing the same at an average effective clock of 5,556 Mhz (5.55ghz))
Then even more important: I played Factorio and lost track of time. 😉
As an FYI, you guys should absolutely not be worried about temps. My case is 2 12oz soda/beer cans tall and like 1.25 soda/beer cans wide, my 7950X hits 90C in less than 1% of my workloads (CBr23 and Blender were the only ones to hit 90C), and I guess there is the rub: worst case scenarios matter to folks like
@Markfw who run their PC full blast 24/7. For folks like me, the situation is very different. Note that with a 12900k I saw the 230-240W more often then not while my 7950X has peaked at 84.4W in the 6 hours it has been doing stuff today. Intel and AMD chips appear to have very unique power/performance requirements.
Benchmarking these chips is going to be an absolute pain in the neat future. I suspect $ per joule of energy for a given workload will be the way forward.
EDIT: My machine has a 750W PSU fyi.