Another? How old was your unit?
I have been buying Corsair PSU's for many years, but I almost have none still working. I changed over to EVGA in 2017 or so. None of them have died.
that's bizarre. corsair psus are the only brand that seem to not die because they work close with their integrator. they did have some crappy cheap models back in the day but what brand hasn't. are these for 24/7 systems?
all mine are 24/6/365 computers.
that'll do it. you mention having frequent outages a while back? May have a small roll in that.
So in effect, its just like a 7600(X) can access 32MB of cache with 6 cores. From a gaming perspective & considering current gen consoles only use up to 8 cores (99% PC games ported over) then a 6c/12t chip is all that's needed for this task & the value for money proposition - virtually double $ for the X3D 8c/16t chip is a debatable issue indeed.
But for how long? Wouldn't it be prudent to RMA it? The darkened spots still ruin the future resale value of your CPU.
Which one?
It's mostly due to DDR5 memory training times. Gigabyte seems to be the DDR5 leader/expert, hence they can manage to complete the training in the shortest possible time. I have their old Intel Z97 Sniper mobo. The boot times are good.
I built a new AsRock B650M-HDV rig recently, boot-up times are good. Nice, cheap board. Haven't measured them, but here's Hardware Unboxed’s video on it:
I would be surprised if they have gotten it down to less than 30 secs with their most recent BIOS.
What makes boot times so important to you?
the what now?
some people want to hop onto their chair first thing in the morning and get to 'puting.
Much less time than that, as per Hardware Unboxed's testing and my own experience. Can't measure it right now because I'm not near the PC, though.
Thermalright AM5 Contact Frame.
the what now? Are you confused with the intel contact frame?
No, it's the AM5 heatspreader that's the issue. Its height is a bit too much if I recall correctly. I think the contact frame helps somehow to ameliorate the problem of improper contact of the CPU heatspreader with the heatsink surface.
How? does it bow inward or outward? the ihs is fairly thick on am5 and glued through a lead solder. this is the first time I'm hearing of an am5 contact frame.
No idea. It was just a guess, judging by the reported decrease in temps. The "secure" frame, as it is called, is supposed to mainly prevent the thermal paste from getting into the notches of the heatspreader but I guess it improves the thermal properties somehow by giving the paste a larger area to spread on.
Is it confirmed that this is an AMD vs Intel issue? If so, what's the reason AMD based PCs take longer to boot up? Seems strange that AMD PCs would take longer too boot up. What would be the technical root cause for that?
After training my memory I've disabled memory training and boot times are around 15 secs.
