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They basically come overclocked right out of the factory these days, given how hard Intel pushes them just to make their numbers look bigger.
Next time I build a PC, I plan to spend extra on hardware that can run games decently while producing as little heat as possible. My current PC is like a space heater when it's running and it's unbearable to play games on it for any extended periods during the summer months.
Next time I build a PC, I plan to spend extra on hardware that can run games decently while producing as little heat as possible. My current PC is like a space heater when it’s running and it’s unbearable to play games on it for any extended periods during the summer months.
The only reason I went for an 80+ Platinum PSU instead of an 80+ Bronze PSU is to make it generate less heat (and the fact that the platinum had a really nice price at the time). Doing it for power savings isn't worth it, but getting a cooler case is nice.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/what-80-plus-levels-mean,36721.html
Heh. Username checks out.
The PC I made before my current was my first SFF, and I had a lot of fun figuring out heat loads and what it means to build SFF. The Ryzen 7 3700x (65w) was just at the top of what my small Noctua CPU cooler could manage in the fractal node 202.
Then I got a steam deck and, holy heckers, that's some efficient gaming. If you play docked, that would be the ultimate low power/low heat gaming device (handheld you are so close to the source of heat that it's still hot in the summer) I think it draws 35w on peak load over time with 40w short burst max. For the whole package, incl screen! Captain Dozerman(Bill Hader) from B99 would have been proud. Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency!
Since switching to AMD, I have found game crashes to basically be a thing of the past. It will happen once in a while, but much less than I was experiencing before. Just my experience, and one I'm grateful for.
My experience is similar now that you mention it. The only game that crashes on my AMD machine is Spider-Man 2 Brazil, but probably because it's a literal PS5 game that was hacked and slashed together to run natively on PC, a full year before the official port was scheduled to come out. So I don't blame it.
I picked a good time to switch to Team Red. It's my first AMD build ever, and after fixing a "failing SSD" issue simply by re-seating it, the PC's been running like a dream.
Guess getting the non k version had its perks afterall. Either way I'm going AMD next time I build a machine.