Wed Jun 19, 2019 9:42 am
Krogoth wrote:K-L-Waster wrote:Krogoth wrote:Turbo-clocking and MCE makes arm-chair overclocking pointless.
MCE? Sheesh, in my system if I leave the BIOS on the default settings (which in ASUS's infinite wisdom has MCE on) the system won't even boot to Windows.
Sounds like a power delivery issue. Coffee Lake chips are power hogs when fully loaded and need motherboards with beefy CPU power delivery. Actually, the MCE was source of POST/booting issues with 8700K on a number of lower-end Z370 boards. That's party why Z390 platform came into being (Basically a Z370 with beefer VRMs and official 802.11n support on the PCH).
Agreed. But still, the "automatic and forget it" OC idea is still a pipe dream on the Intel side.
And the ROG Strix line wasn't exactly marketed as "lower end". More like Intel and board partners underestimated power delivery requirements.
(So why didn't I get a Z390? They didn't exist in 2017...)
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