Test System
| AMD/Intel Test System Specs | ||||
| Mainboard | [AMD] Gigabyte X670E AORUS Master Bios Version F10a [Intel] Asus Prime Z690-A |
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| CPU | What is under test! | |||
| GPU | Asus Rog Strix Gaming OC RTX 4090 | |||
| NVMe | XPG GAMMIX S50 Lite 1TB | |||
| RAM | XPG Lancer DDR5 (2 x 16GB) 6000MHz | |||
| Power Supply | Seasonic Vertex 1200W (Cybenetics Platinum) |
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| CPU Cooler | NH-D15S chromax.black | |||
| Case | DimasTech Bench | |||
| Ambient Temperature | 21°C ±3°C | |||
| Drivers | AMD: Adrenaline 22.40.02 AMD Chipset: 5.02.19.2221 NVIDIA: 531.41 WHQL |
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Before the official launch, the new AMD processors were compatible only with some specific mainboards, so I was forced to obtain the Gigabyte X670E AORUS Master to proceed with the review.
To monitor power consumption and every other important aspect of the system, I will use Powenetics v2.
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best review from Hardwear Busters master Aris
I do know that gaming in 4k is mostly GPU bound. Nevertheless would you mind doing the same tests for games in 4k?
I believe there is no point in losing more time in every CPU review for 4K testing, even QHD, since the GPU sets the limits in these resolutions and not the CPU. Wish I had more time for every review, but I don’t.
Looking at the 2nd page – so it’s just a (low level) ppm driver lingering in the system that was likely ignored by amd installer after (other) reviewers switched the cpu ? techpowerup reviewer claims he had to reinstall windows.
If device manager/sc.exe or registry and/or powercfg.exe (or any combination of those) was all that it took to clean that up, that’s pretty funny.