News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?. Parent comment

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by CSDude on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:06PM (#23225155)
I have an 3900x and in gaming it easily hits 80-90C. In 100% load it gets 97C and throttles. I switched to Noctua D15 and it does not go past 70 on full loa dand 60 on gaming. Higly recommend it, its so silent.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by zlynx on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:49PM (#23225827)
"throttles"

Are you certain you don't mean "stops boosting" when you say that?

I'm running exactly the same: a 3900X with the default included cooler. Yeah, it hits 95C and at that point it's running at 3.8 GHz instead of 4.4 (I never see 4.6 unless I boot Linux in single user mode).

But 3.8 is the base clock speed, so I don't think "throttle" is the right word for "running at base clock."

[ Parent | on HN ]