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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by bwat49 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:03PM (#23226949)
I see this as a good thing, the chip is tuned well enough to hit its limits out of the box, without having to mess around with manual overclocking to get optimal performance.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by MengerSponge on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:47PM (#23228773)
Yeah, and this is advertised in the 700X moniker. If you want an overclockable chip you need something from the *600 series.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Sellin... by MengerSponge on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:48PM (#23229282)
This might be slightly wrong: I think the X is the key indicator, not the 600/700 distinction.
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