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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by floatboth on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:18PM (#24725736)
Yeah, you don't want to hit 90 degrees on Zen. Unlike many other CPUs, max stable frequency on Zen clearly decreases with high temps. Time to build a water loop :)

re: idle, you do have pstates enabled, right? ("Cool'n'Quiet") firmware likes to disable it when you overclock in the setup screen, have to turn it back on

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Re:AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video] by jrockway on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:59PM (#24726301)
Yup. Hitting 90C is basically what limits the top speed, so I know that better cooling might help.

I do have pstates enabled. Power and frequency scale up as you'd expect, in response to system load.

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