Re:The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, Ryzen 7 7700, and Ryzen 5 5 7600 Re...
by greggyb on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:32AM
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It's made up but does provide rough tiers within a product generation.
Also, modern CPUs and GPUs pretty effectively throttle to the capacity of their cooling solution. I would not necessarily recommend it, but you could probably get by without any issue slapping a solution that reliably dissipates 65W of heat on any Ryzen, and have a stable computer. It would just happen to run up to its thermal limit regularly and clock down.
If you actually want a lower power/heat setup, you can undervolt and underclock the CPU and not worry about bouncing off the thermal limits.
Also, modern CPUs and GPUs pretty effectively throttle to the capacity of their cooling solution. I would not necessarily recommend it, but you could probably get by without any issue slapping a solution that reliably dissipates 65W of heat on any Ryzen, and have a stable computer. It would just happen to run up to its thermal limit regularly and clock down.
If you actually want a lower power/heat setup, you can undervolt and underclock the CPU and not worry about bouncing off the thermal limits.