coercitiv
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We don't know if it's degradation, at least not as the main cause. Buildzoid has a rant video on the subject, and one of the things he talks about is that folks who test multiple top tier K CPUs for binning will repeatedly stumble upon chips that fail to pass stability tests out of the box. That does not mean the chips are bad, it likely means that the board configuration is too aggressive for that specific CPU. It's rare, but it happens. In this case there's definitely no degradation, the CPU is brand new.That's really weird. What kind of power usage causes degradation in Raptor Lake CPUs over the long term? Alder Lake was pushing 200W+ and has been for quite awhile without having these problems . . .
My hunch is that one can take such a "bad lemon" K CPU, shove it in a B760 board with locked CEP and conservative stock power/current limits, and it will work just fine long term. It just won't win any benchmarks.
PS: It seems I linked the wrong video above, he already has 2 videos on the subject. The first and longer one is here, but anyone looking for a "shorter" take should check out the newer one.
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