Performance - Platform - VRM - CPU Thermals - CPU Power

Lately, it has been requested if we could list VRM temperatures. We could hook into sensors and start measuring. Now a good way really is to look at the VRM area with a thermal camera. This way you can detect hot-spots and/or worrying stuff. We run the FPU and CPU torture test in AIDA. The chart plot shows the maximum VRM temperature measured at thermal sensor level. The VRM temperatures you see listed in the chart are not based upon the thermal image, but the max temp reported by the thermal sensors at the VRM stages. 

• System setup: normal conditions/default settings / 100% CPU load on all cores

Temperatures

The reason we do not table/chart up temperature results is that we'd need to apply identically cooling over and over on all platforms. Also, coolers (RPM) react differently to TDP and variables like BIOS on all motherboards, let alone brands.

Above we measure the temperature under load, we'll make use of an ASUS ROG STRIX LC III 360 aRGB LCD cooler. We hit close to 76 Degrees C on the CPU package sensor. 

Looking at package wattage, the CPU keeps blasting at 162W. 

Clock ratios then, In the first bit you can see single core performance reaching a clock of 56.2x. Thus the highest clock ratio is thus 5620 MHz. You'll see that it jumps to 5100 MHz in all-core multithread loads.