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're merely make use of a heatpipe cooler that can take 200W(DeepCool AK500 at $59). We hit close to 62 Degrees C on the CPU package sensor. 

Looking at package wattage, the CPU keeps blasting at 88W. 

Clock ratios then, In the first bit you can see single core performance reaching a clock of 54.5x. Thus the highest clock ratio is 55.2x thus 5450 Mhz. You'll see that it jumps to 4800-5500MHz in multithread loads.