Hello,
I replaced my ASUS X570-i Gaming with a new X570 ftw and my current system is
CPU: AMD 5950x
Mem: Corsair 3600 MHz 16-18-18-36
GPU: EVGA 3080ti ULTRA XC3 HYBRID
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS PX 850w
Cooler: Arctic Freezer II 280 (AIO) / Arctic MX4 paste
On first boot with default settings I ran Cinebench R23 with HWiNFO open. I Immediately noticed that the power reporting deviation was ~37%. The CPU was pulling ~ 100W-120W as expected. Cinebench finished with a score of 26690, which is a bit higher than what I normally get with this CPU / Cooler at stock settings.
I then updated the BIOS and applied my normal settings. When I got to PBO I set it to Advanced / Use motherboard limits / + 200 MHz and booted into windows.
When I ran Cinebench all cores immediately downclocked to 2.1GHz even though all of the core temps were under 40c. It very much looked like the CPU was being power limited. Thinking it was a bug with the BIOS, I went into the BIOS and manually set the PBO power limits to what I had them on my old motherboard (400 / 300 / 300 / + 200MHz).
I rebooted into Windows and ran Cinebench R23 again. The all core frequency was ~4.2GHz, the CPU temps were at ~70c, and the final score was just over 27k. All of this was expected based on my experience with this CPU / Cooler using the ASUS board.
What wasn't expected was the reported power draw of 90W, on the ASUS board with the same test / PBO settings this was being reported as 212W (and that seems more reasonable under the test conditions). The reported power draw vs the expected power draw is really close to the deviation reported by HWiNFO....
Are there known issues with the power reporting on these boards? Is it purposefully under-reporting?
post edited by Azureblood2 - 2022/05/03 20:34:30