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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

A few reviews of Intel's 7900X show the processor throttling due to heat, when overclocked. It's entirely possible that the processors with more cores have lower frewuencies because they reach their thermal limit faster than the 10-core part.

Intel should go back to soldering the heatspreader and forget the cheaper TIM solution they've been using, at least for high end processors like these ones.

Yeah. I honestly dont get why Intel just doesn't go back to Indium based solder for the heatspreader. Everyone has been screaching at them to do it, but they continue to resist.
I would assume it's to increase profit margins and make the manufacturing process easier and quicker.

And that is a valid option when you have no competition and the performance isn't affected by it, but apparently Intel hasn't realized (yet) that none of that is true anymore.