ASUS is NOT the ONLY ONE: Gigabyte – EXPO and SoC Voltages Before & After the BIOS Update

https://hwbusters.com/news/asus-is-not-the-only-one-gigabyte-expo-and-soc-voltages-before-after-the-bios-update/

"With the new BIOS, which claims to limit Vcore_SOC to 1.3V, the screenshot above shows this is not true. The difference is 0.056V, with Vcore_SOC exceeding 1.36V. So I fail to see where the fix is that GBT promises in the F10d changelog. So ASUS is not the only one to “cheat” in Vcore_SOC voltage. If I test more mainboards, I will find several with Vcore_SOC exceeding 1.35V."

What a mess

OCCT, the CPU, GPU and memory stress tool celebrates its 20th anniversary

https://hwbusters.com/news/asus-is-not-the-only-one-gigabyte-expo-and-soc-voltages-before-after-the-bios-update/

ASUS ROG Ally can emulate popular gaming consoles, including PS3, PSP, 3DS, WiiU, XBOX360 and Nintendo Switch

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-ally-can-emulate-popular-gaming-consoles-including-ps3-psp-3ds-wiiu-xbox360-and-nintendo-switch

Thanks to running on Windows and having AVX512 acceleration, it helps with emulation greatly

AMD Ryzen 8000 “Granite Ridge” Desktop CPUs To Feature Up To 16 Zen 5 Cores & 170W TDP

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-8000-granite-ridge-desktop-cpus-feature-up-to-16-zen-5-cores-170w-tdp/

As it's a MLID rumour, the homeless man down the street is generally more reliable so take it with a big grain of salt

This is why last week, when Gamernexus posted its rant against Asus and mentioned Gigabyte and AsRock, I replied saying that I hoped they would do another video focusing on these two brands as well. But I guess they've been beaten.

I have to say, tho, that MSI seems to be the only one not affected by this mess (well, and NZXT, but who counts them). I'm actually impressed.

It wouldn't really be "that" surprising, to be honest. Same core configuration but higher performance is what AMD has been doing since the Zen 2 CPUs, with the only difference that AMD increased the TDP for AM5.

Yea MSI seems to largely be scotch free which is odd to say the least. But I wouldn't be surprised if they also overvolted their godlike boards but no one really bought them since they are too expensive where as Asus and Gigabyte seems to have overvolted a lot more than just their top end boards.

I can see it: "Here at MSI, our boards are fine and don't have this problem... or at least we think so because no one has bought any"

But well, MSI is already too busy with all the other problems they have.

Actually, PC Games Hardware has the same info, with official slides to back it up:

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/CPU-CPU-154106/News/AMD-Ryzen-8000-Granite-Ridge-Desktop-CPUs-1419743/

So yeah, he's not wrong on this one

I think 16-cores with around 150w-180w TDP was the expectation for the next lot of CPU's anyway.

Could offer enough of an incentive for Ryzen 5000 users to upgrade.

I'd run them in ECO mode anyway, the performance drop is way too low to NOT do it.

The average casual gamer:

Me, the cynical and anyone else who knows devs are aware of perf issues before release:

Yea but I don't get why they don't just wait a week to release them instead of dealing with all the backlash. Jedi Survivor ran like ass on all platforms at launch then a week later, 95% of the performance issues got fixed. Like bruhs...