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You clearly did not watch the video. First, one of the boards failed with stock settings. Second, EXPO is not really overclocking in the traditional sense. It
by Night_Thastus 4y ago
You clearly did not watch the video.
First, one of the boards failed with stock settings.
Second, EXPO is not really overclocking in the traditional sense. It's basically the AMD equivalent of enabling an XMP profile. It's not even supposed to modify the SOC voltage that caused the failure.
And if you watched the video, you'd know that not only did the ASUS board set the SOC voltage way beyond spec, but it had a complete lack of protection for the CPU in event of a failure.
* Failure of over-temperature protections
* Failure of over-current protections
* A motherboard shoving current into a CPU which clearly is dead (or at the least not booted) because it has not sent a "power good" signal.
* The motherboard setting voltages for vSOC that are way beyond AMD's recommended specs
* The motherboard setting the voltage for vSOC well beyond what it shows in the BIOS (ie, you think you're getting 1.3V, actually getting 1.4V+)
This is not "doofus overclocks CPU, kills it". This is "motherboard manufacturer completely inept at basic job, kills parts". And it's not just ASUS, though ASUS is the primary offender here.