Intel's new 14900K rated in horsepower

[Jimmyjames]

Nom nom nom…moar power please.

Intel Core i9-14900KS alleged benchmarks leaked — up to 6.20 GHz and 410W power draw

Maximum performance at tremendous power.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[theorist9]

So Halt and Catch Fire, but with just the Fire part.

 

[Yoused]

Reminds me of a Tom Waits comment, swapping out "New York",

Intel is like a big ship – and the Lake is on fire.

 

[dada_dave]

In Light of Stability Concerns, Intel Issues Request to Motherboards Vendors to Actually Follow Stock Power Settings

www.anandtech.com

But with high-end motherboards further goosing these chips to wring even more performance out of them, it would seem that the Intel desktop ecosystem has finally reached a tipping point where all of these efforts to boost performance have pushed these flagship chips to unstable conditions. To that end, Intel has released new gudiance to its consumer motherboard partners, strongly encouraging them to actually implment Intel's stock power settings, and to use those baseline settings as their out-of-the-box default.

As though they aren’t at least partially responsible for the culture and economic incentives that encourages this.

@theorist9 halt and catch fire indeed

 

[diamond.g]

In Light of Stability Concerns, Intel Issues Request to Motherboards Vendors to Actually Follow Stock Power Settings

www.anandtech.com

As though they aren’t at least partially responsible for the culture and economic incentives that encourages this.

@theorist9 halt and catch fire indeed

Yeah Intel doesn't require any of their settings be followed. They are just recommendations, so customers are kind of beholden to the mainboard makers on choosing sane settings out of the box (which they don't do because big numbers seem flashy). Made worse by some cheaper boards using crap VRMs that cannot sustain the settings chosen. Most folks won't go through the effort to really dial in the settings for the best results.

Same issue is present when you turn XMP/Expo on, vsoc and vcore tend to get maxed out to improve compatibility with various memory modules.