Temperatures
Lot of X299 boards run extremely hot if you use overclocking.
Main reason for this is simpler and cheaper VRM and also bad heatsinks being just slab of aluminium made be designer without any fine fins.
Heatsink designs
In present day it is usually designers who make heatsinks even for HEDT motherboards.
They are made for looks, and not to be efficient in their real function.
Horrible one
Bad one
Better one
Really nice
Nice videos on thermal issues
Reserved.
Processors we are looking for:
Processors are main issue of x299 platform, good models are very expensive and rare on used market still.
With time it can change with appearance of used Xeon models form big datacenters, but now it is almost no of such offers present in most countries including China.
Desktop aka Core models
Older models that all use thermal paste
Thermal issues of first gen chips
Newer models that all use STIM and not thermal paste
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