Well, decided to give the 7900x a full go. If I end up wanting more, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
This particular chip would run Cinebench R15 at 5 GHz on all cores with stock Intel TIM, but was hot, so I figured it was definitely worth delidding. Anyways, though I'd share some pictures with you guys.
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two little gold triangles
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You make my Ryzen look like doggy poo
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Speaking of doggy poo, I think that's what I scraped off of the inside of that 7900x's IHS.
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I checked to see if it would boot 5.1 GHz, which it did without any problems. Aside from that and some 5 GHz benching, I haven't done much else besides trying to dial in a good daily OC. I will though soon enough.