Given I have yet to see him actually provide a single rebuttal for even 1 claim that not only you, but several others have presented evidence for, I felt it was a very safe bet.
1) We don't know what this feature does. We should remain very skeptical but don't jump to conclusions either.
2) I am 99% sure this is NOT the same type of power settings some people in this thread are linking. Power settings are generally put into ~3 different categories. These are settings which will automatically detect which program you are running and change something according to that. Power settings don't do that, at least not to this degree (and only applies them to benchmarks).
3) We don't know if this is AMD or Asus doing. I think we should have our pitchforks out, but we should not stab anyone yet because we don't know who is guilty.
4) Regardless of what you think this does, having custom tailored settings which changes things based on which benchmark you are running (remember, this will detect when you launch one of the specific benchmarks) is bad. It is deliberately made to enhance the scores of benchmarks while simultaneously not increasing the scores of regular programs (because those won't get automatically detected).
5) Wow some people sure are quick to defend AMD...
6) Wow some people sure are quick to attack AMD...
7) This would not be the first time hardware manufacturers are being dishonest with benchmarks. For example back in 2001 ATI were caught having an "optimization" feature for Quake 3. What happened was that their driver was checking if you were running "Quake 3.exe". As soon as it detected that specific program running, it overwrote the settings you had set in game, and applied things such as lower texture quality. What this meant was that in benchmarks where reviewers were running Nvidia and ATI cards against each other at max settings, it was actually like running the Nvidia card at max and the ATI card at medium (or whatever it was), thus making the ATI card look like it performed better.
Simply renaming the .exe file was enough to make the detection fail, and you got the actual texture quality you had selected in the menus.
8) Can we please stop with all the bullshit attacks at zMeul? I get that he is disliked around here, but I have seen several posts in this thread which doesn't even talk about the topic. They are just 100% dedicated to attacking zMeul. The people who make posts like that are, in my eyes, far worse than zMeul is because at least he contributes something to the topic. You on the other hand, is just making the thread shittier without advancing the conversation further. Stop it.
9) When reviews comes out, people should keep this in mind. If the reviewer doesn't specify that they had this setting turned off (at least on this motherboard), then the scores might be slightly higher than what they actually should be.
10) It being available in the consumer version of the BIOS should not matter. It's not that the setting exists that's the problem, it's that it applies special settings to artificially increase benchmark scores that's the problem. Benchmarks exists so that you can compare different products. If one company is trying to artificially increase their scores then it is no longer a fair comparison.
Most people are either claiming Zen will fail or claiming it'll be the second coming of chirst. I'm just sitting here patiently and silently waiting for real benchmarks. Anyone wanna join me? Trust me, it's so much better because arguing about something that won't even launch until next year is just dumb.
I spent the last couple of days messing with sleeving my own cables. I want to do my power supply, but I figured I would start with a 24-pin extension just to practice and mess around with. This is my very first time doing this, so it's not perfect by any means. The heat shrink is definitely the worst in my opinion, trying to get them all in a line is difficult (I don't have the Lutro tool). And if you look in the picture, I realized the sleeve slid up, so I did redo that and re shrink it, so fixed that problem! Just figured I would share some pictures of my first time sleeving, let me know what you think!
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