Why is it throttling in multithreaded apps? Temps? Are the 8 cores putting out a lot of heat?
my motherboard can throttle back when i overclock too much, my cpu is stable and cool on water, but my VRMs might have gotten too hot. this could be for the board, or the chip.
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