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I'd spit it at 10/90 at most. The VRMs themselves were clearly specced sufficiently to handle even a massively overloaded i9 without a heatsink at all. All that would be required by the motherboard vendor would be to not install their 'heatsinks', and the boards would be functional as is. Either the heatsink design has been shifted entirely to the marketing department and nobody bothered to even check their thermal performance, or the 'heatsinks' are being used as insulation to artificially segregate 'overclocking' motherboards from 'normal' motherboards while technically complying with the Intel power delivery specifications.Same problem with pointless RAMsinks. Few - if any - manufacturers will release any DIMMs at all without heatsinks, and the few that are are usually the bottom-of-the-barrel line (or ECC/RDIMMS aimed at markets where pointless bling would not be tolerated). As a consumer, you don't even have the option to vote with your wallet against nonfunctional heatsinks.
I'd spit it at 10/90 at most. The VRMs themselves were clearly specced sufficiently to handle even a massively overloaded i9 without a heatsink at all. All that would be required by the motherboard vendor would be to not install their 'heatsinks', and the boards would be functional as is. Either the heatsink design has been shifted entirely to the marketing department and nobody bothered to even check their thermal performance, or the 'heatsinks' are being used as insulation to artificially segregate 'overclocking' motherboards from 'normal' motherboards while technically complying with the Intel power delivery specifications.
Same problem with pointless RAMsinks. Few - if any - manufacturers will release any DIMMs at all without heatsinks, and the few that are are usually the bottom-of-the-barrel line (or ECC/RDIMMS aimed at markets where pointless bling would not be tolerated). As a consumer, you don't even have the option to vote with your wallet against nonfunctional heatsinks.
