pendragon1
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wha he said^^
Yeah, we'll juts agree to disagree on the software polling the CPU and the CPU thinking it needs to go to boost to answer. I've already stated my argument against that type of CPU firmware behavior. It's too aggressive. The dude from AMD even said any tasks will put the 3 series into boost mode, which is not good for power usage over time. That's why he said to use the Windows powermode, not the AMD power mode-for now. And I'll bet they relax their power mode algos because they don't need full boost to start a service that takes 5ms to start. That's a ridiculous.
The OP said he was getting 95C while gaming. That's a 'normal' type of usage for a PC. Although he did say his case is not airflow optimized. So there is that.