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Seems like the motherboard quality is reflecting that. I just received an Asrock H570 ITX board which is 8 layer glass fabric and says it has an 8 phase power design. Not an expensive board.

Unfortunately tech security savvy people are a very small portion of the population, and an even smaller percentage making business/IT decisions.

It's like the Pentium D all over again. Overclocked Pentium Ds pulling almost 300W and damaging motherboards.

Looks like a late-cycle Willamette to me. Hot with middling performance, but the engineers were painted into a corner and had to get something out.

What a pig!! Every other cpu in that review is better! Glad I didn't pull the trigger on a z590 motherboard. Another generation of waiting, though I would like to tinker with a 5800X. Benching with 3090 would have been more appropriate.

Like I said, I do want to upgrade to an 11th gen CPU in a year or two, mostly for PCIe 4. The gen 4 M.2 port on my board does not have any, only the gen 3 ports do.