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by bitL 2399 days ago
2990WX with PBO enabled went over 400W.
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Overclocking chips does tend to cause power usage to spike, yes. That's not exactly a new thing, nor is the increase that surprising. A slight bump to voltage will cause power consumption to skyrocket. Heck, i9-7980XE's at 4.9ghz are pushing 1kW in consumption. Hence why intel's 28 core @ 5ghz demo used a 1700W capable cooler.