[Teifion]

Can you suggest some of these less positive reviewers please? I like to have a broad range of reviews before deciding and all the ones I normally look at came out today (though were not overwhelmingly positive in every area).

[dis-sys]

No, I don't have such list.

The source of the claim is from here (in Chinese) -

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2445527-1-4.html

chiphell is the largest computer parts review site in China, and that nApoleon guy posting this two batches of review story is the owner of the site.

In a more recent thread, he confirmed again that his site has completed their own review and he had read it, yet they are not allowed to post it until tomorrow.

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2446331-1-1.html

In a separate thread he posted today, he mentioned that based on their tests, the temp of the zen4 chip is always 95 degrees celsius - no matter whether you use a shitty cheap cooler or a fancy kick ass one.

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2446302-1-1.html

[fomine3]

Interesting but is delaying negative reviews works? It seems that GN posts review with temperature criticism today (see also thumbnail). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRaJXZMOMPU

[sliken]

Not sure why the 95C thing is bad. If a chip has work to do and can control it's overclocking, why not have it stick to whatever safe temperature it wants?

[rjsw]

Would be interesting to know if benchmarks run faster with a better cooler. It could be at the thermal limit in both cases, just at different clock speeds.

[wmf]

It will run faster with more cooling. We'll probably see some air vs. water benchmarks in the coming weeks.