Zen 6 may need upto 300W for 48 threads?

Honestly the boards should be able to handle 400W. 300W is easy peasy, you can pull that much juice abusing a sixteen-core Zen4/5.

Cooling is an entirely different matter, though - AMDs insulatingly-thick IHS on AM5 isn't going to do them any favors, and I can see folks getting more interested in delidding and doing direct-die cooling. Even a decent AIO could handle 400W when set up to cool the die directly, a custom loop could do it quietly.
 
Yeah, there was a Mars Gaming AIO cooler (some UK brand?) advertising 600W TDP. Pretty sure it can't even do half that but it was interesting to see such hyperbole.
 
LazyGamer said:
600W is nothing if it's spread out. They're cooling TRs with that much power draw using 92mm Noctua coolers that fit in 4U cases lol.
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Yea... but the cases in those server chassis are designed for optimum airflow of actively cooled air.... and such. It's not just... HUR HUR heat sink make cool.
 
Sure, but the HSF is still pulling that heat out. That's the point; when you concentrate the heat into a consumer socket, then the wattage becomes a problem.
 
LazyGamer said:
AMDs insulatingly-thick IHS on AM5 isn't going to do them any favors
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At least for the halo SKUs, they should do some extra work to make it worth the cost. Like maybe a thin electrically insulating artificial diamond sheet over the dies and then the IHS made of graphene. Shouldn't cost that much, right?
 
igor_kavinski said:
At least for the halo SKUs, they should do some extra work to make it worth the cost. Like maybe a thin electrically insulating artificial diamond sheet over the dies and then the IHS made of graphene. Shouldn't cost that much, right?
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Honestly there's very little that AMD can do, with respect to a wide consumer release, that will alleviate the design decision they made with AM5 (moving to LGA but keeping the AM4 PGA height, thus necessitating a thicker IHS).

Making the CPUs easier and/or safer to delid would be nice, just can't imagine AMD supporting that given that the CPU then becomes much more fragile.
 
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