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Yes Bustos, you'll need an adapter for your hyper 212. Sorry I didn't mention that sooner!
Bustos, I can't speak to their qualifications, but you can see how this board compares to other AM4 boards in terms of VRM looking at this link (and the links in the OP). The OP indicates that based on his/her analysis of the VRM it would "require airflow (presumably over the VRM) for a highly OC'd 2700X." Of course you're not going to be highly OCing the CPU necessarily, and you have airflow (maybe not as good as downdraft VRM wise, but much better than liquid).
PBO can become power hungry during all core workloads/stress testing. My 2600X can easily draw over 105W through the VCORE VRM (according to HWiNFO64 SVI2 TFN readings) running prime95, and the whole package can draw over 120W. However during typical use of workloads that don't fully stress all cores, it will be much less demanding than an all core overclock. To put things into perspective, PBO is capable of pushing more juice through the 6 cores of my 2600X than the spec 105W TDP for the 2700X.
It's important to recognize that there are two forms of boost, the stock function which boosts to the same clock under single core loads (4250MHz for the 2600x, 4350MHz for the 2700x) but limits the maximum power consumption more aggressively than the overclocked version. This behaves much the same as increasing the power slider on a GPU. https://community.amd.com/community...precision-boost-overdrive-in-three-easy-steps. Effectively it increases the clocks of more cores at once. For example on my CPU, this means that running Prime95, all cores remain over 4000MHz for the entire run, and often most if not all cores will be running in excess of 4100MHz.
I would not consider, personally, placing any 8 core CPU in that motherboard, but I am probably overly concerned with VRM (I did put a 6 core CPU into a board with VRM easily capable of taking an 8 core sub-ambient...) In truth, I imagine that board would be more than adequate for stock settings, including single core boosts of 4350MHz, on the 2700X. I would not consider it ideal for enabling the expanded power consumption limits on an 8 core CPU, and you would possibly need VRM airflow in excess of that provided by the CPU cooler. It would at least require careful monitoring during stress testing. Edit: I just wanted to add, that is presuming that this expanded power usage setting is available in the BIOS of that board in the first place.
From my perspective, this combination is like placing budget all season tires on a sports car. Can you do it, sure, but you're probably leaving some performance on the table.
Bustos, I can't speak to their qualifications, but you can see how this board compares to other AM4 boards in terms of VRM looking at this link (and the links in the OP). The OP indicates that based on his/her analysis of the VRM it would "require airflow (presumably over the VRM) for a highly OC'd 2700X." Of course you're not going to be highly OCing the CPU necessarily, and you have airflow (maybe not as good as downdraft VRM wise, but much better than liquid).
PBO can become power hungry during all core workloads/stress testing. My 2600X can easily draw over 105W through the VCORE VRM (according to HWiNFO64 SVI2 TFN readings) running prime95, and the whole package can draw over 120W. However during typical use of workloads that don't fully stress all cores, it will be much less demanding than an all core overclock. To put things into perspective, PBO is capable of pushing more juice through the 6 cores of my 2600X than the spec 105W TDP for the 2700X.
It's important to recognize that there are two forms of boost, the stock function which boosts to the same clock under single core loads (4250MHz for the 2600x, 4350MHz for the 2700x) but limits the maximum power consumption more aggressively than the overclocked version. This behaves much the same as increasing the power slider on a GPU. https://community.amd.com/community...precision-boost-overdrive-in-three-easy-steps. Effectively it increases the clocks of more cores at once. For example on my CPU, this means that running Prime95, all cores remain over 4000MHz for the entire run, and often most if not all cores will be running in excess of 4100MHz.
I would not consider, personally, placing any 8 core CPU in that motherboard, but I am probably overly concerned with VRM (I did put a 6 core CPU into a board with VRM easily capable of taking an 8 core sub-ambient...) In truth, I imagine that board would be more than adequate for stock settings, including single core boosts of 4350MHz, on the 2700X. I would not consider it ideal for enabling the expanded power consumption limits on an 8 core CPU, and you would possibly need VRM airflow in excess of that provided by the CPU cooler. It would at least require careful monitoring during stress testing. Edit: I just wanted to add, that is presuming that this expanded power usage setting is available in the BIOS of that board in the first place.
From my perspective, this combination is like placing budget all season tires on a sports car. Can you do it, sure, but you're probably leaving some performance on the table.
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