Once again we are sending a red card to Asus, but the manufacturer shares it this time with Intel. We are no longer surprised by Asus's choices in terms of "interpretation" of specifications or by not answering our questions on the topic of automatic overclocking. However, by oddly enough, by default , the voltage of 0.1V (for those who would not have read our page overclocking, this voltage allows to hold the 4.7 GHz on all hearts) and overclocking this time very significantly the frequency Ring / LLC (we move from a 100 MHz that we had not noticed to 700!) The manufacturer does more and more, still thinking that a motherboard is selling on performance and that these choices must be applied by default to any the world (and often, especially in the BIOS used by the press when launching a product).
But it is especially the silence of Intel - and its non-response when it is clearly asked the question of this difference - on its specifications that we are frankly embarrassed since we see concrete consequences. Hiding frequencies because we know they would not be supported, what we saw on the big Skylake-X is one thing, but no longer communicate on these frequencies is leaving the door open to builders motherboards to do just about everything and anything. What's more, if we point to Asus today, we know from experience that by letting practice, other manufacturers will most likely end up aligning (the arrival of an option "Enhance multi core" on the Gigabyte BIOS, although disabled by default, is proof of this). And if Intel will not lend itself to bad intentions, see the motherboards manufacturers "innovate" on specifications pushes after all performance up in published tests by creating artificial generational gaps. We were expecting Intel better.
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