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Comment Re:Updated (Score 1) 57

Just an FYI, but the way Intel CPUs are supposed to work when MCE (which is probably named Enhanced Turbo in your UEFI menu but without knowing your board, I can't say for sure) is disabled, is that it attempts to boost up to the PL2 value for a specific amount of time, after which point it backs off clocks and volts until power draw reaches the PL1 value. The amount of time it can stay at PL2 is controlled by a time value known as tau. Note that the latest Intel chips (since Alder Lake if I recall correctly) can opportunistically boost beyond PL2 provided that thermals allow it, though these boost periods are usually very short unless the workload only involves a small number of cores. This process is referred to by Intel as TVB or Thermal Velocity Boost, and it is governed by clockspeed limits listed for your CPU (usually on Intel Ark) and power limits set in your UEFI by the PL4 value. Note that TV is usually disabled when you disable MCE (I think), and furthermore that most if not all Z790 motherboards ignore TVB/PL4 limits entirely as you already observed.

That aside, there are some people investigating these problems on Z790 that claim they can still get game crashes with MCE disabled and PL2 values above 180W, which indicates that for some motherboards and/or CPUs, the stock boost algo is still allowing clocks to run too high for a given voltage, which may be relates to iccmax or some other setting being set wrong.

Comment Re:Cat mostly out of the bag. (Score 1) 130

China established their position as a major international steel producer by dumping in order to destroy foreign competition. The United States wasn't the only country in their crosshairs. At least in theory, countries outside of China should be able to produce enough steel to supply most (if not all) of the Western world without relying on Chinese steel.

Or more to the point, the United States should be able to buy what it needs from other countries should tariffs make steel from China cost-prohibitive.

Too many manufacturers got hooked on cheap Chinese steel. Those prices were unrealistically low.

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