News Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP

[Admin]

AMD's new Ryzen 5 7400F uses normal thermal grease instead of STIM, which is shown to significantly impact thermals.

Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP : Read more

 

[rluker5]

Sounds a lot like my old 4770k before I delidded it. But I did have to delid it to get it to 5Ghz.

 

[teeejay94]

This is a really good way to ruin all the momentum they've built up recently and destroy people's trust. Of course this won't be the tipping point of that, but continue on this path AMD and don't say I didn't warn you.

 

[m3city]

This is a really good way to ruin all the momentum they've built up recently and destroy people's trust. Of course this won't be the tipping point of that, but continue on this path AMD and don't say I didn't warn you.

Really? That is a budget cpu and will run exactly as advertised with a stock air cooler under general loads.

 

[Amdlova]

This is a really good way to ruin all the momentum they've built up recently and destroy people's trust. Of course this won't be the tipping point of that, but continue on this path AMD and don't say I didn't warn you.

Your warnings it's like a children at play ground crying.

That is a defective cheap cpu for who don't care of speed. Just want it to work without dropping more money into it.

 

[DRagor]

"STIM has several advantages for CPUs as it's not only more thermally conductive but also lasts longer than normal thermal grease. Again, this has no perceivable impact on the average consumer"

Isn't that direct contradiction? If chip with thermal paste will last shorter then one with STIM then it DOES affect average consumer quite a lot.

 

[pointa2b]

As long as this thinking doesn't permeate into their mid-higher range CPUs, whatever corners they're cutting to make a budget Zen 4 CPU isn't important to me.

 

[hotaru251]

This is a really good way to ruin all the momentum they've built up recently and destroy people's trust

you mean people who whine that theres no low end amd cpu's who finally got one that is able to hit every claim of the chip just lacks OC headroom???


if you are buying a this low end of a cpu you won't have issues.

 

[NeonHD]

Extremely petty and unrelated, but I'm glad this was sourced on bilibili and not stinkin' reddit.

 

[DingusDog]

On the bright side at least it makes delidding easier, which no one will do because it's pointless.

 

[greenreaper]

Another path to value is to get the 7600, then do without a separate GPU. Sure, it's only 2 CU, but it has all the features of RDNA 2, including the media block. Enthusiasts can undervolt and overclock both CPU and iGPU.

 

[KudaGila]

This is a really good way to ruin all the momentum they've built up recently and destroy people's trust. Of course this won't be the tipping point of that, but continue on this path AMD and don't say I didn't warn you.

Why not? I will definitely buy this. There is value and purpose for the 7400F. A great way and reason for me to finally enter the AM5 scene. It's cheap and a great budget chip for a small compact home entertainment PC.

 

[wwenze1]

How does this even work? THG reviewed 7700K at 137W at 101°C . https://www.tomshardware.com/review...i7-7700k-i7-7700-i5-7600k-i5-7600,4870-8.html The Ryzen's thermal paste contact is somehow worse by 0.3°C/W (or, the equivalent of adding or losing a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO V2)

 

[usertests]

Another path to value is to get the 7600, then do without a separate GPU. Sure, it's only 2 CU, but it has all the features of RDNA 2, including the media block. Enthusiasts can undervolt and overclock both CPU and iGPU.

I've heard the 2 CU iGPU runs worse than expected, probably driver issues. Otherwise the performance is just fine and around as good as the Alder Lake desktop iGPU. It has fallen behind Arrow Lake.

 

[Dementoss]

If I was thinking of buying one of these CPUs, I would wait for proper reviews from known respectable sources, like Tom's. Not rely on some random spod, who's testing methods and level of honesty are unknown.

 

[beyondlogic]

As long as this thinking doesn't permeate into their mid-higher range CPUs, whatever corners they're cutting to make a budget Zen 4 CPU isn't important to me.

When you accept lower quality they will make it the norm going forward.

That's how we got into the situation with Nvidia lowering products down a generation and Intel's shenanigans.

 

[pug_s]

Is there a list of cpu's which intel/amd uses regular thermal paste rather than something than Indium?

 

[GenericUser2001]

Another path to value is to get the 7600, then do without a separate GPU. Sure, it's only 2 CU, but it has all the features of RDNA 2, including the media block. Enthusiasts can undervolt and overclock both CPU and iGPU.

If you want to forgo the getting a discrete graphics card, the Ryzen 8600 would make more sense than the 7600. They are usually about the same price, and the Ryzen 8600 has an 8 CU iGPU, making much better at any gaming stuff, albeit at the cost of somewhat worse CPU due to having less L3 cache.