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I'm going for Intel since if the board you buy is AMD you might need windows for a bios update whereas intel you can use a dos program and run that on a usb stick. I'm getting a Dell 10th gen intel btw for not to bad a price. Also reading the amazon cpu ratings and I think it was the 3600 was getting low rating from what is described as high running temps with the stock heater while not gaming which to me who wants to do some blender playing around with the new system is a total not buy. Besides I get a uhd built in with Intel and have to guy the g type amd to have graphics onboard so that is a big factor. Haven't heard on AMD but intels run at turbo speed at all times so the higher speed is the one linux runs at all the time. My i5 6400 a 2.7ghz quad run at 3.3 ghz all the time according to neofetch that is the cpu speed.
I don't think any new boards, from intel or amd, are straight bios based anymore. They're all UEFI driven and any updates can be done via flash drive while being booted into UEFI/bios.
Now running through the paces to update a huge number of linux systems on a corp network is probably a different story.
I was referring to the onboard programming bios/uefi and assumed everyone would realize that and everyone still calls it when asked accessing the bios by hitting F whatever key while booting. My bios as I refer to it as is uefi with legacy option which I never have used the legacy.
Besides that the high temps seem to be an avoided topic when discussing AMD cpu's in favor of overclocking ability and unless your using the higher quality ram then the overclocking is not as high as they say it is and sometimes just a couple hundred mb's where as my intel is 2.7 and runs at 3.3 with no overclocking on the motherboard itself and the next cpu will be much higher ghz in turbo mode no overclocking needed.
The only caveat to the UEFI systems I have encountered are if the vendor locks in an operating system. There are still some systems I have come across that require you use windows to upgrade UEFI software, mostly laptops, ultra books, and such. Desktop boards are usually able to be upgraded directly from the UEFI interface.
My last build was an AMD 3800x on a x570 mobo. I'm very happy with it. IMO AMD does have the upper hand for desktop gaming PCs, but INTC has some nice products out too.
Don't know what your entire setup is like, but your CPU shouldn't be running at boost freq all the time. Unless you are doing intensive background loads while you multitask, and/or are using the integrated graphics, that speed should be >2GHz for both thermal and power savings. I've got a hot running i7 3770k 3.2GHz (boost to 4.1GHz) and it sits at 1.6GHz just browsing(no video). Then again, I have a full 16x PCIe graphics card so I'm not using the integrated.
No side on the PC case always running cool never close to overheating either. It's like having the heat set to high in a home and opening the window versus running fans with window cracked across the room.
I wasn't saying it was overheating or getting near that. I was stating that your processor frequency, as an i5 6400 should be dynamically scaling to the the work load presented to it by the kernel. I was simply curious as to why it would be running boost at all times.
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