I'd like confirmation from more than one source.
This guy could have received a "bad" processor part. Or he could have received a "bad" ASUS mobo. Did he even buy these parts, or are they pre-release media samples?
Which firmware/BIOS version is he running? Exactly what BIOS settings did he change? What other power-sucking stuff does he have installed while measuring VRM temps?
His methodology could somehow be flawed (though I don't know how, lol). Maybe he's even just using a lousy TIM.
Or, yes, he could have measured a very real and possibly very serious VRM overheating issue. Exactly what the title says.
I do actually applaud him for performing these measurements and reporting his findings. It provides a great service to those of us who cannot do such testing on a bunch of new X299 mobos ourselves.
But a single motherboard from each manufacturer is not necessarily representative. Need more VRM temp measurements from different people running the same-model mobos before the apparent/speculative conclusion becomes an obvious/inarguable conclusion.
This sort of thing is part of the reason I'm not rushing into X299 for the first year or so, lol. Maybe these temps can be corrected or reduced through firmware updates. Intel rushing the X299 launch (and thus rushing all mobo maker X299 launches) doesn't help, lol.
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