How are the thermals under load? I would like to buy one of these for gaming and I am reading some horror stories on reddit about high temperatures and throttling of RAM and SSD. It seems the QA is all over the place (liquid metal not applied correctly, running all over the motherboard). I would get the preassembled version, not the barebone, but I am still a bit reluctant.
Thermals are what you choose them to be, pretty much. The whole thing is capped at 80°C. It will throttle after that.
In the bios you can select the CPU wattage from 28 to 58 I think (I won't be at work for the next two weeks so I can't say for sure). So If you select 28 watts you'll never hit the temperature limit, if you select 58, you will for sure.
Considering the power I'm getting out of it, I think the liquid metal was properly applied, but I can't know for sure without taking it appart.
