@DrWashington I htink you can blame the gamers. Musicians are such a tiny demographic in PC users we’re not taken into account at all.
Gamers however are a huge demographic and so a lot of time and effort is put into maxing out everything so games can get better frame rates/performance and be top of the CPU charts.
The whole intel thing is caused by overvolting the CPU to eek out a few % points for gamers.
If I set my 7950x in theBIOS to run on ECO 105w mode, the actual difference in my test project is 1 extra plugin…yep…1
No gamer or tester would ever run it like this but for a DAW it actually makes a lot of sense. You’re running well under spec and therefore cooler and less system stress all round.
M