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What that changes

Nothing in the verdicts. Specifically:

• The model takes phase counts, stage ratings, heatsink class and processor power as inputs. Price is not one of them, so a board's commission cannot move its temperature or its risk band.
• Ranked tables and best-of pages are sorted by computed capacity, not by what pays. A cheap board that handles your processor outranks an expensive one that also handles it.
• Boards with no verified retail listing still appear in the catalogue and in every ranking. They are excluded only from the three recommended picks, because a recommendation has to be something you can actually buy.
• Prices and availability come from the Amazon Product API and are refreshed nightly. The date of the last refresh appears next to every price, and prices change without notice.

Link marking

Every outbound product link carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" and opens in a new tab, so both you and search engines can tell what kind of link it is.

Questions

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