dr_rus
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On an unrelated note, Intel seem to just casually leaked the name of their post-Tiger Lake architecture: Intel "Sapphire Rapids" Micro-architecture Succeeds "Tiger Lake"
This one was for some time rumored to be a first big Intel's CPU architecture update since Haswell.
This one was for some time rumored to be a first big Intel's CPU architecture update since Haswell.
Why would you use OCed temperatures to judge a stock CPU results? As an example: my 6850K pretty much never runs hotter than 60C at stock clocks, even under a heavy load like Prime95. If I just toggle "all core turbo" in BIOS which forces all cores to run at 4GHz under load the temps go into 90C+. So what should this tell me considering that there's like zero performance difference in gaming between these modes?I have seen reports of quite a bit higher temps on 7700k, especially OC'd. Now add 10 degrees to that and you will be running that 100 degrees on a 6 core with terrible thermal compound. I just don't trust that to last or not overhear my case. Mind you I do run the standalone corsair water cooler for CPU but still don't want to see those temps.
It makes sense if you're willing to have a CPU with less performance for about a year and a half and then upgrade it to a new CPU in the old platform when the new ones will add things like PCIE 4.0 and USB 3.2. I generally prefer to go for the best thing which is available right now instead of hoping that something compatible will come out tomorrow as chances are that by that time you'll want to do a full upgrade again anyway.Suggestion below for grabbing 1600 or 1600x this year and upgrading to Ryzen 2 on sale mboard toward end of 2018 or in 2019 kind of makes sense. Plus I mainly game at 3400 x 1440 so I am more GPU limited anyway (waiting for next year to upgrade my 980ti).