SirTerry-T
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"Intel Inside (out)"
13600K/14600K and lower are still great choices.I'm trying to think of what could possibly compel me to buy an Intel CPU nowadays. Here's the shortlist:
- Massive discounts, like $200 cheaper than the competition.
- Included AIO...maybe they partner with Corsair or NZXT.
- Sebastian Linus coming to my house and surprising me with a $5000 Intel Xtreme Makeover like he does for his staff.
- Oh wait, he does that with AMD now.
Cloud based computing strikes againSounds like it would cause your processor to float away.
It seems you are right. I looked at the gameplay of the most CPU intensive games I could find and even in "TLOU Remake" the power consumption stayed between 120-150W despite the insane CPU usage (96%).Starfield, Dragons Dogma 2 and Cyberpunk PT all push my i7-11700k hard. They go up to 150 watts at time. But not 220 watts you see on the cinebench benchmarks.
It seems you are right. I looked at the gameplay of the most CPU intensive games I could find and even in "TLOU Remake" the power consumption stayed between 120-150W despite the insane CPU usage (96%).
However, the 7800X3D is just as fast as the 14700K and uses 2x less power. There's also the hope that next-generation AMD CPUs will also use the AM5 socket, making the AMD platform more future-proof. I have always been a fan of Intel CPUs, but this time it seems that AMD has a better product.
In 2021, I'd probably go for an i7 11700K too, but 12th / 13th generation of Intel processors has been drastically redesigned (E-Cores) and it seems they're not as reliable.yeah i would not recommend any intel CPU over the 7800x3d. it is amazing.
i was mostly talking about the past when these intel CPUs were trashed in comparison to the AMD Zen 2-Zen 3 lineups. It got so bad that i was able to buy the intel CPUs at a discount compared to the zen 2 equivalents at the time because everyone bought into bullshit benchmarks the pc youtubers were doing at the time. now people are upset at video game studios who are pushing CPUs for not optimizing when they are the ones who bought tdp limited CPUs just because they were cooler.
You think we'll be able to buy a 5070 in 2024? I'd suspect them launching only the 5080 and 5090 this year. 5090 in like mid Dec, 5080 at the tail end of Dec if it doesn't get delayed. 5070 will follow at the end of Feb 2025 and so on, and these are only the paper launches. I predict these will be sold out for months and very hard to get your hands on for a long time.I could upgrade my GPU in August to something like 4070ti Super because it has 16GB VRAM, but Nvidia will release a new generation of GPUs in Q4 2024, so I'm planning to keep my GTX1080 till then. Something like the RTX 5070 or RTX 5080 would last me the whole generation.
Fair point. The RTX50xx series will certainly offer significantly better RT performance, but I don't know if I can wait that many months.You think we'll be able to buy a 5070 in 2024? I'd suspect them launching only the 5080 and 5090 this year. 5090 in like mid Dec, 5080 at the tail end of Dec if it doesn't get delayed. 5070 will follow at the end of Feb 2025 and so on, and these are only the paper launches. I predict these will be sold out for months and very hard to get your hands on for a long time.
It seems you are right. I looked at the gameplay of the most CPU intensive games I could find and even in "TLOU Remake" the power consumption stayed between 120-150W despite the insane CPU usage (96%).
However, the 7800X3D is just as fast as the 14700K and uses 2x less power. There's also the hope that next-generation AMD CPUs will also use the AM5 socket, making the AMD platform more future-proof. I have always been a fan of Intel CPUs, but this time it seems that AMD has a better product.
Or talk like a chipmunkSounds like it would cause your processor to float away.
Correct, there is. Process Lasso (https://bitsum.com/) will do the job and it's the go to.