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BobHoward posted:I would take that with more than a few grains of salt. Semiaccurate is, well, look at the name. The guy who created and runs the site holds tons of grudges against particular companies because their PR departments pissed him off this one time. Not where you go to read accurate, levelheaded, technically competent analysis. Charlie is a smart guy, he's maybe half a notch below Kanter or Waisson in my book, but oh man can the guy hold a grudge and it really colors all his analysis, so yeah, take what he says with a huge grain of salt. There may be some nuggets of truth in his technical analyses but you're gonna have to dig. Remember a couple weeks ago at Ryzen's launch when he was sperging out about Intel reps "twisting arms"? (i.e. giving the usual counterpoints any company gives when their competitors launch?) Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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redeyes posted:Not sure what you mean by embedded but those are socket 1151. There's a specific category of processors labeled embedded, the website even allows you to sort for it. Not sure if that means there's a BGA alternative as well but the tooltip on the spec sheets indicates that those models have extended availability so that embedded systems can be designed around them and not have to change to a new platform halfway through the lifecycle. Thus, not really intended for direct retail to consumers as you observed.
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Rastor posted:Hey WAR DOGS OF SOCHI I mentioned the prototype before but this is now live on Kickstarter for purchase Woah. Awesome. Thanks!
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Paul MaudDib posted:Charlie is a smart guy, he's maybe half a notch below Kanter or Waisson in my book, but oh man can the guy hold a grudge and it really colors all his analysis, so yeah, take what he says with a huge grain of salt. There may be some nuggets of truth in his technical analyses but you're gonna have to dig. IDK who Waisson is, but David Kanter is in an entirely different league from Charlie. Kanter has done real engineering work on very interesting things (transactional memory). He's an actual expert on a lot of the things he writes about, and knows enough to be aware of what he doesn't know on the rest. Charlie (as far as I know) hasn't had a professional career outside of his brand of tech journalism. (Before he created S-A, he was a writer for The Register, so it's pretty easy to see where he got his predilection for tabloid-style overdramatic reporting from.)
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Just a few weeks ago Charlie was ranting about how he wasn't going to be allowed in the Optane press week stuff and therefore Intel was up to no good. I guess they let him in but they are still up to no good. I rarely read SA but him saying Intel was the gold standard in press info is surprising becausei always remember him always making GBS threads on them for one reason or another WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Eletriarnation posted:There's a specific category of processors labeled embedded, the website even allows you to sort for it. Not sure if that means there's a BGA alternative as well but the tooltip on the spec sheets indicates that those models have extended availability so that embedded systems can be designed around them and not have to change to a new platform halfway through the lifecycle. Thus, not really intended for direct retail to consumers as you observed. All correct except the last part. For example, the i7-7700 is considered an 'embedded' processor, and you can definitely buy that through retail. As you say it's about availability; Intel commits to make embedded parts available for 7 years (I think?) after their launch date. Every new product line Intel launches will have at least a few speed bins chosen to be embedded. In my experience they never tag the highest frequency bins; it's always at least 1 or 2 steps back. Also, if you're looking at i3/i5/i7 instead of Xeon, 'K' parts are never embedded. My best guess is that they want to choose specs that are easy to yield, since once that CPU family isn't being sold to the mass market any more they won't be able to do much binning. As for 'K' processors, they naturally wouldn't want to permit OC in products targeted at markets that have much higher stability requirements than gaming PCs.
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BobHoward posted:As for 'K' processors, they naturally wouldn't want to permit OC in products targeted at markets that have much higher stability requirements than gaming PCs. The next frontier in competitive automotive ricing: overclocking. 
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BobHoward posted:All correct except the last part. For example, the i7-7700 is considered an 'embedded' processor, and you can definitely buy that through retail. It might have an embedded option but I guess I was referring specifically to the list that I linked. The only processor on that list that I've seen in a consumer system is the 7100U, and I doubt end users are installing many of those. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Ah well, the xeon overclocking is finished. Unfortunately I gave her the one motherboard I had that doesn't have decent voltage settings for overclocking. Settled at 400 fsb x 8.5 for a 3.4ghz total. It made a significant enough improvement even if it's a little lacklustre. On a good note it stays way under 70c, only uses 1.2v max and appears totally stable (only done a few hours burn in so far). I could go to the effort of modding a better motherboard but tbh I don't think it'd stay cool at much more than 3.6 anyway so I'm happy with 3.4.
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I tried undervolting my i7 47620HQ. found out that during stress tests it was totally stable til -80, BUT it kept crashing during light loads like Spotify and web browsing even at -60. How normal is this? All the material I read said that it's good to go if it's completely stable during stress test.
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It happens, it's probably not getting enough juice at none turbo clocks.
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Is an i7-7700K a safe buy in the next month or so? Or is Intel going to poo poo out something better in the next couple months?
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Kazinsal posted:Is an i7-7700K a safe buy in the next month or so? Or is Intel going to poo poo out something better in the next couple months? The 7000 series just a couple of months ago, with the 8000 series expected sometime in "2H 2017"--so probably not until fairly late in the year, really. Either way, unless you're really hankering for a 6-core, you probably won't see big gains between the 7000 and 8000 series anyhow. So yeah, buy away.
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Kazinsal posted:Is an i7-7700K a safe buy in the next month or so? Or is Intel going to poo poo out something better in the next couple months? Announce? Maybe, who knows. Have available from Newegg? Almost certainly not.
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Good to know, thanks. I'm hitting CPU limits with an i7-3820 and a GTX 1070, so what I'm mostly looking for is the best 4C/8T I can buy. Conveniently this leaves me with a load of DDR3 and an LGA 2011 board that I know will support a cheap eBay E5-2670 for a storage and ESXi server.
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DrDork posted:The 7000 series just a couple of months ago, with the 8000 series expected sometime in "2H 2017"--so probably not until fairly late in the year, really. Either way, unless you're really hankering for a 6-core, you probably won't see big gains between the 7000 and 8000 series anyhow. So yeah, buy away. There's some talk of a Devil's Canyon-style respin though (i5-7640K and i7-7740K). Possibly including moving hyperthreading down to the i5s.
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Even if there is, it's unlikely to be convincingly faster, and waiting for a maybe sounds like a poor idea when he's already looking to jump four generations.
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eames posted:
To be fair, I think Tokamak in that quote was arguing against the idea of Intel offering a custom multi-chip-module design, manufacturing, & assembly service and not arguing against the idea of Intel selling multi-chip-module CPUs. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Paul MaudDib posted:There's some talk of a Devil's Canyon-style respin though (i5-7640K and i7-7740K). Possibly including moving hyperthreading down to the i5s. Aren't those for the upcoming X platform replacing Broadwell-E? The next regular consumer thing are Coffee Lake hexacore i7's in 2018.
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Kazinsal posted:Good to know, thanks. I'm hitting CPU limits with an i7-3820 and a GTX 1070, so what I'm mostly looking for is the best 4C/8T I can buy. You already have the X79 platform going, why not just find a used 3930K or 4930K, overclock the crap out of it, and hold out for another year or so instead of buying into a whole new platfrom?
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EdEddnEddy posted:You already have the X79 platform going, why not just find a used 3930K or 4930K, overclock the crap out of it, and hold out for another year or so instead of buying into a whole new platfrom? Is there really much of a gaming performance gain by adding in another two SB-E or IB-E cores versus replacing four SB-E cores with four Kaby Lake cores? This is genuinely the first time I've had enough GPU power that my CPU is the bottleneck.
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Did you get any overclocking out of your 4 core SB-E? Going from a non K to a K version and pulling 1Ghz more clock out of it would be great even if you didn't have any extra cores, but to get 2 more and do the same is going to be a good bump.
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I managed to get it from 3.6 to 4.2 at 1.35V. Can't get it stable under even non-gaming loads at 4.3 with any voltage. That helped a bit but I'm still finding myself CPU bottlenecked at 1080p144 with the settings on most games between High and Ultra.
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From the AMD thread http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2875-amd-r5-1600x-1500x-review-fading-i5-argument/page-4#!/ccomment-page=1 They aren't mentioning the RAM speed for any Intel systems though? unless I missed it. Seems like a major omission? E - LOL they deleted my comment on the article asking for Intel memory speeds! GRINDCORE MEGGIDO fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:E - LOL they deleted my comment on the article asking for Intel memory speeds! Dave Lister? Maybe it was just a bug
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craig588 posted:Dave Lister? Maybe it was just a bug Must have been. havenwaters posted:Page 1 they state that they're using DDR4 at 3200mhz for all the systems that support it. For ryzen that's 2933mhz when 3200 doesn't work and for ddr3 stuff that's 2400mhz. I see it now, thanks. If the frametime consistency thing holds up when they actually max out an Intel memory controller, it's a nice chip for gaming. Wonder what coffee lake will be like. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Wonder what coffee lake will be like. If you go by these new details on the 300-series boards, not a whole lot different than the 200-series: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-300-series-chipsets-to-integrate-usb-3-1-gen-2-and-gigabit-ethernet.html Native USB 3.1 Gen 2 and built-in Gigabit ethernet and wireless. Guaranteed to retain the LGA 1151 socket, though.
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The Corsair 2x16GB LPX DDR4-3200 is now 60% more than what I paid for just 3 months ago. 
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Palladium posted:The Corsair 2x16GB LPX DDR4-3200 is now 60% more than what I paid for just 3 months ago. No kidding, ram prices have shot up. I got 2 x 16gb corsair LPX 3000mhz about 2 months ago for £85. It's now £120. I'm guessing I got lucky and bought when it was cheap but even so, that's a heck of a price increase over such a short amount of time.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:If you go by these new details on the 300-series boards, not a whole lot different than the 200-series: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-300-series-chipsets-to-integrate-usb-3-1-gen-2-and-gigabit-ethernet.html I wonder if having an additional 2 cores for a total of 6 will make any real world difference with modern gaming? I'm guess probably not 
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Tab8715 posted:I wonder if having an additional 2 cores for a total of 6 will make any real world difference with modern gaming? Not if all you're doing it gaming, no. But it can help if you're doing something else at the same time--like streaming.
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I haven't seen a benefit in games specifically with a 6 core Haswell, but being able to run Handbrake with no hit to games is great coming from a 4 core Sandybridge where even lighter stuff would stutter and pause for seconds at a time as threads fought for CPU time. It's a bit of the scary phrase of future proofing too. Consoles are 8 core x86 machines, eventually some of that effort in developing for them will translate into more cores being beneficial in games...right? RIGHT? Well not yet, but that's the dream at least.
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It's interesting, the consoles have 8 cores, but even the new scorpio in the xbox is otherwise anemic in the horsepower department in terms of single threaded performance. 2.3ghz not jaguar , not ryzen isn't impressive. (Though it is running GDDR5 RAM) On the other hand the graphics are what, ten times more powerful? I guess what I really want to know is when I can get graphics memory for my pc's processor.
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Jago posted:It's interesting, the consoles have 8 cores, but even the new scorpio in the xbox is otherwise anemic in the horsepower department in terms of single threaded performance. 2.3ghz not jaguar , not ryzen isn't impressive. (Though it is running GDDR5 RAM) HBM is likely to be gddr, right?
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Jago posted:It's interesting, the consoles have 8 cores, but even the new scorpio in the xbox is otherwise anemic in the horsepower department in terms of single threaded performance. 2.3ghz not jaguar , not ryzen isn't impressive. (Though it is running GDDR5 RAM) Consoles having lots of hot garbage cores means that even more effort will have to be put into multithreaded optimisation. If they were eight even average cores they could just coast on using the first four mostly, but they are working with what are basically ULV laptop chips so they really need to squeeze everything they can.
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