It's close to the end of the year, you know what that means! More expensive shit that holds little to no tangible benefit compared to the expensive shit that came out last year!!! The current focus is on CPUs and boy oh boy this is one of the product launches ever.
To start off with, AMD's new zen 4 processors operate at 95°c regardless of how beefy your cooling solution is. This is by design, apparently.
AMD went on to say that 95C is not running hot, rather Zen 4 will intentionally go to this temperature as much as possible under load because the power management system knows that this is the ideal way to squeeze the most performance out of the chip without damaging it.
Good stuff.
Additionally, the big expensive ryzen 9 7950x only barely outpaces the significantly older ryzen 7 5800x3D which is really really funny.
Intel has also recently decided to make it known that they exist too, announcing their new line of "raptor lake" processors. The graphs speak for themselves.
In the midst all of this, many are still waiting for somebody to announce a product that isn't completely pointless.
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I was using a juiced 2500k until a few years ago. I'm currently on a 5900x and I'm thinking I'll switch to whatever the current big boy is in say, 2032?
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