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Vanderlindemedia That voltage could have been so much lower if he just used anything below subzero. Like a phasechange or so. On top of that, OC's should not be done with just bare CPU speeds but everything with it, FSB's, Memory speeds and such. In there is where the most gains are to be made. I pushed a 8350 for some time; running strong at 4.8Ghz with a 300MHz FSB. I was able to even reach 360Mhz but that gave such a weird number. It out pasted the far more expensive, 5Ghz model. Reply
hwertz A 3090? LOL. I had a GTX1650 in my Ivy Bridge (i5-3470) and the only thing I could get to hit 99-100% utilization was gravitmark (and any LLM/CUDA type workloads.) CP2077 I just enjoyed on high settings, it did a whole 30% on low but 80% on high with a 1 FPS drop in framerate (it was around 30FPS either way.) That was pre-2.0, CP2077 2.0 upped the requirements. I have it in a Coffe Lake (i7-8700) now and that can easily max out the card. (The Ivy Bridge is still running but as a media PC, the onboard video is fine for that use.) Reply
thestryker This is mostly a core count issue where the quads didn't age as well as everything else. My 6900K at 4.3 2c/4.2 8c had zero issues in CP2077 keeping my 3080 fed. HUB did some retrospective videos earlier this year and had the 2700X beating the 7700K in a current game list which didn't happen in games around their release. Reply
carocuore I remember when someone on a forum called me a moron for replying with "LOL" to his comment that said "the 6700K will be the last CPU releases in 25 years, it's THAT good, which is why I already preordered mine, there simply won't be another CPU that's faster than this" or something like that. He probably died when the 7700K was announced. Reply
usertests carocuore said: He probably died when the 7700K was announced. RIP In Processing. 🫡 Reply
thestryker carocuore said: I remember when someone on a forum called me a moron for replying with "LOL" to his comment that said "the 6700K will be the last CPU releases in 25 years, it's THAT good, which is why I already preordered mine, there simply won't be another CPU that's faster than this" or something like that. He probably died when the 7700K was announced. That's funny, but also a little sad because decently priced 6-core HEDT already existed. Both HSW-E and BDW-E aged way better than their SKL and KBL desktop counterparts did despite being older architectures and on worse nodes. I want to say I paid about 35% more for my original 6800K setup (including motherboard) than if I'd gone with a 6700K. Well worth the price given that both my 6800K and 6900K systems are usable today and few games are CPU bottlenecked when used with a 6800 XT or 3080. Reply
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