I had a Gulftown, the 2010 6-cored version of your PCU, with 24GB. But I only used it until the later part of 2014.Correct. The old rig did everything I needed to do, until it was getting near 100% cpu use, while watching video, or Hulu. I also found RAM really helped, and I was stuck at 16 GB, unable to fill the other 2 slots to get it to 24.
I've yet to find any programs that are adversely affected by turning off VM, and it seems to smooth out the system, at least in my own beer induced delusions.
I went through some dark times. Could barely walk. Lost 7 year job, refing Lacrosse. Evicted. Living in my car and driving Lyft in San Francisco. etc.I had a Gulftown, the 2010 6-cored version of your PCU, with 24GB. But I only used it until the later part of 2014.
Modern Intel CPUs are designed to just keep turning up the clockspeed and voltage until either the power consumed by the CPU hits the programmed limit (this can be bypassed) or the temperature of the CPU hits a certain limit. Since any cooler effectively has a maximum number of watts it can extract from the CPU, the goal is to remove any watts you aren't focusing on so all the watts can go to what you want.This amazes me! How did it work? And why did you do that?
Are you saying that if 12 cores are used in a 12-core CPU that is better than using 12 cores from a 16-core CPU?
Looks like the 78003XD would be a great choice, value wise.
You bought into a nearly end of life Zen 4 CPU though they are all a pretty good value now. I can understand since you are so into gaming and it will be later in the year when the Zen 5 X3D arrives.
I suspect that AMD is in a similar boat as Intel, basically clocking until thermal throttling. In order to maximize single core performance for me, I had to disable all the E-Cores and some of the P-Cores in the BIOS. I even bought the CPU that didn't have the iGPU on it to free up some watts for compute.
BRILLIANT!!!Modern Intel CPUs are designed to just keep turning up the clockspeed and voltage until either the power consumed by the CPU hits the programmed limit (this can be bypassed) or the temperature of the CPU hits a certain limit. Since any cooler effectively has a maximum number of watts it can extract from the CPU, the goal is to remove any watts you aren't focusing on so all the watts can go to what you want.
Since the most demanding thing I do is game, and most games use 100% of one core, and some smaller percentage of 3-4 other cores, disabling all but the fastest 6 cores on the CPU maximizes gaming performance (at the expense of just about everything else). I used CPU-Z and some benchmarking tools to identify the cores that ran the fastest and stayed the coolest, and disabled the rest.
Thank you, Mercutio.Sorry to hear about your health of late, Greg.
The 7600X and the 5900X are very close in performance terms, and actually so are the 1080Ti and the A770. I haven't had a chance to finalize the setup on the new PC well enough to run any normalized tests, but it looks like games are mostly around 5% faster in terms of fps with the 7600X/1080Ti and content creation software somewhat more strongly favoring the 5900x and A770. I can't believe both the CPU and GPU are such lateral moves, especially with the 1080Ti being the ancient thing that it is, but in the battle of ~$800 mid-range desktops, here we are.
Thank you, Mercutio.
Boy, you pay through the nose for the 7950X3D, and get very little value increased.
OMG, that is horrible!I went through some dark times. Could barely walk. Lost 7 year job, refing Lacrosse. Evicted. Living in my car and driving Lyft in San Francisco. etc.
For about 4 years, the only computer I could really use was the Panasonic CF-53.
Actually longer then that. Forgot about living in a hotel for two years, starting with COVID.
I've had both hips replaced, and my left knee. Just now getting Physical Therapy to try and get everything loose again.
Forgot the heart surgery. Had a stint put in, in between hip and knee replacement.
It's a big ripoff that there are not more PCiE lanes on the non-server systems and the stupidly X870E Thunderbowl steals even more.That's true if you're gaming, but I'm using a 3rd generation Threadripper as my daily driver system. I spend kind of a lot of time working in a video editor and with VMs, so having scads of PCIe lanes and four dozen threads has been a better overall deal for me than whatever desktop platforms are doing. I can't remotely afford a new Threadripper and that system is ~five years old now, but a high end Zen 5 will at least be an overall improvement in every way other than the number of NVMe drives I can stick in it.
My domestic partner is a lot more involved in gamer stuff than I am, but she has her ownwastes of electricitycollection of computers. Ironically, she still uses my spare desktop in favor to the desktop her job gave her; she's convinced the guy she works for uses it to spy on what she does through it.
I give you credit for getting through all that. I doubt I could have. Living in your car sounds horrible, although the housing situation has become so bad it's often the only option. Some places even legalized this recently. They weren't thrilled about it, but saw the reality of the situation with large numbers of people not really having an alternative.I went through some dark times. Could barely walk. Lost 7 year job, refing Lacrosse. Evicted. Living in my car and driving Lyft in San Francisco. etc.
For about 4 years, the only computer I could really use was the Panasonic CF-53.
Actually longer then that. Forgot about living in a hotel for two years, starting with COVID.
I've had both hips replaced, and my left knee. Just now getting Physical Therapy to try and get everything loose again.
Forgot the heart surgery. Had a stint put in, in between hip and knee replacement.
The threadwarper 7970X is only $2400 or do you need more than 32 cores?
She should refer to company policy for details, but any computer that is for business use is subject to monitoring and discovery. OTOH, it's often against policy to have any company data on personal devices.
Thanks for the understanding.I give you credit for getting through all that. I doubt I could have. Living in your car sounds horrible, although the housing situation has become so bad it's often the only option. Some places even legalized this recently. They weren't thrilled about it, but saw the reality of the situation with large numbers of people not really having an alternative.
My mom went through having both hips and a knee replaced, along with a shoulder. The key to success is keeping up with your physical therapy.
Won't the shipping cost negate any advantages of buying from there?
The price of the 9950X is only slightly higher than the 9900X so it's an easy choice to get the better CPU.
I wonder if there will be a MicroCenter deal with a cheap mainboard.
So the single thread 9900X is about 16% more than the 7900X, but the multicore is only 11% more? That is a pretty lame upgrade for a 2-year cycle. I doubt that there will be any difference at the single core level with the 9950X compared to 9900X, but maybe multi-core speed will scale better with power.
Do you think the 9950X will be freely available right after July 31?
So you agree that iNtel is the better option.That said, it's hard to argue that overall, AMD is the better option and likely will be for the forseeable future.