That's great news to hear. I hadn't been following the 5xxx/7xxx CPUs too closely as I wasn't in the market yet for an upgrade. I remember you mentioning your disappointment with the 3950x. I didn't notice it being that bad but I'm sure we have different workloads for it. I mostly just game with my desktop these days so the 3950x probably wasn't the best choice anyway at the time I built it for that purpose.
I don't have much interest in those AI CPUs right now. I did appreciate seeing more of the datacenter massive CPUs coming out that consume a lot less wattage (per core) like this
Intel Xeon 6 6700E. I know what you mean though, it would be nice to see more enthusiast improvements because I'm not going to buy a CPU like that Xeon, at least not until datacenters are clearing them out on the cheap 5-7 years from now.
I see what you mean about the basic CPU scores between the generations.
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