Nvidia does. AMD doesn’t.

Intel probably could, but their margins are too slim.

Intel will still produce domestic CPUs. There is too large a market not to, in the corporate and government sectors.

They’re just also doing orders externally. These will largely all be consumer-only segments.

I went from 10850K to 12700K.

No regrets.

I would not have upgraded from 11700K or 11900K though. 11th and 12th gen perform so close to eachother in general.

Yeah.

It’s a pity Lenovo discontinued the X1 Nano. That would be an excellent fanless platform (the fan it comes with as is is ineffectual as it has to pass through a half-mm cooling egress slot and barely has flow.)

You’ll be able to handle any non-K CPU as long as you keep it set to 65W in bios (maybe 90 at max)

2x24-7200 t-create

Why? That kit looks to be 199, which can get you a 32x2 kit (probably not 7200, but overclockable within your IMC limit regardless. 7200 is already a gamble on the IMC)

Disabling e-cores increases gaming performance in all but like 5 games.

Didnt AMD reverse course on that and enable their old mobos to accept zen 3 though?

Like yeah it was a shitty block in the first place, but it was made good.

I5’s have always been great.

2nd through 7th gen, they were just basically the same as the quad core i7 but without HT. In an era when threads didn’t matter at all.

8th gen it was 6 core without HT

9th gen was a little awkward since 9700K was 8 core and 9600K was 6c/6t.

10th gen was a truly epic i5, 6c/12t. Still holding up today. OC’d like a beast.

11th gen, same.

12th gen, same. my 12400F is rockin as hard as my 12700K does, and the 12600K could OC high

It’s been 6+ years since Pascal too but those will be supported for years to come.

Which leaves the inferior 1060 in a better position compared to the RX480 going forward… not a good look for AMD

I can build a whole 4080 rig for that much cash

For what use cases?

11700K still seems to retail for 280-ish?

For pure gaming, you can get a ddr4 mobo and 12400F for less money that’ll outperform it.

If you want games to continue to push the boundaries of photo-realism (which this game very much does, even on low), something’s gotta give.

Remember when every 2 or 3 years we’d get games on entirely revamped dx or opengl featuresets that required new cards?

The fact we’re getting 4-8 years out of a GPU these days is incredible for the consumer even if it is a sign of overall stagnation (where is DX13, Microsoft?)

Ever since the consoles moved to x86, as well, and every PC port became based on trivial one-click ports from console builds, it’s become super easy to just build a baseline gaming PC based on hardware that is equivalent to console, and spending more is “nice” but completely non-requisite. You’ll note that a 3700X+6700XT build has no problems with this game, and can be built affordably now.

Yeah, having more e-cores won’t extend the window of gaming usability

By the time, a decade from now, that games hammer CPU’s, all current gen will not be enough.

CPU’s age with gaming on only two factors, IPC and cache. core counts, especially e-core, doesn’t matter “as much”.