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Lookie what came in the mail today!
Now fire it up and give us some stats! Congrats!
Lookie what came in the mail today!
Lookie what came in the mail today!!
It isn't a shocker at all. More cores isn't needed or helpful in gaming. Anything else that comes as a penalty of more cores (such as the bad latency) will thus really harm gaming.At least there is a better IPC in most applications there. But look for games: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/964-6/piledriver-zen-broadwell-e-skylake-x-3-ghz.html
And this is the real shocker. Gaming IPC decreased quite a bit, a good latency is too important for games. That's only Sandy Bridge-Ivy Bridge gaming IPC.
At least there is a better IPC in most applications there. But look for games: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/964-6/piledriver-zen-broadwell-e-skylake-x-3-ghz.html
And this is the real shocker. Gaming IPC decreased quite a bit, a good latency is too important for games. That's only Sandy Bridge-Ivy Bridge gaming IPC.
I beg to differ, the test normalized for speed and core count, so the degree of regression is astonishing. The expected outcome is to progress very slightly or at least hold the line.It isn't a shocker at all. More cores isn't needed or helpful in gaming. Anything else that comes as a penalty of more cores (such as the bad latency) will thus really harm gaming.
I wish the more cores = better myth would end. More cores MAY be better, but it is far from a given.
Yea, despite all the more cores and "quads are outdated" hysteria, the two fastest gaming cpus are the 7700k and the 7740k.It isn't a shocker at all. More cores isn't needed or helpful in gaming. Anything else that comes as a penalty of more cores (such as the bad latency) will thus really harm gaming.
I wish the more cores = better myth would end. More cores MAY be better, but it is far from a given.
When running prime it was down clocking to 4.2ghz. Is this because of the AVX offset? Do most people leave the offset in place?
Is prime still the best/most reasonable programs to test stability and temps?
When running prime it was down clocking to 4.2ghz. Is this because of the AVX offset? Do most people leave the offset in place?
Is prime still the best/most reasonable programs to test stability and temps?
Nothing is more razor edge then the 1.13 PIII. Had the general instability of an over clocked CPU. Had to be recalled and wasn't seen again till a Die shrink.Or hell the 1.4 GHz Thunderbird Athlons. Those things were close to the razor's edge @ stock. Still awesome, but whew they got toasty.
I really wasn't expecting Skylake-X to be the same way.
Getting popcorn + lawnchair on the VRM issue since I have no personal experience with it. We'll see how this pans out with additional testing.
What are you using to monitor CPU voltage? CPU-z is definitely not accurate yet. It is reading 1.7x.
It looks like HWMonitor has it right.I am using AIDA64. But it also has the incorrect value (same as CPUz). The issue is that CPU Core and CPU VID are reversed. So until they fix it, CPU VID reading is actually the core voltage (on AIDS64).
Here is 20 minutes of prime95 version 29.1 in the "Blend" setting.
Very odd. The voltage was set to 1.22v in the bios. When it runs cenibench that is what it reads. I am sure it is the AVX in prime doing something.The result is something strange. Is it 4.8 @ 1.205v?
The third core is up to 5.3GHz.