Ajay
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Ahh. Its like amd bios switch in the 290 gpu. They cant have high perf and low noise at the same time. You have to choose.
The meaning of this cpu is very much connected to the avx perf. You dont gimp on it. Then you are better of with either a cl for gaming or tr for productivity.
It is 4.4 tops.
All this water cooling is crazy for this kind of perf imo. And then on a cpu with this tim issue. Stupid. Like a racecar with 14 inch tires. Makes no sense.
One would only need custom water for more extreme overclocks, and with a delidded CPU an AIO would be sufficient. The delidding part is unfortunate and was a bone head move by Intel, the negative press can't have been worth it. IIRC, x299 BIOSes allow one to set an AVX offset to reduce clock speeds when running said loads, for those few who will need it (and most who really need it won't be doing extreme overclocks). HEDT has never been about the best gaming performance, it's about the best overall performance particularly in multithreaded tasks. X299 is for those who want something closer to a professional system, while still having excellent gaming performance and for those who want a real challenge when it comes to overclocking and benchmarks. Things are different with AMD back in the game - Intel has really been unchallenged in this space for a long time. It's silly to bash those who want X299 for its real and perceived flaws just as it was pointless to bash those who built AMD systems over the past five years. People want what they want, impugning others motives is pure folly.