Why do you hate the CPU?
Gaming at 4K, the difference between a 14900K and the top X3D CPUs is practically zero. And the 14900K is likely faster doing texture compilation (apart from against the 9950X3D).
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Gaming at 4K, the difference between a 14900K and the top X3D CPUs is practically zero. And the 14900K is likely faster doing texture compilation (apart from against the 9950X3D).
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Intel CPU degradation, high power usage, really high TDP?
Those last two don't happen during gaming and the comment appeared to be in reference to this game in particular.
I am genuinely interested in why he hates it, and what problems it's causing in Stalker 2. Not possible generic reasons that can be read in the CPU sub-forum.
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Likely to be that, apart from those issues, it's a good CPU, 24 core.
No need get defensive on poor quality qc product I have some audio gear that are well known to go faulty.
The reason I was querying it is because I had odd crashes in Stalker 2 sometimes but could never pin it down to being the CPU or not. All other games run fine.
If other 13900k/14900k users are experiencing crashes just in Stalker 2, it would help explain it
This, I've built my own pc's for decades, the 14900k is by far the least stable die I've ever used (that's including the early e/q6600's in that list!).
The idea of underclocking my cpu to allow game shaders to compile leaves a horrid taste in my mouth and I refuse to understand why others accept this 'work around'. And yes, naturally everything is updated and set in accordance to how I want it set (BIOS).
I hate the cpu because of its horrid design, the shoddy method of overclocking (if you can call it overclocking), consistent instability across multiple software and firmware updates and generally because if I'm paying top dollar, I expect top quality.
I've never owned an AMD cpu, but I will be soon as I'm done with the constant hope that a game launches without a crash, especially on UE5 titles.
I've honestly found that my cpu is the culprit for almost all crashes, I ran a 9900k for years and not once had an issue (outside of user errors or old drivers etc), but the moment I booted up my new pc with a 14900k... It was Russian roulette if a game would work or not.
My CPU is not underclocked and it does shader compilation fine...
I was getting crashes when I had an undervolt offset, but I've no longer done that. Instead I followed this guide but allowed slightly higher voltage as I'm using a 360 AIO.
With the offset I was getting just over 40,000 cinebench R23 but sometimes crashes during shader compilation. After following the guide above I get just below 40,000 in R23 but no more crashes, anywhere, apart from Stalker 2. And it's random, not in any particular place, which is why I couldn't pin it down to being the CPU or something else. No other games crash and I can have my PC encoding 4K x265, maxing out all cores, consuming over 50GB ram, for over 20hrs straight and it's 100% stable.
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That's the first I've heard of a Q6600 being unstable? I had a first generation, on release, it overclocked effortlessly to 3.8GHz on air and it was rock solid.
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I ran a Q6600 @ 3.6 for years, utterly stable with zero issues.
Same here
It's my favourite CPU that I've owned, of all time - and I am usually team AMD, but credit where credits due, it was a beast!
It was crazy back then to be able to overclock a 2.4GHz CPU that was already fast, to 3.8GHz on air, as if it was nothing, and it be rock solid and not even get very hot!
The difference between stock and 3.8GHz, was insane, it felt fast stock, but you could majorly tell the difference at 3.8GHz, and often that isn't the case these days with modern CPU's if you play with them, where as this was night and day.
It also wasn't even expensive. What a time that was! A landmark CPU, IMHO!
That was definitely the CPU equivalent of 'the best sex you've ever had' for it's time
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In my opinion not as good as the Sandybridge CPU's though!
I've just reinstalled this on a new system not to really put any time on it just planned to have a kick around and see how it played.
It was rock solid for me on the older [email protected] on a 3070. Now when I try to play I'm lucky if I get 5 seconds in game before it boots me to the desktop, running (or not so much...) on a freshly built AMD 7800X3D with a 5070ti. Havnt tried problem solving, I dont have any motivation to do so right now, might work fine on a new game, however loading up an old save in Pripyat is a non-starter for me. A little frustrating but I had my fun on it. Will likely try harder when they get round to dropping some DLC quests.
I've just reinstalled this on a new system not to really put any time on it just planned to have a kick around and see how it played.
It was rock solid for me on the older [email protected] on a 3070. Now when I try to play I'm lucky if I get 5 seconds in game before it boots me to the desktop, running (or not so much...) on a freshly built AMD 7800X3D with a 5070ti. Havnt tried problem solving, I dont have any motivation to do so right now, might work fine on a new game, however loading up an old save in Pripyat is a non-starter for me. A little frustrating but I had my fun on it. Will likely try harder when they get round to dropping some DLC quests.
You take that back!
I got almost 8 years out of the 2500k, ran rock solid at 4.6. Likely would have got more had the MB held up longer!3.6 years? Rookie numbers you need to pump those numbers up!
I had my Q6700 for almost 5 years! And now the 12700K is coming on 4 years and from what I can see, another 3 years easily in the bag
Lol what did you do to that poor motherboard for it to not hold up
meanwhile 286/386/486 boards are still alive 