It will narrow the market incredibly as only a tiny fraction of enthusiasts are prepared to play with delidding. If you can sell on here then you’ll find someone though.
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8700K to a 9900K, worth it?
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Sod it I'll reseal the IHS. Thanks.
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I'm surprised your 8700K + 2080 is struggling in games. Your framerates should be silky smooth? I could understand a 2500K + 2080 system needing an upgrade.
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Just be aware that the liquid metal is indeed liquid and can ‘run’ out if sent through the post and go into places it’s not supposed to. Happened to me once. Plus the liquid metal benefits from replacing every year or so it’s a good idea to let future buyers know.
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Just wait till zen2, cheaper upgrade and same single core performance but better multi core performance as the 9900k
Well we don’t know that yet and that’s only in benchmarks. I’m finding out the hard way that my 2700x performs worse than my old four core intel in the majority of software I use.
from previous posts, looks like you had a 7700k?
if so, then it's unsurprising that in programs (whatever they may be) that are less multithreaded, the 2700x will perform worse.
core-to-core, the 2700x cannot stand up to a 7700k, seeing as the 7700k has both clockspeed and ipc advantage over the 2700x.
it's only in highly multithreaded workloads that the 2700x will pull ahead.
Absolutely. I think I read far too much into the death of the four core from the many AMD fanboys. Completely my fault and yes the 2700x isn’t without it’s advantages but currently and for most (not all) main stream apps any intel four core will cruise over any AMD chip regardless of core count.
just depends on your work load. if the programs you use take full advantage of multicore (or you run +++++ programs at any one time), then yes, quad core might be going the way of the dodo.
but if you're just solely playing cs:go (i know, it's a hyperbole example) then 2700x is the suboptimal choice
Yes like most things it’s very much software dependant but I’d argue the balance of mainstream software is firmly and considerably still in intels favour.
indeed. it's sorta stagnated for the best part of the last decade.
game of chicken and egg - intel wouldn't release anything more than quad cores for the consumer space, and devs wouldn't code for true multicore because there was little to no hardware support for it
at least now that (we hope) amd will release 16c ryzens to the consumer space, more devs will have more incentive to code multicore aware programs
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I'm not struggling in games whatsoever (even in 4K), which I forgot to mention btw. Just been playing Far Cry 5 and New Dawn maxed out (Ultra) on 4K and I was getting 65-80fps! Which ain't too shabby to be fair.
The plan is to ditch the 9900K and delid my 8700K and push it to 5.2GHz which it will do but it runs a little too hot for my liking.. which is what the delid is for.