Or, (big brain time) get a really cheap Alder Lake CPU, then sell it and upgrade to Raptor Lake assuming they launch on time at the end of 2022.
Or (bigger brain) buy a 5800X3D and skip all the lakes.
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Or, (big brain time) get a really cheap Alder Lake CPU, then sell it and upgrade to Raptor Lake assuming they launch on time at the end of 2022.
ADL is the best performing gaming CPU. It's been available for months.
Zen3 refresh is yet to be released or even benchmarked by third paries. It's release date of "Spring" could be months away, and could also be subject to delays.
Zen3 refresh is also on a outdated platform - no Gen5 PCIE, no DDR5. It's price will determine it's sucess, if £350 ish it will sell well, though I expect more like £600, given it's manufacturing complexity.
na that's a silly billy move.Or (bigger brain) buy a 5800X3D and skip all the lakes.
na that's a silly billy move.
Could build a B660 + 12100f (comes with stock cooler) system quite cheaply. Couple hundred for board and CPU, maybe another £150 for a 16GB DDR5 kit.
I think the big problem Intel has, is no one knows if it will even be worth upgrading from Alder Lake to Raptor Lake.
we shall see, but I think you are very wrong.Tis? Everything on Intels road map will probably be worth peanuts by H2 this year.
we shall see, but I think you are very wrong.
must take one to know one?I think you’re being a silly billy.
must take one to know one?
Alder Lake is good, as it stands right now IMO the best two CPU's are the 12600K and 12700K, no not the 12900K, it is just yet another example of Intel cranking a CPU that architecturally is not good enough cranked up to 11 to keep up with AMD.
Having said that i think the way Intel are trying to match AMD's ability to scale shows they are not the technology leaders, adding lots 6600K's in a shared L3 configuration around a few big ones is not the clever solution they claim it is its because they cannot scale the CPU with proper cores, those cores individually use far too much power to do that, 3X as much power as Zen 3 cores, the architecture still doesn't allow them to scale above 8 or 10 and because its monolithic, still, there is a size limit.
On top of that its not even a solution, even this still has its limits, because its still monolithic, If AMD called Intel's scaling bluff Intel would be stuffed, hope with Zen 4 AMD call in that bluff.
Not only that, but pcie 5.0 is only for gpu, and strongest gpu today barely utilizes 4.0 so it is useless.Outdated lol. Nothing uses PCIe Gen 5 and Alder Lake sees no tangible benefit with DDR5. New and shiny may be great, but it's pointless if it's not utilised. And right now it's not.
Not only that, but pcie 5.0 is only for gpu, and strongest gpu today barely utilizes 4.0 so it is useless.