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Core i9-12900KS... Efficient? Really OCUK?

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SADS said:
I was plodding around the site and noticed this blog post, recommending the power hungry toaster as the chip to make your eco-system with seems to be a bit of a missed mark to me!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/blog/the-best-hardware-to-make-your-gaming-pc-more-energy-efficient/

I'm no fanboy of either side (I just go where the price/performance is), but not even mentioning the AMD at the moment is a bit of a miss to me.
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Unless it undervolts to produce low watts unless gaming, but you are right, it would likely be paired with a substantial GPU and an 800w PSU to provide the power at 60% utilisation.
I still have a 1700 ryzen bought at release which I really cannot find a good excuse to upgrade. I could double minimum frame rates but Civ 6 runs fine.
 
But it is efficient. You no longer have to pay for heating during the winter ;).

But yeah even if this was written before 5800X3D the original 5000 series used less power than Alder Lake with gaming performance not that far behind.
 
If you take how broad marketing speak is, then they are more efficient (ignoring the high-end Zen 3 CPUs), in the sense that a 12 or 16 core CPU in the past would have been on a hedt / server platform and an inferior architecture. 12th gen is also pretty good in games. But, to say they're so much better than older stuff and will save you money on your bills, this is likely to be misleading (at best) in most upgrade contexts, except for finite workloads (the article mentions content creation and 'heavy load applications').
 
SADS said:
I was plodding around the site and noticed this blog post, recommending the power hungry toaster as the chip to make your eco-system with seems to be a bit of a missed mark to me!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/blog/the-best-hardware-to-make-your-gaming-pc-more-energy-efficient/

I'm no fanboy of either side (I just go where the price/performance is), but not even mentioning the AMD at the moment is a bit of a miss to me.
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I suspect that's an Intel paid ad, which is nothing unusual AMD do it too and there is nothing wrong with OCUK running paid ads but the fact that its focusing around power efficiency is hilarious, this has Intel's Ryan Shrout written all over it....
Intel are fast becoming known for very inefficient CPU's and they hate it.
 
Probably sponsored yes, if I remember correctly there seemed a big push to talk about Alder Lake's efficiency (low core utilisation) post release in lots of different media, likely at Intel's behest.
 
tommoT.Striker said:
Probably sponsored yes, if I remember correctly there seemed a big push to talk about Alder Lake's efficiency (low core utilisation) post release in lots of different media, likely at Intel's behest.
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Yes exactly, the power consumption on Alder Lake is objectively bad, but you can make even the objectively bad look good by being very subjective, that's what Intel have been doing since AMD launched Zen.
 
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