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You would have to be mad or really like tinkering with your machine often to switch for a few more frames that you won't notice. I'm assuming you're talking 5600x > 12400.
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Entry level Alder Lake: i5-12400 review, the new value king
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You would have to be mad or really like tinkering with your machine often to switch for a few more frames that you won't notice. I'm assuming you're talking 5600x > 12400.
Ofcourse not, GPU is the most important thing, better save money for stronger GPU, it will give you much bigger boost than cpu. With current situation in gpu segment every dollar more in pocket is good. Anyone who is considering to change cpu wait for Zen 4, it will give huge boost, but still GPU will give more.
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so we're back to the same point again. It doesn't matter that the CPU is impressive in performance and price, it's completely negated by the stupid money you have to shell out for the platform as a whole.
Value king my arse.
Value king my arse.
this would make them amazing and puzzles me why they havent done this.
Power usage in games is usually low fire up sometime like cinebench, handbrake and prime and power usage will spike hard easily doubling that 50w figure unless it's capped
More realistic power consumption numbers here. Around 117 watts for 6 core Alder Lake, quad core max power usage is around 89 watts. Link:
https://techunwrapped.com/wp-conten...-Intel-floods-the-market-with-50-new-CPUs.jpg
Does seem like Intel is still understating the power usage, based on this:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/core_i5_12400_processor_review,5.html
The 12100 / 12100f might've been a good stop cap CPU, until Raptor Lake, but it's priced at £120-£150 at the moment. Hopefully they will bring the prices down...
Looking at the locked 12900 and 12900F, the prices seem really high (>£500), with poor availability in the UK right now...
https://techunwrapped.com/wp-conten...-Intel-floods-the-market-with-50-new-CPUs.jpg
Does seem like Intel is still understating the power usage, based on this:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/core_i5_12400_processor_review,5.html
The 12100 / 12100f might've been a good stop cap CPU, until Raptor Lake, but it's priced at £120-£150 at the moment. Hopefully they will bring the prices down...
Looking at the locked 12900 and 12900F, the prices seem really high (>£500), with poor availability in the UK right now...
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£115 motherboard - https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B660M-G-DDR4
Equivalent B550 is half the price, from the same manufacturer, is this becoming the GPU market where the manufacturers are just scalping the public now? £60 gets you 16GB of RAM and if you are doing a budget build that is a huge amount of said budget.
Heck if a board costs the same as the CPU, in the case of a 12100F, then we've hit a new low in what is classed as budget. It's gonna cost £240 for a quad core plus a basic board, for £40 more you can buy a 5600X with a B550. I thought AMD were out of the budget race, but I guess the market says otherwise.
Equivalent B550 is half the price, from the same manufacturer, is this becoming the GPU market where the manufacturers are just scalping the public now? £60 gets you 16GB of RAM and if you are doing a budget build that is a huge amount of said budget.
Heck if a board costs the same as the CPU, in the case of a 12100F, then we've hit a new low in what is classed as budget. It's gonna cost £240 for a quad core plus a basic board, for £40 more you can buy a 5600X with a B550. I thought AMD were out of the budget race, but I guess the market says otherwise.
not seeing a price on that link?
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Well that is because it is the manufacturers website.. not a shop.
>£500 seems too high for a 12900/12900f... I wonder what Intel is playing at? I suppose the same old story, i9s always priced too high, locked or unlocked.
The official retail price for the 12900F is $464.00 - $494.00, or as low as £342-£364 + VAT. So the UK price should be closer to £400.
The official retail price for the 12900F is $464.00 - $494.00, or as low as £342-£364 + VAT. So the UK price should be closer to £400.
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That's probably per 1,000 price so individual units will cost more, and for years GBP price has always been just a 1:1 swap from USD. So even removing stock levels from the equation, UK price would be about £500.
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We've seen this a lot with Intel boards since Comet Lake. For whatever reason, Intel boards are just silly money across the board. Even the supposed budget chipsets have been north of £100 and even then have been comparatively junk next to same-tier AM4 boards and previous-gen Intel boards.
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So why post the link and put your own price up next to it ?
The price is from 'other' places as OCUK have no B660 board even listed on the site yet.
From the news thats coming out it looks like it would be better to wait for Raptor lake.
The price is from 'other' places as OCUK have no B660 board even listed on their site yet.
Very slow at overclockers are they all of sick.
I too can play this gameThe price is from 'other' places as OCUK have no B660 board even listed on the site yet.
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