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Hardware Unboxed Best Gaming CPUs
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Steve is incredibly easily triggered, just one critical comment sends him over the edge. I looked at the comments, there aren't actually any negative comment in the first 20 at which point i stopped looking, and look at his like to dislike ratio, its 1.9K to 80, that's better than most who don't complain about being the victim of fanboys.
This isn't the first time he has been triggered by an imaginary mass of "AMD fanboys" that didn't exist and it wont be the last, Steve just like the attention he gets from claiming to be a victim.
Anyway, its a good video but i think his 8400 conclusion is debatable, the 2600 is a faster gaming CPU but his reasoning is because you have to overclock it to make it faster, so with the 8400 being faster out of the box makes it better, i disagree with that because its just as cheap to overclock the 2600 as it is to run the 8400 which cannot be overclocked.
This isn't the first time he has been triggered by an imaginary mass of "AMD fanboys" that didn't exist and it wont be the last, Steve just like the attention he gets from claiming to be a victim.
Anyway, its a good video but i think his 8400 conclusion is debatable, the 2600 is a faster gaming CPU but his reasoning is because you have to overclock it to make it faster, so with the 8400 being faster out of the box makes it better, i disagree with that because its just as cheap to overclock the 2600 as it is to run the 8400 which cannot be overclocked.
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lol yeah it was and that triggered more people locally here than probably among his entire 2K and counting comments.
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the problem with these vids IMO is they say gaming and general use, gaming means benching on a clean install with no extra processes which is unrealistic and general use means people who only run blender 24/7. its silly... surely people can run a benchmark in real world setting and I think we would find more along the lines of:
for normal people who play games:
8700k for the next 4 years of gaming and general use it will be awesome
2600/x because its good value and looking at 1-2 years will be great
then as per every vid
For 144hz:
Intel
Intel
why are you looking here get to 5ghz overclock or you will fall behind!
For people who don't game and are normal:
2600/x or 8400 will serve you for the next 5 years or get cheaper it really will be OK
For people using their CPUs professionaly (image editing or anything else):
You should care only SPECIFICALLY about your own programs please seek advice from the people who also use the same programs, it's likely your choice will be fine as general use because you'll spend enough as its a business decision.
obviously this is facetious but the point is use common sence because these videos use benchmarks as far from your desktop as linux is.
for normal people who play games:
8700k for the next 4 years of gaming and general use it will be awesome
2600/x because its good value and looking at 1-2 years will be great
then as per every vid
For 144hz:
Intel
Intel
why are you looking here get to 5ghz overclock or you will fall behind!
For people who don't game and are normal:
2600/x or 8400 will serve you for the next 5 years or get cheaper it really will be OK
For people using their CPUs professionaly (image editing or anything else):
You should care only SPECIFICALLY about your own programs please seek advice from the people who also use the same programs, it's likely your choice will be fine as general use because you'll spend enough as its a business decision.
obviously this is facetious but the point is use common sence because these videos use benchmarks as far from your desktop as linux is.
A comment on overclocking is reasonable but many people dont. Even if they buy a computer equipped with a K cpu or an unlocked AMD. It is still very much a minority diversion. Still some people do get excited about overclocking to the max, and I was one once, now I just overclock to run my software a litle bit quicker and smoother.
Most people use what they have bought and either do not have the knowledge, the right ancillaries or cannot be bothered. If they feel they need more frames they just buy a better card whereas the whole point of an overclock is to reduce the need to spend more money IMO
Most people use what they have bought and either do not have the knowledge, the right ancillaries or cannot be bothered. If they feel they need more frames they just buy a better card whereas the whole point of an overclock is to reduce the need to spend more money IMO