Indeed. We're a vocal minority. We know that it's a dead platform and awful value for money. However, there's plenty of people that don't care or are just ignorant.
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Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake thread
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Indeed. We're a vocal minority. We know that it's a dead platform and awful value for money. However, there's plenty of people that don't care or are just ignorant.
So the 8700K (read 10600K) has now dropped down to £275, a whole £100 drop in 2.5 years, whoop.
I think the 10600K is actually a very good CPU, like the 8700K always was and still is. its still just a bit too much money
I think the last thing Intel want is a CPU that's just as good for games as their higher end ones but much cheaper because that would be a regression in the pricing table, they are stuck between a rock and AMD who have had huge success doing exactly that which Intel doesn't want.
A 6 core 12 thread i5 can never be a £200 CPU because that would make the £400/£500 CPU's look ridiculous..
I have to say as a consumer i do like seeing Intel sweat and i hope Zen 3 make Intel bang their heads off the keyboard in frustration.
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Embargo till the 20th I think.
I thought this supports rocket lake as well?
If you mean by improvements moved the base clock up, and used an increase in rated TDP from 95w to 125w to achieve this, then yes it will be better. However given the target market, a mid priced CPU (if used for gaming) won't be paired with a 2080Ti 99% of the time, so you'd be jsut as well off getting an sub £100 1600AF, and spending more on the GPU.
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Oh right.
That's a crap move.
Pre-Order for PC equipment should not exist when the purchase is based upon factual performance.
Pre-Order for a CPU is such a rare occurrence too ultimately.
Also smacks of having no faith in ones product.
I meant in the grander sense, 14++++++++++++++++++++++++nm.
So put them on your Comet Lake page...
We cannot ship them, hence they are just be held in pre-booking in staging area until late on the 19th.
For obvious reasons we cannot build a pyramid and take a photo as were all operating from home apart from essential warehouse staff.
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Apparently a message certain people who are partial to AMD,are now embracing wholeheartedly! Some Intel fans must be enjoying the schadenfreude!
We cannot ship them, hence they are just be held in pre-booking in staging area until late on the 19th.
For obvious reasons we cannot build a pyramid and take a photo as were all operating from home apart from essential warehouse staff.
Ah ok
Edit i remember your GTX pyramids, that was fun...
Thermal improvements I was talking about are spreading the die over larger surface area and moving it closer to the cooler.
I was just saying this should make the 10600k better than 8700k.
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embargoed?
waiting for that single golden sample chip to take a stroll around europe
I think someone has made a mistake with a 3 instead of 2
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It probably will. Looking at the pricing,it makes me wonder if this more based on where we see the Core i7 8700K vs the Ryzen 7 3700X in gaming performance,than a straight core for core comparison. Generally speaking the Ryzen 7 3700X and Core i7 8700K trade blows,over an average of many games,so the Core i5 10600K probably is quicker. It still means in application performance,they will be behind.
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I think amds lack of clarity in things early on set them up for this with mobo oems a little. fortunately i come in at x570 so ill get 4th gen no worriesApparently a message certain people who are partial to AMD,are now embracing wholeheartedly! Some Intel fans must be enjoying the schadenfreude!
This might sound stupid but I need to ask it. Nvidia tomorrow are going to confirm Ampere is PCIe4 and these CPUs are not PCIe4 ready afaik. Apparently the boards might be for 11th Gen or something like that.
Does that mean anyone wanting to buy a RTX 3000 card come September are not going to be abe to use these if they buy this CPU or are these properly backwards compatible to work in PCIe 3 slots?
Does that mean anyone wanting to buy a RTX 3000 card come September are not going to be abe to use these if they buy this CPU or are these properly backwards compatible to work in PCIe 3 slots?
if said ampere does launch with pcie gen 4 it should be backwards compatible with gen 3, much like amd's new cards they are gen 4 but will work in gen 3 boards as long as you set gen 3 support in the devices page of your bios, not doing so will result in boot failure. If people do buy into the new Intel line up they wont have gen 4 support until 11th gen which is said to be on lga 1200 too, if you want the very best from the new NVIDIA cards gen 4 is the way to go (if they support it natively atm we don't know, so its any ones guess)