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Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake thread

Oem I'm after retail as 1 year warranty is terrible imo

Yeah don't bother with OEM, what you will get is a CPU in a little cardboard box, and some people have complained they had thermal compound residue on them, you could be getting someones reject.
 
But you'll need a new MB and CPU to support PCIE4...

I just ordered my system. The 10850k at £430 is a steal compared to the 10900k. At that price i can upgrade it to rocketlake for little cost.

10850k
32GB DDR4 3600 C14
Z490 Hero

Just waiting on the 3080/3090 now but stock might be an issue for both. So may just have to wait to see whats available.

Then i have to decide on the monitor but the G9 Odyssey is out of stock. The 32" Asus 1ms IPS is vapourware for now as ususal and the 43" 4k 1ms is the same.
 
Are you trolling or just misinformed?

We need the GPUs and games to really test it proper - I've only seen one YouTube channel that has tried to look into it and their results are far from conclusive as to what will happen in a wider sense with newer hardware.

There are very few games that use significant PCI-e bandwidth while actually rendering - but there might be other considerations that have an impact due to tech differences between the standards.
 
There are very few games that use significant PCI-e bandwidth while actually rendering - but there might be other considerations that have an impact due to tech differences between the standards.
And I presume what impact RTX IO will have too (and presumably a relaunched HBCC or equivalent from AMD)
 
And I presume what impact RTX IO will have too (and presumably a relaunched HBCC or equivalent from AMD)

Similar with what happens when you run out of physical VRAM - in some games you can go several GB over without any noticeable difference in other cases even just a few MBs over and the game comes to a grinding halt - there might be things like transactional differences i.e. how often they will shuffle data or size of buffers, etc. between the standards which make a big difference or there might not but it needs proper testing. When it comes to games you are dealing with sensitivities of milliseconds per frame so the amount of data a bus can churn through over a second doesn't necessarily represent its capabilities while handling data within the time span and access requirements within a game frame.

EDIT: It is also possible that different architectures and configurations will behave differently as well so what holds true for say an AMD CPU and an nVidia GPU might not for an Intel CPU and an nVidia GPU or an Intel CPU and an AMD GPU, etc.
 
Show me any proof PCI-e4 has any impact at all on games.

Tell me how doubling the bandwidth is going to increase performance of graphics cards that cannot saturate a 16x PCI3?

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How do they test the fact its not platform differences? Im guessing they have no way of having both PCI3 and 4 on the same system.

Ive found benchs which show 0% difference and others which show differences that make zero sense such as fortnite which is a cartoon game....
 
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How do they test the fact its not platform differences? Im guessing they have no way of having both PCI3 and 4 on the same system.

Now i KNOW you are both trolling and misinformed. Of course you can have both PCI3 and PCI4 GPU's on the same system...............just not at the same time.
 
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