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INTEL BRING THE BIG GUNS!

Rainmaker said:
It never ceases to amaze me how many people into PCs are also keen petrolheads. Heaven. :cool: @amigafan2003 In truth, I don't (shock, horror) ever game. Unless you count HL2 once a year or so for the lulz. My PC is a basic desktop running multiple servers and VMs. I need to split the two tasks (server/desktop) into two machines at some point, but for now I'm rocking an FX8350 - which still does well - and looking for a nice upgrade path. I'm leaning 1700 bundle atm. Got a nice 960 Evo NVMe sat here waiting for a board to go into. :D I'm just holding off for CL to see what the choices are, and maybe a price drop or two when they land.
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I think overclocking PCs and modding cars is a similar mindset - pushing the equipment further than the manufacturer intended to be available for "normal folks". The VFM aspect also comes into - why buy a v6 when you can tune your 2ltr to be as fast?

Silent_Scone said:
I'm not a fan of Porsche, but I don't think the drivers are cocks. You'll find a **** in every badge lol.
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Of course there's an exception to every rule but cmon, you've got to admit the cockedness density is higher with among Porsche owners.
 
Silent_Scone said:
I'm not a fan of Porsche, but I don't think the drivers are cocks. You'll find a **** in every badge lol.
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Maybe I was mistaken... Perhaps this one is more of your liking.

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Rainmaker said:
Because noise! :D (...and torque, and throttle response). I agree with the rest though lol.
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Scoobies make a nice noise, heard one go past me earlier sounded lovely, some tuned diesel turbos produce ridiculous amounts of torque and I've seen a 300bhp mk1 golf annihilate all sorts of exotic cars, including caterhams, ariel atoms and very expensive porsches around a well known race track.

 
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Doobedoo said:
Scoobies make a nice noise, heard one go past me earlier sounded lovely, some tuned diesel turbos produce ridiculous amounts of torque and I've seen a 300bhp mk1 golf annihilate all sorts of exotic cars, including caterhams, ariel atoms and very expensive porsches around a well known race track.
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Scoobies have a boxer engine and I agree they can sound very nice. Diesels? I'd rather walk. :p Golfs can be very quick little things, but again it's about the package (handling, engagement, etc) rather than outright straight line pace for me. We're way, way off topic. Core i7 7700k being your Golf, and the Ryzen 1700 being perhaps a more rounded but less initially pacey MX5. Or something. There - on topic. :p
 
amigafan2003 said:
Of course there's an exception to every rule but cmon, you've got to admit the cockedness density is higher with among Porsche owners.
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Not even close, that badge of honour firmly belongs to the Ford 'ST' crowd, closely followed by the E93 M3 brigade, i include both driving habits and general personality traits in the scoring for both.......
 
darket said:
Not even close, that badge of honour firmly belongs to the Ford 'ST' crowd, closely followed by the E93 M3 brigade, i include both driving habits and general personality traits in the scoring for both.......
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How come you leave out the mighty Honda? Vtec yo!
 
Well it's clear that since no one is giving a reason, it has to be a delaying tactic to stop people buying Threadripper CPU's with the larger core counts, Intel obviously just want to play the bluff hand, to see if people would hang back if they though it was imminent, when it's not out until the end of the year. ;)
 
The launch is on the same date as it's been for a while. No change at all.

Threadripper is selling great so for sure Intel is not holding back anything.
 
8 Pack said:
The launch is on the same date as it's been for a while. No change at all.

Threadripper is selling great so for sure Intel is not holding back anything.
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Genuine query, how come the Pre-order released date was put up for the 28th August launch on the 7920x then? Still no sight of it anytime soon, and we had a 7920X pushed back until the end of Sept according to my colleague. I know that the 14,16, 18 are all October but no one official will confirm this for obvious reasons.

The lack of information speaks volumes from Intel, horribly rushed product, with no clear information on release - it makes it so annoying to be able to plan for clients.
 
The nda prevents us discussing launch dates. But our instruction from Intel is nothing has changed.
 
8 Pack said:
The nda prevents us discussing launch dates. But our instruction from Intel is nothing has changed.
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Appreciate it, at least Intel the ones being deliberately evasive, keeping the release date of an already announced product under NDA, allows them to alter it with no one ever knowing it was meant to come any earlier. Clever or panicky, hmmnn?
 
Journey said:
Appreciate it, at least Intel the ones being deliberately evasive, keeping the release date of an already announced product under NDA, allows them to alter it with no one ever knowing it was meant to come any earlier. Clever or panicky, hmmnn?
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Or good business to keep the competitors and buyers on their toes thinking?. 8 pack already said nothing has changed on the release date, that's good enough to confirm not panicking.

I don't care about all the speculation, the paranoia and wishful thinking some folks have, I just want to see the products and let them do their own talking although unfortunately we're at the mercy of review sites and who knows their agenda (favouritism), testing techniques(flawed) etc.
 
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