Caporegime
Bloody Nitro I have will try to eat nearly 500W if you let it!!!
wow... that's insane.
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Bloody Nitro I have will try to eat nearly 500W if you let it!!!
Yeah I UV to 1080 from a 1150 stock (clock at 2750Mhz) and run at -10 PL and that is more than fineMy 7800 XT can easily eat 300 watt if i allow it, you don't gain much beyond a tweaked 250.
Yeah I UV to 1080 from a 1150 stock (clock at 2750Mhz) and run at -10 PL and that is more than fine
Have to agree, just not worth the extra power. Runs really well at those settings with everything running cool and cremes pretty much everything at Ultrawide resolution so can't complain!! V v nice card overall, should run even sweeter when I get around to installing this damn 7800X3D kit!Yeah, i run about the same volts with the power target on default 0, i have the core set to 3Ghz but it almost never run above 2.8Ghz, it will if i push the power slider to +15 and that's when it pulls 300 for about +1% in FPS.
It is frustrating, it really feels like these are straight up "office computer" cpus and enthusiasts should either get the 7800x3d or wait for the 9000x3d
Well they have explicitly said the x3D chips are for gamers, so yeah, these are general purpose. It's no big surprise, AMD said before launch the 7800X3D was still going to be gamer king of the hill until 9000X3D arrived.
True.... they have been telling us that all along.
While i never believed the silly rumours i thought they would be faster than this, the efficiency is amazing so i agree with people who say they are perhaps leaning a bit too far that way, i think at 80 Watts they would have been quite a lot better and still with very good efficiency.
I do think the 9800X3D will blow our socks off, rumour is they have been further developing the technology not least so that it doesn't need to run at low clocks.
In that sense capitalising on Intel's woes, we and the tech jurnoes we watch have a much too narrow view on all of this, we only look at it from our perspective, people burned by Intel, pun intended, will know its something to do with power, its the way they will understand it, AMD can take these chips to those who collectively buy millions of Intel CPU's, because that is what they have done for decades and sell them as the polar opposite, by their understanding, to the extreme, to wow them.I suspect after all of the Intel dramas with voltage, power consumption, temperatures, impossibility to cool, and finally chip degredation, management at AMD looked at each other, and basically said, lets go ECO this time around.
I don't really blame them, and slightly higher performance, for considerably lower temperatures and power consumption is an easy win for office/business uses cases, and actually still relevant for home users.
If you've ever sat in a home office working or gaming away for 8 hours next to a machine taking the room up to almost 40 degrees ambient because the system is generating a huge amount of heat, you'll know what I mean!
Exactly, that is why I'm trying to look from a wider perspective. Like I say, some, Derbauer and even LTT for heaven's sake, managed to do this, but the likes of Gamers Nexus couldn't?
I genuinely found some of the reviews rather disingenous, because it was commonly allowed to throw unlimited power at Intel even the 13th and 14th gens, but now they can't even allow the AMD chip to use what it wants unlocked on PBO (which is on all performance motherboards) to see what all options with the chip look like, but then on default they ignore what it DOES bring to the table because its not massively faster...but its almost half the power consumption and temperature... WHAT???
Something smells fishy, and ignoring the MASSIVE power and thermal reduction, is disingenous for the average user to say the least. Especially outside the US, where most people don't have AC!
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Whilst I get the point of that, it's disingenuous to not celebrate what AMD does well, and criticize what it does badly; or to look at things from a broader sense for your average home users to give a balanced outlook. Journalistic objectivity should come before that IMO.
It is not a good review to criticise a chip, without appropriately acknowledging and celebrating what it does right, regardless of who makes it.
In the past they celebrated AMDs efficiency gains vs Intel, now it's barely a footnote despite almost halving power consumption and thermals in a single generational move, which is incredibly impressive. It just doesn't translate to completely honest feedback and reviews IMO, and I was dissapointed in Gamers Nexus more than most, because often they're so good at that. This time around they didnt even bother with PBO.