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The 5800X does seem to be the odd man out, at the moment, at least. The 5600X is arguably the best value gaming CPU "available" (good luck finding one right now). The 5900X is arguably the top enthusiast chip, it bests the similarly priced i9-10900K nearly in everything and only loses to the 5950X in very highly-threaded workloads. The 5950X is expensive, but it's flat out unparalleled as a workstation chip, even the i9-10980XE, a more expensive (much more when you consider the pricey mobo) HEDT chip with 2 more cores, can't hang with it. The 5800X is at a weird price point where it's a poor value compared to the 5600X and can't compete with the R9s in productivity. Still, as @ComradeMastermentioned, I do expect games to start taking advantage of more cores in the near future, as devs start to push the shiny new MSony consoles to the limit. At that point, the 5800X may make a bit more sense as compared to the 5600X.

Meanwhile, Putin be like

It seems the advertised clock speeds are absolute minimums. In the reviews I've seen, the chips are consistently running faster than advertised, by as much as 450 MHz all core and 150 MHz max single core boost. This is stock performance, to be clear, and is contingent on thermal headroom and the silicon lottery. Impressive.

When was the last time AMD was the unequivocal performance leader like this? Was it Athlon 64 X2? Do we have to go back that far?

Reviews are in and they are overwhelmingly positive. About the only gripe is the price hike, but when you are offering the best performing line of desktop chips on the market, by literally any measure, I suppose you have the ability and, quite frankly, the right to charge a premium. Rocket Lake better be really good because Intel has some ground to make up.

Black sharpie is the new hanging chad?

No luck here, but no sweat. I'm not getting home for a month and a half, so I have plenty of time to get one.

The 3080 Ti SUPER exists in a superposition of both arriving and cancelled. This is due to the Jensen Uncertainty Principle.

Regardless of who wins, the outcome will undoubtedly be contested. Good, let the chaos ensue and let it occupy the minds of prospective AMD Ryzen buyers for the next couple days. Y'all don't need to buy a processor tomorrow, the fate of the free world is at stake! Go out and protest or blog or whatever.

I'm picturing a priest in robes riding a skateboard, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap backwards.

Dis gon get ugly no matter what.

The biggest travesty of this election is that Kanye only got 0.3% of the vote. I'm assuming the "Other Candidates" category is almost entirely Kanye.

I'll say this about the Democratic Party. That's 2 presidential elections in a row they screwed Bernie as he was on the cusp of getting the nomination. I think he would have won the presidency both times. So, if (big IF) the Democrats lose again, when they go blaming everybody else, you and I and they will all know who's really to blame.

I have a 4790K, we're basically in the same boat. I'm imagining encoding with quadruple the cores and much higher IPC...

It looks like Trump is taking both North Carolina and Georgia, narrowly. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are all leaning Trump, but all of those have a bunch of mail-in votes to count, which supposedly lean Biden. I think Trump's lead in PA is too big for the mail-ins to overcome, MI will be super close, and WI will probably go to Biden. So, I guess it comes down to MI. Whoever takes the state with the ****tiest roads in America will win the election. One thing is for sure, just like in 2016, the polls were WAY off.

If Trump wins Pennsylvania and Michigan, and it's trending in that direction, he's got this. There will be some frothing at the mouth pink-haired women and effeminate guys if that happens.

Hopefully it's at least better than the Ampere launch.

Maybe the election might make it easier to buy a CPU. While everybody else is busy looting rioting peacefully protesting after the election, I'll be hitting F5 on Newegg.

/puts checkmark in "Pros" column

I'm puzzled as to why someone went through the trouble of remastering these, is there really demand for Enhanced Edition BloodRayne games? I mean, they weren't bad games, but they aren't beloved classics either. Unless they redid the controls and combat, they're going to be clunky by today's standards. Maybe they're making a BloodRayne 3?

Someone with at least basic education would notice that it was a statement rather than a question.

I will admit that gif of what I assume to be "Boris" has piqued my interest.

It's interesting how so many people living outside the US take such keen interest in American politics. I couldn't tell you who the prime minister of Great Britain or France is, just as an example, nor do I care.

That's a weird market segment. I mean, you're not going to play much of anything recent and/or demanding on a Xe MAX. But if you only want a GPU for watching videos and/or playing Farmville or whatever (do people still play Farmville?) then an APU/iGPU will suffice. Who is this for?

Finished Yakuza Kiwami. It's a Yakuza game, it goes without saying that it's a great game, so pretend I didn't say that. Overall, not quite as holy **** amazing as Yakuza Zero, but what game is? The ending sequence was terrific. I shed a few manly tears during said ending.