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The base kit was 3200-14 and it traded "wins" (the difference was negligible) with 3600-16. 3800-18 had consistently the lowest gaming performance, all other things bring equal.

Further proof that adding Meshuggah to any video instantly makes it better:

2 sticks was indeed better than 4 for Zen 2. Whatever AMD did under the hood, the pipeline changes, have flipped the behavior for Zen 3. Here is the GN video on it: tl;dw version: * 4 sticks > 2 sticks * Tighter timings are more important than raw speed This is why I like GN. They go deeper in testing than a lot of other outlets and they are very clear, detailed, and meticulous with their methodology. Edit: I guess I have 2 more sticks of ludicrously expensive RAM to buy. Actually, I haven't even opened the package yet. I might just sell it on ebay and get a 4x8 GB kit. I doubt I will ever need 64 GB RAM. Edit 2: AMD has said that they are working on an update to increase IF speed. Right now, many people can only get stable IF OC to 1.9 GHz, same as Zen 2. In theory 2.0, maybe even 2.1 will be possible post-update, whenever that happens.

Wait, is Cinnamon Coke a thing or did you just add cinnamon to Coke?

Ain't gonna lie, FemRiker is a cutie.

Thank goodness that's not San Francisco, the piles of bisected bodies would be quite macabre.

I just need this country to not completely self-destruct for a few more years, long enough to get my secluded house in the mountains, my pistol, my rifle, and my shotgun (note to self: stock generous amounts of ammo). After that, apocalypse away, folks.

I'm sad they didn't backport Andromeda facial tech into Mass Effect Legendary.

The whole Trump presidency has been like a movie, and no way the movie ends with Biden clearly winning and Trump walking away gracefully, that's a boring as **** movie. Deep down we all knew it would go down some kind of crazy way like this.

Don't mind me, I'm just hiding in the polling sites and smudging black sharpie bubbles.

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.