I got my i9 12900ks for $200. Feels like I got away with a total steal of a deal. It runs any emulator I throw at it no problem and with a little undervolting I can get the performance cores well into the 5Ghz range but I cap it at 5 to make sure it'll live a long life. Few games today interest me, and the ones I want to play it's so overkill that I shouldn't need to upgrade for a long time. Just banking on the FOMO the Nvidia 50 series cards will generate to snag a 40 series card at a good price and my build will be future proof to me for a long time
I'm not sure if AMD is able to tackle these this time around. Zen 5 was a bit disappointy so far, hoping that the new X3D chips outperform Arrow Lake, but in my opinion it really shows that AMD needs a new design for Zen 6. Silicon interposers and a core count increase are the obvious way.
Okay? What's the difference between 13900k and 14900k? Lol, bro. AMD is actually doing something with designs, and Intel is still stuck with the same design; therefore, the degrading is from pushing it so far. Intel is going back in time without hyperthreading. They did that before. Intel most likely will fail unless they begin taking a loss from the top end and trying new designs, what AMD did at the beginning of the Zen series. They have no innovation while AMD is doing chiplet designs for their GPUs and newer CPU. Amd is constantly pushing boundaries while Intel is consistently trying to save money instead of pushing innovation.
I highly suspect AMD will drop hyperthreading too at some point. Hyperthreading benefits from CPU cores not being fully utilized by allowing two threads to run at the same time. But there are two problems. 1. It does not improve single-threaded performance at all. so general computing (browsing the web, using applications) does not benefit 2. The efficiency of cores have been continuously improved to get better single-threaded performance, but this lessens the benefit of hyper-threading as there is not a lot under-utilization for hype-threading to flourish. Basically, hyperthreading works by sharing cores between thresds such that when one thread is waiting for data from memory, another thread can execute in its place, wasting fewer CPU cycles. But with improvements in memory speeds (like DDR5) and bigger CPU cache sizes, the benefit of hyperthreading is quickly becoming unreasonable.
I have had good luck with my gimpy 12100f. After a year, i had serious fps drops & was hitting 99c under medium loads. I feared the oxidation, or wattae limit issues, but a heavier reapplication of thermal paste & a few new fans dropped my max load temps by 37c . I was lucky & would prolly uphrade to another 12th gen
Personally, Arrow Lake mobile CPU's could be really bad news for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC's. If Arrow Lake CPU's live up to their promises, it will be faster than the Snapdragon X Elite _and_ maintain full x86-64 instruction set compatibility, which means current versions of Windows 11 and Linux distributions don't need to be re-written for best performance.
The really bad naming system they got going for it isn't very reassuring to me. Also removing hyperthreading is a huge mistake, while it may be beneficial to gaming its not good for those that want to use their PCs for more than just gaming where multithreading performance matters in content creation workloads. I currently got an i9-13900K, with what has been going on with intel lately I might be moving to AMD for my next upgrade.
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