If I had to get a pure content-creation or otherwise compute-intensive build that wasn't a Mac... the 285K is where I'd be. I guess caveated that Threadripper wasn't on the table either, lol!
TRs are more or less out of the picture now unless you want to run one with a single stick of RAM. The prices of quad/octa channel platforms really hurt when it comes to RAM and that was BEFORE the RAM prices went crazy!
What was that gorilla marketer? I tease i tease...
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I can "feel" the jealousy written all over that!
So vote Intel and it's not favoritism but paying AMD more for X3D is "supporting" the billion dollar brand (AMD, the billion dollar gorilla! WOW!) and apparently, people need "convincing" by AMD fanboys to buy AMD CPUs
Good old loserbench
I hold no brand allegiance. Never have. Yours is telling. But it's all good. Boys be fans. some even market... in fhe jungles. Don't get me wrong. I want the same to happen too but it's Intel that has made it extremely difficult for themselves for a half decent resurgence of their former glory.I want Intel to come out swinging and the pendulum to shift. Its good for all consumers when that happens.
I was working for a shipper at the time... literally loaded trailers for both 360s and PS3s, exclusively, that went straight to their respective repair depot addresses in south Texas (whereas others might go to a part of a state, or even groups of states depending on distance). At the time we knew how many could actually fit in each size of trailer lol.
The PS3 was affected too??
Oh yeah. Sony didn't have an equivalent 'RROD' for people to focus on, but they had to stand up an entire repair facility just for them.
Both our launch era 360s had the RROD. MS had streamlined the process by then and taken the 1 billion plus write off, so it was a fast and easy process at least. Gave us a newer version with HDMI each time. Those both eventually failed. I knocked one off the AV shelf trying to unplug it right after it threw up the RROD. Crashed 3 feet to the floor and the USB door on the front broke off. I was thinking that's great, now they won't repair it. I put it back, plugged it in, and it ran for another 5 years. Hypothesize for yourselves why it fixed it better than the X clamp mod. My first IT instructor told us the number 1 rule for repair is, if it does not work, use a bigger hammer. We all laughed, but I can't count how many times "the Fonzie" has worked for me.
If only someone at Intel had been man enough to fight for eDRAM. With current fab process tech, they could've included 512MB of eDRAM in the same space needed for 128MB eDRAM on Broadwell chips.
512MB eDRAM would've had much better latencies AND bandwidth than at least 80% of worldwide DDR5 RAM sales. They just needed to iterate on the technology with incremental generational refinements. They failed with that. They failed with Optane. And people blame Krzanich for Intel's issues. Pat is the one who could've at least changed the company's downward trajectory with CPU performance focused decisions. But he acted like a fool who had forgotten all about CPU technology and architecture like he had studied that in kindergarten and could no longer recall the timeless lessons. And oh, who killed Royal Core and Beast Lake?
