Ongoing AMD Zen6 Rumors Continue to Suggest a 12-Core Single-CCD “Olympic Ridge” Processor Is Inbound for the AM5 Platform

[Peter_Brosdahl]

9955HX is the first DTR AMD CPU

Yep, I was hoping to get a laptop with 9955HX3D, with a mobile 5090,but couldn't find a laptop model that fit my needs and most were $5K+.

Ended up getting this wallet devourer (yay, halfway paid off now- lol), but this pretty exactly meets my needs and I expect to be a monster for years to come. Got it on a BF sale for ~$3800+tax

Amazon.com: GIGABYTE AORUS Master 18 Gaming Laptop - 240Hz 2560x1600 Mini-LED - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX - 2TB SSD with 64GB DDR5 RAM - Windows 11 Home AD (AORUS Master 18 BZHC6USD45SH) : Electronics

Amazon.com: GIGABYTE AORUS Master 18 Gaming Laptop - 240Hz 2560x1600 Mini-LED - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX - 2TB SSD with 64GB DDR5 RAM - Windows 11 Home AD (AORUS Master 18 BZHC6USD45SH) : Electronics

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[igor_kavinski]

Oh dang. I can see how hard it is not to fall in love with those specs!

 

[Zarathustra]

SImilar for me as well, at least when it comes to my desktop setups. I had a 4930K which was replaced by a 3700x in 2019. I know a big difference in terms of the AMD parts but otherwise, I've been running AMD desktop CPUs since and see no reason to change anytime in foreseeable future. My AM5 build is prime and ready for these new Zen6 processors so I'm just sitting and waiting.

On the flipside, I still use Intel with my laptops but that's mainly been because I simply cannot source AMD-based laptops with the GPUs I want, or at least a a price I can afford. Meanwhile I'll say the 13900HK I have in one, and the Core Ultra 275 in the other are absolute beasts and I've been very happy with them.

I also have an intel based laptop, but that is mostly because my laptop is ancient, as I have had no reason to upgrade it.

The only personal laptop I own or use is a 2013 vintage good old thick Dell Latitude E6540 with an Intel Core i7-4810mq and a Radeon HD 8790M.

I've thought about getting something newer a few times, but I hate the modern chiclet/island laptop keyboards so much that I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

Its a great laptop that just refuses to stop being useful. It's crazy that the old Haswell mobile chip still doesn't feel sluggish 13 years later. In all likelihood this is because they still had higher TDP's (47W) and had bigger batteries and thicker bodies with more cooling potential than modern thinner laptops. So, worse perf/watt than later designs, but also many more watts than later designs.

I also love that it has a little door for the RAM, little doors for the drives, and a swappable battery. It's such a shame modern laptops aren't designed like this anymore.

But yeah, that laptop is an exception for me. Its a shame it lost official compatibility with Windows 11, but I mostly boot Linux on it anyway, so its not a huge problem. I occasionally bring it with me on vacations and short trips, but I don't take trips or vacations very often. Most if its use is just when I need something handy and portable to set up a new switch in the rack or something like that. 99.9% of the time, when I am using a computer at home, I am on my desktop/workstation.

 

[DrezKill]

Last consumer Intel CPU I had was Sandy-Bridge-E (i7-3930k) on an x79 platform I bought in 2011

For me it was Core i7-5930K "Haswell-E" on X99 in 2014.

I've thought about getting something newer a few times, but I hate the modern chiclet/island laptop keyboards so much that I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

Amen, brotha. I hear you on that. I can NOT stand those types of keycaps!

I also love that it has a little door for the RAM, little doors for the drives, and a swappable battery. It's such a shame modern laptops aren't designed like this anymore.

I know man, shiat.

99.9% of the time, when I am using a computer at home, I am on my desktop/workstation.

Same.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The only personal laptop I own or use is a 2013 vintage good old thick Dell Latitude E6540 with an Intel Core i7-4810mq and a Radeon HD 8790M.

That is Debbie Marr's CPU. The lady knew how to make a CPU

I'm still on a 3720QM Thinkpad. Partly because I love how well Win8.1 runs on it (yes, hard to believe but it's amazing) and partly because of the lovely keyboard. Honestly, you can't go wrong with a Thinkpad's keyboard. Also, there's just something about these older laptops. Maybe it's the lower first word latency of DDR3 that makes them so responsive. I have an Icelake i3-1125G4 (4C/8T) and while it's pretty snappy, Win11 often makes it feel somewhat slower even though both laptops have 32GB RAM.

I was eyeing this laptop like a hungry wolf few days ago: https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asu...with-16gb-ram-512gb-ssd-quiet-blue/JJGHGP33ZH

Maybe if I keep thinking hard about it, it will fall into my lap?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Maybe if I keep thinking hard about it, it will fall into my lap?

While you are manifesting, manifest me a big inheritance or something, would ya?

 

[igor_kavinski]

While you are manifesting, manifest me a big inheritance or something, would ya?

Two tricks I know. I hope no one abuses them.

Here goes:

As soon as you wake up, imagine that what you want and count from 50 to 1. Next day, do the same thing but count 40 to 1. And keep doing this until you have to count 10 to 1.

Just before you are falling asleep, imagine that what you want and count from 1 to 50. Then 1 to 40 and so on until you are down to 1 to 10.

These tricks are supposed to "change" reality. Create ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

Two other tricks used by famous people:

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Two tricks I know. I hope no one abuses them.

Here goes:

As soon as you wake up, imagine that what you want and count from 50 to 1. Next day, do the same thing but count 40 to 1. And keep doing this until you have to count 10 to 1.

Just before you are falling asleep, imagine that what you want and count from 1 to 50. Then 1 to 40 and so on until you are down to 1 to 10.

These tricks are supposed to "change" reality. Create ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

Two other tricks used by famous people:

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Funny, we just watched one of those history channel shows about a week ago when the mentioned Edison, and someone other than S.D. doing that.

 

[Grimlakin]

Screw it I'm giving this a shot. I do this all the time but I call it convincing myself the expenditure makes sense and is not financially irresponsible.