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    The 285k is embarrassing

    If rumours are true and the 9950X3D has asymmetric vcache (only on one CCD) like the 7950X3D, you'll be right back to manually futzing with scheduling, no?
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    The 285k is embarrassing

    Got my 285k. Not slower than my 5950X. Nice. Slightly more power hungry (but that’s with limits off, and the 5950X is still one of the most efficient chips AMD ever hade). Code compiles are faster. x265 encoding is much faster, but handbrake sometimes segfaults. Possibly related. Still stoked...
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    How many times have you actually dropped in a new CPU?

    I used to think that future longevity of the socket/platform I bought into meant a damn. This was because usually I was spending all my money at once and I wanted to feel like there was a long return period for the investment. Surely, if I could amortise the cost of the RAM, motherboard, etc...
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    The 285k is embarrassing

    The 285k is actually compelling if you have productivity workloads and need IO, through the Z890 platform, because the X870 platform sucks and the X870E platform is way way more expensive. Also, the 285k can handle 4x DIMMS at 5200 MT/s whereas the 9950X will drop to 3600 in the same...
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    After digesting a lot of reviews I've concluded that the 285k is actually better than the 9950x for my use case. (I've also concluded that the quality of reporting on these products has materially dropped since 2010.) Hear me out: With the exception of AVX-512 workloads, the 285k and 9950x are...
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    This is true. But I think the reality is actually just that single-threaded performance is plateauing, and that that delay gave AMD and Apple a chance to catch up. (I also said so here.) Basically just as confirmed by the chart in your next post. The exception to this seems to be Apple's SoCs...
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    Arrow Lake vs Bulldozer? Who had it worse

    lol. My favourite thing about $GAMERS speculating on Intel's total failure is that none of them seem to remember that AMD was nearly bankrupt less than a decade ago. Look at market share further back than 2012. AMD had ~50% of the market in 2006: we've seen this movie before. There is also a...
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    Z890 Extreme vs Hero... explain this in english?

    Well, I exaggerated a bit there. My real point was that they charge you a premium and don't even give you premium chips, as you'd expect on a server or workstation board (I710 controllers). I myself run an X550-T2 which is less toasty, but slightly more expensive. And yeah, I'd very much prefer...
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    Oh no! My secret
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    After careful consideration I have reached the same conclusion
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    Z890 Extreme vs Hero... explain this in english?

    What shits me is that they put a $2 10GbE adapter on it (Marvell bought Aquantia, that's what these used to be, last time I tried to use one it wouldn't negotiate with my basic level 2 netgear switch at 1 gbps) and try to upsell you $300, when you could just buy one of these!
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    True. I want a workstation. I compile code and play Age of Empires. Unfortunately benchmarks seem largely mixed between the 9950X and the 285K. For my use cases the 285K seems faster, but depending on the benchmark source and the settings I seem to reach a different conclusion. Sometimes it's...
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    Arrow Lake 2024 (and beyond)

    I came running here because everywhere else I look the YouTube clickbaiters and the smooth-semi-brained comment trolls were getting too loud. Hopefully we can discuss the merits and demerits like the scholars and gentlefolk I know us to be. I don't think this is that bad. I don't think it's bad...
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    Tri-Mode (SAS9400, SAS9500, SAS9600) Broadcom/LSI SAS HBA's? Anyone have experience?

    FWIW I picked a 9500-16i because it wasn't much more expensive than older SAS/SATA HBAs, but being a lot newer it had much lower typical power draw (~8.9W). Oddly the newer 9600 series have much higher typical power draw (~20W). I don't think "typical" is a fair comparison between the two since...
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    Server build advice

    That gear is making me hot... but if there's one thing I've learned, it's that if you really want to play with server gear you really need thick wallet full of cash. Doing anything half-arse is like shooting yourself in the foot - like two desktop drives in a server platform. Buying a SAS...
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