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Paolosworld
The Real Jdbye
Prices aren't as low as I'd like. 8 core pricing seems about on par with i7-9700K at about the same clock speed, albeit with hyperthreading added. No idea how they stack up in performance, though.
Jiehfeng
Either the whole PC scene buys so much or the PC scene has serious stock issues. GPU's, RAM, and CPU mainly. Sucks.
The Real Jdbye
Well Intel have been having issues even manufacturing 10nm CPUs at a decent speed and AMD meanwhile is making their CPUs with a hybrid design where only some parts of it are 7nm, in order to speed up manufacturing. Clearly not by enough if they ran out this quickly. Either that or they just misjudged how many they would have to make. But I'm sure they'll have stock under control soon.
Paolosworld
I might actually just get a 2700x instead. They’re balls cheap right now
The Real Jdbye
I also think that a lot of people were holding off on upgrading for this exact moment, so I'm not surprised they sold out quickly.
The Real Jdbye
@Paolosworld Probably OK but keep in mind they are worse for gaming (compared to Intel as well). Not a lot of performance per core. If you don't have a high end GPU, it's probably fine, and AMD keeps the same socket for a long time, so you have upgrade options later on.
Jiehfeng
Meanwhile I still have an i7 4790K paired with a 1070 and wondering if the CPU or DDR3 would bottleneck. But so far it's been super fine.
The Real Jdbye
DDR3 will bottleneck but you can get decently fast DDR3. I meanwhile have 1333mhz DDR3 which is not exactly great. Probably not a huge deal in games though. I just replaced my i7 920 with a 980X so I can hopefully keep this rig going a couple more years, already noticing some performance improvements in ARK and Atlas.
The Real Jdbye
ARK runs decently now (40-50 FPS, sometimes higher, whereas before it seemed capped at 40 ish) while Atlas is far more playable but still kinda runs like shit (22-30 FPS @900p occasionally gets close to 40 when not a lot is happening, before I got like 17-23 FPS @768p - 1080p is still not playable).
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Psionic Roshambo:
I wonder if they could get CPUs to run that hot then use the heat to power a steam turbine to power the CPUs.... -
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Psionic Roshambo:
It's not the movies or games downloads that I would worry about, like breaking into networks, downloading encrypted things, spying on network traffic. I have seen so many "Top Secret" seals on files when I was a kid
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Psionic Roshambo:
I was obsessed with finding UFOs, a surprising amount of US files where stashed on computers in other countries, China back in the early 90s omg sooo much
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BigOnYa:
Yea that crazy, I've never tried hack into anything, I just pirate, and my ISP have send me 3-4 letters, so had to VPN it -
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Psionic Roshambo:
Ship to ship communication software for the Navy although without access to the encrypting chips it was mostly useless
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Psionic Roshambo:
I bet now a 4090 could probably crack it? Hmmm maybe not even back then I'm pretty sure they where using like 1024 bit encryption
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Psionic Roshambo:
I remember one time I downloaded like a 500MB ISO file on 56K and that literally took like 2 days
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