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    Your CPU progression

    Intel 8086, 5 MHz Intel 80286, 12 MHz Intel Pentium MMX, 166 MHz Intel Pentium II, 266 MHz AMD Athlon, 900 MHz AMD Athlon XP T-bred, 2200 MHz Intel i7-980x, 4000 MHz <- 2010 - today It' not a long list but it's all i had.
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    The Top 5 Best CPUs of All Time

    The i7-2700k was released 9 months after the i7-2600k. If we are talking absolutes the 2700k cannot be in any chart as it is a follow-up model with cosmetic differences.
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    The Top 5 Best CPUs of All Time

    Is best defined by the amount of time a consumer level CPU stayed relevant? 1. Intel 80368DX (1985) still relevant today (32bit address space) 2. Intel i7-980x (2010) still relevant today ( 6 cores/12threads, 4GHz+) People's favorites 3. AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred (2002). Complete lack of...
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    AMD Ryzen 1700X CPU Review @ [H]

    thank you for this great and informative review. Exactly what i wanted to know.
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    AMD vs Intel what metric should be used?

    performance/price i can do division myself. Not to say that prices differ from region to region.
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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    i7-965EE is a 45nm cpu. The problem with these 45mn cores is that have insane power consumption when overclocked. Look at this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-core-i7,2268-10.html extra 100W for 200MHz, and it only grows more with more hz.
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    Two Google Home units are arguing on Twitch.

    replace "google home units" with "women" and nothing would change.
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    Why is it video games are often viewed as a "waste of time" but watching sports isn't?

    video games do not promote a healthy lifestyle. Ultimately it is a battle of socially inept basement dwellers. Well, so is someone who spends 10 hours a day shooting football balls, but they are fit basement dwellers.
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    Interesting read on how players DON'T want good AI.

    meh. Devs make the AI cheat so often, that when the AI actually plays smart plays believe it's cheating anyway.
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    I suck at MP-FPS games.

    it takes about a week, give or take one, to get good at FPS. Good players are not gods, you need to lower your sensitivity.. For a shock therapy set it so it takes 60cm on the table to make a 360° turn, and learn to play with that. (i don't actually care, i'm posting this, because i need to...
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    Kaby Lake 7700K vs Sandy Bridge 2600K IPC Review @ [H]

    Hello, a great review. IPC is an incredibly important stat in apps that are single-threaded. There are tons of singlethreaded apps around (AMD's financial status is a good show of that). So here is an idea, how about benching these apps? That will give provide both a real world and IPC...
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