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    New Amiga to Go on Sale in Late 2017

    Wow quite a lot of hate for the Amiga. Vampire is a hobbyist effort that created a next generation 68000 processor from scratch without corporate funding. That's a serious achievement. Obviously this isn't going to be something that competes against PC or mobile but it will be a way for a...
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    Maybe.. 14nm+ moved the performance per watt needle about 20% around 3-3.5 GHz -- take a look at the ULV Parts (15W), and some 35W parts. 14nm+ chips achieved ~ 3.6 GHz at the same power level as vanilla 14nm at 3.0 GHz. But when up around the higher clock speed desktop chips, it was...
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    Relevant chart for 14nm++ benefits: http://techreport.com/r.x/2017_03_30_Intel_manufacturing_day/14nmcharacteristic.png SHows 14nm, 14nm+, and 14nm++ 14nm+ (Kabylake) did improve clocks about 20% at the same power in ULV form factor (i.e. ~ 3 GHz). but only about ~ 8% at desktop clocks...
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    OFFICIAL : GTX 970 SETTLEMENT check thread

    I recevied $60 and my wife received $30 (2 separate purchases).. today.
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    OFFICIAL : GTX 970 SETTLEMENT check thread

    Emailed the address above yesterday, just got this response (~ 7 minutes ago as of this post) : Hello, We estimate that all claimants will receive their claims rewards within the next 4 weeks. Thank you
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    Partially Blind Gamer Lo0p_ Owning at CS:GO

    "I am one with the force. The force is with me"
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    AMD Ryzen 5 Processors Start At $169 and Launch on April 11th

    It's just you .. 1979 through 1987 were much more exciting as engineers added custom chips that seriously enhanced performance beyond what a CPU only system could do ;-)
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    AMD Ryzen 1700X CPU Review @ [H]

    VR gamer here.. Coffeelake (to replace my 2600K) it is..
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    Intel Kaby Lake i5-7600K CPU Re-Lid Overclocking Results @ [H]

    No. Take a look at some of the eurogamer/Digital Foundry videos on Youtube -- you'll see that the i7 is much better at stabilizing minimum FPS than the i5's are. ~ 5 years ago the i5 = i7 for gaming was true.. that's not the case today. (Remember i7 also has 33% more cache, not just the...
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    Intel: Cannonlake Will Be over 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake

    FYI - I don't think 6700K/7700K is worth an upgrade from 2600K when heavily OC'd, but there are a few areas where clock for clock the difference is great: Dolphin (Wii emulator - very single threaded) - 69.3% faster per clock (both chips measured at 3 GHz) POV-Ray -- 38.2% (@ 3GHz) Handbrake HQ...
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    Intel: Cannonlake Will Be over 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake

    If you read my original post - my point was that this 15% is specific to mobile and not desktop. KabyLake was 15-20% faster than Skylake in mobile at a given TDP. KBL maintained 15-20% higher clock speeds at the same power level. The same is probably true for 8th generation as on desktop...
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    Intel: Cannonlake Will Be over 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake

    LOL - this isn't the same reference that the original article for this thread had.. That said '15%' from skylake to kabylake and 15% to 8th generation. Here's the picture it refers to -- http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2017/02/intel-roadmap-cannonlake-100708174-orig.jpg and it...
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    Intel: Cannonlake Will Be over 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake

    Agreed completely - DX12 may actually extend 2600K a little further into the future by lowering CPU requirements. Anything below a Titan X Pascal and a high clocked 2600K is good enough.. My 2600K has lost some clocks as well.. I'm hoping Ryzen can do enough to shake up the market this...
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    Intel: Cannonlake Will Be over 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake

    Cores that are 'wide' -- can execute 4, 5, 6 instructions per clock on a single thread are better candidates for hyperthreading than cores that are narrower. That is why Nelahem gets much better efficiency off HT than Pentium 4/D ever did; Core 2 is also better suited to hyperthreading than...
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    Intel: Cannonlake Will Be over 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake

    Getting a new drive and reinstalling Windows often does the same thing :) Re: Gaming - i tihnk a vanilla 1080 is about as fast as an OC 2600K can handle, something faster than that may be pushing it. I've found a few games already where my 2600K@4.5 can't completely occupy my 980Ti OC (~ 1.5...
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