IanCutress

Linus used my 5995WX review video at 11:26 so I have no qualms about posting the fact that my video review does have CPU-Rendered Crysis as one of the benchmarks. I've been running CPU-Rendered Crysis on every CPU for a long while. I've created a script to make it work, because it has some really weird config limitations. But here's a link. Timestamp 14:58.

One of these days I might get a Wiki page. Who knows!

Initially shocked if true, then skeptical, but then did the leg work and actually went through and found out what it was all about.

Think before you lump us all in to your 'all media is bad' narrative

Give me a google

Howdy. What's all this then?

Check the link I posted on how AMD systems potentially say that 'ECC is enabled' but it's just a register check and there's a chance it isn't actually enabled unless you test for it.

Just to add this in, as it wasn't included in the video. AMD's ECC for Ryzen is not POR (plan of record), which means it isn't post validated. A system can very well say it's running ECC, and it'll show in the options that ECC is running, but that doesn't actually tell you if ECC is enabled. The only way to truly see if it's enabled is to force a bit-flip and see if it catches it. I responded to Torvalds' thread on RWT with this info at the time. https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpostid=198715 Secondary, DDR5 has ECC per chip, not per module. It's quite a different and important distinction designed mostly for the memory cell reliability than correcting errors. Most DDR5 for consumers will be non-ECC, and ECC variants of DDR5 still require that 9th chip to enable true SECDED support.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/6170/four-multigpu-z77-boards-from-280350-plx-pex-8747-featuring-gigabyte-asrock-ecs-and-evga Page 1 from AnandTech. Has everything you need to know (from 2012) about PCIe switches like the PLX8747. The latest PLX switches are the 9000 series. Ever since Avago (now Broadcom Limited) purchased the PLX company, the price went up 3x then 3x again, so you'll be lucky to see them outside big servers. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9245/avago-announces-plx-pex9700-series-pcie-switches

What? At AnandTech we didn't test Ryzen gaming on day one due to similar issues. We didn't post gaming results until five weeks later with Ryzen 5, and even then the response was fairly muted for a variety of reasons. Just because everyone else crapped on Ryzen doesn't mean we did as well. The results we got on our original Ryzen review were good. For some reason people are just assuming our results without actually reading. Also, bias? I've been called both an Intel shill and an AMD shill in the last 48 hours. I regularly communicate with Intel's technical teams and managed to secure all the CPUs for review, and I've flown 10 hours to be here in Austin covering AMD's EPYC event this past couple of days. I speak directly with all the major execs at AMD. If I was really biased, I wouldn't even be invited, rather than being offered exclusive interviews and deep dives with engineers who were avidly reading my Skylake-X and EPYC analysis to see what I had uncovered as the embargoes were lifted.

I'm surprised so many people are talking about phones relating to this. It's more for IoT and data-connected devices using inbuilt SoC baseband. Things like smartwatches, smart meters, or industrial manufacturing tools. The main outlet is business and industry, not the 4.5-inch you hold in your hand on a near constant basis.

A little bit of self-google, see how far my ramblings make it out into the ether Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSnpJbuSvLg&feature=youtu.be&t=55m58s And thanks for the kind words

Ian Cutress here. Technically the NDA for any unreleased product is still in effect. If I were to follow the NDA by the letter, I can't mention SKUs, even ones that have been supposedly reviewed by other sites, by name. So I can't confirm what anyone has said here. Also, to those bashing AnandTech launch day reviews: I can't speak for the GPU side (our GPU editor is 5000 miles away from me), I've hit every CPU launch day for the last two years. I always aim to test more SKUs than anyone for day one, and test more degrees of freedom on day one than practically everyone. 95% of the time, I'm there. This includes: - all four BDW-E (www.anandtech.com/show/10337/) - both SKL-K (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/) - both BDW w/eDRAM, (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9320) - all Xeon BDW-S w/eDRAM (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9532/) - Both FX-E chips, (http://www.anandtech.com/show/8864) (http://anandtech.com/show/8427/) - All three HSW-E, (http://anandtech.com/show/8426/) - both Devil's Canyon, (http://anandtech.com/show/8227/) - Pentium-AE, (http://anandtech.com/show/8232/) - Socketed Kabini (http://anandtech.com/show/8067), - Kaveri, Kaveri Refresh etc. (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9307) What can I say, it's fun stuff to talk about. For anyone thinking this isn't Ian from AT, this is my gaming tag name. I run @borandi and borandi.co.uk

Normally that'd be the case, but Skylake at launch numbers were down consistently (across 5 games x 5 GPUs) around -1% to -3%, some as low as -7%, compared to Haswell/Broadwell. If they were up and down, I'd agree with you, but the base line was lower than expected. Retesting with the enhanced FCLK saw consistent gains across all of the dGPU tests. Disclosure: I'm the Senior Editor at AnandTech responsible for the article linked above. Twitter at @borandi, @IanCutress etc. Some people will say the game tests we used are a limited set and all GPU limited (which in this case is fine), or not a large enough sample. But testing 5 games x 5 GPUs x 3/4 tests each game takes the best part of a day, and that's when everything works. Always ready to accept new benchmarks though if they can be done consistently.

I like graphics. Story is pretty much vital as well.