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well when you said "Mainland and taiwanese chips" i was assuming you talking about stuff like Zhaoxin or via

rn those don't exist. you can't even buy a box or tray of those cpu, they are all bga and cost $400 or more

of what?

if it was a oem product it won't have a special black box

Summary special Chinese edition of i5 non k has been spotted on jd official intel listing with a special black box package. it basically the same spec as i5 12500F if it ever exist(as in no igpu 12500), however the biggest difference is it has extra 2m of l3 cache which no other i5 non k has. this also means it should be the 8+8 die instead of 6+0 die that is common in i5 non k, currently only 12400 are step c0 which is the 8+8 die. The current listing price for 14900F is 1599 cny(250 usd), which is only 100 more than 12400F(1499 cny, 235 usd) and 100 less than 12400(1699 cny, 267 usd), but it obvious that 12400F tray price is going to be much cheaper. btw it don't come with a box cooler. Quotes My thoughts it seems to be similar Chinese special product like the 3500x, but I do no recall intel has ever made Chinese special. this could be a pre a preemptive strike against a upcoming AMD product like 5600 non x or a 5500, or it just intel felling generous. Right now intel making it clear on the product page that this is china only. Or just intel's way to stop chinese from buying tray cpu lmao. it will be interesting to test it again a i5 12500 or any other non k i5. it is very rare that we have a cpu which only difference is just cache size. Sources https://item.jd.com/10043230796092.html

Samsung 970 EVO Plus isn't a downgrade

even with downgrade sn550's 400 mb out of cache write is still far better that most of the dramless drive, WD is bad but drive itself is still good

it a bad media reporting if you refer to site like ars media, the OG source 潮玩客's vid actually concluded it as a upgrade for daily use, it using the 980 pro controller and the slc cache is enlarge from 42gb to 115gb

usually those change are due to supply changed, and mostly happen on OEM that dont have a NAND fab, so been force to source wherever they can, and usually only have minor perf change. Such a big change on a OEM that make their own nand is rare, even thu curcial pull one similar recently but at least most media has sensed and warned consumer that p2 is very likely getting a QLC swap.

higher the better, especially if you use it for work. mac's component is non user replaceable, the "optimization" they can do is just making a virtual ram space on your ssd, which would just make stuff slower and potentially wear out the ssd more due to the rosetta transcoding occupying some ram space. apple cannot do magical optimization on 3rd party software, like chrome or adobe. the store prob just have bunch of 8gb piled up, for a good reason.

Samsung have kind of the same problem, but more of just a slc caching strategy change, the new 970 evo plus have the new ver of controller (same one on 980), slc cache is now much larger, and overall write speed is more stable, but out of slc write is worse

but I have not yet seen any QLC drive surpass TLC drive at same capacity, the best TBW for 1tb qlc i can find is intel 670p which still only have 370 TBW, most 1tb TLC drive have 600. and i dont believe WD is kind enough to make a 0.5t over provision for a consumer drive.

they could get away with the speed, I'm more worry about TBW, if it indeed is swaped to QLC there is no way the TBW stay at 600, TBW is crucial for SSD and directly affect purchase decision

i dont know where that graph from prob other capacity of sn550, from old testing of 1tb sn550 the slc is 12gb, like tomshardware review.

Seagate Is not owned by wd KEK, nor using same platform