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Not on paper but in games.

i7 is the way to go if you have the money.

What? You can see core usage and you are comparing non-hyper threaded CPUS with hyper threaded? MSI Afterburner has an OSD that shows info for anything that you could need

Sorry for the bad grammar Im writing in a hurry How much watts is your PSU what is your build?

So for starters AMD have cheap multi core CPU's but their IPC (Instructions per clock) is slower than Intel's, thats why you can see a 4 core 8 thread Intel CPU beat a 8 core 16 thread AMD CPU. CS:GO wants cores, but it likes to sap the juice from one of the cores the most. for example you can have 3 cores at 50% but one core at 100% which is a bottleneck. Use MSI Afterburner, make all the cores visible in the On Screen Display and maybe post a pic. But its probably just a slow core. And again Im not an Intel fanboy I would love AMD to make better CPU's. Games like faster cores, not more of them (most of the time) CS:GO wants both if you want 128+FPS Also I suggest locking the game at 64FPS via RivaTuner because most of the servers are 64hz.

So I have my laptop from 6 months and one of the biggest problems is that it took me very long time to understand how it works since I had a Core2Quad before. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5 515-51G i7 8550u 1.8-4ghz 8GB DDR4 2400Mhz (4gb soldered) nVidia MX150 65W system (Power Brick) So the clocks are different depending on the workload. For example until power limit 1 kicks in in the middle of the benchmark in cinebench the CPU (Stock) works on 3ghz and drops to 2.3/4ghz when PL1 (Power Limit) kicks in. So PL2 is 30W being supplied to the CPU And PL1 limits it to 15W (stock). With Aida64 every hope for Turbo Boost is lost. In CS:GO (Tweaked voltages) The CPU has one core on 90% at most which is still 100% the others at 50%-ish , and the clocks at 15W are from 2.9ghz (All Cores) to 3.2ghz. My question is, How do I unlock the Power Limit? 25-30W is more then enough for me. I think that if the VRM can supply it, why not all the time? I can provide adequate cooling anyways. Im using Throttlestop and only voltage adjustments seem to work. I'll post them but I dont think the measurements are accurate. My laptop is modded. No BIOS its locked from the factory i suppose. I've cut holes and added extra heatsinks with Artctic MX-4 with some added fans and it works great! Ill post a pic if anyone is interested. Also I have a PCI-E 4X Slot on it. Thank you in advance!