Techhog

I'm also wondering about it. Is there ghosting or smearing? Does G-sync work properly?

No.

Uh... Something is wrong with your chip (or your motherboard is actually pushing way more voltage than that in there). What did you replace the TIM with? Either way, Intel just lost a customer for life. No thank you! Pigeon poo is not a good TIM.

You need a delid to use Multicore Enhancement. Don't even bother getting RAM faster than 2666MHz if this runs THAT FREAKING HOT at stock. It used to be that delidding was needed to push Intel CPUs to the limit. Now it's just plan needed... I'm not even confident that my NH-D15 can handle thing thing at stock. Also, heat doesn't scale linearly with cores. You were expecting temps to increase by 50%? Don't be silly. The 7980XE would hit over 250C based on that logic.

That's temps, not power consumption.

Uh You know what? I'm good with what I have.

I mean... Yeah? It's the same architecture and number of cores but with different features and refinements for different target demographics.

No, it's a completely different die and doesn't have the mesh bus. What they did was slap two more cores on a 7700K.

I've seen cases of old Celerons being sold as Ryzen 3 1200's

Linus, since at least Sandy Bridge it seems, has long felt that 4 core and 4 threads is all you need for a pure gaming machine (even using the 7600K in his RGB build guide), and for good reason. That has, for the most part, been the case for a long time. That said, Coffee Lake presents an interesting challenge to this idea. What was i5 is now i3, while the new i5 should perform similarly to an i7. This means that one of two things could come out of his review of the 8th-gen K SKUs in two weeks: Linus will declare the (likely sub-$200) i3 8350K to be the best value for gamers, sticking to his guns. This makes a lot of sense, as it could open the door for a GTX 1080 build at a great price, and the i3 might even overclock a little better. He'll start thinking about the current trends in newer games and see more value in i7 performance at an i5 price than in i5, and as such the i5 brand will remain king First of all, no, I'm not ignoring Ryzen. If Zen+ can increase clocks things will shake up again; however, realistically, Intel is just the king of gaming and Ryzen will need some serious price cuts soon. Hopefully this will change next year. Second, you're probably wondering why I'm making this thread now... Well, I just think it'll be more interesting to do it a little while before we see anything ant then later compare our predictions to reality. Of course, you can present another possibility and give your own prediction of what the top gaming CPU for the money of Holiday 2017. Then we'll see how it actually turns out. Personally, I see Linus & Crew going with option 1, at the very least up to 1070 Ti-based systems. However, assuming a price no higher than $270 US, I think that the 8600K will be the better choice for a system you want to last a long time; it could even be the true successor to the 2500K. And yes, it has two fewer threads than current i7s, but it should still pretty much match them in multithreaded workloads. The worse overclockability might hurt it though. If reports of 4.8GHz on all cores on air come to fruition, an overclocked 8600K could last a very long time. What do you think?

This. It can also cause crashes and make the game perform the same as or worse than it did before the patch. A lot of people who complain that the patch didn't fix anything most likely made this mistake.

Did you remember to raise the power limit when you overclocked the card?

Interesting... I wonder if that has anything to do with it? I should see what key I get

Try GOG. Also, this is an extremely random post. What is wrong with you people?

Retail, OEM - System Builder, or prebuilt? (This is for both of you.)