Agreed, however in this case neither is Good or Bad, both of them are Ugly (if you get the reference
) This is a normal competition which is finally back, however I have to say that looking on recent actions by Intel + all the rumors that float around, I do think they are hastily trying to close the gaps in their product portfolio to counter AMD. That can be seen in both themselves, and their partners. Sudden release of massive amount of new CPU's, which are all in all, a shrinked version of Xeon's + hastily made Mobo's + major overheating issues e.t.c.
Core CPUs have been Xeons with certain communication channels and ECC Reg memory support disabled for a very long time. New generations always bring a large number of new CPUs. The new CPUs don't have overheating issues, the VRMs do when there isn't enough airflow (and there are certain boards not affected by this
). The VRM cooling isn't even Intel's design, so you can't blame them for that directly. I say not directly as you can blame them for it indirectly, as the launch being moved forwards combined with vendors working on
FOUR platforms simultaneously means that the vendors haven't been able to commit 100 % to X299.
There is a hell of a lot that you can blame Intel for with X299, but address those points directly instead of scraping together wishy washy points that don't account for anything. Blame them for something tangible, such as the lack of PCI-E lanes.
I don't understand how a hundred people who have not seen, never mind used, Threadripper have such deeply seated opinions on the matter.
I get that it's trendy to hate on Intel at the moment, but for crying out loud please have valid reason for hating on them!
My 6700k, with a -0.1V voltage offset, runs Prime95 at 4.2 on all cores with everything else on auto. I don't understand how Turbo Boost actually works on a single core
I have no idea what you'r trying to say