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Im currently running PBO with curve optimizer set to negative 20 on all cores. This makes no sensible difference in idle power. Damn I envy that 18W. My load curves are not as flat as yours, its never at 0% usage, but I'm not sure if i can find anything else to close. Your first screenshot...

Thanks for the answer, but I would like to keep my desktop. And turned on, preferably. I do not need ultra low power, but having lower temps and power consumption in idle would be nice. I think it may be possible, given the reviewers numbers.

My 5600x idles at around 32 W (package power), but reviews like Anandtech and Tom's Hardware listed 12 W and 13 W respectively. Is there any setting I can change to get this low? I've tried a lot of things and the only one that had some effect is leaving the memory at the default 2133 MHz...

Do you plan to test this game in future CPU reviews? I was pretty interested because it recommends a 3600x, which i think is the highest of any game? But now looking at these results, i dont think it would be that useful. Seems the GPU will always be the bottleneck.

Now fanboys have similar claims with sides switched, and it will always be like that. Moral of the story is do not give any attention to fanboys, ever. People should just look at the data and make the choice they want for whatever reasons they might have. The only unreasonable thing to do is...

Amazing article, good job. My interpretation is that right now amd or intel wont make a difference because everyone will be GPU limited. But as time goes by, GPUs will become more powerful, the point at which the games operate will move increasingly to the left in the "GPU/CPU limited" axis...

Damn so much intel vs amd wars in this thread.

I'm a bit confused by the testing methodology. When testing temperatures do you set the fan to 100%, to an specific noise level or do you use a pwm fan curve? And how is that relative performance number calculated? I think its a little weird that the C7 is so close to this cooler when it...

They are just afraid to get lootboxes totally banned, so are doing the absolute minimum possible to try to make it look like they care.

But can you still change it manually using a custom fan curve? If so, that's not THAT bad. If you can't change it however, that's absurd and shouldn't ever happen, specially when a GPU at iddle shouldn't make any noise at all. Our perception of sound pressure is also not linear, so even though...

At first i though that viscosity number was wrong because of their marketing saying its "low viscosity". You cant market something as low viscosity when its actually viscous as fuck. But if your specs are correct, its a rebrand of this. I'm a bit confused. I'll look for some more about subject...

You cant judge performance based only on thermal conductivity alone. They market it as a low viscosity paste, which means that it may be able to better fill imperfections and form a thinner layer than materials with higher viscosity, both of which increases performance.

Some companies do push the "lying for dollars" way further than others, in all sectors of the economy. Let's not pretend they are all the same.

People arguing that Intel's deception was not good enough, so it's the people/press fault that they believed them and Intel is not to be blamed. Trying to misslead consumers is ok if it's not done too well. Amazing.

Wow a card that actually looks good? Nice.