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IPC improvement isn’t going to be anywhere near 16% The marketing slides (which are typically exaggerated) say “up to” so your average IPC gains are going to be quite a bit less. My guess is you really need to be on 5k series or older for these to be a meaningful upgrade.

I'd guess x870 is most appealing to those who don't currently have AM5 boards and can buy something knowing it'll work with the new CPU's and not have to worry about how to perform a bios flashback

My point is the moment AMD thinks the can increase margins be having 3D cache on both CCDs they’ll do it regardless of how much it may or may not benefit games and gamers

Because companies always do what makes sense for gamers and not what would bring in the most profits

This is not something I would bet on. Personally I have not been able to get any function from a board that didn’t have bios support for the installed CPU. Perhaps AM5 is more forgiving but never had this type of luck on AM4

Good to know AMD brought back their IGP on non APU desktop CPUs. Does AMD have an equivalent to quick sync or NVENC?

Planes need atmosphere and thus cannot leave the planet

It looks damn near 1:1 to me. 3 unobstructed intake fans vs 1 unobstructed exhaust + 3 going through a radiator and the PSU fan. I’ll bet total cfm in is very close to cfm out. Also, not all cases are designed the same. Some work better with a vacuum some with positive displacement.

Not sure I get the joke

On one hand my 5900x still does everything I need it to do. On the other, I still want a new system. Had a 3900x before, this next round I’m moving away from 6+6 CCD topology to 8+8. With many games utilizing up to 8 cores, I want to minimize CCD to CCD latency. I was hoping this gen would see...

Not to anything that will make an appreciable or even noticeable difference. You need an all new build to take advantage of the monitor and whatever card you decide to go with.

Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Titanium are simply efficiency classes Vertex/Focus are different tiers. Focus IIRC being the entry level one for Seasonic

Those back plates aren’t plastic

One small exception… x1900/1950xtx cards did achieve that level of success. They didn’t top the charts for as long but they did top the charts.

I'm speculating, but I doubt US government issued 50B in subsidies to bring them over for anything short of their state of the art processes. We already have several sources outside Taiwan in general and TSMC in particular for "lesser" process nodes. Intel, Global Foundries and Samsung all have...