If you do actual honest to god work that utilizes heavily multithreaded workloads…
You should be on HEDT anyway. Consumer stack isn’t for you.
I’d say… i guess thats a benefit to AMD, they are eliminating HEDT pretty much (Threadripper) and just folding HEDT into the top end of their consumer stack.
Single pc gaming and streaming works far better with HT or multithreaded CPUs like the AMDs.
Coffeelake launched October 2017 - so it’s not even two years old. But close. I got mine in December 2017.
Are you one of those people who streams in 4k for no particular reason?
Otherwise… Quicksync will do you. You can do 1080p/60 with almost no performance hit.
2700x shows significant improvement over 9700k at 1080p/60 on all presets. It even beats the 8700k, specially at medium.
Or do you not care about stream quality?
I dont care about streaming in any way, shape, or form. I think the entire thing is an exercise in ego and pedantry.
But we’re not talking CPU, we’re talking using the iGPU for Quicksync.
And the quality difference is not noticeable to the people watching you. If you believe otherwise, ive got a bridge to sell you in New York (and one coming up for sale any day now in San Francisco) No one is watching you in 4k. Most people aren’t watching you in 1080p/60. And its all getting compressed into h.265 by your streaming platform of choice anyway, so just sending it as h.265 isn’t hurting you.
No one is noticing a “quality difference”.
we use x264 the quality is noticeably better for less bandwith, if twitch accepted more then 6.5k mbps maybe we’d switch to using the gfx card to stream, but the quality is so much better fully using the cpu with x264
Put it together in 2017. Upgraded the case a few months ago to Cosmos C700M
I7 8700K w/ A Mild O.C
32GB Corsair LED Vengeance memory (XMP is off)
Rog Strix 1080TI GPU
Cooler Master 360R cooler, top mounted with push/pull
in wow my temps are like 40c-45c with Graphic pre-sets to 7.
FPS in the world jumps all around between 170-320, dont really look at FPS while raiding cause if it’s smooth which it always is, I know it’s good lol ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
Why no xmp?
I don’t notice any difference with it on or off while gaming, it seems to only introduce more unnecessary heat.
Really? I never noticed any heat issues
Shouldn’t be really if that’s what the ram is rated for.
I run a 9600k OC’d and 3200 mhz corsair ram and when I put the ram in and jacked it up the ambient heat didn’t go up at all.
Hmmm well I give it another try then to see if things change, it’s been at least a year since I tried to enable XMP.
Sometimes on some boards enabling xmp also enables MCE or some other auto CPU OC - that could cause it
I have an ASUS Maximus X Code, I always make sure MCE is off when making any of these changes ![:joy:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/joy.png?v=6" ":joy:")
I5 7600K@4.8GHZ 1.21V
16gb Gskill Trident Z @3000mhz
Gigabyte Z270x-ud3 motherboard
MSI Gaming GTX 1070
EVGA Supernova 750w PSU
Corsair 330r titanium case
Have frame limiter set to 100fps, playing at 1440p on setting 7. Only dips when I’m in a crowded city, usually no lower than 70.
Still running mostly the same specs. Some other details or new specs that weren’t specified before:
Fresh-ish pic: https://i.imgur.com/SirNojl.jpg
I5 6600k overclocked to 4.4ghz
16gb ddr4 ram
Gtx 980ti
Ssd card
Some power supply that’s good, forget the name but it’s an EVGA
And that’s mostly it.
But you said you have a mild OC on the CPU? MCE makes all cores boost to the max turbo & ignore Intel’s stock power limits, If your OC is done using the turbo settings & you have it set to sync all cores, your pretty much doing the same thing. Also a lot of the higher end memory kits default to 2133MHz without XMP.
Normally on a Intel system I overclock using the turbo settings in the uefi, sync all cores, & offset mode on the vcore. That way it boosts to the OC under load but still idles at the stock speeds & lower voltage & then I enable the XMP profile to set the memory to it’s binned, tested speed.
I had experiences with MCE before being just too much voltage anyway so it stays off regardless , I set everything manually and always have since I started doing this 3 years ago.
