This thread is permanently archived
Itt: we laugh at 9900K
| Yeah... 5-10% better than ryzen 2700x for almost 200% price
| >not using a 10 year old ThinkPad with a lightweight operating system which would unironically feel just as fast as an Intel-aviv 9900K
| Best paired with the RTX2080 as the most disappointing build of the year.
| >>3aa6e9 yep. right up until you try to compile something or render a scene. but obviously this CPU is extremely overpriced. is intel so full of themselves that competition is ejected from the marketing team's vocabulary?
| >>421916
>implying I don't use a T420 with debian installed
granted, I also have a i7-2600K PC for gaming and more CPU intensive workloads, but I still use the T420 for 90% of things I do on a computer
This thread is permanently archived
| >$580
>on top of that you need a board with fat VRMs so it's not limited to 95W
>on top of that you need an AIO or at least a massive aircooler
>150W for the CPU alone under load
>soldered IHS, but the sTIM is shit so it still runs hot
Is intel dropping the ball?