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I recall 1x CD burners dropping to £600 in the mid 90s, which is £1,200 with inflation. I also recall a colleague buying a 15" 1024x768 TFT for over a grand at the turn of the century and the picture quality was poor. Don't tell Jensen or it may give him ideas.

Considering the large price drops on the regular Zen 4 chips not long after their release, I’d be wary of buying one of these at launch.

AMD have been pricing their CPUs highly quite frequently since Zen first came out, only for prices to drop significantly in the following years. So there is a risk that depreciation will be higher than for Intel. It's the net cost after selling it that might put some off. I am not surprised by...

As usual, the scores are all over the place due to different PL settings, different RAM used, different coolers etc. While Zen 4 still seems the best bet overall from my perspective, I still think that RL does surprisingly well at lower power settings, considering that it's a stop gap product on...

There’s an on chip Thread Director which talks to the Windows scheduler: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16959/intel-innovation-alder-lake-november-4th/3

It used to be three years for retail chips and you possibly can deal with Intel directly at some point. Whereas OEM are one year and you deal with the seller.

Different warranty too. Unless a retailer is selling loads of pre-overclocked systems, why would they even bother testing them?

If I was paying the electricity bills I wouldn't use these for office machines. You are looking at an extra 40W or so per machine at idle. With current energy prices, that will add to a non trivial difference per year.

Retailers might order at a certain fixed exchange rate, so if the pound improves over the next weeks, it doesn't change the price of that order, even if the stock doesn't arrive for weeks. Their purchase prices will only change on the next order. With this being a pre-order scenario, I don't...

I thought that my non-K chip was limited to DDR4-2666 even in a Z370 board, but CPU-Z shows it as running at 2,933/CL 16. The dual Ballistix sticks are rated at 3,000/16 via XMP. I think I set it to the XMP profile so surprised to see it running at 2,933! Is this normal? The board supports up...

True, so maybe just think of the higher core counts as HEDT Lite. At some point we will see 64GB modules giving 256GB support for the platform. Plus with PCIe 5.0 giving bandwidth that seems irrelevant for consumers currently, it seems an unnecessary cost.

It was clear from the AMD livestream that their power efficiency claims were smoke and mirrors. Releasing new chips all with TDPs above 100W and telling us how efficient they are with a reduced 65W TDP was a bit strange. AMD are forced to follow Intel and push the default settings well above...

Basic physics disagrees with you. High temperatures can be a cooling issue regardless of whether the chip is consuming 5W or 250W. Look at the fanless 5W TDP laptop designs that are thermally throttled, whereas a 250W chip that is well cooled is not throttled. A high power consumption chip is...

These seem to be OEM only, so you might have to buy via an auction site at a premium due to scarcity. Check that the board you are choosing lists this as being supported. They might be binned for low voltage performance, but how much better they will be than an i9-12900 that is under-volted and...

Intel need their renewed interest in being a foundry to 3rd parties to succeed I imagine. As they lose marketshare and their margins drop, it becomes harder for them to invest enough in the fabs to be able to compete with TSMC. I know that they are now using TSMC for some cutting edge nodes, but...

Of course it doesn't as power consumption increases roughly with the square of the voltage.

Data varies a lot depending on the article as there are a lot of variables. That's why I went with the PPT value as it's fixed and is an official worst case scenario, of one kind. So using 120W and the 8% increase puts Zen 4 at just under 130W. As that is likely a 16C part, it gives space for a...

AMD have recently revealed that Zen 4 has the following improvements over Zen 3 in Cinebench: Overall performance increase >35% Performance per watt gains >25% If we take those figures as being for the same workload, Cinebench, that gives an increased wattage of 8%. That figure is calculated...

AMD have formally stated that power efficiency has increased significantly, so it’s way too early to jump to conclusions. They might have stated a 25% improvement in last week’s announcement. Then there’s the AVX-512 addition, so when you add all the info together including the max TDP for the...

I seem to recall Mike Clark at AMD saying how excited he was for Zen 5, which did make me wonder if Zen 4 would be underwhelming. It seemed an odd thing for the 'Chief Architect of Zen' to say about a year before Zen 4 would even hit the market. Is Zen 5 due next year? With the world as it is...