Rocket Lake Review: A waste of sand...

Destination · 3 Apr 2021 at 15:25

Hardware Unboxed are reporting that the sales of Intel 10th gen are to clear stock, and get rid, suggestion being there may not be resupply, it might all be purely 11th gen for a while going forward, given the rebranding at the lower end.
Bit worrying for Intel, if they have just 11 gen left, and its so awful.

Grim5 · 3 Apr 2021 at 20:16

Hardware unboxed report that 11th gen are selling very poorly, pc part stores and distributors in Australia say it's the worst Intel CPU launch ever they are stuck with stock and in the US on Amazon 11th gen is far behind AMD and AMD continues to dominate the top 10 sales

humbug · 3 Apr 2021 at 21:11

Grim5 said:
Hardware unboxed report that 11th gen are selling very poorly, pc part stores and distributors in Australia say it's the worst Intel CPU launch ever they are stuck with stock and in the US on Amazon 11th gen is far behind AMD and AMD continues to dominate the top 10 sales

I wonder how long they waited to catch a Rocket Lake CPU in the top 10 Amazon US list at all

I've rarely seen it and if you look now there is not a single one in the top 12. Right now the 11700K is #15, the 11400 at #23, 11900K #39.

3700X #1
5900X #3
5800X #7
5600X #10

humbug · 3 Apr 2021 at 21:21

humbug said:
I wonder how long they waited to catch a Rocket Lake CPU in the top 10 Amazon US list at all I've rarely seen it and if you look now there is not a single one in the top 12. Right now the 11700K is #15, the 11400 at #23, 11900K #39.

3700X #1
5900X #3
5800X #7
5600X #10

Oh wait.... this is hilarious.

FX-8350 #81 at $400
10900KF #83 at $450

Haha aaahahahaha!!!!!

JGBR · 4 Apr 2021 at 13:09

I thought CPCs review was a little too generous. Gorbold always finds an way to sell his wares

humbug · 4 Apr 2021 at 13:26

JGBR said:
I thought CPCs review was a little too generous. Gorbold always finds an way to sell his wares

Who is CPC?

JGBR · 4 Apr 2021 at 13:29

Custom PC magazine or better known as Gorbolds personal blog/wrag.

humbug · 4 Apr 2021 at 13:50

JGBR said:
Custom PC magazine or better known as Gorbolds personal blog/wrag.

Thanks, looks like pay-walled reviews. I've seen enough without seeing it.

slim01 · 4 Apr 2021 at 17:44

robfosters said:
No point, it’s too GPU bound at 4K.it would be a few tiny frames each way.

Which is exactly why these 600 quid cpus are pointless to me (and most). For gaming there's hardly any difference at 1440p let alone 4k

slim01 · 4 Apr 2021 at 17:47

Hotwired said:
Appearances sake.

You might know it's not worth anything over the last one but there's plenty of people who see bigger newer number and that means more better obviously.

People with any common sense though would check a bench before waxing 500 quid plus though surely? Without hearing any positive rep that is anyway. And the 10900k got plenty of good rep for gaming despite its (imo) silly price

Hotwired · 4 Apr 2021 at 17:59

slim01 said:
People with any common sense though would check a bench before waxing 500 quid plus though surely? Without hearing any positive rep that is anyway. And the 10900k got plenty of good rep for gaming despite its (imo) silly price

Well, some benchmarks weigh more on some peoples minds than others.

There's a thread right here about wanting the 11900k for the purpose of the faster m.2 drives.

Doesn't sound that great to me but it makes sense to them.

slim01 · 4 Apr 2021 at 18:13

Hotwired said:
Well, some benchmarks weigh more on some peoples minds than others.

There's a thread right here about wanting the 11900k for the purpose of the faster m.2 drives.

Doesn't sound that great to me but it makes sense to them.

Oh for sure. I'm a total benchmark geek. I'll only ever buy something if its giving me a decent boost. But yeah faster ssd wouldn't interest me in the slightest. Even the difference between sata ssd and nvme at like 5 times the data rate is miniscule... Don't see why people would be interested in 11900k even if it was an extra 1000mb/s but yeah there's always some that like to have the best I guess.

humbug · 4 Apr 2021 at 18:14

Dave2150, enough said.

Shac · 4 Apr 2021 at 18:21

That would be a very loose interpretaion of having the best.

slim01 · 4 Apr 2021 at 18:25

Well... Usually with pc hardware the newest IS the best. I don't think I've ever seen a cpu, gpu or stick of ram perform worse than the previous gen. Its bonkers why the even released it. Must be terrible for their rep, its making them look like idiots really

slim01 · 4 Apr 2021 at 18:26

All the YouTube guys are RIPPING into them. I actually feel quite bad for intel which is really really saying something lol

Grim5 · 4 Apr 2021 at 19:41

humbug said:
Dave2150, enough said.

He said he has a lot of m2 drives, but doesn't mind that plugging them all in will restrict his gpu to half pcie lane bandwidth, guess he's not a gamer

Minstadave · 4 Apr 2021 at 19:49

Grim5 said:
He said he has a lot of m2 drives, but doesn't mind that plugging them all in will restrict his gpu to half pcie lane bandwidth, guess he's not a gamer

He's an ULTIMATE GAMER!

uscool · 4 Apr 2021 at 20:16

Hi @Dave2150 how are you getting on ? Played with overclocking ?

d_brennen · 4 Apr 2021 at 20:36

humbug said:
Oh wait.... this is hilarious.

FX-8350 #81 at $400
10900KF #83 at $450

Haha aaahahahaha!!!!!

Got to be a mistake, who the hell is buying the 10900KF