Intel i5-3570K @ 4.7GHz | MSI Z77 Mpower | Noctua NH-D14 | Corsair Vengeance LP White 1.35V 8GB 1600MHz
Gigabyte GTX 670 OC Windforce 3X @ 1372/7604MHz | Corsair Force GT 120GB | Silverstone Fortress FT02 | Corsair VX450
I guess, but I can see how using that "thermal plate" would make a clean looking build.
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At least in Sweden EVGA has a pretty big premium added to their price as well sadly, I kind of like their motherboards.
Intel i5-3570K @ 4.7GHz | MSI Z77 Mpower | Noctua NH-D14 | Corsair Vengeance LP White 1.35V 8GB 1600MHz
Gigabyte GTX 670 OC Windforce 3X @ 1372/7604MHz | Corsair Force GT 120GB | Silverstone Fortress FT02 | Corsair VX450
These are 14nm? What happened to Intel's tick-tock?
Nevermind. The ones they're releasing are 22nm, and then will have a die-shrink later.
Last edited by Skelly; 2013-01-20 at 02:38 AM.
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That's fine. That doesn't change the fact that have 16+ cores in CPUs is pretty useless for most PC use cases. PC gamers are a very small market. What are office workers going to do with massively parallel 16+ core computers? Load their Outlook, SAP or Excel faster? There's no point in investing big resources to make something that very few people would have a use for.
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TDP limits what can go in laptops.
There are some VERY CPU intensive analyses that you can perform with Excel, just saying.or Excel
Why the heck would you use a laptop for content production, virtualization, or compute when a laptop is going to be massively constrained by TDP, power, RAM, GPU, etc? If you are, obviously fastest speed isn't your priority.
Don't use a screwdriver to hammer nails.
Again I have to point out how wrongheaded you are to criticize Intel for "just focusing on power efficiency" when power consumption is what limits the top end of the mobile scale.
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16 cores worth? If you need that out of Excel, you're probably using the wrong tool.
Last edited by Cows For Life; 2013-01-25 at 10:56 PM.
Excel and Access, are two database applications that can get massive. You know how Excel can literally have endless rows/columns put in? Now let's say you had some ridiculous math equations going on across all of them too, being updated very often... yes, it can become very intensive. Do you realize just how much Excel can actually do? It sure doesn't sound like it.
Laptops are being used for those tasks no matter how much you disbelieve. Corporations get laptops for people who travel a lot (either between departments or between countries), and those need to be beefy enough for all work related tasks, both big and small.
Monte Carlo simulations for Excel are real world task, and so intensive it's often used as a CPU+disc benchmark.
Last edited by vesseblah; 2013-01-25 at 11:27 PM.
Never going to log into this garbage forum again as long as calling obvious troll obvious troll is the easiest way to get banned.
Trolling should be.
As much as I hate laptops and advice strongly against them for doing heavy tasks/gaming in general, for very mobile people, there are such things as workstation laptops which are considerably more powerful than what people might be used to seeing at their local Best Buy, Micro Center, Tiger Direct, etc.
Such as going to www.sagernotebook.com... they make some EXCEPTIONAL workstation laptops, complete with 2~ hard drives/solid state drives, full SB-E i7, GTX 680M in SLI, 32GB RAM... need I say more?