| Captain_Yuri said: In other news... So apperently, the VRM heatsinks on the x299 platform are beyond horrible *snip* God the more I hear about x299, the more I am glad that I went with Ryzen instead of waiting. You know, it's kinda funny. When Amd announced Zen, most people including me really thought, well, whats the worst they could do? At best, their IPC will be with Haswell/Broadwell, their 8 cores would probably be around the price range of 6900k with $100-$300 off and Intel probably has something in the works that will stop the hype train anyway. Instead what we got is Amd having zomg worthy price with really good performance across the board and intel not only taking the shit but eating it too. How can a company that has been so dominant keep goofing this hard? They had time to prepare for Ryzen and this is what they came up with? Jesus Christ... From Bad marketing, to high tdp, to high temps, to wtf decisions like putting fucking quad core i5s and i7s on their HEDT platform to now shit vrm heatsinks. Granted vrm heatsinks is probably more of a manufacture issue but how the shit does all manufacture have similar vrm cooling issue on x299? He tested top of the line x299 boards from every manufacturer and they all had a similar problem! Like wtf? Can't believe I am saying this after the FX line but thank god I went Amd. I really hope when Intel's next gen consumer line comes out, they get their act together cause this is just facepalm worthy. |
It's probably because their both reaching the limits of extracting anymore scalar ILP without having to seriously impact the balance between die size and clocks ...
If Skylake-X is a sign of things to come then that's probably as good as it's going to get for x86 cores for both AMD and Intel since it's a new microachitecture compared Skylake-S and it doesn't have any performance improvements ...
You make it sound like it's impossible for an underdog like AMD to catch up to the likes of Intel but that's not true when one reaches a stride and that's exactly what happened to Intel since AMD took their time to stop goofing around and start reverse engineering their competitors microachitecture ...
I still think AMD goofs around too much with the future since they are banking way too hard on DX12 to save their behinds at the graphics side ...
