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On topic, they wouldn't price match the Ryzen 5 2500u HP Envy 360 when I asked this week, because the Best Buy model is a "blue label" model with an exclusive chassis color.

I guess I should have mentioned that I already tried resetting BIOS and loading optimized defaults. The problem is that the defaults do not actually do what Intel says should be normal (and toggling Asus MCE doesn't make a difference either). I thought I had tried all the basic stuff, but I...

Hi, I built a PC with the specs in the title, and I can't get the 7900x to run at what should be its "stock" settings. I'm running the latest Mobo BIOS (0802). I've been running it overclocked, but it gets pretty hot and loud (at 4.3GHz for 8 of the cores, 4.6GHz for 2 of the cores), and so I...

That's not quite how heat and temperatures work. The point of delidding is to make your cooling system *more* efficient at getting energy away from your CPU die and into the air in your room, which could serve to make your room heat up faster when there are short bursts of activity (because the...

I use an i7-3770k at 4.2 GHz. When I built the system, I immediately set the multiplier for 4.2 GHz, found it to be stable, and I've never even tried to go higher with it.

I think people are getting confused by the terms "register" and "register file" in this topic. I thought it was pretty clear that the OP was referring to register files, which are absolutely made out of SRAM. The average computer enthusiast will maybe have some knowledge of the existence of...

SRAM. SRAM is very, very fast, and that's the only consideration when building registers.

Hi, I would like to build a system with approximately these specs: Pentium G3258 8 GB DDR3 128 GB SSD ??? Mini ITX Motherboard Linux Mint What socket 1150 mini ITX motherboard works well with Linux that allows overclocking? It doesn't have to be a fancy overclocking board, I just want...

Unfortunately, it's not an apples to apples comparison, because i7-4790k doesn't have the 128MB L4 cache. It would be better to compare it to i7-4770R, and then normalize for clockspeeds.

Two things. 1. I'm very impressed that you have all these images at your fingertips. It's like you do this as a full-time job or something. 2. Intel's "premium" segment doesn't seem to be a real thing. It doesn't appear anywhere in Intel documentation that I can find. I stand by what I...

Intel doesn't seem to categorize its CPUs into enthusiast/mainstream categories. Rather, it categorizes *chipsets* as enthusiast/mainstream: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?toplevelcategory=none&keyword=mainstream (note, that there is no reference anywhere to a CPU model...

Do any of those points argue against catching up being easier than blazing the trail? I would reckon that AMD's design capability is still far greater than Apple's, and look what Apple was able to accomplish in a few short years, starting from relatively little.

I would argue that playing catch up is far easier than blazing the initial trail. How do you think Apple was able to catch up so quickly?

The TLB doesn't care about the offset. It only cares about the tag, and the tag is whatever bits are left over when you mask off the offset (or do address>>12 for 4KB pages, or address>>21 for 2MB pages). The tricky thing about TLB design is that you can't know if a virtual address is part of...

I actually don't think this is true. There have always been some applications that have large working sets, and many that don't. Do you have any particular class of applications in mind where they could benefit from more cache every year? For many workloads with large working sets it's nearly...