cpu

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  1. Serebron

    Question PC overheating (HELP)

    Hello everyone! Recently I have been trying to troubleshoot my case. So, this is the situation: CPU: Intel i7 12700F GPU: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti PSU: Zeus Force 600S Mobo: B660MX-E CPU Cooler: Arctic freezer 34 So my CPU temps are good but my motherboard temp is extremely high (according to...
  2. FlameTail

    Discussion Dimensity 9300; The end of an era for the Cortex A5xx core?

    The Mediatek Dimensity 9300, the succesor to the Dimensity 9200 will apparently released soon in the coming months. Till then, we have has several leaks about this chip and they paint an interesting picture. The CPU of the Dimensity will apparently have a configuration of 4 Cortex X4s + 4...
  3. C

    Discussion Cinebench 2024 Released

    https://www.maxon.net/en/cinebench System Requirements Operating Systems Windows 10 Version 20H2 or higher or Windows 11 for x86/64 hardware Windows 11 for arm64 hardware Apple macOS 12.6+ (Monterey) or 13.3+ (Ventura) for Redshift GPU support macOS 11.7.7+ (Big Sur), if you want to run CPU...
  4. B

    Question PC powering on for 1 second then turning off and repeating

    I have just finally put my PC together for the first time and am having an issue I can't seem to find a solution for. I am trying to test operability without my gpu installed, while having every other component installed and connected, when I power on my psu, the lights and fans inside the PC...
  5. Psycho381

    Question Higher RAM frequency than the CPU supports

    My CPU supports ram speed up to 2666mhz, is there a point in upgrading to 3200mhz, are there any benefits going above 2666 ( mostly regarding FPS, but other stuff to) Full pc spec: RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 2133mhz cl15 (2x16gb) Cpu: i7 8700k cpu info Gpu: MSI 1070ti data sheet, next week...
  6. Psycho381

    Solved! Will i7 8700k bottleneck amd 6750xt?

    I have i7 8700k cpu and I am soon upgrading to RX 6750 XT, Will there be any bottleneck? If so will there be noticeable difference in perfomance/fps. Don'f feel like spending on a new cpu for few fps loss.
  7. gon4aloxd

    Question Cpu being overused and gpu not even being nearly used.

    Hi there! Since I have purchased my pc in 2017 I have finaly factory reseted windows for the first time yesterday but all it did was bring me problems. Whenever I try to play games my cpu usage is 100% and gpu almost nothing and that shouldnt happend at least it didnt before. Now im playing...
  8. Kpolla

    Question CPU idling at 60C

    Hello! I’ve had my pc for about 2 years (end of 2020 and for some reason my cpu seems to be idling at rather hot temps. It fluctuates between 60c and about 64c very rarely dropping to below 60c. I’ve tried dusting the case and fans and even replacing the cpu fan (with an aftermarket fan) and...
  9. R

    Question I would like to hear your opinions on my PC upgrade.

    hello, I'm planning on upgrading some parts of my pc and I would like some perspectives on it. These are the components that I'm currently running on my system which are also the parts I want to upgrade. CPU: i5-4460 Motherboard: B85M-G RAM: 16GB (DDR3 Dual Channel 1600MHz) There are the...
  10. FlameTail

    Question Why don't CPUs have an odd number of cores ?

    There are 2,4,6,8,10,12,14...32..128 core CPUs. But all these are EVEN numbers. CPUs with odd-number of cores are almost non-existent. WHY ? 1. Making an actual CPU die with an odd number of cores. In this scenario, I know the answer to the question. It's possible to actually make a die with...
  11. FlameTail

    Question Core i9 11900K vs 11980HK : What's up with the naming ?

    The Intel Core i9 11900K is the top end desktop CPU from Intel, and it is obviously more powerful than the 11980HK - the top end laptop CPU from Intel 11th gen. https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-i9-11980hk-vs-intel-core-i9-11900k Intel Core is 11900K vs 11980HK ( Nanoreview )...
  12. FlameTail

    Question How many cores do you think a desktop cpu will have in 2025 ?

    Today 16 cores is the limit for desktop consumer chips. The Ryzwn 8 5950X has 16 cores and the Core i9 12900K has 16 cores ( 7 efficiency, 8 performance). How many cores do you think the top consumer* chips will have in 2025 ? *by consumer chips i mean the Ryzen 3,5,7,9 series and Intel Core...
  13. Benji2400

    Question PC WON'T POST UNLESS CMOS RESET HEEELPPPPP

    Okay so I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right topic/forum (I'm new to this). THIS WILL BE LONG BUT PLEASE READ AND HELP ME. I'M BEGGING!! Specs: Mobo - Asus B550-F Gaming (Non Wifi) CPU - Ryzen 7 3700x GPU - Asus ROG STRIX RTX 3060 RAM - Trident Z Neo 3600mhz cl-18 (2x16gb) SSD- 1 tb...
  14. BorisTheBlade82

    Discussion PES | Assessing Power and Performance Efficiency of x86 CPU architectures

    Dear Community, so this is my first thread here as a long-time lurker - but I felt the desire to share a small hobby-project of mine from the last couple of months with you... Performance Efficiency Suite - What is it about? Most Reviewers solely focus on what they consider to be the most...
  15. C

    Solved! CPU Overheat + Corsair H100i v1: ("CPU Fan Error" + "CPU Over Temperature Error”)

    I have a 6-year-old, self-built, AIO water cooled PC (specs below) that for various reasons has only been in regular use for the past 3 years. For those last 3 years, there has been no change in configuration and things have been running smoothly (successful stress test done a year ago). Two...
  16. Papy

    Question Should I change my CPU or just build a new computer?

    Hello, I am not a pro in computers and mine is pretty old now (9 year old but I changed some parts like RAM and GPU). To run battlefield 2048, I need to change my CPU but I am wondering if I shouldn't just build a new computer instead. Here are my hardwares: - CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz...
  17. H

    Question x570 boards for zen 1

    Currently i'm OC'ing my Ryzen 7 1700 and im really limited by my motherboard, i've seen some x570 boards taht run with zen 1, is there a way to find out wether the board supports zen 1? because the support is basically unofficial and only possible becuase the motherboards had some memory left...
  18. E

    Info MCST Elbrus cpu's benchmarks & e2k assembly code

    Hi! I did some benchmarks of Elbrus (E2K) cpu's. Here is compare result (Dhrystone, Whetstone, Linpack 100, Coremark, Scimark 2, MP MFlops):
  19. Maheshpm

    Question Caveats of using Ryzen 4750G with MSI B550 UNIFY / Gigabyte B550 Arous Master

    Hello, MSI B550 UNIFY Board has total four M2 slots. 1st is directly coupled with CPU, 2nd and 3rd M2 slots actually share PCI-E 4.0 x 16 bandwidth. If I put SSD in any of these M2 slots, PCI-E slot brought down to x8 mode. This is fine as long as there is 3000/5000 series CPU with graphics...
  20. S

    Solved! Problem after assembling my PC parts

    Hello everyone, I have an Asus Desktop G11CD-K PC (the K is for Kabylake version) wich i disassembled to clean all its parts (including Graphic card fan, its Processor, CPU fan and replacing its thermal paste, and also its front components). After cleaning, I assembled it correctly, but to be...
  21. noeljm92

    Question Complete overhaul or selective upgrade?

    Hey there, good people! My current PC specs are: CPU: Intel i7 6700k @ 4.00 GHz (no overclock) Graphics: Zotac GTX 970 (no overclock) RAM: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 ( 2 x 8GB, dual channel, XMP 2400 MHz) Motherboard: Asus E3 Pro Gaming V5 PSU: Corsair CS 750M Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX...
  22. M

    Question Overclocking - Lga 775 P5QL Se + Celeron E3300 @ 3 GHz

    Hi people, my name is Marcos, I am here to try to help and if needed to ask some things for you, I am proud to be part of the forum :). I acquired a newer-old PC config. (Asus P5QL Se + Intel Celeron E3300 + 2x Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Performance 2 GB DDR2-800 1.9v). I decided to buy it since I...
  23. P

    Question CPU Upgrade Issues

    Hi All I upgraded my laptop HP CPU from Intel Pentium P6100 to Intel Core i5 460M. Laptop model - HP G62 Though I was able to boot the Laptop without any issues, the clock is showing incorrect time. I manually reset / sync ed with internet time server, which fixed the issue for the moment...
  24. H

    Question if nowadays gpu and nvme directly talk to CPU then how come chipset doesn't support pcie 4?

    I am trying to learn about computer hardware, I learnt that modern cpu skips chipset and directly communicates to gpu and ssd. But then again there are few motherboard which supports ryzen 3rd gen cpus but do not have pcie 4. While this is not in the case of b550. So my question is if gpu and...
  25. N

    Laptop CPU fan always working at high speed(25000 rpm) at startup

    I have ASUS N56JN laptop dual boot system(Ubuntu 18.04 and windows 10) When I turn on the laptop, the fan always works in highspeed while CPU usage is 8% and never stops! even when I shut down it and again turn it on nothing change. both in Windows or Ubuntu, it happens. With restarting the...
  26. skyrecon

    Question Mouse cursor lag or jump while CPU speed down

    Hi everyone. - First, I'm sorry for my English grammar. Most of you may be not understanding what my point is. - My system is i7 9700KF, Asrock Z390 Taichi, G.skill Trident Z RGB ddr4 3200Mhz (2x8GB), Galax RTX2070S. I have a weird problem. When I set program Asrock A-tuning to "Standard...
  27. K

    Question Bottleneck?

    Hello, I'm currently using i5 6600(non k) with RX 480 and after 2 years I'm thinking about upgrading my gpu. Had a lot to choose from and I'm thinking about the GTX 1080. Other choice was GTX 1070, but here in my country the price difference between these used GPU's is pretty small, only about...
  28. M

    Question AMD's Zen5 Server CPU Codename

    Ian's Interview with AMD revealed that the sucessor to Genoa will also have an italian codename: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14568/an-interview-with-amds-forrest-norrod-naples-rome-milan-genoa Looking at the top 12 of Italian cities: Rome, Milan, Naples and Genoa are already used. Palermo...
  29. C

    Question asus P8H61-M LX3 PLUS R2.0

    currently im using i3-3220 on this board asus P8H61-M LX3 PLUS R2.0, and I will buy i5-3470s in a few days, is the i5-3470s compatible with asus P8H61-M LX3 PLUS R2.0? The motherboard supports i5-3470T https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P8H61M_LX3_PLUS_R20/HelpDesk_CPU/
  30. Q

    Question Laptop CPU Package Power under full load - Can someone enlighten me?

    I've been looking for an explanation all over the internet. So basically there are two laptops with the same CPU (i7-8750h). In a Cinebench run, both score pretty much the same. Both sustain 3.9 Ghz throughout the benchmark. WHY one shows in HWinfo CPU Package Power: 70W and the other 45W? I...
  31. U

    help me bulid a budget computer

    hi i'm looking to bulid a computer that can have like 60+ FPS or something for fifa 19 and 200- ish FPS for CS:GO my budget is 300 euros my budget is 300 euros (341.09100 USD) and i live in bulgaria thanks in advance also im very new to the pc bulding stuff so i would be very glad if you guys...
  32. P

    (SOLVED!) Wrong CPU CORE count in any software (sometimes).

    Hello people, I have just built my first build with the specs shown below: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 8 core/16 Threads RAM: 2x8 Corsair 2666MHz Ram Motherboard: Asrock X370 Pro4 GPU: Asus Astrix GTX 1050 Ti Power Suply: Thermaltake Smart RGB 600W OS: Windows 10 The PC is standing on a desk...
  33. J

    Question Is it possible that my CPU is giving a false temperature reading?

    Replaced a CPU fan on an HP Pavilion g7-2325dx and the whole install went smoothly, I even cleaned off the CPU and the heatsink with an alcohol pad and applied some new Arctic Silver MX-4 thermal paste. Everything is running just fine and showing no signs of system issues other than it being an...
  34. P

    Question When overclocking I'm having to set voltage high but temps are still low...

    So I'm new to overclocking and just playing around with a few basic settings at the moment (basically multiplier and Vcore). So my issue is, lets say I set my Vcore at 1.35v and my clock at 5ghz then run either Prime95 or Aida64 my temps stay below 70c but I BSOD. Then I up the Vcore to 1.375...
  35. O

    Question FX 4100 upgrade possibilities

    I'm looking to upgrade my cpu to a newer model, but I know very little about hardware. My current set-up is: ASUS M5A97 motherboard AMD FX 4100 quad-core (the part I'm wanting to actually replace) Nvidia GeForce 750 ti GPU 8 gb ram 500 gb HDD I know it's a fairly old rig for the most part, but...
  36. P

    Question An Unusual Troubleshooting - Intel i5 4460

    This might be a little long, but it's technically interesting and challenging for those interested. So I had been using the intel i5 4460 with a Asrock Z87M Pro4 motherboard for a little over 3 years, when out of the blue the display output went blank. On troubleshooting I got it down to a dead...
  37. Z

    Question Dead Motherboard?

    I recently changed out my AM4 motherboard for a b350 board (Asrock B350 pro 4) as my old one (MSI AB350m gaming pro) doaed, i then put my cpu (R5 1500x) into it, didn't work, so i RMAed it and it was found to be faulty, i bought a new CPU (R5 1600x) and the fans spun up bread boarded, i turned...
  38. IseNoseee

    Question GTX 1060 6GB Mini & i5-5250u over Thunderbolt 2

    I'm planning on buying an egpu with thunderbolt 2 and hook it up on my iMac. So, will an i5-5250u bottleneck a Zotac GTX 1060 6gb Mini over Thunderbolt 2? If so will at least play games such as Overwatch, League of legends, Vampyr and Fortnite at 60 fps medium settings or lower? Also I'm using...
  39. K

    How to unlock multiplier and Turbo on QDE4 and B85?

    I read this topic https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/what-controls-turbo-core-in-xeons.2496647/page-98 And people on Xeons can mod their bioses to change multipliers to maximum on 4 cores. My problem is that i have QDE4 engineering sample and it is 4770K. But my motherboard Gigabyte B85 D3H...
  40. Vattila

    Speculation: i9-9900K is Intel's last hurrah in gaming

    Independent test results for Intel's 8-core i9-9900K are just around the corner, and the general consensus and expectations are that it will put Intel further in the lead with the "world's best gaming processor". However, like most technology analysts and avid followers of x86 CPU architecture...