End of Year PC Build

Wow, that sucks.

The prices for the Ryzen CPUs have been coming down in the US. The 5900X is currently going for only $519 on Newegg.

Even the GPUs are getting cheaper on the second hand market. You can now get an RTX 3070 for about $1000 on eBay.

Kudos for trying this though.
Unfortunately this is often the case.

While I am most intrigued by the Z690 chipset and motherboards with DDR5 and frequencies reportedly up to 6500Mhz, PCIE 5.0 for GPUs and a whole host of other cool features...I am curious to know how that all will translate to real-world Gaming performance and Content Creation.

I am waiting with bated breath to see what the CPUs will look like. We know already from various reports that the 12900K will feature a total of 16 Cores divided into two groups of eight: 8 Cores for Performance and 8 Cores for Efficiency. Additionally the Thread count is not doubled across the die as we are accustomed to seeing, for example 10 Cores and 20 Threads etc. On these new chips the P Cores seem to be hyperthreaded with 16 Threads and the E-Cores are single-threaded with 8 for a told count of 24 Threads. 16 Cores and 24 Threads in total.

I have also heard that the manufacturing process is given a new name, something akin to Intel7 which might make us think they are using a 7nm process (to catch up to AMD) But, I have read that it is simply a refresh of their 10nm process, which has already invited *groans* from various publishers.


And then there is the price point. What will this be? The Motherboards are already projected to be about 750.00 CAD for the higher end models like the HERO or the Aorus Master....But will Intel follow suit with equally high cost?


And what will the real world difference in all of this be in comparison to the 10900K or 11 series? And how will the release of Windows 10 21H3....I mean Windows 11 play out?

All those questions will be answered by tomorrow, November 4th. Just be patient.

Can someone tell me what I see that is so inefficient?

The new king.

Though instead of paring all the P cores and all the E cores on the die separately...

Knowledgeable about electronics in general, but not about CPU design, that's a whole new ballgame. I took a course on CPUs, but that was just the 101 on assembly language.

As it happens, I know someone who designs processors for integrated systems. Not keen on asking him about it though, because it's his favourite subject and he won't shut up about it. Yeah, he's a genius, and geniuses can be socially awkward. I try to be, but RL gets often in the way.

That's about the size of it.
No problem. Sorry I can't be of more use.