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Isn't their primary concern latency? I doubt a few GHz boost would do anything for them.
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I've never tripped an outlet on less than 2500 watts, and that was an old electrical network... Did I get lucky or do standards vary in different countries?
Most circuits trip on current, because I^2R heating is what causes fires in house wiring, 15A is relatively common, to get power you multiply by voltage which varies by country, in US that gives you 1800W and UK it’s 3600W. There are a ton of circuits which aren’t 15A though. If you live in UK, you might note that electric tea kettles work fine, but in the US they do not (they’re too slow). That’s the biggest practic…
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Buying it at inflated prices from Intel effectively rewards them for their inability to produce more. That seems like the wrong incentive to set.
you have no idea how chip manufacturing works, do you? :) its a gamble for them to get such chips
Hardly, since the "rejects" will just be sold as the regular model(s).
In the old "lottery" system the rejects would end up on the secondary market, making Intel's final revenue effectively the same as if extreme overclocking wasn't a thing.
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Isn't their primary concern latency? I doubt a few GHz boost would do anything for them.
Depends on how low the latency already is. If you're already <0.5ms away network wise then perhaps shearing off 0.1ms from a 1ms operation could make a significant difference.
What this says to me is don't bother trying to super overclock a i9-9940X, Intel has already skimmed off the cream from that chip run. It seems kind of scummy, but I guess otherwise your rare stable overclock chip might end up in some boring business server where it will always run at stock clocks. I do note that Intel still wants nothing to do with overclocked chips in their warranty department, even when they did t…
Specialist retailers and integrators have been super-binning chips for years. Intel are just taking a piece of that pie.
Maybe they could even just make it explicit for all their products: market them by die type, configuration, and peak stable base clock.
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I've never tripped an outlet on less than 2500 watts, and that was an old electrical network... Did I get lucky or do standards vary in different countries?
Most circuits trip on current, because I^2R heating is what causes fires in house wiring, 15A is relatively common, to get power you multiply by voltage which varies by country, in US that gives you 1800W and UK it’s 3600W. There are a ton of circuits which aren’t 15A though. If you live in UK, you might note that electric tea kettles work fine, but in the US they do not (they’re too slow). That’s the biggest practic…
Note: because of the US “split phase” system, the neutral wire won’t be neutral anymore but rather 120v above ground. The kettle bases I’ve used are well designed, but do be careful.
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550+ watts is insane. That is spaceheater territory. Residential outlets start tripping at 1500-2000 watts. How soon we will have to run even basic gaming machines off multiple outlets.
There are gaming “laptops” available now that come with 2 power adaptors, as a single 330W is not enough to power the system under full load For now, they can be on the same circuit
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Where are these chips going to actually end up? Gamers with more money than sense?
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