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- Oct 19, 2022
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Processor | Ryzen 5 5600 |
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Motherboard | MSI B350M Mortar |
Memory | 2x8 Gb DDR4 HyperX Black 2133 @ 3200 CL16 + 2x8Gb Corsair DDR4 Vengeance @ 3200 CL16 |
Video Card(s) | Asus Dual Radeon RX 6700 XT |
Storage | 1x Crucial P2 512Gb, 1x WD "old" Blue 1Tb 7.2k, 1x Seagate ST2000 2Tb 7.2k |
Display(s) | AOC 24G2 144Hz |
Case | Fractal Pop Air |
Mouse | Kone Aimo modded with JPN switches |
Keyboard | Logitech G 413 or Steelseries 6Gv2 depending on the mood |
I've only had mine for a couple of days, but I can assure there's nothing NetBurst about this! It's really the real deal, having your cake and eating it too. That still comes at the cost of power consumption, sadly, but it's got every checkbox ticked otherwise.
Pentium 4 was hot and slow, this one isn't even hot unless you really push it to the limit on conventional cooling, but then again I can argue, isn't that on the user? Special binned processor with conventional cooling, I guess? I purchased it for the binning and flexibility, myself
Perhaps my call is a bit too early... But I personally feel (it's only an impression based on the current numbers, and I can always be corrected, of course ;-)) that it is the swan's song of this architecture. I mean, those consumption numbers are far too high. I remember the P4C being very good (as were previous Skylake iterations) but the P4EE was the step "too far" in my opinion: still competitive, but abusing the power cord... the final nail on the coffin being the release of the Athlon 64X2 line while Intel was still struggling with the Pentium D/EE.
But once again, it is only my view on the matter ;-)