Threadripper will get hardcore competition again so that's fun to watch. If it was solely for my own ranking my wallet would be crying but I don't mind it it means we get to see more hardcore subs on the big bois
This is true but same could be said of z77. It's just about making you use certain boards certain chipsets. If you have to use a board you might not normally then perhaps things go differently from normal
No igp on P67 is a big difference, by same way you could say how different is z77. Seems chipset was picked not socket so run maximus iv extreme or similar
Any word on ddr5 igp dropping to 3 scores and banning mobile? I know at least one team that plans to put the bench on a flash drive and bench on best buy display pcs cause zen3+ laptops are so op they don't need to be Oc'd to demolish Alder lake desktop. I'd prefer if we didn't have any stages that weren't about overclocking.
Be a good idea to ban threadripper for the amd superpi 32m stage so we don't give an advantage to people who can afford chagal but that's a less big deal.
Also I think you mentioned in a comment in this thread that the intent for pyprime ddr5 was that they would need to be different core counts but don't see it on rules page yet.
Can we drop ddr5 igp down to 3 scores and ban mobile? Cause it's just gonna be xe graphics 96eu shit otherwise. With 3 scores it becomes HD 770, 730, 710. So optimal chips become 12900k, 12400, g7400 instead of hunting locked laptops down