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Review: Core i5 7640X
In this review we'll show you the performance the 242 USD quad core Core i5 7640X from Intel offers. This 242 USD Kaby Lake-X processor is the the most affordable one for the X299 platform. But without hyper-threading / SMT how will it perform?
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#5451842 Posted on: 07/12/2017 02:06 PM
I agree that the recommended badge is a bit strange, because for the total 517€ (looking at prices on the French store topachat.com) for a Core i5 7640X + mobo, you can get instead a Ryzen 1600X + Asus PRIME A320M-K for only 340€, and the 1600X is better or much better than the i5 in all non-synthetic non-game benchmarks, and only slightly worse or equal in all games benchmarks!
The difference in motherboard prices is amazing: 70€ for the A320 chipset (AMD), 244€ for X299 (Intel)! (I took the cheapest mobo available in both cases.) I don’t know what the difference is between A320, B350 and X370 chipsets, but even taking a Gigabyte AORUS AX370-Gaming K3 at 155€ only brings the price up to 425€, still much cheaper than the Intel offering.
One thing the i5 has going for it is power consumption: the 1600X is using about 40W more at full load, and 8W more at idle based on guru3d reviews. (Counting 14 hours of idle and 2 hours at full load per day, that would amount to 8 additional euros of electricity bill per year where I live.)
That said, thank you for insisting in the article on the fact that Intel likes to milk their customers by changing their sockets/chipsets often. I’m happy with my current i5, but my next CPU will most likely be AMD!
I agree that the recommended badge is a bit strange, because for the total 517€ (looking at prices on the French store topachat.com) for a Core i5 7640X + mobo, you can get instead a Ryzen 1600X + Asus PRIME A320M-K for only 340€, and the 1600X is better or much better than the i5 in all non-synthetic non-game benchmarks, and only slightly worse or equal in all games benchmarks!
The difference in motherboard prices is amazing: 70€ for the A320 chipset (AMD), 244€ for X299 (Intel)! (I took the cheapest mobo available in both cases.) I don’t know what the difference is between A320, B350 and X370 chipsets, but even taking a Gigabyte AORUS AX370-Gaming K3 at 155€ only brings the price up to 425€, still much cheaper than the Intel offering.
One thing the i5 has going for it is power consumption: the 1600X is using about 40W more at full load, and 8W more at idle based on guru3d reviews. (Counting 14 hours of idle and 2 hours at full load per day, that would amount to 8 additional euros of electricity bill per year where I live.)
That said, thank you for insisting in the article on the fact that Intel likes to milk their customers by changing their sockets/chipsets often. I’m happy with my current i5, but my next CPU will most likely be AMD!
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#5451849 Posted on: 07/12/2017 02:22 PM
AMD may indeed provide the regular user with far more value for the money (often twice or more), but when was the last time they made anything reliable?
AMD may indeed provide the regular user with far more value for the money (often twice or more), but when was the last time they made anything reliable?
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#5451850 Posted on: 07/12/2017 02:33 PM
When was the last time Intel made anything reliable? When was the last time anything in the whole computer world was entirely reliable? Such a time never existed in the first place. If you want something reliable, go to a decent hardware store and buy a quality hammer and axe, for real HEDT, get a solid anvil as well! They are simple enough to be reliable, with thousands of years of history. Although even they will deform and wear out after years and decades of use.
AMD may indeed provide the regular user with far more value for the money (often twice or more), but when was the last time they made anything reliable?
When was the last time Intel made anything reliable? When was the last time anything in the whole computer world was entirely reliable? Such a time never existed in the first place. If you want something reliable, go to a decent hardware store and buy a quality hammer and axe, for real HEDT, get a solid anvil as well! They are simple enough to be reliable, with thousands of years of history. Although even they will deform and wear out after years and decades of use.
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#5451851 Posted on: 07/12/2017 02:37 PM
Consumer computers and electronics are often unreliable and cheaply made.
Datacenters and the computers in them, supercomputers and mainframes that do mission critical work have to operate without failure for years at a time. Reliable computers exist.
When was the last time Intel made anything reliable? When was the last time anything in the whole computer world was entirely reliable? Such a time never existed in the first place. If you want something reliable, go to a decent hardware store and buy a quality hammer and axe, for real HEDT, get a solid anvil as well! They are simple enough to be reliable, with thousands of years of history. Although even they will deform and wear out after years and decades of use.
Consumer computers and electronics are often unreliable and cheaply made.
Datacenters and the computers in them, supercomputers and mainframes that do mission critical work have to operate without failure for years at a time. Reliable computers exist.
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This and the 7740X must be the most pointless cpus i have ever seen in my life!!! No point in buying this kind of cpus in such an expensive platform.