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silverbolt2000 t1_j43rok8 wrote

Reply to comment by Danjour in Intel’s new desktop processor reaches 6GHz without overclocking by disfigured_mishap

Because the graphics card is usually the main bottleneck for the overwhelming majority of consumer related performance issues, not the CPU.

And the new CPU requires 150W of power! All they’ve done is made the existing Intel hardware more tolerant to overclocking. The architecture appears to be unchanged.

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