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Check this out.. could be a super fun angle on overclocking and then cheap VM server later
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If it were available over a year ago, then maybe I would get it.
I'm somehow surprised they run on every motherboard. It's like Intel has one microcode for desktop and mobile chips. Somehow I doubt the same would work with AMD and I would much faster get an AMD CPU (well, I have one, so I don't need).
Looking at the current prices, it's not as cheap as it seems. With a reasonable motherboard, it's still more than $500 (and depending on the country, shipping from China means +tax/duty costs). For about the same, you can get Minisforum AR900I with the 13900HX (14900HX are also available). Well, it's not overclocking, but barely anyone needs overclocking nowadays. It's just a comparison.
I still prefer the Ryzen 7950HX because it has all 16 cores at 5.4GHz, not 8 P cores + 12/16 E-cores like Intel. These mobile chips actually keep max clocks on all cores, not only 2-4 cores like in desktop models.
I'm somehow surprised they run on every motherboard. It's like Intel has one microcode for desktop and mobile chips. Somehow I doubt the same would work with AMD and I would much faster get an AMD CPU (well, I have one, so I don't need).
Looking at the current prices, it's not as cheap as it seems. With a reasonable motherboard, it's still more than $500 (and depending on the country, shipping from China means +tax/duty costs). For about the same, you can get Minisforum AR900I with the 13900HX (14900HX are also available). Well, it's not overclocking, but barely anyone needs overclocking nowadays. It's just a comparison.
I still prefer the Ryzen 7950HX because it has all 16 cores at 5.4GHz, not 8 P cores + 12/16 E-cores like Intel. These mobile chips actually keep max clocks on all cores, not only 2-4 cores like in desktop models.
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Used Ryzen 3000,4000,5000 on an AM4 w/ DDR4 and cheap motherboard will cost far less, be lower power, and offer as many big fat full threads without shitty e-core performance. Its a neat idea and would be awesome if there were gobs of spare CPUs on the market but intel has had so many manufacturing issues over the last several years you just dont see a glut of CPUs.
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A lot of that video seems way off. A 13900HX is 5.5ghz not 5.0ghz.
Cpu-z also displays this as an engineering sample, which an 13900HX at 5.0ghz might very well be. But CPU-Z doesn't have issues reading Raptor Lake cpus.
Then there's the pin count. BGA 1964 is the pin count. 1964 pins reduced by an adapter to work in LGA 1700 is very not likely.
Interestingly enough, a 13900H is BGA 1744 pin. Which also would be difficult to "adapt" to LGA 1700.
and opinion is that 225$ for an unknown cpu (ES) isn't cheap. Cause you have no clue what you really have. At these 5.0ghz supposed clocks, it's more likely Alder-Lake cores. In fact, as he mentioned, disable E-Cores AVX 512 becomes available strictly means Alder-Lake cores. Because no 13th or 14th gen chips have it. And even then only early batches of Alder Lake had AVX 512.
Can't say this isn't interesting, but not something I'd spend my time and money on.
Cpu-z also displays this as an engineering sample, which an 13900HX at 5.0ghz might very well be. But CPU-Z doesn't have issues reading Raptor Lake cpus.
Then there's the pin count. BGA 1964 is the pin count. 1964 pins reduced by an adapter to work in LGA 1700 is very not likely.
Interestingly enough, a 13900H is BGA 1744 pin. Which also would be difficult to "adapt" to LGA 1700.
and opinion is that 225$ for an unknown cpu (ES) isn't cheap. Cause you have no clue what you really have. At these 5.0ghz supposed clocks, it's more likely Alder-Lake cores. In fact, as he mentioned, disable E-Cores AVX 512 becomes available strictly means Alder-Lake cores. Because no 13th or 14th gen chips have it. And even then only early batches of Alder Lake had AVX 512.
Can't say this isn't interesting, but not something I'd spend my time and money on.
