Rocketlake Review and Release Thread - Rocketlake false cums and craps on the rug.

Apple using wind and weather patterns for their A series.

A4 to A9 - Swift, Cyclone, Typhoon, Tempest, Twister
A10 to A14/M1 - Hurricane/Zephyr, Monsoon/Mistral, Vortex/Tempest, Thunder/Lightning, Firestorm/Icestorm

Granted, my favourite Intel codenames are with their NUCs. Skull Canyon, Hades Canyon, Ghost Canyon, Phantom Canyon.
 
I switched to AMD's ZEN2 Ryzen processors (I got me a ZEN3 thanks to getting lucky with Best Buy) because Intel made their new processors too increasingly complicated to overclock, not settings wise but the fact that I had to get myself an air cooler to cool down the VRMs when I have a Corsair AIO water-cooler (which still works wonders until the day I switch to full water cooling) that worked wonders already... I was like, no thanks plus I have more faith in AMD's design than Intel's power consuming, heat making and aging CPU design.

Holy fuck Intel, you used to be the greatest but why did you let the monopoly aspect get to your head? They were supposed to beat AMD but here I am, waiting on my Ryzen 5900X to come in the mail.
 
So, we got some reviews coming out.

11600K:

My take: Price will matter a lot. If you're like me and can easily snag a 5600X from a Microcenter for $300 any day of the week? 11600K looks....eh, not so great. It has a much better showing than the 11700k, but still does roughly what the 5600X does while burning through almost twice the power. Also of note that there was no 5600X running on OC in that review.

11900K:

My take: Absolute joke at that price. Cannot convincingly beat a 5800X across the board while consuming unholy levels of power and costing a lot more. Again, I can go to MC and score a 5800X for $430, your mileage may differ. Not to mention forget being in the same realm of the 5900X (if you can get that at msrp, significantly more difficult than the 5800/5600X).
 
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Intel is only coasting on
  • brand recognition ("I dunno, I just see Core stickers on all cool pcs and they air ads on TV")
  • boomer cred ("My boss refuses to pay for AMD CPUs at the workplace, he says they're bad and Intel is the main brand because they've always been, also he still uses Internet Explorer and says other browsers are a virus")
  • casuals who get I'm Feeling Lucky'd towards the lolcows from Userbenchmark dot com.
Speaking of the latter, have you seen the meltdown they had in their review of the new intel waste of sand?

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Intel COPE i9-11900K.
 
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Jesus Christ, is this satire?
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The only justification for the 11900K that I've seen that has some merit is for someone who was already going to to Intel for personal reasons and:

A) Doesn't care about cost
B) Wants the full feature set
C) Just wants to see what it'll do

Anything outside of that is pure coping. Intel gives you less cores, yes, But now AMD has the better cores to boot. The 11900K has trouble beating the 5800X across the board, and the 5900X and 5950X just laugh at it.
 
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.....nearly 300 watts......
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>Skylake++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ designed to operate at 70C goes beyond 70 000
>The pressure inside the CPU can no longer be held back
>In an instant the heatsink is thrown of the die and oxygen rushes in
>it combines with molten pcb and super-heated thermal paste
>the chain of disaster is now complete
On the bright side, if this CPU business-stuff doesn't pan out, Intel can allways fall back on the vibrant space heater industry.
 
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Just Some Other Guy said:
The only justification for the 11900K that I've seen that has some merit is for someone who was already going to to Intel for personal reasons and:

A) Doesn't care about cost
B) Wants the full feature set
C) Just wants to see what it'll do

Anything outside of that is pure coping. Intel gives you less cores, yes, But now AMD has the better cores to boot. The 11900K has trouble beating the 5800X across the board, and the 5900X and 5950X just laugh at it.
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Intel has been so good and dominant with the Core i-series for so long that I've had a "wait for it, wait for it..." moment with this Rickety Lake bullshit. I expected they would unveil SOMETHING and it was just the turbo-nerd high-end that was fucked. Maybe they can put out a good i3 that people can actually buy, with decent integrated graphics, and it won't melt a hole in the motherboard. That's the only thing left and while that's not very exciting everyone is now more or less computer hobos surviving on hand-me-downs and eating shoes, there's nothing on the shelves.
 
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Intel has been so good and dominant with the Core i-series for so long that I've had a "wait for it, wait for it..." moment with this Rickety Lake bullshit. I expected they would unveil SOMETHING and it was just the turbo-nerd high-end that was fucked. Maybe they can put out a good i3 that people can actually buy, with decent integrated graphics, and it won't melt a hole in the motherboard. That's the only thing left and while that's not very exciting everyone is now more or less computer hobos surviving on hand-me-downs and eating shoes, there's nothing on the shelves.
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That's the i5-11400, actually.

... Well, sort of? It beats the 3600X both in price and performance, but we're talking about a 3 year old CPU at this point and the 11400 is being sold dirt cheap in comparison to the rest of Rocket Lake. For the computer hobos basically as you said.
 
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