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Who else is looking forward to Alder Lake?

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2021/09/12 05:27:34 (permalink)
I am definitely doing so!  My setup is teeter tottering on the edge of almost being considered "vintage" .  My overclocked 3770k has done well for a long time, but it finally started bottlenecking with some games on a 2070 and certainly on some games with the 3080.  Heck, I don't even have an m.2 card slot!  But at least windows is on an ssd, and my games are on an M.2 sitting on a PCIe slot.

Here's to hoping EVGA's Alder Lake motherboards don't cost the same as a small down payment to a car. 

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    crazyjohnny
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    Re: Who else is looking forward to Alder Lake? 2021/09/13 00:02:53 (permalink)
    I am a person who is interested in this architecture as I am also in need of a new build, which I had in mind for next year.
     
    The DDR5 is what hypes me the most. However it's best to observe how alder lake performs and how stable it is. Sometimes its risky to be an early adopter.
     
    As to the bottleneck you are experiencing, maybe that occurs only on 1080 resolution, I am somewhat skeptic that that a 3770K would be a bottleneck at 2k res or higher.
     
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    Re: Who else is looking forward to Alder Lake? 2021/09/13 05:13:40 (permalink)
    I play at almost 1440, and I can see the fun stuff happening with fpsmon. A game like like Cyberpunk heavy on everything like RTX and things happening in the background will be over 90% usage in both GPU and CPU. Control has over 90% GPU but under 50% CPU. But then I have games like Death Stranding and some others that are over 90% CPU with under 50% GPU. The 3770k can still hold up well with some games but not others. So it doesn’t always bottleneck, but the fact that it sometimes does means its pretty much reached it’s end of life for me.

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    Re: Who else is looking forward to Alder Lake? 2021/09/19 12:37:42 (permalink)
    I'm also on a relic 3770k and have plans to do the same.  Curious what gains will be made (and are being claimed) with Alder lake in conjunction with Win 11.  Anticipation is great, but going to give it some time and let the guinea pigs test everything out before I pull the trigger. 

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    Re: Who else is looking forward to Alder Lake? 2021/09/27 07:50:35 (permalink)
    I'm waiting to see how DDR5 looks the year after Alder lake. I'm just happy we got Gen 4 SSD support with Comet lake
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