Not sure about amps, but turning your PC on and off all the time is more harmful than just keeping it on all the time.
Not sure about amps, but turning your PC on and off all the time is more harmful than just keeping it on all the time.
None of the listed games would benefit from an i9 (or even an i7 for that matter).
Game ran like ass when I tried it and the overall graphics are decent at best tho.
I tried Process Lasso with core parking disabled and “efficiency mode off” which leads to games actually using all the available P cores and E cores (many games still won’t use E cores). Feels better in some games, but APO only seems to enable one E core per cluster, so maybe that is even better.
I know for a fact that games can still use E cores if you force efficiency mode off with Process Lasso. If you want to be absolutely sure that a game does not use E cores, you must use CPU sets or affinity.
Yes, but that’s not what I said. Some games will use E cores when I disable core parking and force efficiency mode off. So “efficiency mode” isn’t just a switch that controls whether E cores are being used, it’s more like a “prefer P cores” or “prefer E cores” setting, but a process can still use both when it seems necessary. It definitely behaves differently than stock settings or E cores off.
I tried it in Metro Exodus yesterday and the game used the E cores. I tried a different game (Dead by Daylight) which didn’t use the E cores at all with the same settings.
If I use Process Lasso with “Performance Mode” (no core parking) and I force efficiency mode off for all games, some games will actually start using E cores and I get less stuttering. Can someone compare this to APO?
Good. I don’t think it’s a big deal that they took their time tho, there are hardly any games that support this feature yet.
The 14900K may be a bad example for innovation, but it is generally not a good idea to buy something for the sake of having “the best” because something even better always waits around the corner.
Bad luck, this is why I don’t really like buying hardware for “OC potential” anymore. I’m generally not lucky when it comes to this stuff.
The Arctic is one of the better ones, but I can stilll hear the pump noise. Maybe the EK Nucleus, although I haven’t tried that one yet.
Your motherboard seems to support Asus EZ Flash, so you can update the BIOS without any CPU. All you need is a USB stick with the latest BIOS version.
Yeah, keeping your PC on all the time causes less wear on the components. If you shut down your PC once a day, this will not cause any problems tho. It doesn’t really matter for a regular user.