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so we reviewed the core i7 5960x here an

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eight core hyper-threaded ddr4 fueled

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monster of a computer processor that seems to be positioned as the elite tier

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CPU in gaming systems among boutique system builders and yet

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doesn't appear at first glance at least to offer a compelling improvement over a

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more mainstream and much less expensive

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ddr3 equipped quad core processor like

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the core i7 4790k perhaps there is more to this than meets

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the eye though like how i've been using an iphone 6 for a couple weeks i mean

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actually that one's pretty easy i have a review coming subscribe so you don't miss it anyway back to CPU performance

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for now though

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Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision cherry mx RGB key switches for

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16.8 million color per key backlighting for virtually unlimited customization

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click now to learn more so here's the problem with the way that benchmarks are

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typically run in a CPU review in order to isolate as many variables as possible

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and keep the results as reproducible as possible this is the correct way to do

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things scientifically speaking by the way background processes on the system are

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kept in check so only the applications being benchmarked at a given time are

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run and fresh system images are loaded very regularly to ensure random extra

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junk isn't interfering with getting the best results possible however in the

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real world a more cluttered environment the kind where you've got you know a

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thousand sometimes poorly coded random apps in the system tray like bloated

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gaming peripheral software anti-virus game streaming voip clients printer auto

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updaters etc is oftentimes more realistic

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and beyond that power users and prosumers may be interested to know how

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their system will perform in games when they intentionally have a demanding

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application running in the background so the test i set up is based on a worst

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case scenario for a prosumer like a game

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streamer someone who's heavily into gaming and uses their gaming rig for

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some content creation as well so here's my hypothetical scenario our pro

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streamer just finished editing together a highlight reel in sony vegas pro 12

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and is rendering the file then he or she wants to fire up a game we'll use far

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cry 3 at 1080p ultra details with 8x msaa wants to stream aforementioned game

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on twitch using the fast preset with an hd webcam feed in the corner using

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xsplit wants to use screen capture to have a buddy skype in to join the stream

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and then while all that's happening an antivirus scan starts running in the

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background so for the test i used an ASUS rampage 5

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extreme motherboard with a core i7 5960x then i used the handy dandy

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multiplier adjustments that all k and x series chips have along with ASUS's

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manual turbo boost controls and hyper threading toggle to simulate the

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performance of all the other cpus in the

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test so i'm using this the same platform same os

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everything so there are two different ways to

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evaluate the performance of our system here first up we can look strictly at

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average FPS in our game over a two minute span at the beginning of my

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benchmark the overclocked eight core runs away with this but not everyone

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overclocks and at stock speed our quad core 4790k with hyper threading does

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just as well as our stock

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5960x which costs about three times as much presumably thanks to its high turbo

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clock speed of 4.2 to 4.4 gigahertz

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adding minimum frame rates to the mix gives us a little bit more insight

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though now we can see that our six core

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seems to be struggling a bit thanks to its lower core count or lower clock

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speed compared to the other competitors depending on which one we're looking at

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it against and even though on average our quad cores hold up against our eight

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core the dips in frame rate are 20 lower

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which would normally be okay but what the numbers don't even tell us here is

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how noticeable the hitching and stuttering is in each of those configs

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the a-core configs on the other hand both ran the game with smoother

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animations and the six core stuttered occasionally but better than the quad

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cores the quad core with hyper threading was noticeable but usable and the quad

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core without hyper threading was basically unplayable and you can see a

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full explanation for why these FPS numbers might look okay even though the

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animations are terrible in the video linked here

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but there's another completely different angle that we can use to examine this

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torture test scenario to give us a clearer idea of how the chips are

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holding up to the load how well was the stuff in the background running well

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first let's have a look at dropped frames in the twitch stream only our

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non-hyper-threaded quad-core dropped frames here so we can see that our

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simulated 4690k was really struggling to multitask like

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this in a way that the others weren't

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now finally we can look at render times

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it's a one minute chunk of my Corsair gaming k70 RGB keyboard video that i

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exported at 1080p with CPU encoding while everything else was running and

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this is where we see the men separated from the boys our hyper threaded six

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core stutters less in-game and renders

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the video a full two minutes faster than the hyper-threaded quad core even though

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its average frame rates are not as good then our a-core improves frame rates

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smooths out gameplay completely and knocks another 40 seconds off the render

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time with our overclocked 4.4 gigahertz 8 core delivering smooth gameplay the

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best frame rates out of all the configs and also it manages to render the video

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in a third the time of our similarly clocked quad core with hyper threading

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so in conclusion am i saying any of this is

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the kind of thing a normal user will encounter every day or am i saying that

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this is the only way to achieve butter smooth gaming while working on projects

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in the background absolutely not

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using a device with an onboard h.264 encoder setting up a separate machine

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for capture or utilizing a network render farm are all strategies that

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might actually be more elegant depending on the exact workload now the point of

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this video was just to explore the effects of an overwhelming workload on a

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variety of different configs and have a look at what those lucky dogs with eight

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core extreme editions can throw at their machines before they even really start

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to feel it and the answer i guess is a whole heck of a lot

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guys thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you

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expecting did you think it would be able to handle much more did you think even

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the a core would suffer love to hear from you guys also check

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