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in a recent video you guys called me out pretty hard it was the one here about

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the performance of CPUs with varying numbers of processing cores when gaming

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at the same time as performing other

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intensive tasks in the background and many viewers were displeased with the

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methodology that I used to obtain my numbers now of course I didn't dive

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headlong into hours of testing without some kind of hairbrain theory about how

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it would work so I was pretty sure my numbers were fine but one should never

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be afraid to question one's own assumptions and whatever the result is

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whether I was right or the critics were right I'm here to share them with you

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just like soon I'll be sharing my thoughts on the upgradeability of the

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iMac 27in retina 5K allinone PC that I've been using as my daily driver but

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first the

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intro ensure Swift Victory with Corsair

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highly responsive lightweight gaming mouse the saber RGB click now to learn

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more so I guess I should explain what people were so upset about before I get

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too much further into this because the idea behind that video was to find an

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extreme workload scenario first then see

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how it affected a variety of processor configurations a fair amount of time was

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actually spent developing The Benchmark scenario that I'd be using in order to

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ensure that it put enough load on my

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configuration to let the more powerful CPUs stretch their legs while not

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putting so much load on my configuration that absolutely everything choked to the

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point where it didn't function so I decided that instead of removing the

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cooler swapping out the chip reapplying thermal compound then putting a new

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motherboard on the test bench each and every time I needed to see how my stress

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test was going to affect another CPU class I was going to Simply use the BIOS

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of the motherboard that I was using to take my best processor an i7 5960x

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extreme Edition and limit it artificially to the specs of the other

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contenders in the test now hold on a minute lonus can you do that in the vast

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majority of cases no no you can't I had

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a lot of people ask why I didn't include AMD processors in that test and this is

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actually the answer since the point of the video was more cores versus fewer

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cores not Red Team Versus blue team anyway there was no real point and it

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would be a lot more work because I'd have to swap benches and deal with

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drivers in between runs every time all

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right lonus so then in what situation would this artificial CPU faking

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theoretically work if every CPU you're

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simulating was designed with the same processor architecture so in this case

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everything was Haswell based and has the same non-adjustable specs so cash memory

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Technology support motherboard socket Etc and differs only in terms of the

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parameters that we can change frequency multiplier hyperthreading support turbo

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boost ratios Etc then they should

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perform identically now I did Fudge things a little bit further than that

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and simulated CPUs with completely different RAM support DDR3 versus ddr4

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and different cash amounts but none of my workloads were hyper cash dependent

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to my knowledge and I had already found DDR3 versus ddr4 performance to be

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pretty much a non-factor outside of synthetic benchmarks in the Apples to

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Apples comparison I had done previously which you can see here so I went for it

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and here we are after all that Preamble ready to test whether my methodology was

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okay or not cue the charts and graphs I

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ran a variety of benchmarks on both a core i7

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5960x that had memory channels cores hyperthreading and turbo boost adjusted

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to simulate a core i5 4670k and a Pentium

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g3258 and then I ran the same benchmarks on the actual chips themselves with the

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only differences in theory being DDR 31866 RAM versus ddr4 2400 RAM and the

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Oni cash sizes and honestly I was both

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pleased with my theory because it's been

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somewhat validated now cuz the results really are very close for the 46 70k and

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also a little disappointed because I can see that as cash sizes really fall off a

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cliff this Theory cannot be applied our

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simulated g3258 outperformed our real

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one by a fairly significant margin in some benchmarks so there you have it I

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still stand behind the way I ran those tests because the time savings was

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definitely worth the margin of error that was introduced by doing it that way

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especially considering that the point of the video wasn't the exact models of the

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CPUs but rather their number of cores and approximate multitasking proficiency

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but I see that if I was looking for a way to save time on our normal CPU

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performance reviews this obviously isn't it and we'll have to continue doing

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board and Chip swaps moving forward especially if we want to measure things

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that would be different no matter how close you get the specs due to Intel's

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binning process like heat output and power consumption oh and speaking

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