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the ryzen 7 7800x3d is the best gaming

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CPU on the planet Bar None it isn't even close

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I should be celebrating then yeah so why do I look so mad because as far as I can

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tell AMD intentionally manipulated the community in the lead-up to this launch

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first they pushed their most rabid fans

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to more expensive and arguably worse

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ryzen 9 x 3D CPUs at launch although

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that's nothing new and all the major players have done this at one time or another but the second one is much more

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nefarious and reminds me of the way that Intel timed the release of their 10th

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gen hddt processors in a way that avoided direct comparisons to AMD's far

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below it's been almost a year since AMD launched their first processor featuring

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3D vcash technology the ryzen 7 5800 X

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3D and to say that it's been a game changer would be both an understatement

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and a delightfully delicious dad joke the details are complex but the result

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is simple 3D vcache allows AMD to stack

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up the caches in their processors vertically increasing their capacity

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without increasing the die area of the finished chip a larger cache means that

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any data the processor needs is more likely to be right at hand rather than

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stored in much slower system memory or heaven forbid persistent storage like an

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SSD there are trade-offs reading between the lines 3D V cache has some downsides

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it appears to be much more sensitive to high voltages which makes overclocking a

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less fruitful not to mention riskier Endeavor and has forced AMD to reduce

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their out-of-the-box clock speeds it also reduces the rate at which heat can

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be dissipated from the course meaning that 3D V cache chips have their thermal

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targets reigned in but it seems to be worth it because while AMD's slide deck

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has the 7800x 3D competing with the core i7 13700k in terms of pricing if we

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consider quite literally anything else it is not even a contest especially in

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gaming where it makes such a difference to Performance that well I'll just let

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the graphs do the talking here look at

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these margins of Victory dang

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I mean if you like spending a hundred dollars more for Less performance from

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Team blue then that's kind of your prerogative but if you're the sort of

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gamer looking to drive the latest 1080p High refresh rate monitors the only

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sensible choices we're looking at here are the 5800x 3D on a cheap and cheerful

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am4 board with 16 gigs of memory for another 50 bucks or if you've got the

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extra cash to put into a newer platform AMD's 7800x 3D absolutely obliterates

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everything in its weight class I mean even its own x3d equipped Bigger

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Brothers fall considerably behind which raises some big questions like what the

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and why Paulo kohilo said that the core of

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beauty is Simplicity and I think that applies well here the 7800x 3D comes

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equipped with a mere 8 course on a single core complex die or CCD that

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means virtually all applications will benefit from its whopping 104 megabytes

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of on-die cache and since there's only one CCD there's no latency penalty from

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pulling cached data off of another die by contrast the 7900x3d and the 7950x3d

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have 12 cores and 16 cores respectively

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across two heterogeneous ccds AMD's

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rationale for the design Choice does make sense half of the cores get 3D V

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cash for killer gaming performance while the other half issue it in favor of

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higher yields and higher boost clocks for productivity but in practice getting

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applications to run on the most optimal core is a big challenge especially when

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you don't bother to build an on-chip Hardware sketch or load balancer and it

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results in lower real world performance that puts the ryzen 9x3d chips in this

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super weird in-between Zone where they fall behind their lean mean ryzen 7

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relative in gaming and then fall behind their own non-x3d counterparts in other

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applications of course as we pointed out

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in our review of those chips most people aren't buying 500 CPUs or even 350 ones

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for that matter to game at 1080P and if the 7800x 3D can't keep its lead going

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into 1440p I think oh it does looking at

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average frame rates the 7800x3d tops the charts almost without exception only

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losing in games where Intel CPUs tend to provide improvements in one percent lows

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even games that are clearly GPU Bound in our testing like Modern Warfare 2 and

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Red Dead Redemption 2 see the 7800x3d

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generally eke out a small W there are

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exceptions occasionally even gay won't benefit from 3D V cash and would just

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much rather have a CPU that boosts higher but the overall picture is clear

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to the point where I'm not sure I remember ever seeing anything quite like

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this I mean the thing is for you the viewer watching this 10 FPS here five

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percent difference there it might not seem like that big of a deal I don't

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even play those games you might say but that isn't the point our test Suite

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is designed to guide you toward the product that will provide the best

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long-term value not just in games today but in games in the future and that five

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percent today can easily turn into eight percent tomorrow or 15 a few years from

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now when faster gpus arrive and need more powerful CPUs to perform their best

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here's an edge case that illustrates my point very well factorio's unit

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simulation update rate is capped in game to 60 per second that means that any one

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of our CPUs is going to deliver a peak optimal experience in this game

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but by forcing the game's engine to push Beyond these artificial limits we can at

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least attempt to draw conclusions about the benefits we might enjoy in future

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Sim heavy games if we choose the right Hardware today and the right choice

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isn't always obvious from the manufacturer's marketing you might

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quickly skim a headline or two and go oh okay 3D V cache is great I'll just get

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the best one with that but as you can see when we force factorio to run on the

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3D V cache cores by disabling the other ones it performs right neck and neck

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with the 7800x 3D but when we leave it at default with all the cores enabled it

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falls way back in line with the rest of the pack pretty questionable behavior

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for a gaming CPU don't you think and

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pretty questionable behavior from AMD when they split up the launch of the

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7000 X 3D product line I believed that

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they simply wanted to capitalize on early adopters who were willing to pay

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for more cores than they needed in order to get the latest shiny 3 3db cash chips

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I mean why play an ace if a tool do it's

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not an unusual strategy and is absolutely the reason that NVIDIA slow

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rolls their product lineups top to bottom over time but the thing NVIDIA

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doesn't do is launch a 4090 at Halo tier

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pricing only for buyers to end up ticked off when the 4070 arrives a few months

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later and is not only cheaper but actually performs better in games and it

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wouldn't have bothered me so much if AMD had seated review samples of the chips

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at the same time then simply staggered availability like we did with our

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screwdriver that is now live shipping on ltdstore.com but by splitting up the launches they

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created an environment where users who are seeking a review today of the ryzen

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9 x 3D chips are going to find countless articles comparing against Intel 13th

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gen but very few comparing against the

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cheaper Superior gaming product in AMD's

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own lineup now I doubt this strategy will make any kind of material

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difference to their sales in spite of Intel jumping a day ahead of AMD's

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release 10th gen core I9 was a sales disaster but I just don't like being

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played and I feel a little played right now though of course there is the

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argument that none of this matters Anyway by the time you get into Ultra HD

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gaming which is likely where many of those ryzen 9s are headed we didn't test

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as many games at this resolution since there's only so many times you can try

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to split the same hair but the bottom line is that the worst we're looking at

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across the entire range of chips we tested is about six to seven percent

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however that is due to the Mass massive

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20 range in F1 2022

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if you're the kind of gamer then who prefers High Fidelity experiences over a

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Competitive Edge then GPU bound games like cyberpunk and Shadow of the Tomb

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Raider you're just not gonna notice a difference and the same is true in our

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Ray Trace 4K games where the difference is even smaller I'm still a bit

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irritated it is kind of my job because I

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could make that exact same well it doesn't really matter anyway argument

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about the ryzen 9 x 3D chips as I move

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into our productivity results if a few percent FPS here and there

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doesn't matter to you in games well then you still should be paying the premium

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for these x3d chips because you would still be more than happy gaming on the

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regular X variants for cheaper and those

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non-3d chips will perform anywhere from about the same as their x3d equivalents

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to even better outside of games sorry this has gotten a bit derailed the

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video is supposed to be about the 7800x 3D and as you see on all of these charts

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it isn't a top performer here but we never expected it to be though it did

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Crush another metric that we did expect in our review of the ryzen 9 x 3D chips

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we took issue with AMD's marketing they called them gaming CPUs but we felt that

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their strength was actually in their efficiency and we are seeing the exact

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same thing here except that it is also a

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standout gaming value I know that the average gamer doesn't salivate over

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better performance per watt but this chip is so exceptional that I gotta slow

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you down and talk through this if you game two hours a day in California your

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7800 X 3D is going to cost you about 750

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a year to run for context AMD's closest

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non-x3d the 7700x is gonna cost you more

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like 950 and an Intel 13600k about nine

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dollars now watch this let's add an hour

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a day of video encoding or 3D rendering some other heavy load then let's assume

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a five-year lifespan for this system and holy crap the total cost of ownership

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goes from a boring metric for data center Architects to a serious

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consideration for enthusiasts and Gamers especially if they live in a region

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where energy costs are spiraling out of control like in the UK of course though

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value over time isn't the only consideration when specing out a new pc

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how much is this thing costing me today Linus

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less than you'd think at launch amb's am5 platform took a lot of flack for

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being poorly positioned compared to Intel's relatively inexpensive LGA 1700

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socket they did have the benefit of a supposedly longer support roadmap but

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AMD's record on that is imperfect these days at best and the chips the RAM and

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the motherboards were very expensive nowadays though the story is quite

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different a solid b650 board is going to run you around 200 US dollars 16 gigs of

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high-speed ddr5 will set you back under a hundred and the fastest gaming chip on

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the Block the 7800x 3D is going to cost you 450 bucks throw in a GPU and some

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other bits and Bobs and you're looking at an absolutely killer machine for less

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than fifteen hundred dollars still not cheap but if you want to save

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a buck the 5800 X 3D is still out there for a hundred dollars less and the

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market is flooded with dirt cheap am4 motherboards and ddr4 memory

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I wouldn't say then that Intel is down for the count but they do need to

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counter hard or it's going to be hard to come up with a reason to build blue that

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is at least for now almost as hard as a

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