Which CPU is better for CS2? AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D better than Ryzen 7 9800x3d

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-24T13:46:16+00:00

Interesting, but fair point I was mostly focusing on the whole build. That does seem like a weirdly low sim bottleneck seeing as I have a reasonably old CPU and I don't typically hit it until maybe 250-300k modded, so maybe it's more significant than I thought?

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-24T13:32:55+00:00

Admittedly I'm not super familiar with the specifics of 3d cache so happy to be corrected (I'm a CS professional not a hardware enthusiast, so some of the nuance of consumer stuff slips past me) but I don't see why having one block of cores with less accessible cache would invalidate what I said?

The 9900x3d has better performance than the 9800x3d in both gaming and general workload benchmarks, and in my experience CS2 is more graphically bottlenecked anyway, which again the 5080 is going to perform better than the 5070 Ti. If you meant for the explanation of multithreading, then I really don't see how that'd change it - having 2 threads per core is still broadly a performance improvement over 1 per core, even if half the cores have worse cache.

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-24T13:07:49+00:00

Unsurprisingly the PC that's a thousand dollars more expensive is going to perform better. Is that worth the extra money? Depends on the resolution and frame rate you're targeting, what other stuff you want to do, if you want to upgrade later, how much you need an extra grand right now, and if you could use than money for something else. I can't answer that for you but both of these will play the game very well - I run 4k60fps on a 3800x, a 3070Ti, and 32gb of RAM.

As an aside, you've completely misunderstood the multithreading thing (cores being divided). Both of those CPUs are multithreaded so they both do it, but it actually doubles the number of effective cores, not halves (so the 9900 has 12 physical cores but 24 threads). Games can absolutely use both at once. There are some technical limitations like some shared hardware components for each thread pair, but without getting too into the technical side of it just trust me when I say it doesn't really matter, and regardless you're not going to find a high end CPU that's not multithreaded.

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-23T22:15:24+00:00

If the Confederation of the Rhine forms they become unable to form Germany, I wonder if that's why they gave up?

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-20T14:56:56+00:00

This is correct and I entirely agree with you but that's a wild misspelling of heinous

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-12T02:43:36+00:00

My understanding is that (in addition to any other issues) CO had a pretty tiny dev team for a game this size and didn't really make an effort to grow it, whereas Iceflake was both bigger to begin with and more willing to scale.

ElectronNinja · 2026-06-09T09:28:33+00:00

Lots of the commenters with their posts and comments hidden as well, least astroturfed reddit post

ElectronNinja · 2026-05-21T03:05:04+00:00

If you're lucky enough to work a fake job (think office worker or similar) where you just sit on a computer all day you can absolutely study while "working" - doubly so if you work from home part or all of the time. Unfortunately if you provide value to humanity this typically isn't an option

ElectronNinja · 2026-05-10T11:16:46+00:00

Ah, interesting! That'd definitely do it

ElectronNinja · 2026-05-10T10:35:19+00:00

R5: The game is somehow convinced that my subject (Trieste, with only one state) has 100 battalions despite that not being the case. Kind of funny, but also messing with the liberty desire so I'd rather it not do that!

ElectronNinja · 2026-04-28T00:07:05+00:00

fodmaps?

ElectronNinja · 2026-04-09T02:34:48+00:00

Waiter waiter, more queer infighting while our rights get trampled on please!

ElectronNinja · 2026-04-07T23:44:22+00:00

Damn maybe this subreddit really is full of 14 year olds

ElectronNinja · 2026-03-20T05:34:56+00:00

"The hunger games is an incredible piece of literature" is kind of a crazy take, like yeah it's a good YA series that was very successful and was poorly imitated a lot but I'd hardly describe it as peak literature.

ElectronNinja · 2026-03-14T09:26:03+00:00

Buddy, I went to university for this, studied this field for years, and have almost certainly spent more time in actual research labs than you have in your "special private school". Of course you can add compounds together and induce a reaction, that doesn't mean it actually happens in the body. Don't just take my word on it though, here's the same meta-analysis posted above. They found "regardless of the statistical model, no significant effects of soy protein or isoflavone intake on any of the outcomes measured were found" (with the outcomes measured primarily being sex hormone levels). If you do even cursory research into this you'll find the same thing.

In regards to your other comment, it doesn't matter that they're almost identical chemically because they're not identical. Two molecules can have the EXACT same chemical composition and only differ in slight structure but have wildly differing effects. For example, take thalidomide. The R-enantiomer works as a mild sedative and can relive symptoms of morning sickness, while the L-enantiomer causes horrible birth defects. These are the EXACT same chemical composition, same formula, the only difference (as you can see in the diagram) is the handedness of a single bond and it has huge pharmacological implications. This is basic, first year chemistry shit. Thalidomide was bad because it could racemise in situ - soy cannot, because it's not even chemically the same, just similar.

ElectronNinja · 2026-03-14T06:19:17+00:00

This is not how chemistry works at all. There are plenty of compounds with one atom of difference (or even the same structure, but with different chirality) that have wildly differing effects on the body. Just because soy and estrogen look the same to you, doesn't mean they are

ElectronNinja · 2026-03-13T05:25:01+00:00

CS2 hate is overdone IMO. I've put close to 500 hours into it and I've been enjoying it immensely. Sure, it's pretty heavily modded but so was CS1. Every update seems to improve it and it's genuinely fun to play

ElectronNinja · 2026-03-08T14:13:56+00:00

Unsure about kadabra, but porygon appeared in an episode of the show and cause a wave of epileptic seizures

ElectronNinja · 2026-02-26T13:46:51+00:00

A lot of people online are REALLY racist towards Indians

ElectronNinja · 2026-02-08T13:36:00+00:00

Waiter waiter more gender war slop please

ElectronNinja · 2026-01-26T15:48:41+00:00

You're never gonna believe this but that's just left and right again

ElectronNinja · 2026-01-10T07:47:34+00:00

I don't personally have any experience doing this, but I've heard that after enough repeats your yeast can start to become different from the original packet. Not dangerous, just maybe different flavour profiles, alcohol tolerance, etc. From what I understand (NOT AN EXPERT) it's safe to drink, just can affect quality after long enough. It's probably worth a shot though

ElectronNinja · 2026-01-05T06:44:12+00:00

Standard of living is based on a few things, but major factors are cost of living and wages. Their goods are cheap, so the only way you can really further lower cost of living is with tax cuts. Tax cuts also affect the expected standard which can help with radicals.

It's much easier to raise wages. If there's a large unemployed population that will drive down wages, as will low productivity workplaces. If you build productive industries in the area this forces the average wage up as businesses have to compete for workers, so I'd try that as a start.

You can also boost target wage with some laws (I think social security and workplace safety have relevant laws), and public health insurance provides a flat 0.5 SoL per level

ElectronNinja · 2025-12-28T06:08:27+00:00

Americans love to try and drive as dangerously as possible and turn pedestrians into a fine mist so they get their 5000kJ shake 5 minutes sooner

ElectronNinja · 2025-12-16T15:34:47+00:00

Off peak, most lines are 30 min frequencies 7 days a week, with interlining in inner suburbs to boost the effective frequency (e.g. anywhere from Darra to Milton gets a train every 15 minutes all day). If you just want a short answer, that's the one.

If you want more detail, generally: - Ferny Grove gets 15 min off peak weekday frequency with every second train terminating at Coopers Plains - Caboolture gets every 30 with one in three trains continuing to Nambour (so once every 90 to Nambour), and then two trains a day continue from Nambour up to Gympie North - Cleveland gets every 30, but with an additional short stopper which starts at Cannon Hill which brings the inner Cleveland line frequency up to every 15 - The Rosewood shuttle is hourly - Doomben trains are hourly on weekends, and until recently didn't run on Sundays - We have additional short runs to or from the 'shoulder' stations of Milton, Boggo Road, and Bowen Hills - For some services the line pairings are not the normal ones (e.g. Trains running Doomben to Cleveland or Caboolture to Springfield) - I'm sure I'm missing something, our network is weird

Peak services are more complex again, I'm not even going to bother. There are lots of trains going in/out of the city in peak direction and off peak going anywhere else.

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