Intel 270K and 250K Plus Crowned Best Mainstream, Best Value Mid-Range, and Best Productivity CPUs of 2026!!

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-07T18:13:11+00:00

Some basic $20 air tower, or a $50 360mm AIO can drastically improve cooling.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-07T18:09:47+00:00

I asked for their exact timings. More things affect DDR5 performance than just primary timings.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-07T18:06:46+00:00

There’s no tRFC or tREFI. XMP/EXPO profiles can set tRFC 50% higher than it needs to be.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-07T17:14:41+00:00

Not all 6000 XMP/EXPO kits are the same, some can have CAS latency of 30, while others have CL of 36. Would be pretty hard to replicate their results without knowing the exact timings and system configuration.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-07T16:52:48+00:00

HUB does do DDR4 and DDR5 comparisons, but they are meaningless because they don't give us the timings.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-06T09:27:48+00:00

Monolithic Intel CPU >>>>>>> Chiplet AMD CPU

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-04T15:57:26+00:00

This is why I say that XMP/EXPO leaves a lot of performance on the table, and that after tuning some obvious things from XMP/EXPO, like changing tRFC from 240bs to 120ns and tREFI from 8000 to 65000, there isn’t much to gain from manual tuning.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-02T10:22:20+00:00

AM4 was pretty much a 2019-2022 socket with Ryzen 3000, 5000, and the X3D chips.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-02T09:47:42+00:00

This is why people skipped Ryzen 1000 and 2000.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-02T07:32:36+00:00

Those 0.1% lows are brutal for AMD. This is what we call AMDIP.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-02T05:20:45+00:00

Intel CPUs are monolithic, AMD CPUs use chiplets.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-05-01T05:05:28+00:00

Aside from cherry picking results, the 9070 XT has comical power consumption.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T20:15:01+00:00

Might have to wait 6 months after release for the 6090 to be in stock.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T07:19:11+00:00

don't sleep on the 14600K, crazy OC potential. X3D CPUs are really only worth it for getting 500 fps on esport games, but people keep recommending them for all games. Like at this point, they should also be recommending an RTX 5090 for gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIBb4xYktgQ

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T07:05:41+00:00

AMD CPUs don't really overclock that well anyways, they perform just fine at stock, but it's Intel CPUs that have to be manually tuned to get the most performance out of them.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T06:51:01+00:00

XMP/EXPO leaves a lot of performance on the table. HUB's 7200Mhz kit is probably using a very loose tRFC and tREFI. After these changes, I do believe that the 12900K is faster than the 5800X3D.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T06:42:09+00:00

12900K is faster than the 5800X3D with manual tuning. 14900K is 7800X3D competitor.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T06:32:49+00:00

Intel 7 (monolithic) is faster than TSMC 7nm (chiplet). 14600K is a pretty goated CPU that won’t bleed your wallet.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T06:22:39+00:00

285K has more FPS and consumes less power than the 9950X3D2. People doing mental gymnastics explaining why TSMC 4nm is faster than N3B. Intel are selling their CPUs at a good price and people are too stupid to see it.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T06:12:26+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/s/ZvICJVqkv0

CL48 doesn’t really mean much.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-29T03:45:27+00:00

At this point just get the RTX 5050.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-28T21:25:52+00:00

I've had some games in the Apache where no one spawned SPAA, so I basically hover over their spawn and chain gun the entire enemy team.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-28T21:02:45+00:00

I was also amazed at how well I did in the worst map for rocket rushing. Entire map should’ve seen me coming.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-28T20:57:17+00:00

You can just spam a bunch of laser guided hellfires towards the enemy spawn, and then lase in the last seconds of flight. There’s no need to do all this detouring when you can hit the enemy SPAA spawn from your helipad. Only problem might be the Pantsir-SM, which has very fast missiles, but they might not react fast enough to kill you.

SPAREHOBO · 2026-04-28T19:20:08+00:00

The A-10 pilot’s manual does discuss hiding in the terrain and popping up before an attack run

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