Intel plans to cut CPU prices by up to 15 per cent

[Tabbykatze]

Doesn't Intel still have that clause that reviews/benchmarks need to be done without the security patches installed?

Or did they remove that over backlash?

[DanceswithUnix]

Doesn't Intel still have that clause that reviews/benchmarks need to be done without the security patches installed?

Or did they remove that over backlash?

I believe it is still there.

Could be worse, I was looking for benchmarks for running Intel's Quartus FPGA compiling software to get an idea on what would be the best CPU & ram configuration to get for a build server. Such benchmarks are banned entirely under the terms of installing the software. When it takes an hour to do a compile it would be really nice to shave even a small percentage off of that, so thanks Intel.

[Tabbykatze]

I believe it is still there.

Could be worse, I was looking for benchmarks for running Intel's Quartus FPGA compiling software to get an idea on what would be the best CPU & ram configuration to get for a build server. Such benchmarks are banned entirely under the terms of installing the software. When it takes an hour to do a compile it would be really nice to shave even a small percentage off of that, so thanks Intel.

I find that so scummy, means people are not allowed to establish the baseline of what they should be using the get the best.

It means they can say you should have a W3175X and you have no real way of being able to say "nah mate, get prodded".

[Xlucine]

They might be supply-constrained, but if the competion is being perceived as faster and cheaper, it might well solve their supply-constraint issue .... by having the bottom drop out of demand. Then, the constraint won't be supply, but how to shift under-performing (comparatively) and over-priced stock.

The way I see it is that Intel have been .... milking it ...., that is to say, charging what the market will bear, and now it'll no longer bear it. There's a contrarian streak in me that always prefers to support the underdog, not least because the existence and competitiveness of the underdog is about the only thing keeping the market leader's pricing even halfway-honest.

I'd decided my next system purchase was going to be AMD well before the current generation, and just hadn't got around to doing it. 15% off Intel doesn't even come close to changing that. Frankly, 50% probably wouldn't, either. I'll just buy the AMD option that looks, to me, to provide optimum bang-for-buck, which will probably be mid-range, somewhere.

I wouldn't consider intel until they stop pretending that the core architecture is gods gift to gamers, and start matching AMD core for core (including virtual cores). Right now the entire intel product stack feels more like a marketing trick to make the top end look less ridiculous and less like products worth buying

I believe it is still there.

Could be worse, I was looking for benchmarks for running Intel's Quartus FPGA compiling software to get an idea on what would be the best CPU & ram configuration to get for a build server. Such benchmarks are banned entirely under the terms of installing the software. When it takes an hour to do a compile it would be really nice to shave even a small percentage off of that, so thanks Intel.

Are there any other options for FPGA software that don't hate their customers?

[DanceswithUnix]

I find that so scummy, means people are not allowed to establish the baseline of what they should be using the get the best.

It means they can say you should have a W3175X and you have no real way of being able to say "nah mate, get prodded".

*shrug*, Intel annoyed me, I went for a Ryzen 2600. A 2600X would have been better as large part of an FPGA compile is still single threaded, but I needed a lot of ECC ram on a limited budget.

I gather these compiles really like big L3 cache so I will be interested to see what a 3600X can do when they come out, but if I benchmark that I can't tell anyone.

Are there any other options for FPGA software that don't hate their customers?

lol, probably not.

[Tabbykatze]

*shrug*, Intel annoyed me, I went for a Ryzen 2600. A 2600X would have been better as large part of an FPGA compile is still single threaded, but I needed a lot of ECC ram on a limited budget.

I gather these compiles really like big L3 cache so I will be interested to see what a 3600X can do when they come out, but if I benchmark that I can't tell anyone.

Maybe a pseudonym? Oh, look a leak from "SachayswithLinux", woner who that is!