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What CPU are you using on your gaming machines?

What CPU are you using?

  • AMD Zen1 / Zen+

    Votes: 3 1.9%
  • AMD Zen2 (includes PS5 and Series S/X)

    Votes: 26 16.1%
  • AMD Zen3

    Votes: 31 19.3%
  • AMD Zen4

    Votes: 9 5.6%
  • AMD with 3DVCache

    Votes: 36 22.4%
  • Intel 12/13th Gen

    Votes: 45 28.0%
  • Intel 11th Gen

    Votes: 5 3.1%
  • Intel 10th Gen

    Votes: 9 5.6%
  • Intel 9th Gen

    Votes: 7 4.3%
  • Intel or AMD from older generations (includes PS4 and Xbox One)

    Votes: 18 11.2%
  • ARM CPU (eg: Chromebook, Apple, etc)

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • Total voters
    161
I mainly game on my PS5, but when I do game on PC I have both a desktop and a new laptop I just bought:

Desktop: Homebuilt in 2016/i7-5820K/EVGA 980Ti Classified GPU/32GB DDR4
Laptop: Asus Zenbook 14 Pro OLED (just got this)/i9-13900H/nVidia RTX 4060/32GB DDR5
 

Xellos

Member
i7-13700 (non k). My only complaint is that I have to leave my RAM at 4800 cl40 or I get random crashes. Have tried multiple RAM kits, same result. Could be the motherboard, could be the locked SA voltage on non-k CPU; I'm not sure. It's stable at 4800 and performance is fine, so I'm not interested in pursuing it further. I'm still pretty happy with it.

Also ARM I guess because of Switch.
 

twilo99

Gold Member
5800X3D

I got it because I wanted to prolong the life of my AM4 system and I think it will turn out to be the longest I'll be able to get out of a platform before needing to upgrade the whole thing.

Thanks AMD.

I've been using my newly acquired xbox series s quite a bit since I got it too.


7950X3D pretty good CPU, I need it for work, does not hurt for games tho

Monster CPU..
 
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winjer

Gold Member
With 138 votes, I'm surprised at a few things.

I was expecting Intel's 12 and 13th gen to have the most CPUs, and there it is.
But I was not expecting the 3Dvcache CPUs to be in second place, and so close to first place.
I was expecting more Zen1 and Zen+ CPUs. But it seems most have already upgraded.
I was expecting more people for the normal Zen4 CPUs, without the 3dvcache.
And there is still a decent percentage of people with older AMD and Intel CPUs.
 
12700k
runs way cooler than expected.
i7-13700 (non k). My only complaint is that I have to leave my RAM at 4800 cl40 or I get random crashes.
that's rough. probably mobo. i assume you've tried turning off xmp profiles and tried manual OCing.
im at 6600 cl34 and i was disappointed with that.
 

kurisu_1974

is on perm warning for being a low level troll
i7-13700F in my desktop PC, ARM in the Raspberry Pi400 for retro stuff, and whatever there is in a Switch and PS5.
 
AMD 7950X3D, 16 cores/32 threads. Bought it 4 months ago. At the same time I bought 64GB of DDR5 RAM and got an AM5 motherboard.

Previous CPU was a 9900K (8c/16t) that i had since mid 2019. What a difference. In some games I'm getting more than double FPS. I had upgraded to a 4080 and i guess it was bottlenecked.

I could've got a 7800X3D but i don't just game on my PC. the extra 8c/16t come in useful. I was originally looking at the 13900K but it runs too damn hot and uses a fuck load of power.

In idle this CPU runs hotter than my old 9900K by ~10C but when under load it's about the same in games (60C) and under intensive workloads it runs cooler. The 9900K could go to 95-100C but this CPU doesn't go past 89C no matter what I do. I'm using the same cooler/case/fans as I did with the 9900K.
Exact same here. The idle power draw is a lot higher than my old i7 7700k but under load, even a minor gaming load, is night and day. The performance and power draw under load is exceptional in comparison to Intel. I can never go Intel again with their power hungry performance cores and stupid eco cores.
 

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
Though I wish I would have waited for the 7800X3D

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