temps 2020 年 12 月 4 日 上午 3:44
Futureproof Motherboards
I have heard some people claim this is a bad time to build a PC because the current PC motherboards will no longer be supported by future graphics cards or CPUs people may want to upgrade to because people say motherboard technology will likely go to AM5 and dump AM4 when DDR5 RAM becomes available, or something like that. (Meaning that a motherboard upgrade will soon be required to upgrade important PC components).

What do you guys think?

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EDIT: To clarify, when I talked about future-proofing a PC build, I am referring to the attempt to ensure I get a CPU/motherboard combination that will last for several years into the future by means of being compatible with future CPU/GPU upgrades.

Ideally I am hoping to simply upgrade the GPU in several years, and not need to upgrade anything else to prolong the gaming life of the PC. If needed, I hope to be ABLE to upgrade the CPU without having to upgrade the entire motherboard and reconnect everything. (This is what I was talking about when I mentioned future-proofing).

The GPU doesn't need to be "future-proof" for purposes of this discussion because imo GPUs are relatively easy to upgrade compared to the motherboard.

EDIT 2: Some seem upset over the use of the word "futureproof." To clarify -- what I mean by that is essentially simply a prolonged (but not indefinite) state of motherboard compatibility with future CPU/GPU upgrades, not the idea that some particular PC component can last forever if you spend more.
最後修改者:temps; 2020 年 12 月 6 日 上午 12:35
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r.linder 2020 年 12 月 6 日 下午 11:22 
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
引用自 Grapes and Avocados

Are you so in denial?

Why not you provide the real evidence then that's 100% yours and your benchmarks?

More importantly, man up and report my post as fake information or go to that youtube video and accuse fake information.

I don't need to tell anyone anything. Anyone with a minimum knowledge on computer hardware can tell you that this video is fake.

Any hardware reviewers that is even remotely legit, would put his test rig's specification in first place, before conducting the benchmarks tests. And here in this video, he is testing the CPU.
And the CPU's name is absent. LoL.
Says it all.
"It's fake"

Yet the core scaling is consistent with other benchmarks. Quite a few newer games do show minimal increases above 6 cores, but increases nonetheless.

Are you going to address the fact that you're in favour of the idea of "futureproofing" yet you argue against having more cores because it's "pointless?" Or are you just going to ignore that?
最後修改者:r.linder; 2020 年 12 月 6 日 下午 11:23
vadim 2020 年 12 月 6 日 下午 11:31 
引用自 Escorve
Quite a few newer games do show minimal increases above 6 cores, but increases nonetheless.
Yes, there are tests in which processors with more cores show higher FPS. But this increase can be caused by other factors, such as the size of the L3 cache.
Jelly Donut 2020 年 12 月 6 日 下午 11:59 
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
I don't need to tell anyone anything. Anyone with a minimum knowledge on computer hardware can tell you that this video is fake.

Any hardware reviewers that is even remotely legit, would put his test rig's specification in first place, before conducting the benchmarks tests. And here in this video, he is testing the CPU.
And the CPU's name is absent. LoL.
Says it all.

So you are in other words saying, we don't know what the heck we are talking about and whatever we are saying or even sharing is false information.

why are you not reporting our posts then? False information is prohibited on this forum after all. I see people get banned and warned because of these.

Why not if you claim that your information is so true like as if you're a tech god, why not provide the UNLIMITED information as you claim?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZBIeM2zE-I

Oh no! Look, LinusTechTips posted a video showing the performance of the multicore CPUs, particularly comparing 5000 Ryzen series and the Intel Core 10th Gens. Look at the scaling performance of the i5-10600K which has 6 Cores and the i7-10700K which has 8 Cores. Must be fake, to you. Lmao

He must be wrong too and we are all stupid too.

At this point I am just assuming you're a troll or if not, a super denial techie.
最後修改者:Jelly Donut; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:02
🦜Cloud Boy🦜 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:05 
引用自 Grapes and Avocados
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
I don't need to tell anyone anything. Anyone with a minimum knowledge on computer hardware can tell you that this video is fake.

Any hardware reviewers that is even remotely legit, would put his test rig's specification in first place, before conducting the benchmarks tests. And here in this video, he is testing the CPU.
And the CPU's name is absent. LoL.
Says it all.

So you are in other words saying, we don't know what the heck we are talking about and whatever we are saying or even sharing is false information.

why are you not reporting our posts then? False information is prohibited on this forum after all.

Why not if you claim that your information is so true like as if your a tech god, why not provide the UNLIMITED information as you claim?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZBIeM2zE-I

Oh no! Look, LinusTechTips posted a video showing the performance of the multicore CPUs, particularly comparing 5000 Ryzen series and the Intel Core 10th Gens. Look at the scaling performance of the i5-10600K and the i7-10700K.

He must be wrong too and we are all stupid too.

At this point I am just assuming you're a troll or if not, a super denial techie.

That's because of clock speeds, not core counts. i7 has 400 Mhz higher clock speeds than i5 out of the box. That's the reason i7 is faster. Not because its core numbers.
If you overclock the i5 10600k. It will perform same as i7 10700k.
r.linder 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:17 
引用自 vadim
引用自 Escorve
Quite a few newer games do show minimal increases above 6 cores, but increases nonetheless.
Yes, there are tests in which processors with more cores show higher FPS. But this increase can be caused by other factors, such as the size of the L3 cache.
Except Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 from the age of that video all have the same amount of L3 cache, all 32MB, and it's not all accessible on one CCX at a time prior to Ryzen 5000 where it would all be accessible across all CCXs up to 8 cores.

The only way I can see L3 cache being the culprit in every single instance that this has been tested, is when using a Ryzen 9 processor, for example, the 3900X. In the 3900X, each CCX is using 16MB of L3 cache totalling 64MB. If you disable CCXs or only allow a program to use a certain amount of cores, some of the total L3 cache is left out entirely... but there's still some gain between 8~12 cores, which implies that there are games out there that can use at least enough cores to trigger that last CCX and get gain from that last 16MB of L3 cache.

No matter what you say, there is still clearly a benefit. Extremely small, but performance seeking users don't care as long as they get every ounce they can.
最後修改者:r.linder; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:20
Jelly Donut 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:21 
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
That's because of clock speeds, not core counts. i7 has 400 Mhz higher clock speeds than i5 out of the box. That's the reason i7 is faster. Not because its core numbers.
If you overclock the i5 10600k. It will perform same as i7 10700k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xC2VellUg

Wrong.

Look at Fortnite, CS:GO, Battlefield 5 at 1080p.

Also, despite the i5-10600K being 0.1Ghz lower than the i7-10700K, it's not going to make a 10-20 FPS difference in Fortnite, Battlefield 5.

And again, as I mentioned, some people do more than just game only.

And also, where is your unlimited supply of arguments, considering you're calling us fakers.

And another also: This video is fake, and anyone who believes this is stupid, to you, right?
最後修改者:Jelly Donut; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:23
🦜Cloud Boy🦜 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:30 
引用自 Grapes and Avocados
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
That's because of clock speeds, not core counts. i7 has 400 Mhz higher clock speeds than i5 out of the box. That's the reason i7 is faster. Not because its core numbers.
If you overclock the i5 10600k. It will perform same as i7 10700k.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xC2VellUg

Wrong.

Look at Fortnite, CS:GO, Battlefield 5 at 1080p.

Also, despite the i5-10600K being 0.1Ghz lower than the i7-10700K, it's not going to make a 10-20 FPS difference in Fortnite, Battlefield 5.

And again, as I mentioned, some people do more than just game only.

And also, where is your unlimited supply of arguments, considering you're calling us fakers.

Where did you find 20 fps difference in this video? I see the exact same fps between i5 & i7.
The video does not give you any results. It just randomly changes the fps is every seconds real time. Sometimes i5 is faster, and sometimes i7 is faster. Try pausing several different moment, you will see it too.
Jelly Donut 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:33 
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈

Where did you find 20 fps difference in this video? I see the exact same fps between i5 & i7.
The video does not give you any results. It just randomly changes the fps is every seconds real time. Sometimes i5 is faster, and sometimes i7 is faster. Try pausing several different moment, you will see it too.


引用自 Grapes and Avocados

Look at Fortnite, CS:GO, Battlefield 5 at 1080p.

*facepalm*

and fine, I can remove CS:GO since Valve Source Games aren't multithreaded optimized..

Sure, the difference isn't massive from a 4 Core and 6 Core. But you need to stop going around calling people Stupid and Fakers.

And again, some people may run more things in the background, though realistically, they aren't prob gonna like run Valorant and WarZone together at the same time since the GPU is the bottleneck by then (tested it on my own 9900K system)
最後修改者:Jelly Donut; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 12:39
Autumn_ 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 8:01 
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
Here is Death Stranding performance charts, there are ABSOLUTELY no gain in performance between 6 cores VS 8 cores CPUs.

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/software/death_stranding_pc_performance_review_and_optimisation_guide/4

You did not mentioned which Assassin's Creed game you want to see. If it's Assassin's Creed Origins, then it's a 3 years old game, not CPU heavy at all. It scales same across all CPUs.
Old games, hard to find benchmarks with newer hardware.

https://www.techspot.com/article/1525-assassins-creed-origins-cpu-test/
In the Death Stranding benchmark you provided, there is a 2-3% difference between 6c/12t and 8c/16t, this is outside of margin of error (<1%), there is scaling, it is just minute.
I still would like to see more stuff related. (Because, honestly, I've only seen that one slide that scales to 24 thread.

The second benchmark you've provided is a GPU bottleneck (evident by the lack of difference between the CPUs), and the settings at max.

引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
@ Autumn.

You repeatedly keep explaining the meaning of the word ''future-proof'' in your comments as a defence of your own standings (and to prove other person wrong) is not a great tactics, at all. Everybody here understands very well what is the meaning of ''future-proof' according to Dictionary. But when we talk about ''Future-proofing'' in computing hardware, it means SAME as LONG LASTING (or very close to it).

People those who come here to seek advice about buying Hardware, use the word ''Future-proof'', it does not means that they want their PC to LAST FOREVER, which the word ''future-proof'' actually means.

So i suggest, you keep your English Dictionary at your home and try to Understand what the actual point here asking by the OP or there users. Thanks.
I have agreed with the point you're trying to make, that you can build a computer to last.
I'm saying that you're using the word wrong, and it's not what you think it means.

There is no futureproofing.

引用自 SeriousCCIE
Hey cloud boy

you're not wrong

but I don't think autumn and some of the others are meaning ill intent. see my dewlap in the picture?

i chose this photo for a reason -- cause all my friends in IT all do the same thing when it comes to being factually correct even if the user's computer or the server or the network is now down and everything is still broke in the end--which isn't what anyone wanted to have as the outcome.

It bears repeating that sometimes what someone asked for isn't what they wanted but they pretty much knew what they intended when they said it.

but, they get the support for what they asked for, even if there are differences in that interpretation.

so hey my advice is get workstation grade motherboard, and upgrade the cpu in four years. 3 years after that everything that was too risky to upgrade to will be available cheap and you can probably look at upgrading at that time, or put it off for another year or two.

unless your OS arbitrarily pulls support for it overnight.
He's not wrong about what he's actually saying, just his terminology is wrong - it leads to misinformation, and misconceptions. Something that we shouldn't be doing.

I may come off like a bit of an ass, but I don't mean anything bad by it. I just don't like people spreading misinformation, which is something we can all get behind, right?

引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
引用自 Autumn_
Just because someone is happy with their purchase doesn't mean that futureproofing exists.

It is not just about ''someone is happy''. Quoting only a portion of a sentence to gain advantage in YOUR favour is not a sign of honesty Mr Autumn. You can't be a HERO that way. Btw.. If you can read the full paragraph (comment #64), you will understand why it is called Future-proof.

It is called future-proof because, Those GTX 1080 Ti owners who commented in this thread are happy, because the cards are still successfully satisfying their need of 1440p High-fps gaming, even after 5 years from purchase. And it will continue to serve many UPCOMING years as well, because there are still plenty of life remaining in that hardware. Same applies to i7 8700k. That's why they are called Future-proof.

That's the PROOF of future-proofing in real time, in front of your eyes^, Happening now, in people's life.
I don't quote portions, unless to give exact focus to them, of which was my own post, that were unwanted questions.

You say it's not about them being happy, but then you say it is. You contradict your own statement.
And you have gotten your facts wrong, one person said they game at 1080p, so both cannot be at 1440p.
It will be fine for a few more years, I agree, but it's still only a xx60 class card (performance wise) now, so realistically it's last less than the 3060, because the 3060 will have more support, and has more features.
The 1080ti was a great card, and it has lasted a long time, I agree. But it's by no means futureproof, because at some point, it will become useless, or there abouts. You cannot have something futureproof, and have it become useless, it's a contradiction.

引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
引用自 Grapes and Avocados
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVjdhXAdKE0

I can also produce UNLIMITED proofs that some games do scale above 6 cores, just that there are diminishing returns into price to performance. Also, there are people who may do more in the background than just gaming on it's own.

If you are so focused on the "future proofing", you might as well tell every user now, buy a 8 core, 12, 16 or even a 32 core since you know, in the future a game eventually is going to "use more cores" anyway. For instance, anyone who bought a X99 and 5960X that had 8 cores when in 2014-2015, will lose to a Z390 and 9900K (in terms of gaming performance and efficiency. Only benefit is they have more PCIe lanes) considering that same amount of money spent to "future proof" themselves would be better saved to sell that old PC and get a new one that has basically better IPC, efficiency, node process, etc etc.

Plus, you ought to know that a 8700k was released as a product more to compete with AMD, rather than actually staying ahead in the curve like Nvidia is doing, considering Intel 14nm was clearly built for 4 cores and not 6 and above.

That's a no mane fake video. No description about which CPUs has been used. Are they intel and AMD mixture. Which generations? The only thing it says is the Core Counts. What a joke.
The CPU used in this benchmark/test was a 3900x with SMT disabled.
I'm pretty sure they disabled cores in BIOS too, so they can produce the realistic performance of the hardware. But that's speculative.

How exactly is it a fake video? It's a recording of the same scene with difference corecounts. Showing clockspeed, cores, usage, framerate (average, 1%, and .1%), and frametimes.
Games do scale, just there are lots of deminishing returns. Now, you can claim 1-5% scaling isn't much, and I would personally agree, that doesn't mean there's no scaling.

引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
引用自 Grapes and Avocados

Are you so in denial?

Why not you provide the real evidence then that's 100% yours and your benchmarks?

More importantly, man up and report my post as fake information or go to that youtube video and accuse fake information.

I don't need to tell anyone anything. Anyone with a minimum knowledge on computer hardware can tell you that this video is fake.

Any hardware reviewers that is even remotely legit, would put his test rig's specification in first place, before conducting the benchmarks tests. And here in this video, he is testing the CPU.
And the CPU's name is absent. LoL.
Says it all.
Sure, you can argue about testing methodology, and what not. But it's still evidence, it cannot be dismissed instantly.

It's strange, you're the only one here that seems to say the video is fake.
They did put the specs in the description, you have to click more and scroll to the bottom.
He is testing score scaling, not a CPU. The CPU, provided it has enough cores, isn't as important, but I understand your reluctance, this is information I would expect to be present in the title, or on screen.

引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
引用自 Grapes and Avocados

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xC2VellUg

Wrong.

Look at Fortnite, CS:GO, Battlefield 5 at 1080p.

Also, despite the i5-10600K being 0.1Ghz lower than the i7-10700K, it's not going to make a 10-20 FPS difference in Fortnite, Battlefield 5.

And again, as I mentioned, some people do more than just game only.

And also, where is your unlimited supply of arguments, considering you're calling us fakers.

Where did you find 20 fps difference in this video? I see the exact same fps between i5 & i7.
The video does not give you any results. It just randomly changes the fps is every seconds real time. Sometimes i5 is faster, and sometimes i7 is faster. Try pausing several different moment, you will see it too.
Average FPS isn't very telling, but in a couple of the games (Fortnite and PUBG) there were higher FPS by about ~25.
Now, that can be attributed to things like cache, like Vadim said.
Also, worth noting, there is a large difference in 1 and .1% lows, which means more than any average FPS will.
Since it directly relates to how stuttery the game will be, and with more cores, there are better lows, so the game will play smoother. (Evident in both this video, and the one you called fake.)

引用自 Grapes and Avocados
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈

Where did you find 20 fps difference in this video? I see the exact same fps between i5 & i7.
The video does not give you any results. It just randomly changes the fps is every seconds real time. Sometimes i5 is faster, and sometimes i7 is faster. Try pausing several different moment, you will see it too.

引用自 Grapes and Avocados

Look at Fortnite, CS:GO, Battlefield 5 at 1080p.

*facepalm*

and fine, I can remove CS:GO since Valve Source Games aren't multithreaded optimized..

Sure, the difference isn't massive from a 4 Core and 6 Core. But you need to stop going around calling people Stupid and Fakers.

And again, some people may run more things in the background, though realistically, they aren't prob gonna like run Valorant and WarZone together at the same time since the GPU is the bottleneck by then (tested it on my own 9900K system)
There is a large difference between 4 and 6 cores, not so much between 6 and 8. (With, or without SMT/HT.)
I have an i5-6600k, and it's pretty poor performance in a lot of games, because games just like to use a lot more than they used to

People do run programs in the background, I personally don't do it, but apparently people run browsers in the background (on a second monitor?) and discord/TS, anti-virus, and whatever else Windows wants to do.
This is reason enough to get a CPU with 2 more cores than you need for you game, it gives you some headroom on other programs.
Yamantaka 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 9:26 
Getting a bit more performance than what you currently need never has been a bad plan. Buying a 4c/8t CPU, when 2 cores was enough proofed to be a good choice. Before that buying 2 cores over 1 was the same thing.

I'd bet same goes now for 8c/16t CPUs. 6 is utterly fine for now, but let's see how the situation is after 2-3 years. 8 cores could be beneficial even sooner, when PS5 ports start to hit the shelves.
Jamebonds1 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 9:44 
Future proof is a lie by the manufacturer, trust me. I have seen it, and they are not new anymore in one years later.
最後修改者:Jamebonds1; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 9:44
Illusion of Progress 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 9:47 
This thread seems like it's run all over (from what future proofing is or isn't, to how many cores are "needed"), and I haven't read every single reply in full, so at the risk of repeating some things...

You can build to make something last, but it takes a bit of foresight into what you know your uses are, some risk on gambling how things go in the future, and trading off performance now (in short, getting less of a GPU to get more of a CPU/platform). This is literally more likely than ever, though, as CPUs last far longer than they used to. The big thing is how well things parallelize, so getting more cores helps (but again, requires more budget invested into CPU and less towards other things). IPC gains have slowed and I don't expect rapid breakthroughs like in the past here (at least not as consistently, although hopefully for the sake of progress it does occur more than it has these last number of years).

That's really all there is to it; it's a balancing game. I upgraded from a Core 2 Duo (E8600) to a Core i5 (2500K) around 9 years ago, probably a bit sooner than I "needed" to. Just so happened that core count AND IPC scaling slowed a lot after that. Combined with the fact I doubled (quadrupled?) down on RAM at 16 GB in 2011, it let my platform last, just doing GPU (and storage) upgrades. Something like a Zen 2 or better 8 or 12 core CPU likely has a good chance of lasting a really long time, but whether that's the best route to go is subjective; some would rather get a faster and/or cheaper lesser core CPU, and upgrade between that time for a faster CPU yet later. It's rather subjective and you have to ask yourself what your own needs and long term budget are and go from there.
最後修改者:Illusion of Progress; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 9:50
🦜Cloud Boy🦜 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 9:56 
Future-proof does not mean that someone has to stay always top-end. No hardware can stay top-end more than 1 or 2 years max, It does not make their future-proofing over (or gone away). Future-proofing means securing the future-usage of the owner. So that the owner don't have to buy it again (or spend money again) on the same hardware (CPU, GPU, etc.). As long as the hardware is satisfying the owners need (fully), it is future-proof.

That's exactly what we are seeing here, happening now. Those who have bought the GPU or CPU like GTX 1080 Ti or i7 8700k, are still totally satisfied by the performance, still fulfilling their needs, many years after purchase. That's why they are future-proof. That's what the OP (or other users who come to seek advice) are looking for, or they meant by ''Future-proofing''. it exists. And it's happening in front of your eyes.
vadim 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 10:47 
引用自 Yamantaka
8 cores could be beneficial even sooner, when PS5 ports start to hit the shelves.
I've been hearing this for 7 years now. And each time the authors of the prediction explain why it did not come true.
引用自 🌈Cloud Boy🌈
Those who have bought the GPU or CPU like GTX 1080 Ti or i7 8700k, are still totally satisfied by the performance, still fulfilling their needs, many years after purchase. That's why they are future-proof.
Are you sure owners of MacBooks Pro with i7/i9 CPUs still satisfied?
最後修改者:vadim; 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 10:53
Yamantaka 2020 年 12 月 7 日 上午 11:04 
引用自 vadim
引用自 Yamantaka
8 cores could be beneficial even sooner, when PS5 ports start to hit the shelves.
I've been hearing this for 7 years now. And each time the authors of the prediction explain why it did not come true.

Maybe I miss your point, but 7 years ago there was no need for 8 cores in gaming nor it's really beneficial at the moment. What I predict is that 8 cores will be good for gaming within few years as games start utilize 8 cores. PS5 was mentioned because it has 8 cores and it's possible that PC ports from PS5 could benefit from having 8 core CPU as well. Of course, that's something we'll see only later on.

But that's just my bet based on experience with previous gens. I've always bought a bit extra in terms of CPU and it has lasted way longer than buying just what I'd currently need. i7 6700k was a good bet in the past and still is okay. Now my bet is with i7 10700k and hopefully that will last too.
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