Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs

Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by archi42 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:42AM (#18173783)

I doubt that number, too. Our CPU-bound workload runs "only" 20% faster on an i7-6xxx than it did on an i7-920 (calculated for equal clocks; due to the higher clock it was actually about 60% faster, which caused me to do the math because I feared a regression). That's far away from 20% per generation.

But in one thing you err: After a small custom BIOS mod, my home PC now boots from nvme - with a Z68 board (Sandy Bridge era), the module sitting in a PCIe adapter card. Was just a matter of adding some UEFI module.

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Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by tracker1 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:54PM (#18179302)

Yeah, my mb had an nvme m.2 slot, but it was pciex2, so the x4 card (most seem to be) didn't work. Why I went with an adapter.

The main thing lately is when I'm running a lot of containers/vms for workloads it tends to box down a little. Outside of that and 4k 3d, don't notice it ever. But the new stuff is only just starting to get better enough that I may upgrade next year sometime.

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