(for the record, Precision Boost 2 and XFR2 will function on existing X370 boards as long as they have updated BIOS)
Very, very interesting. This behavior is closer to chat I'm seeing from NVIDIA's latest GPUs, which are self-overclocking with temperature being a factor.
This is not like Intel Turbo Boost 2.0. Rather, it's something quite a bit more advanced.
This time around, AMD genuinely delivered on its promise of delivering better performance with better cooling.
> If you spend some money on good cooling, there's no reason to manually overclock Ryzen 7 2700X. Thanks to XFR2, AMD's flagship should remain stable above 4 GHz, even under full load. Try to go any higher and you'll pay a hefty price in heat, power, and possibly long-term reliability.
> Dell's Inspiron 15 5000 notebook, which can be had with a 7th-gen Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 4GB AMD Radeon R7 graphics card for $700.
It probably goes without saying this isn't the most luxurious notebook in the world—you have to deal with a 1TB HDD instead of a faster SSD, there's no USB-C, and, again, the processor is a generation old—but that's still a good amount of horsepower for a laptop with a midrange price. Just note that it uses a TN panel, not an IPS one, so its contrast isn't the best—though it does at least have a 1080p resolution and is touch-enabled. There's also a DVD d…
Saaaaaaaaaaaay... None of you on the US want to bring it to me here, do you?
@Bob Consider how much stuff is run "in the cloud" these days, and often on shared iron where decades old hardware level bugs continue to be discovered on a monthly basis...
And half the time you find shit on the backend is way less secure (or more poorly secured) because someone assumes it's on a private LAN so they don't need to apply sensible security precautions... cause y'know nobody ever gets past the border firewall...
That reminds me of a service that used to be run by a company I used to work for called "Ezproxy", you literally went to ezproxy.company.domain/random.website.here and once authenticated the server would open a standard unsecure connection to random.website and serve it to you as a fake proxy
Sure your connection to the proxy server was coughself-signed-certificatecough "secure" but beyond that it was a lawless wilderness
