Gadgetory

welcome back to hardware unbox wait sir wrong channel I gave the 7900 XCore i9 CP from Intel a lot of flag for running extremely hot and having terrible value and I still stand by those words it cost about one thousand US dollars despite only having ten cores and while that seems like a lot on paper you can extract comparable performance from an eight-core horizon CPU so what then is the 79 80 x ee offering that the 7900 x does not and if you're going with x2 9 9 for that matter what motherboard should you choose it's time we take a closer look at some serious firepower this is the gigabyte horas X 299 gaming 7 pro big name for a showstopper of a motherboard one of the most dense ATX boards in existence from a strictly feature standpoint loaded with this future-proofing RGB LEDs and sporting a hefty price tag under the hood you'll find a 3 m dot 2 slots 5 full size PCIe slots to it 16 lanes one at 8 in the last 2 at 4 a redesigned power delivery system built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth amp up surround sound audio and the mighty LJ 2066 socket I think the board looks beautiful I love the dr debugs present i'm counting eight 4-pin hybrid fan headers though one albeit is being used by the included vrm fan which is nice active cooling there and the chipset heatsink is sexy is always on these horas lineups one thing I'm very keen to testing however is this new phase systems galaxy's no softy when it comes to power and I expect a double six plus one phase config should keep things nice and hydrated below and by the way once we pop in the 79 ATX I behemoth expect to pull around 600 watts of power alone from the CPU when heavily overclocked not easy to do but you know some people have gotten to five-year Hertz on this chip so now let's shift it to the CPU this is an 18 core 36th red-giant maybe not as the biggest threat Ripper in terms of physical size but undoubtedly more powerful thanks to its higher stock clock speed as well as it's over clocking potential and the reason why I'm stressing this board from gigabyte is because as you'll see shortly overclocking requires an immense amount of power and cooling which the gaming 7 pro can handle with ease at least on the power delivery side now to be clear this isn't a gaming CPU 18 cores is severe overhead in fact would be like an utilise half of them and we can see with these benchmarks here they're showing no promises at all in fact GTA v was underperforming with respect to our 7900 X thanks to its lower clock speed it's just more difficult in general to reach the same overclocks with a higher core count chip on top of that I couldn't reach 4.6 even if I wanted because the CPU just gets so darn hot even universe sandbox to fail to impress despite its heavy CPU utilization in our earth and many moons simulation Doom was a similar story once we passed a certain core threshold the only thing really holding us back is our frequency 4 gigahertz just isn't cutting it here in fact we're performing about on par with eight core horizon CPUs that cost well I'll be at about 6 times less than the CPU here not all is dim though we do see substantial gains in our 3dmark fire strike physics test not really applicable to the hardcore gamer but still worth noting from a raw horsepower standpoint a 17-8 exe leaves no stone unturned we crushed an ax bench at 4 gigahertz with a score of 38 49 and if we'd match the 7900 x is 4.6 gigahertz frequency we'd have nearly doubled its score Geekbench wasn't as impressive for our 18 core giant but it's stressing a wide array of resources and of course we're looking at identical IPC's across sky like X as seen in our single core scores a typical application for higher core count CPUs is content creation rendering editing and the like we benefit from 18 cores with the 79-80 X II in Adobe Premiere Pro but not to the extent I had hoped this ultimately comes down to optimization and thus utilization more appropriate fits for the CPU fall under the realms of encoding and virtual machines now it's still difficult to recommend this platform if you have to question whether or not you need it then you don't need it I've got a few friends who always end up buying these because their workloads and they favor Intel platforms and I totally get that but this is still a one-percenter market heck I would argue for that matter that the Red River is as well but if you've got x-29 on in your site's there is one thing I can say with confidence the gaming 7 Pro from gigabyte is no slouch not only does it look great and boast most of the features that you'd be looking for it also has an excellent thermal design and a consistent UEFI with two ape and power connectors that's important for most to extent on boards you can be sure that power delivery will be in check and that your temps will also be in check thanks to the active vrm cooling and the newly designed power delivery system in short a grade board just not so great a platform you could squeak out 80% of the 79ad xcs performance with a thread Ripper 19:50 x which mind you costs $1,000 less I've linked both CPUs along with their compatible motherboards ones that I would recommend in this video's description if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up I appreciate that thumbs down for the opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click that subscribe but if you haven't already stay tuned for more content like this this is science studio thanks for learning with us you