Gadgetory


All Cool Mind-blowing Gadgets You Love in One Place

i9-7980XE - What Can 18 Cores at 4GHz DO?

2018-07-05
so on the desk right here we have the 79 80 X Z CPU from Intel this is 18 cause 36 threads there's so many cause and threads on this thing in fact that afterburner a software for monitoring your CPU utilization and GP utilization in games can't even stretch out that many threads it can only recognize up to 32 threads so when it came to monitoring games and doing literally so many things at once this CPU was too much for even the software to handle but in today's video we're gonna take a look at why someone would even want to buy something like the I 9 79 80 XC and comparing it a little bit against the i7 8700 K for example which does have less cause less threads and does have higher clock speeds and cost considerably less I mean this thing comes in at around 2000 US dollars or if you're in Australia 2,700 AUD and see just how much it takes to stress this CPU out but before we get onto the making of this gorgeous build I'd like to give a big thanks to Intel for sponsoring out today's video welcome back to tech yesterday and here we have the 18 core installed on an X 299 Tai Chi motherboard from asrock now straight away with something like this you'll have to get a good motherboard something like the Tai Chi will cost around 290 dollars you're also going to use a lot of memory especially if you're video editing today we're using 32 gigabytes of HyperX predator memory this stuff has tight timings at CL 15 and XMP profiles at 2 9 33 megahertz which is so easy in the bass to lock in now another thing you can do with this CPU is overclocked it so out of the box it'll clock to 3.4 gigahertz automatically on all cores whilst you're doing a Cinebench run for example or if you're doing video editing it's marked at 2.6 gigahertz but that's because it carries the AVX instructions which does turn out a lot of heat compared to traditional work where you don't use those AVX instructions for instance in video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro you aren't using those instructions and it will juice about 400 watts from the wall both in stress testing and when you're utilizing all those cores at 4 gigahertz and I say 4 Giga it's because that's the balance that I got here today I managed to overclock the CPU with ease and we're using a 280 millimeter cooler master water cooler as well and this keep the temperatures under control we're only getting a maximum of 80 degrees so it was handling everything absolutely fine however when it comes to games it will fall slightly behind the 8700 K when it comes to just gaming for instance csgo the frame rates were just a little bit behind they're still very impressive on the 79 80 XC i moving over to pub G and Final Fantasy 15 saw no difference since these games are frame capped when it comes to streaming from the CPU however in x264 which a lot of people still love to do because apparently you get better image quality especially when you lower the settings to either slow medium or fast you did pull ahead with the 79 80 XE it just had so much more room to work with of course it's got quad channel memory if you want to utilize that too if you've got other applications open at the same time for example but this is where the difference was made you're getting really good image quality very smooth gameplay the 0.1 and 1% lows especially on the medium and slow settings are still quite low but these are very taxing settings when it came to the fast-setting it did pull ahead of the 8700 k especially in csgo move over to pub G and Final Fantasy 15 didn't show a huge difference but it does show the maximum potential of the cpu now to make things even more ridiculous I decided to really stress this cpu I put in Adobe Premiere Pro decided to mix some music have a browser open stream and play a video game all at the same time and everything was still holding up so this thing if you want to multitask like an absolute boss then that's where the CPU will really excel now another thing recently which is very weird because I use Adobe Premiere Pro for editing videos is it just got an update where it can now utilize all caused and all threads so even up to an 18 core 36 threaded beast like this the render times were absolutely insane I can't stress how surprised I was we're talking around 7 minutes and 34 seconds vs. 16 minutes and 59 seconds on the 8,700 case so there's a massive difference this is on a review that I would push out on the channel which has a lot of transitions a lot of After Effects and also a lot of text scrolling moving presets and even color correction too so it's a very heavy workload and even of course the 1080 Ti is helping with that with cooter acceleration but it goes to show that Premiere Pro is still very CPU dependent especially when it comes to the actual live work time which will utilize all those calls and threads now with the latest update and in a nutshell that's pretty much the core I 9 extreme if you need something that can do everything and you can utilize 18 cores and 36 threads especially in the professional work space with even some of the updates coming from Adobe themselves finally then this thing will deliver of course if you're going to spend a lot of money on CPU like this then I do highly recommend getting good gear to match get a nice case we're using the H 500 P here and when I did some temperature tests with the thermal-imaging camera this case was absolutely fine also the noise was really quiet we've got good memory we've got a very good motherboard with the X to 990 Qi and also an EVGA 10 ETI to boot for the power supply we're using an 850 white gold Raider pounce play and that handled this build absolutely fine so again the CPU itself juicing around 400 watts from the wall when you're in games it'll actually juice even less because those cores are now not getting loaded as much and even the 1080 TR power consumption really won't match it actually balances out just a little over 400 watts in games soo so very potent very huge and again a big thanks for Intel for sponsoring out this video although I don't get to keep this CPU which I'm devastated about I'd love to put this thing in my new rig especially with that new update that changes pretty much the whole game when it comes to my workflow and I do spend a lot of time in Adobe Premiere and Adobe Creative Cloud for example so hope you guys enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comments section below what you think of the 79 80 X e and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.