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dmitrygr
Wow! That "ARTICLE" is 80% ad by scrollbar length. How did we ever get here on the web? :(
tdb7893
People seem to dislike both ads and paywalls. I'm curious if sites will find another way to monetize eventually.
dmitrygr
I can live with ads, but iff they make up < 50% of the page by area...
MR4D
Apparently they have to do this to keep up with the faster processors. If they don't then sales go down and every one gets hurt!

;)

nightcracker
At which point do you start wondering what corners Intel cut this time?
ddp
I'm sure they're just as bad as every other Intel chip has ever been.
some_account
Overall the article is confirming that Intel keeps giving out minor cpu gains of 10-15% on single core, which is hardly even noticeable.

It's only when apps and games start to truly use multi core that users will notice higher performance.

Sohcahtoa82
Yup.

Pretty sure an i7-8700 is only about 40-50% faster than my nearly 6 year old i7-3770.

I keep thinking "My system is 6 years old...it's time to upgrade" but I just can't justify it. I'm still running DDR3 (Granted, 32 GB of it), so I'd need to do the CPU/mobo/RAM trifecta.