Intel Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-10700K Review: Is 65W Comet Lake an Option?
by Dr. Ian Cutress on January 21, 2021 10:30 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i7
- Z490
- 10th Gen Core
- Comet Lake
- i7-10700K
- i7-10700
Gaming Tests: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
The benchmark tool comes with a number of presets:
- 768p Minimum, 1080p Standard, 1080p Max, 4K Max (not a preset)
The odd one out is the 4K Max preset, because the benchmark doesn’t automatically have a 4K option – to get this we edit the acceptable resolutions ini file, and then we can select 4K. The benchmark outputs its own results file, with frame times, making it very easy to parse the data needed for average and percentiles.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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bji - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
To clarify: 95% was an exaggeration. Micro Center has like 20 or 30 stores and is accessible by more than 5% of the USA population. But it's probably not more than 20%. Anyway any store that is not available to the majority of people cannot be called "general availability".bji - Thursday, January 21, 2021 - link
I mean seriously. If Micro Center were that easy to get through, would there even be a shortage of these chips at online vendors? Everyone would already be satisfied by the Micro Center supply. But a) the fact that there is online shortage means very clearly that most people can't get one from Micro Center (otherwise they already would have and there would not be zero supply online), and b) if a significant fraction of the population could actually get them from Micro Center, Micro Center would clearly already be sold out also.magreen - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
@bji: How do you feel about Microcenter?calc76 - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
I'd suspect its probably well more than 50% of the US population is within an hour drive of a Microcenter. The names of the cities listed on their site aren't all easily recognizable but the metro areas are almost all the large ones.Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
DC
Detroit
Denver
DFW
Houston
Kansas City
LA
Minneapolis
Newark
NYC
Philadelphia
St Louis
Dug - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
They were actually available today at Amazon for a very long time at @299. Of course it's back up again after mass ordering at the time I'm posting this.bji - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
I checked several times today. How did I miss that? I doubt it was for a very long time. Probably closer to that 10 minutes I mentioned.jimbo2779 - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
Nephew bought a 5600x for MSRP here in the UK from Currys which is by far the largest national chain of electronics and computer equipment.You could try signing up for an alerts service, providing you have the funds ready to put down you could likely have one in the next week or so. Not as ideal as next day from any major retailer but the chips are coming in stock.
Spunjji - Friday, January 22, 2021 - link
UK here. They do mention low availability of that chip in the article, but I notice that didn't prevent you coming here to whinge about it anyway.From my perspective in the UK, they have 10+ in stock at Overclockers for £299.99 and unspecified stock at CCL for £309.
I must say I especially enjoyed how you elaborately set up the goalposts in your first post, then moved them around with every response. Good game!
bji - Saturday, January 23, 2021 - link
No goalposts were moved. If you'd care to elaborate, I'd respond. Or were you just whining about my whinging?Spunjji - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
That last bit. 👍Your original post said that none of the processors have had general availability and that it would be months before prices hit MSRP. People have pointed out a few times that in various parts of the world, availability is there and prices are at (or very near) MSRP, yet you've still found reasons not to admit that maybe you overstated things a bit.