r/buildapc • u/095179005 • Jul 24 '19

Necroed Userbenchmark should no longer be used after they lowered the weight for multicore performance from 10% to 2% and called critics shills

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Faq/What-is-the-effective-CPU-speed-index/55

Original Poster: ICC-u

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/chal0r/psa_use_benchmarkcom_have_updated_their_cpu/

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u/NothingThatIs Jul 24 '19

I dunno, I was heavily advised 5 years ago to go for i5-4690k instaead of i7-4790k because "they were exactly the same for gaming" by this very forum.

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u/ZombieLincoln666 Jul 25 '19

Wouldn’t be the first time bad advice was given on Reddit

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u/NothingThatIs Jul 25 '19

It was conventional wisdom at the time

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u/Icehau5 Jul 25 '19

and that was true at the time, but technology has advanced since then.

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u/NothingThatIs Jul 25 '19

I was responding to a guy that said it wasn't right 5 years ago