wuubb
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When looking at high-end laptops (like the thinkpad x1e or XPS 15), they all pack 6 or now even 8 core CPUs. Obviously they throttle and every review out there says that you can improve it marginally with a repaste/undervolting. (FYI I know the XPS has serious DPC latency issues and unless conclusive proof comes out that Dell fixed that I'm not buying it, just using it as an example).
My question is does it make sense to still get the top-notch i9 CPU in any of these laptops given the extra cache and cores, even if those cores aren't running at max clock speed? Everyone always talks about clock speeds but after taking an operating systems class last semester has left me with the opinion that increasing the cache and decreasing context-switching (more cores = more concurrent processes/threads = less switching) are important.
Any wisdom to help aid in my decision is greatly appreciated!
My question is does it make sense to still get the top-notch i9 CPU in any of these laptops given the extra cache and cores, even if those cores aren't running at max clock speed? Everyone always talks about clock speeds but after taking an operating systems class last semester has left me with the opinion that increasing the cache and decreasing context-switching (more cores = more concurrent processes/threads = less switching) are important.
Any wisdom to help aid in my decision is greatly appreciated!