I Bought the Two FASTEST CPUs... but I'm Only Keeping the Winner - 13900K vs 7950X

Linus is going to upgrade to the next generation, but does he stick with AMD or has Intel clawed their way back on top? We built overkill computers for each team and drag raced them in his favorite games to determine the winner.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:10 Who Builds What
3::00 Motherboards
5:30 Overkill SSD
6:25 Cooling
7:24 GPU
9:05 PSU
9:50 Memory
11:12 Boot
13:10 CSGO
15:10 Anno
16:45 Halo
17:20 Choose
19:25 Outro

[vgtrombone]

Man, when the deciding factor is sale pricing and stock you know that the competition is fierce

[thexgamer]

Linus: *I need a new CPU.*

AMD and Intel looking at each other: *This building ain’t big enough for the two of us.*

[almostde]

The fact that the 4090 alone draws more watts than my entire computer is just nuts

[RationalJJ]

Both these CPUs have vastly different architectures, signal paths, core counts, caches, clock speeds, and instruction sets. They were designed and manufactured independantly by entirely different teams with next to no direct communication between them. Yet when they were pitted against each other, the difference is negligible at the abstraction levels of our minds. It just blows my mind just thinking about it
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[MichaelBlock]

Okay can we just hold up for a second to talk about how he got to build his own RAM? That's actually really sick!

[mumble]

These builds basically just epitomise "Kid goes onto online pc builder and chooses all of the most expensive options" and I love it.

[WildWolfGaming]

There was no untitled goose game I’m disappointed

[whiskeytuesday]

Linus lying on the ground incredulously reminding us that time is a flat circle is a genuine moment

[Neoxon]

- Says they need a new CPU
- Builds an entire new PC

And yeah, this further shows how *MASSIVE* the 4090 is.

[Wolfiecolada]

linus seems genuinely happy to be doing this with this person specifically.

[matthewm]

It's funny because you used a clip from your pretty old $2500 rgb pc build, and it was nice to see that. That was probably the first video of yours that I watched and has kept me around for a while. Love the content, always love it

[Ryaninja]

If they're this close on performance, you should have put an energy meter on the end of the PC plugs so we could see how much energy they used over the course to see if there was a difference there.

[akoszorin]

The 4090 seems soo thick in a real build... As if someone accidentally extruded it 1 [inch] instead of 1 [cm] in CAD...

[FectacularSpail]

Holy crap, I didn't even know 8tb m.2s were out yet. That's more storage than my entire machine. lol

[iainballas]

I ended up deciding to go AMD simply for one reason: Longer socket support. They just started doing AM5, when Intel has switched sockets every couple years now to force mobo upgrades.
7950X for me.

[matthewferguson]

Given that amd kept their word on the lifecycle of the AM4 platform, going AM5 means having a platform that will be around for a while with easier upgrading in the future.

[struckdk]

Would love to see the power consumption compared in these equally performing pc's

[Anthrocarbon]

Linus, filling one's PCI slots is genuinely up there. Only once in my life have I had seven slots used by something useful, and it felt incredible.

[alexzhang]

Should also consider the new AM5 socket will go on so you will be able to upgrade your AMD cpu in the future without having to change motherboards, while intel is changing sockets after the 13900K so you’ll need a new mobo for the next gen intel cpus

[BalancedSpirit]

3:45 Yes, someone said it!! Back in college I had a gaming rig with an ATI Rage 128 for the 2D card, Voodo2 SLI and a sound card, filling up all my PCI slots. I had one ISA slot which I put a modem into. It was beautiful.