Intel Core Ultra 200S: 104 Days Later - Final Review & Performance Insights
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Leo finally brings the end to the 3 and a half month Intel Core Ultra 200S saga with a review featuring all the latest bug fixes and patches. its been a long journey and now we can finally move onto the motherboard content. 00:00 Intro 01:10 Architectural recap / pricing 07:01 Retesting and hardware 10:33 Cinebench 2024 Multi Core 11:41 Cinebench 2024 Single Core 12:33 Geekbench 6 Multi Core 13:02 Geekbench 6 Single Core 13:34 CPU power consumption 14:22 7-ZIP V24 Benchmark 15:12 AIDA64 Memory Bandwidth 16:01 Memory latency 16:46 3DMark TimeSpy 17:28 Far Cry 6 18:13 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora 18:55 Assassins Creed Mirage 19:20 Total War Pharaoh 20:08 Cyberpunk 2077 20:53 Leos considers the platform Some prices: Core Ultra 9 285K £600 Core Ultra 7 265K £380 Core Ultra 5 245K £290 Core i9-14900K £460 Core i7-14700K £350 Core i5-14600K £230 Ryzen 9 9950X £570 Ryzen 9 9900X £400 Ryzen 7 9800X3D £520 Ryzen 7 9700X £320 Ryzen 5 9600X £240 Ryzen 7 7800X3D £450 MSI MEG Z890 Ace £650 Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X £440 MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi £450 48GB G.Skill Trident Z5 CK DDR5-8200 C40 £275 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6800 C34 £120 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 C30 £115 Test Systems: CPU – Intel Core Ultra 200S Motherboard – MSI MEG Z890 Ace Memory – 48GB G.Skill Trident Z5 CK CUDIMM DDR5-8200 CPU – Intel 14th Gen Raptor Lake Motherboard – Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Master X Memory – 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DR5-6800 CPU – AMD Ryzen 9000 and 7000 Motherboard – MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi Memory – 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DR5-6000 Common components: Graphics Card – MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24GB Storage – 1TB Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD CPU Cooler – MSI MAG CoreLiquid I360 AIO Power Supply – Seasonic Focus ATX3.1 GX-1000 Gold Operating System – Windows 11 24H2 Buy our merch from here: https://kitgurutech.myspreadshop.co.uk Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/4cqFSWY Steam Community https://steamcommunity.com/groups/kitguruofficial Be sure to support us on PATREON https://www.patreon.com/kitgurutech and read our MANTRA on HONEST REVIEWS Here: http://bit.ly/2BopnF9 Visit our facebook page over here! https://www.facebook.com/KitGuru.net/ Visit our Twitter page over here! https://twitter.com/kitgurupress?lang=en #intel #coreultra #intelcoreultra
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