Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
Just started gathering the components for my first new build in 10 years. It's going to be a Ryzen 2600 build.
A no-brainer really. What i will save on comparable Intel parts will get me a much better graphics card.
If the past 5 years tell us anything...The current Intel architecture is going nowhere. Yields are terrible, and 10nm has been delayed ANOTHER year.
Brian Krzanich sold his Intel shares for a reason.....
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
yep looking at the 2600, but ram is still quite expensive may have to wait a bit longer
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
Just about - it's still tricky as my balance between media creation and games is changing so much.
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
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EvilCycle
I have finished with my build for now but currently have a project going with my brother in law for a gaming rig, the single core performance still has him wanting the 8700k I am afraid. As some people have said here, whilst AMD are doing a great job with professional multi core workloads, unless they can actually beat Intel by a noticeable difference in gaming performance for a similar or better price, not as many people as AMD would like are wanting to bite. It is sad but true, I did the same thing with my rig, I ended up getting the 7700k instead of the 1800x.
I bet you and your brother are the type of people that don't realise that any performance gap is:
A. Actually only 10% using a GTX 1080 while gaming at 1080p, which would be unnoticeable to the naked eye.
B. The gaming performance gap would be totally negligible at 1440p/4k or if you're using cards under the GTX 1080, which is like 95% of people.
So please, I hope you game with a 1080 or 1080 Ti at 1080p res, otherwise your choice is based on false assumptions, like a lot of people. That, or it's wilful ignorance taking this line 'Ryzen is still behind in gaming' when you know that to eek out a small (unnoticeable) performance gap between the 2700X and 8700K, you have to have a very niche and expensive set-up.
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
A mini-ITX x470 and a sale would be enough for me to jump.
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
It's achieved a good 90% of my expectations and it a fantastic product from a relatively well run public company (as in, they aren't swimming in money like Apple and Intel currently mess with).
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
R5 1600 is even more of a bargain since the price drop.
Would it be worth getting a 2nd gen board and pairing it with that.
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
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pp05
... Would it be worth getting a 2nd gen board and pairing it with that.
'Worth' is very subjective. For someone who would neither upgrade nor overclock their CPU, there's no compelling reason to look past a cheap A320 motherboard. Beyond that you're trading off price v feature set on a board by board basis....
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
Not enough for me yet.
I'm having to replace my main PC and Intel is the only chip I'm looking at.
If AMD brought out a chip that out-performed Intel by 10% then I would reconsider, but until then......
Re: QOTW: Has 2nd Gen Ryzen done enough to sway you towards AMD?
I'll certainly be using one of these for my next build, I do a lot of photo/video editing and rendering so this is a huge boost to me at a decent price.
With regard to the whole single-threaded/gaming performance, the fault doesn't lie with AMD or Intel, it's the developers. What strikes me is that while multi-core CPUs have been around for over a decade, game developers still don't utilise them, most professional software does and utilises CUDA too so for me I really do feel for gamers. SW houses should be using multi core support and there really is no excuse for not doing so.