AMD on track to gain 30 per cent desktop CPU market share

[Wolfclaw]

Now we just need a cheaper Vega to compete with RTX.

[Percy1983]

Well look at it this way - you could get a Ryzen 7 2700X with a £150 motherboard and 32GB of RAM and it will cost less than many RTX2080 cards.

This is true, but the RTX 2080 doesn't even exist in my world so doesn't come into comparisons as everything is cheap in comparison.

Funnily enough you have hit the spec I am looking at on the head, just want to leave to ram slots clear to have potential for 64gb later.

RAM prices are slowly coming back down but the next round of Samsung price fixing looks worrying.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is true, but the RTX 2080 doesn't even exist in my world so doesn't come into comparisons as everything is cheap in comparison.

Funnily enough you have hit the spec I am looking at on the head, just want to leave to ram slots clear to have potential for 64gb later.

RAM prices are slowly coming back down but the next round of Samsung price fixing looks worrying.

It puts it into perspective at how poorly priced GPUs are now though!! The 2700X isn't even the best value Ryzen SKU - one of the deals for the Ryzen 7 1700 at under £200 or a £142 Ryzen 5 2600 are better value.

[DanceswithUnix]

Now we just need a cheaper Vega to compete with RTX.

Vega is already cheaper but only competes with the non-Ti 1080, I think we need one that is a better Vega

[Percy1983]

It puts it into perspective at how poorly priced GPUs are now though!! The 2700X isn't even the best value Ryzen SKU - one of the deals for the Ryzen 7 1700 at under £200 or a £142 Ryzen 5 2600 are better value.

My original intention was a 1700 (no stranger to overclocking) and that plan has been delayed and modified, could be Ryzen 2 by the time I can afford/justify RAM prices. In my case I would see the benefit of 8C/16T so wouldn't mind going a little past best value but could be swayed to a 6C/12T chip if the price is too good to be true.

[msroadkill612]

With nvme raid arrays and vega, its not hard to have storage with the raw speed of system memory to an 8 lane dgpu.

vega allows you to use system memory as gpu cache, and windows in turn, can swap any memory overflow out to the fast array.

A KISS way would be to boot on a triple drive array, which should yield ~8GB/s reads & 6GB/s writes.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

My original intention was a 1700 (no stranger to overclocking) and that plan has been delayed and modified, could be Ryzen 2 by the time I can afford/justify RAM prices. In my case I would see the benefit of 8C/16T so wouldn't mind going a little past best value but could be swayed to a 6C/12T chip if the price is too good to be true.

My system is coming to a point I probably do need to upgrade(CPU and cooler are close to 5 years old,and the board PCI-E slot has a broken clip now),but I picked up 16GB of RAM last year for £56. However,it is only 2400MHZ C14 stuff and is probably Micron dual ranked stuff. So I am stuck with doing a Ryzen 2600 build with 2400MHZ RAM. Oh well!

[Ozaron]

What happened to the Chinese Inquisition... uh, price fixing investigation? Surely with all of the economic stuff going on they'd love to smack some monopolists with fines right now, convince them to stop holding back supply.