QOTW: AMD Ryzen or Intel Core for your next PC?

[Phage]

Just dropped in a 3800x into my X370 board. Much cheaper than a new board and chip from Intel

I have to wonder what percentage of the chips pulled during these upgrades get put into new motherboards to be re-used. There should be quite a market for cheap motherboards compatible with old chips (I notice some X570 boards aren't compatible, or cheap).

Sold it to a bloke on OCUK forums.

[Dashers]

Ryzen 3000 desktop variants offer more performance than Ryzen 2000 threadripper, you'd be better off buying the 3900x or actually waiting few more weeks and getting the new 3000 series threadripper.

Desktop variants only have 24 PCIe lanes. You need to go to HEDT for 64 PCIe lanes (plus other advantages, such as quad channel memory and so on).

I'm not fully up with this, but the 3rd gen Ryzens are PCI 4.0 with the right board.
https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/1...ryzen-7-3800x/

So that might be a way forward too? Though it's very possible that I'm miles out of my depth...

This is a good point, whilst it's not only the number of lanes (as above), the tech version is important. The reality is, both brands are a viable option and it will depend largely on what technology is available when I need to upgrade.

Which one has the latest PCIe tech etc., which SKU will provide the maximum life-span. And at the moment, my Haswell-E is showing no signs of straining, I haven't even overclocked it yet. So it'll probably be another year or two before I start looking seriously and the landscape then could be quite different.

[DanceswithUnix]

Sold it to a bloke on OCUK forums.

Cool, so yours was re-used, probably generating a motherboard sale.

My 2200G is back in the box it came in, on the assumption one day I will build another box around it. There are a few machines around here that would be benefit from that as an upgrade, funds willing (which after a big dental bill they currently aren't ).

[DanceswithUnix]

I would like to go to Ryzen but there is so much BIOS/software tweaking here and there, and i'm not geek enough for that.

There was one setting that I really needed to change, and that was the ram profile which is on the main BIOS page on my board. Without that, my 3200 RAM was only running at 2400. TBH I can't feel any difference, but I paid for 3200 so that was what I was going to have

Otherwise, I am geek enough to understand all the settings, and defaults created a system that worked just fine. I did tweak the fan profile for the case fans, but I'm sure an Asus Intel motherboard would have been identical there.

Still, your 9700 should do you fine. A 3700X would have been faster in Blender, but not enough to make a life difference.

[Jonj1611]

I agree, I only had to change my ram profile to XMP and that was it. Oh and the fan curve but that wasn't really essential