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Ryzen 3 Has Rizen – Performant quadcores on a budget
- trome 9y agoHuh, a $100 quadcore ain't half bad, perhaps I should buy one. Looks like it'd be faster than this first gen Core i5 I'm using. Could probably keep the upgrade sub-$250 for RAM/CPU/Motherboard...
- metilda 9y agoWhat kind of i5 do you have? If its a i5-2500k your only going to gain ~15% to ~20% in performance, I would buy a 1600X or just hold off on upgrading at all.
- trome 9y agoHuh, might end up going for a higher end chip, but I could definitely use that bump in performance! Already got an SSD, optimized kernel and a few other tweaks to get the most out of this chip, but it only goes so far.
- uncheckederror 9y agoDoes your i5 feel slow? If not, it might be worth chilling out for a bit to see if Intel will counter with a price drop.
- trome 9y agoYeah, my i5 feels a touch sluggish, and I know it won't get better as I dip into Clojure!
- ccdev 9y agoI will possibly upgrade to a Ryzen3 or 5 to my next main home system. The only reason I can see sticking with Intel for now is for Hackintosh.
- uncheckederror 9y agoThis guy got Ryzen to work with a Hackintosh: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/689xt3/ryzen_hackintosh_success/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/689xt3/ryzen_ha...
- HueyLe 9y agoYea, Idk. Back kn the early APU days I remember hearing that Apple wanted to use AMD's high end mobile APUs, but it fell through due to lack of supply.
- posguy 9y agoReferring to https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/17/apple-had-late-stage-prototypes-of-an-amd-fusion-based-macbook-air/ https://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/17/apple-had-late-stage-pr... perchance?