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Same here. I haven't upgraded my home PC for almost 5 years now, even though I do some digging from time to time to see if there's something worth buying in a m

by kbart 9y ago

Same here. I haven't upgraded my home PC for almost 5 years now, even though I do some digging from time to time to see if there's something worth buying in a middle tier. So far, it was simply not worth upgrading, I hope things will change soon. Heck, even GPU bought back in 2013 is still doing well (I remember times when 1 year old GPU was considered obsolete, even in a middle tier).

dingo_bat 9y ago
I think you'd see a significant improvement now with Ryzen 7 or threadripper. Unless you spent >$3k on your rig ;)
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- dagw 9y ago
  That depends very much on what you use your machine for.
  - geezerjay 9y ago
    > That depends very much on what you use your machine for. In generally it actually doesn't. The AMD Ryzen 7 1800x is selling for less than half the price of an Intel i7-6900k ($420 Vs $1010), and in benchmarks the Ryzen system beats the i7 or practically matches the performance. Getting the same performance for 40% of the cost is something that does not depend on your use case.
    - dagw 9y ago
      Getting the same performance for 40% of the cost is something that does not depend on your use case. Sure, but in many cases the practical difference between an Intel i7-6900k and for example an Intel i3-7XXX (or a 4 year old i5/7) is basically negligible, and the i3 is less than half the price of the Ryzen
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chiph 9y ago
I just upgraded the gaming PC from an i7 2600 (ancient) to a Ryzen 7 1700. So far, video encoding is significantly faster with all 16 logical CPUs busy (but a GPU based program would be stupid fast). I'm having an issue where I get occasional lockups when gaming - updating the BIOS hasn't helped. I expect the game makers will need to ship updated code. One thing I found - the Ryzen is very sensitive to memory speed. Buy 2666 and don't overclock it much - if at all.

by kbart 9y ago

dingo_bat 9y ago

I think you'd see a significant improvement now with Ryzen 7 or threadripper. Unless you spent >$3k on your rig ;)

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dagw 9y ago
That depends very much on what you use your machine for.
- geezerjay 9y ago
  > That depends very much on what you use your machine for. In generally it actually doesn't. The AMD Ryzen 7 1800x is selling for less than half the price of an Intel i7-6900k ($420 Vs $1010), and in benchmarks the Ryzen system beats the i7 or practically matches the performance. Getting the same performance for 40% of the cost is something that does not depend on your use case.
  - dagw 9y ago
    Getting the same performance for 40% of the cost is something that does not depend on your use case. Sure, but in many cases the practical difference between an Intel i7-6900k and for example an Intel i3-7XXX (or a 4 year old i5/7) is basically negligible, and the i3 is less than half the price of the Ryzen
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chiph 9y ago

I just upgraded the gaming PC from an i7 2600 (ancient) to a Ryzen 7 1700. So far, video encoding is significantly faster with all 16 logical CPUs busy (but a GPU based program would be stupid fast). I'm having an issue where I get occasional lockups when gaming - updating the BIOS hasn't helped. I expect the game makers will need to ship updated code. One thing I found - the Ryzen is very sensitive to memory speed. Buy 2666 and don't overclock it much - if at all.