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My next CPU will be an AMD.
by boyadjian 7y ago
My next CPU will be an AMD.
- kinleyd 7y agoMine too. I'm giving my current rig another two years.
- ryacko 7y agoIs the socket really zero insertion force? I've always been planning on buying an AMD CPU after dealing with an Intel processor.
- MrRadar 7y agoYes, as long as the pins are properly aligned it should literally drop in.
- theandrewbailey 7y agoYes. I remember my 1800X making a "thunk" sound[0] when it dropped into the socket. It requires as much insertion force as water into a cup. [0] https://youtu.be/QdNISYm0w-U?t=756 https://youtu.be/QdNISYm0w-U?t=756
- ryacko 7y agoIf AMD advertised that their CPUs can be installed gingerly as opposed to Intel which felt like thirty pounds of pressure was required, then I would have opted for the older, but AMD chip. Had a false impression from all the PC part guides that somehow each were equal difficulty.
- theandrewbailey 7y agoMost AMD heatsinks use a clip retention mechanism, which definitely require significant force. Aside: at least new CPUs have heatspreaders. The first heatsink I installed was on an Athlon XP 2500+. Those things had the bare die exposed! Do it wrong the first time, and you had an expensive tiny brick.
- Nexxxeh 7y agoRetro tip - copper shim.
- toast0 7y agoI've installed a couple of the Intel LGA CPUs, and I don't remember there being that much force required to put the lever down; although it's a bit less comfortable than the traditional ZIF. Speculation is that ZIF sockets are harder to ruin in manufacturing and shipping than all the pins in LGA sockets, allowing AMD to have more confidence in the supply chain. For higher end chips, like ThreadRipper and Epyc, AMD uses LGA like Intel -- the pin count is too high not to.
- bitwize 7y agoYes. Typically you lift the lever on the side of the socket, drop the CPU in, and then lower the lever. The lever causes the holes in the socket to tighten, clamping down on the pins in the chip, holding it in place. ZIF sockets have been a part of PC builds and a feature of motherboards since at least the early-mid 90s.
- numpad0 7y agoCan’t recall a CPU socket that isn’t lever locked ZIF since Coppermine...
- VectorLock 7y agoDo the Ryzen CPUs actually have pins?
- dave7 7y agoYes.
- Koshkin 7y agoi5-9400F looks amazing though. Powerful and cheap.
- MrMember 7y agoI put a 2700X in my most recent desktop and a 2400G in my HTPC. For the price they can't be beat.
- sureste 7y agoAre you gaming with the 2700X by chance? How is it?
- iaml 7y agoNot GP, but gaming on 2700x+1070ti w/ 144hz 1440p monitor. It's suboptimal, but usually I can play games on high/ultra settings ~60fps or full 144 on low-medium. Not having any problems with VR either.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago> 1070ti LOL, cries in RX580 at 60hz on 1080p.
- vkaku 7y agoI am doing that. I can play most games very well, including Battlefield, even though it isn't optimized for more than 6 overall threads. Never had a real issue so far.
- madlynormal 7y agoI game with a 2600x / 2080ti @ 1440p/165hz, on average I see 150 FPS in Apex Legends. Not an optimal setup, but not too shabby either. Planning on upgrading to the 3900x once it's released.
- noir_lord 7y agoI game with my 2700X/RTx2080 and it’s phenomenal, Battlefield 5 is gorgeous in 4K (though I have to drop to 1440 if I enable RT and ultra settings, that’s the GPU though not the cpu). It’s so good I’m probably going to defer my upgrade for Zen 2 til Zen 2+ or whatever it’s called.
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- nvahalik 7y agoI bought a Ryzen 7 1700X and have been running Ubuntu on it for over a month now. It's insanely fast. (32 GB Ram, 1 TB Samsung EVO 970 nvme, Radeon 580)... I've even been able to overclock it some (3.4Ghz base speed -> 3.77 Ghz). Although I added some additional cooling and I think I could reasonably get 4Ghz out of it. I miss several of my core daily-driving Mac apps (Querious, MailMate, and Messages) but for ~$1,300... it's hard to beat!
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoYou can run Mac under AMD (compatibility's not too bad now)
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoThis requires a custom kernel though. I wouldn’t reccomend that route for a Hackintosh system.
- shortformblog 7y agoYou could do it via KVM-based virtualization without a ton of trouble.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoBeen there, done that, would recommend.
- thelittleone 7y agoThis is interesting. Any recommended project links so I can read more?
- Wowfunhappy 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20222492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20222492
- CapricornNoble 7y agoI'm been thinking of building a low-end AMD APU system solely for Windows gaming (all of my computers except an old Panasonic CF-19 are running Kubuntu). Even the Ryzen 3 2200G can handle almost any game I'm likely to throw at it.
- Baeocystin 7y agoI picked up a Ryzen 5 laptop last month (great sale at Costco, needed a new cheap machine) and I'm shocked at how well it performs, in both compute and GPU. It's not my desktop's GTX1080, but it can play anything I've thrown at it without needing an additional discrete chip like my older Intel/Nvidia machine.
- craftyguy 7y agoMy next CPU will hopefully be RISC-V.