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I replaced my i7 4790k with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 two weeks ago and am extremely happy with it so far. It was only $195!

by knd775 7y ago

Macha 7y ago
Replaced my i5-4670k with a ryzen 3900x a couple of months ago and demoted my old desktop to a home server. But now considering upgrading that server to a r5-3600 anyway, as I've been using VS code's remote feature for development on the train, and that would still benefit for faster compiles.
- tracker1 7y ago
  If you aren't already, drop in an nvme drive (may need a pcie x4 adapter)... depending on what you are using, that would be a huge boost as well.
tracker1 7y ago
Same, my old system started acting up... was (and still) waiting for r9-3950X to drop.. but even the jump to a 3600 was significant to say the least. Will swap for 3950X on release, and should keep me for the next 5+ years. That said the 3600 is no slouch. Aside: I did a min-cycle upgrade to a good nvme drive (samsung 860) and a GTX 1080 when that video card came out, which was a pretty big bump on the old box.
- nickjj 7y ago
  > I did a min-cycle upgrade to a good nvme drive (samsung 860) and a GTX 1080 when that video card came out, which was a pretty big bump on the old box. In your day to day, how big of a difference is that drive vs a SATA SSD you might have bought 5-6 years ago? I know going from a HDD to an SSD was a mind blowing experience but now things open so fast even on an old SATA SSD that I find it hard to imagine things can feel that much faster.
  - tracker1 7y ago
    For day to day, I really don't notice the difference much... building node/web projects it's as big a night/day difference as going from HDD to SSD was... Say a web project takes 3+ minutes on HDD, then 30 seconds on SSD, think <5 seconds on NVME. The load times are slightly better, from noticeable to blink of an eye for most apps. Not too much difference for most tasks, but man if you're doing a lot of work in node (or anything else touching lots of files) it's pretty significant. But ymmv on this. Database work is significantly faster as well.
  - gameswithgo 7y ago
    There is very little practical difference going from a slow SATA ssd to a fast top of the line nvme ssd. If you are doing huge sequential reads and writes as part of some workflow, then the difference will be big, but boot times, game load times, compile times, are not much different. Like maybe you boot in 29 seconds instead of 30. So don't spend too much! Just get something known to be reliable with a decent cache on it. the claims in a sibling thread about a given web build being 30 seconds on a sata SSD -> 5 seconds NVME are not likely true, I think that poster may be assuming the differences would be that large.
    - tracker1 7y ago
      Not an assumption... literally that (large web/node projects) and database work (crunching long data files) are the only two places I really notice the difference. The project in particular, I had to build on an old office machine (hdd) was over 3 minutes... at home before on ssd was around 30 seconds, and under 5 seconds on the nvme.
  - CoolGuySteve 7y ago
    Unless the parent made a typo, the Samsung 860 is a SATA over m.2 drive, so it's nowhere near as fast as a PCI NVME drive. I have a Samsung 970 EVO and I spend most of my time compiling with g++. Copying large files is nice but overall I find the disk cache in Linux mostly makes the drive performance irrelevant for compiling if you have enough RAM. Also be aware that if you have an older motherboard with PCI-E 2.0, you'll be limited to 1GB/sec transfer rates anyways.

I replaced my i7 4790k with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 two weeks ago and am extremely happy with it so far. It was only $195!

by knd775 7y ago

I replaced my i7 4790k with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 two weeks ago and am extremely happy with it so far. It was only $195!

Replaced my i5-4670k with a ryzen 3900x a couple of months ago and demoted my old desktop to a home server. But now considering upgrading that server to a r5-3600 anyway, as I've been using VS code's remote feature for development on the train, and that would still benefit for faster compiles.

tracker1 7y ago
If you aren't already, drop in an nvme drive (may need a pcie x4 adapter)... depending on what you are using, that would be a huge boost as well.

tracker1 7y ago

Same, my old system started acting up... was (and still) waiting for r9-3950X to drop.. but even the jump to a 3600 was significant to say the least. Will swap for 3950X on release, and should keep me for the next 5+ years. That said the 3600 is no slouch. Aside: I did a min-cycle upgrade to a good nvme drive (samsung 860) and a GTX 1080 when that video card came out, which was a pretty big bump on the old box.

nickjj 7y ago
> I did a min-cycle upgrade to a good nvme drive (samsung 860) and a GTX 1080 when that video card came out, which was a pretty big bump on the old box. In your day to day, how big of a difference is that drive vs a SATA SSD you might have bought 5-6 years ago? I know going from a HDD to an SSD was a mind blowing experience but now things open so fast even on an old SATA SSD that I find it hard to imagine things can feel that much faster.
- tracker1 7y ago
  For day to day, I really don't notice the difference much... building node/web projects it's as big a night/day difference as going from HDD to SSD was... Say a web project takes 3+ minutes on HDD, then 30 seconds on SSD, think <5 seconds on NVME. The load times are slightly better, from noticeable to blink of an eye for most apps. Not too much difference for most tasks, but man if you're doing a lot of work in node (or anything else touching lots of files) it's pretty significant. But ymmv on this. Database work is significantly faster as well.
- gameswithgo 7y ago
  There is very little practical difference going from a slow SATA ssd to a fast top of the line nvme ssd. If you are doing huge sequential reads and writes as part of some workflow, then the difference will be big, but boot times, game load times, compile times, are not much different. Like maybe you boot in 29 seconds instead of 30. So don't spend too much! Just get something known to be reliable with a decent cache on it. the claims in a sibling thread about a given web build being 30 seconds on a sata SSD -> 5 seconds NVME are not likely true, I think that poster may be assuming the differences would be that large.
  - tracker1 7y ago
    Not an assumption... literally that (large web/node projects) and database work (crunching long data files) are the only two places I really notice the difference. The project in particular, I had to build on an old office machine (hdd) was over 3 minutes... at home before on ssd was around 30 seconds, and under 5 seconds on the nvme.
- CoolGuySteve 7y ago
  Unless the parent made a typo, the Samsung 860 is a SATA over m.2 drive, so it's nowhere near as fast as a PCI NVME drive. I have a Samsung 970 EVO and I spend most of my time compiling with g++. Copying large files is nice but overall I find the disk cache in Linux mostly makes the drive performance irrelevant for compiling if you have enough RAM. Also be aware that if you have an older motherboard with PCI-E 2.0, you'll be limited to 1GB/sec transfer rates anyways.