yeah i defenetly need to upgrade, i’m a bit tired of playing the same games (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3) on low settings, i would like to try some newer games but i’m limited by my hardware
but still for now i will spend my money on some proper audio gear, then i’ll upgrade
@ Alb if you’re stuck to a limited budget, take a look at the Ryzen 5 3400G. it’s onboard VEGA 11 is waaay better than Intel’s UHD630.
Depending on what CPU, RAM and GPU you are on, it may be as simple as swapping in a new GPU.
Intel has not moved far since the 6000-series.
When you are on AMD FX, you may want to build a new machine.
True, though it is an i3, and thanks to the R5 series, i5 an under are basically dead.
things are changing on the Intel front a bit. the coming i3 and i5’s will have hyperthrading, so the i3’s will be equivalent to the Kaby Lake i7’s and i5’s will be like the Coffee Lake i7’s. they likely will still beat AMD in simple single threaded applications but when it comes to multi-threading, Intel is behind. they also need to adjust their pricing in order to compete because of that particular performance metric deficit.
ftfy
AMD wins in EVERY market segment now.
Intel HEDT is loosing to AM4, TRX40 is batteling Intel server, SP3 is a new league.
AMDs 24core is better for gaming than an overclocked i5-9600k
They have at the extreme high end though. And they are still loosing. There isn’t much if any of a benifit in going with the i9-10980XE over the R9-3950X. We don’t know anything about whats comming in the next desktop lineup of Intel’s CPUs. They are still stuck on 14nm lithography. While i5 CPUs may have better average FPS scores, their 1% and .1% lows at that level counteract what would otherwise be a win.
First, please don’t misquote me. AM4 is mainly competing against Intel’s mainstream offers, and still does have debatable competition from the i9-9900k(various skews) and i7-9700k in gaming specific use cases.
TRX40 is simply the new socket that AMD HEDT(AKA ThreadRipper is using, and is NOT battling Intel server. SP3 is AMD’s server(Epyc) socket, and is what is fighting server Xeons.
Second, it’s not in any way fair to fight a 24 core with a 6 core processor, particularly not at that massive of a price difference.
AM4 is that broad of a stroke, that i3 to X299 is covered.
The 3900 and 3950 are so far in the high-end that TRX40 only makes sense when you need massive GPU compute.
Intels low end Server gets beaten by TRX40 in features, Intels high-end servers get beaten by SP3 for HALF the price, less powerdraw, more bandwidth and less cost of ownership.
Intel 9000 series for servers makes so little sense, Intel is the only one making servers for it.
AMDs 24 core beeing able to beat an Intel 6 core in single threaded application (gaming) is simply the cherry on top.
If you like, 3960X vs i9-9980XE does not have Intel come out on top without OCing
Never really considered it but VEGA 11 looks good, still I’d prefer waiting a couple of years at least
Cheaper things are getting more and more better at each new generation, so for the time being i’ll stuck with my current rig
Yeah swapping the GPU was on my list some months ago, but then i got into audio and my priorities on where to spend money changed
Also another problem is the PSU: it’s a PowerX 600W but i could not find any informatico about it, searched for a good 30 minutes and only found it in some italian forums and an italian web page where they were selling the 500W variant at like 10 euros
From what i read it’s a bad PSU, not recommended.
If this thing has some some of failures it could burn the new GPU. For those reasons i am looking in building a new rig from scratch
I’d bet your fun at lan parties.
For Canadians some crazy cpu deals happening right now some are beating American black Friday prices
to give you some idea’s of just how good the new Ryzen 3000 based on the Zen2 architecture is, the 3800X has 8 cores / 16 threads and it beats the first gen Threadripper 1950X, which is 16 cores / 32 threads by 25% in single threaded tasks and by 5% in multi-threading tasks. the IPC performance boosts are significant and more than we’ve seen in CPU processing in more than 10 years, when we went from Core2Duo / Qad to Core i3/i5/i7, which was a 33% jump for first gen and then another big 20% jump or so to second gen.
Sorta kinda.
Usually I dare people on the dust level in their computer.
My box for games that do not run on Win7 or higher:
Code name: Zombie PC
| Brand | Part | Note |
|---|---|---|
| AMD | Athlon64 x2 3800+ | |
| AMD | stock cooler | from the FX-8320 |
| Jetway (?) | M2A-GH (?) | AMD 690G + SB600 |
| G.Skill | 2x 2GB DDR2 | 4-4-4-10-16 @ 266MHz or 5-5-5-15-24 @ 400MHz |
| ATI | Radeon HD 5570 | 1GB GDDR3 |
| ? | 380GB PATA HDD | Throws a lot of errors, doesn’t start half the time |
| LG | CD/DVD drive | PATA, as all things should be |
| ? | 2.5" floppy drive | smooth as silk |
| Microsoft | Windows Vista 64bit | HomePremium Edition |
Duct tape is a nice touch
Updated rig: RGB strip removed
Ryzen 5 1600 OC 4.15GHz @ 1.39V (currently 30 min into AIDA64 stress test, temps have been fairly level around 77C with occaional spikes into low to mid 80s)
Team Vulcan DDR4 2666 (timings dialed in at 14-16-14-14-30)
PowerColor RX 570 4GB Red Dragon (OC Clocks: GPU: 1475 VRAM: 2150)
Thermaltake Versa H15 (no-window)
Arctic P12 PST CO x2 (installed in the front, stock fan installed in back)
My computer is mainly for music and gaming. I built it about a year ago saving only the cpu from my last build.
8700k overclocked
Gtx 1080 ti (decided to skip 20 series
16gb ram
750 watt psu
Asus motherboard (can’t remember name)
256 gb pcie m.2 ssd for boot Samsung
1 tb ssd Samsung
2 tb hybrid drive by sea gate?
4 tb hdd
And just added 2 tb crucial mx500 ssd
All in a phanteks case.
Monitors: rog swift pg34 gsync
Also a Wacom that I use for drawing
I have about 3 MacBook pros laying around the house (1 for work the others were retired but wasn’t worth selling them) specs don’t matter much on these for me haha.
