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Wonder if the 3000 series is highly binned as the previous generations. None of them had much oc headroom.
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Wonder if the 3000 series is highly binned as the previous generations. None of them had much oc headroom.
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So if the new AMD CPUs come out 7/7 that should drop the price of the, say, Ryzen 7 2700X a bit? I might just bite if it drops under €200.
Currently have a Ryzen5 1400.
Further, what's a significant but still affordable upgrade to my 1050TI? I might just go AMD this time because the monitor I have has Freesync.
So RX590 or 1660TI?
Currently have a Ryzen5 1400.
Further, what's a significant but still affordable upgrade to my 1050TI? I might just go AMD this time because the monitor I have has Freesync.
So RX590 or 1660TI?
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AMD are holding back some, but my guess is it might only be a few hundred mhz. Sounds like none of leakers or mb makers have production silicon yet, rather *good* engineering samples. Prob safe bet that is aggressive binning is required since its a new 7nm process. 7nm+ and 6nm variation should provide better thermals and frequencies next year.
But none knows if AMD is going to be agressive, and push Zen 3 out fast, or respin Zen 2 and tweak on t7/6 nm. The decision has already been made, die cast and everyone has finished their turn....My bet would be AMD decided be to hold back and milk things a lil (like Intel did hehe), given how Intel is still flapping and flopping around even with patched up 10nmprocess yields and performance. AMD *should* be paranoid about Intel comback sooner than later heh, I do not buy any of the doom and gloom about Intel is dead blah blah blah.... too early to tell other than 10nm is foobared.
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CPUs: prices should drop soonish, and good deals should pop up on 2700x just like 1800x last year. 6 core Zen 2 (which is actually rumoured close to 2700x performance ) might be a better upgrade though for gaming unless you need more cores for something else.
GPU: If you can, wait until AMD releases Navi and NVIDIA responds, in a month or two. Then should have big price drops again and perhaps something newer. I would def NOT get RX590 at current prices. Im leaning towards NVIDIa next round unless Navi surprises. I had too many black screen time-out issues bug with my recent RX570 build.
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With the upgrades to Instrucitons Per Cycle and Cache, I'm pretty sure the 2700x will be outmatched by even the 3600.
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Word on the street is that in the launch Ryzen 3000 are the core chiplets that didn't quite make it for the Epyc Rome selection, which seems also to be the reason AMD starts with 12C consumer chips, even though 16C is possible. So at the beginning I wouldn't count on OC headroom until the 7nm process stablizes.
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I am going to buy a 12/24, deactivate 4 cores, and try to OC the remaining 8 to 5GHz. Pray for me.
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All AMD 7nm is from TSMC, no? I know they have a couple Chinese fabs, but no clue which are handling 3000s.
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Big Phoenix
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Machine shut off mid-game, now refuses to power on with video card installed, so I guess it's super dead. Amazes me how computer hardware is so unbelievably fragile when the only moving parts are fans. Last two video cards were Sapphire and both became unusable on me, so I guess that brand is scratched off my list of acceptable manufacturers. This card lasted 2 years 4 months. No games for me until mid July I guess. My 10 year old card doesn't even have Windows 10 drivers to make the reso 1080p with
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UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-8700K
cpu.userbenchmark.com
UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-9700K
cpu.userbenchmark.com
R5 3600 RAM is at 2666MHz . 8700K is at 3200MHz. 9700K is at 4000MHz.
...the $199 offering.
Mist
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Userbenchmark is a garbage site. It's literally just clickbait.
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Noodleface
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Haha my wife needed a floppy drive for some really old disks her family had. Just get a USB one, they work flawlessly.
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Kind of shitty since there are only 2 user benchmarks for the AMD
But blown away as expected
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At least it isn't 5" floppy they asked for
I ended up getting them a Ryzen 3 2200G. Such a great little processor.