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3900x and Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite in basket. Will be buying sometime tonight unless I find a reason not to buy that board.
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AMD Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) - *** NO COMPETITOR HINTING ***
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Looking at a competitor's site, they have the X570 Taichi listed at over £100 off RRP. That could explain the pricing difference.
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I'm not ordering any, it's a bit like me telling you to order one, you work in the game, you don't play it.
Biggest USA computer site has them listed at £247 + tax and shipping totalling £297 delivered to your door, so maybe the price should be somewhere in between as that is £60 less than you guys, I'd deffo check the disti or with ASRock in the AM
Slightly disappointing Ryzen 3000 isn't closer to Intel in games, however 8% to the 9900K at 1080P is not far from what i was expecting, which was around 5%, at 1440P which with a 2080TI is a more realistic res for that GPU there is almost nothing in it.
Productivity the 3900X just destroys the 9900K and does that with far less power consumption, really really impressive.
Overall i think pretty good.
Yea I think so too, is that because have yet to be optimised for the new AMD CPU's?
You looking at 1% frame times, or average FPS?
I tend to prefer the former, as it’s what’s important for consistency in performance.
Outside of 3 games I have interest in, FarCry, TombRaider, and WWZ, Seems ~5% is the difference given the clock speed difference.
It's to remove the GPU bottleneck? Not sure what's controversial about that.
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Yes, I am looking forward to the wave of excuses lol.
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720p garbage, yes yes i know takes the gpu out of the equation... load of ass...
Bench at what folk play at, no bugger uses 720p and i don't care for the excuses, its simply a rubbish test.
Bench at what folk play at, no bugger uses 720p and i don't care for the excuses, its simply a rubbish test.
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I did that in December and was hoping that I won't regret it now. Turns out - false alarm.
Because it's bloody irrelevant at the cost level were talking about. No one is using a $1000 GPU and $500 CPU at 720p, utterly ridiculous.
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I'm torn between the 3700X and the 3800X at the moment. There doesn't seem to be a huge difference between the two, or am I missing something? 
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i7 with no hyperthreading, get mugged lol.
An overclocked 9700K is the better choice if all you care about is gaming performance today. Also as long as you have a GPU that won't actually be GPU limited at normal resolutions.
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It's a gaming build, and at 5.2 it smokes everything. It's the real gaming chip. 9900k is for blender benchmark enthusiasts.
Someone was trying to convince earlier that 3800x was the way to go, I really couldn't see why at all - its meh to me unless you don't want to o/c at all
3900X obviously has more cores etc so fair enough but was out of my budget and I didn't really want to go down to Ryzen 5 with less cores - and even without that 3700x is a really decent price (and even better after seeing the early reviews and how well it performs in general)
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I love all the people buying a £400 8C/8T part in the Core i7 9700K,even though it is not even that much faster in 720p benchmarks,but on the eve of consoles with Ryzen 2 8C/16T. At least the people who bought the Core i9 9900K will find out they chips will have greater longevity. It reminds me of all the people buying the Core i5 7600K in 2017.
For gaming, which is for most people around here the most intensive task, the 9700k is everything you need.
The rest (HT), as long as 8 Cores remain enough, serves no purpose whatsoever.
I mean, it's not me being a fanboy or anything, but 9700K and 9900K are still the best for gaming.
Old, expensive and warm. But still be best nonetheless.
It is game dependant of course but if you play all games, the 9900k still seems the best option.
Each to their own though. My next upgrade won’t be Intel. Was thinking 3900x to 3950x but will wait for things to mature bit, wait to see what happens with bios updates and ram timings.