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///Rage said:
Why a B350 board and not a x370?
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In terms of value for money, an R5 1600 paired with a B350 board has to be the sweet spot. Considering the clock speed limitations of 1st generation Ryzen, you're not going to get any better performance from an X370, so unless you definitely plan to upgrade to a 2nd/3rd generation AM4 CPU later on, or you need the extra features, B350 is a better choice. X370 makes a better partner for the R7 1700 I suppose.
 
Telecaster said:
TBH that doesn't worry me too much, I'm likely to keep whatever CPU long enough that a new board would be likely anyway. I wouldn't be upgrading to zen2 whenever that is.

CPUs should be a minimum of 5 year upgrades I reckon, if it's not good for that then it's no good to begin with. Plenty of people still rocking 2500/2600ks and only just upgrading now.
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Just my opinion, but hanging on to my 2500k is more a sign of a complete lack of progress until the last 6 months. With AMD suddenly being back in contention, we could be looking at a new race for cpu performance over the next few years and there will be more than incremental reasons to upgrade more often :)

...if you want a CPU to last 5 years from today, you really do need to buy the best one, not a budget option ^^;
 
DragonQ said:
In terms of value for money, an R5 1600 paired with a B350 board has to be the sweet spot. Considering the clock speed limitations of 1st generation Ryzen, you're not going to get any better performance from an X370, so unless you definitely plan to upgrade to a 2nd/3rd generation AM4 CPU later on, or you need the extra features, B350 is a better choice. X370 makes a better partner for the R7 1700 I suppose.
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+1 Just on a value for money, best bang for buck is the B350, if you have the money then 1700 + X370 but what you save going 1600 + B350 you can net yourself better ram or better GPU or SSD etc
 
AllBodies said:
My plan, for semi-pro work, video editing etc. was to go for the R7 1700 now, then likely go for Threadripper2 on 7nm in late 2018-early 2019.

8 cores for sub-£300 seems like the true sweet spot. The 1600 6-core is the best for spending as little as possible, but the extra 2 cores on the 1700 is incredible value as well and gives you some breathing room.

Then Threadripper2 looks like it'll be 16-24 cores, instead of 12-16 cores. And each core will have mildly higher IPC, and clock to 4.5+ GHz due to the GloFo/IBM 7nmLP process.

By the time more than 8 cores is truly needed, Threadripper2 will be out and a ridiculous upgrade from the R7 1700, where the R7 1700 was a ridiculous upgrade from Sandy/Ivy Bridge.

The most up to date benchmarks I could find for Adobe Premiere Pro show it doesn't scale past 10-cores, for example.
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This absolutely this !
 
AMDMatt said:
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I think, tho not entirely sure, AMD gave Dell first dibs on Threadripper, probably in return for being so supportive of them and the chip, AMD and Dell with Intel have history, very bad history, its maybe a reconciliation between Dell and AMD, i'm sure Intel hate it and wont be paying Dell $800m cash-backs anymore but if Dell are going to put AMD products front and centre again i'm ok with them having exclusivity for a few weeks.
 
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