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3770k upgraders?

nwatson6

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Are there any recent 3770k upgraders on here? If so what did you upgrade to and what are your thoughts, I am seeing a lot of comments from people that seem underwhelmed be their recent zen upgrades.
 
Hmm seems to be more an improved experience than a quantum leap, having said that nvme and other recent tech improvements seem to have done a lot to improving performance. There do seem to be some early adopter issues with Zen 2, which will I am sure be ironed out with bios updates. I do not see anything from Intel worth waiting for, and 9900k is a dead end. Perhaps it is wise to wait little and see how things look nearer to black Friday, maybe supply issues will be resolved and prices stabilised.
 
Those that have updated, have you had any of the issues described in other threads eg slow booting, wrong ram speeds? Just can't bring myself to upgrade of I am facing a barrage of issues. I understand they may well be ironed out, but would have expected AMD to be all over the issues trying to fix motherboard issues etc. Last time I build a system it was an Intel based setup for a friend and there were none of these issues.
 
Street said:
My board turned up yesterday so I stuck it all together, reinstalled Windows and was up and running with zero problems. I updated the BIOS and everything was left at auto with the XMP profile enabled. I didn't have much of a chance to performance test it compared to my old 4790 as I was busy redownloading everything. I did manage to run a couple quick tests on GTA V and Division 2 but at UW resolution I'm GPU limited on these games with a V64 and only saw a couple FPS increase. I imagine other games will show more of an increase, but my 4790k was at 4.5GHz vs the 3700x at stock. I had a play in Lightroom and it did feel snappier and exports felt quicker however that could be placebo effect!
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Care to share what you bought eg CPU mbrd ram etc
 
It seems 3900x with new motherboard and ram is the same price as 9900k with same ram and new motherboard. Intel path will likely be effortless, AMD will require fettling to get it running satisfactorily. I wonder how long it will take the prices to drop on either platform?
 
tamzzy said:
that is correct, except if you're a frequent upgrader...
the AM4 board will likely take the ryzen 4000 chips with little hassle except a bios flash (though you do get the AMD related headaches)
whereas the intel option will require a new mobo as well.
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Not a frequent upgrader, so whichever route I take it will be long term, so although Intel is a dead end, I suspect by the time I want to upgrade again it would be the same new ram mboard etc. I suspect AMD will be the same?
 
tamzzy said:
there's only 1 generation left, on the AM4 platform - ryzen 4000...that fulfils AMD's promise to support AM4 until 2020...
next platform from AMD should be DDR5 based...
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Presumably Intel will also move to DDR 5 With their next generation? Or has it already been confirmed to be ddr4
 
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