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Panos said:
Join us to the V64 owners discussion :D
EK has one but personally finding it expensive at €151.
From my experience (Nitro waterblock) with Bykski you should consider it as they are good quality. Even if they are missing screws.....
Also if you do not mind bad looks Alphacool Nexxxos GPX - AMD RX VEGA M06 is compatible with the Strix also, and is cheap. (£95).
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Yeah, the EK one is a tad high. I'll check the other ones out :)
 
Given the ridiculous intel prices im am very tempted to now jump back to AMD. First time since the AMD 64 Opteron or whatever it was (when AMD were smacking intel around). Glad to see AMD clawing it back & with some competitive prices. Tempted with 2700x bundle but will wait til the Black Friday offers.
 
chrcoluk said:
there is used 6700's going for £200 on fleabay, they definitely valuable right now.
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Probably more, mine went for £300 with an Asus Pro Gaming Z170 mobo about a week ago :)

easyrider said:
Hmmm...do think switching from 6700k to Ryzen 2700x is worth it ?
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I did this, no complaints at all, everything i do on my PC is at least the same as the 6700K, plus streaming is better now, video encoding much better etc etc. :D

With the same RAM i had at the time (Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200Mhz, that would not run above 3000Mhz in either system).. i ran Cinebench single thread test on the 6700K before switching over.

Both clocked @4.2Ghz, DDR4 @3000Mhz (15-17-17-35-1T). Except for mobo, all other components were the same for testing both chips.

6700K on Asus Pro Gaming Z170 = 185pts
2700X on MSI Gaming Pro X470 = 175pts

I used to run the 6700K @4.5Ghz most of the time but the games i play i really cant notice the difference, GTA V actually runs better, the one game i was worried about was Arma 3 but it runs just as good on Ryzen.. the 8 Pack RAM helps obviously but not by a huge amount, just make sure you have 3000Mhz+ RAM running and you'll be fine.

I just cant wait to drop a 3700X in this mobo next year :p
 
MyBrains said:
Probably more, mine went for £300 with an Asus Pro Gaming Z170 mobo about a week ago :)



I did this, no complaints at all, everything i do on my PC is at least the same as the 6700K, plus streaming is better now, video encoding much better etc etc. :D

With the same RAM i had at the time (Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200Mhz, that would not run above 3000Mhz in either system).. i ran Cinebench single thread test on the 6700K before switching over.

Both clocked @4.2Ghz, DDR4 @3000Mhz (15-17-17-35-1T). Except for mobo, all other components were the same for testing both chips.

6700K on Asus Pro Gaming Z170 = 185pts
2700X on MSI Gaming Pro X470 = 175pts

I used to run the 6700K @4.5Ghz most of the time but the games i play i really cant notice the difference, GTA V actually runs better, the one game i was worried about was Arma 3 but it runs just as good on Ryzen.. the 8 Pack RAM helps obviously but not by a huge amount, just make sure you have 3000Mhz+ RAM running and you'll be fine.

I just cant wait to drop a 3700X in this mobo next year :p
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Seems to me it would be a side grade at best :)
 
chrcoluk said:
Yeah this is why the MM right now has barely any cpu's, I bet everyone is selling them on fleabay as they fetching ridiculous money.
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Top end CPUs are holding their value solidly. Last year I sold a 2600k for £100 and the s1155 motherboard for more than I originally bought it for new! Combined they cost me less than £100 for 6 years of use...

It's because there hasn't been any real progression for a very long time. Any I7 from about 2011 on still performs well for gaming.
 
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