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Any Long Term Intel Users Changed to AMD, your experiences?

Been with Intel all my days, decided to take the plunge and go for amd this time. Certainly a learning curve if you're into overclocking. Totally different from Intel and brain needs to adjust to what target you're going for rather than just peak overall clock. Happy enough though, had no issues, feels snappy, temps no problem, just a other cpu with a different oc strategy. Intel can't match the core / price point so was a no brainer tbh.
 
In the past I've had a whole host of AMD processors from K6, k6-2, athlon, and last one being an opteron 170, after that I've just been running Intel until my current setup I've been running several years now which is an i7 6700k at 4.6ghz. I've been fancying an update for a while, and after all the hype and AMD presentation for the 5000 series I've decided to jump to a 5900x which has finally arrived today. There is nothing to worry about changing over to AMD, being early adopters it's just waiting for this bios updates to make everything stable
 
We tend to confuse Precision Boost, which you can't disable as it's Zen architecture feature with precision boost Override, which is where all this fancy OC (and many issues) happens. PB algorithms can cause issues, some people prefer manual OC not to deal with Precision Boost and all the power consumption & temperatures it's causing.
Any BIOS update can mess up all your memory settings, even if all you do is just enabling XMP profile. It's not THAT bad, but Intel for sure is easier, more mature in that regards.
 
fr0sty said:
SO...(lol before I even say this).. it turns out that night I had a dream/nightmare that I got a new pc with a ryzen and it caused me nothing but trouble. In the dream I took the new 3080 out and put it in my old pc lol. I though that if I was dreaming about this that was probably the last warning sign lol.
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100% if you had a dream you totally did the right thing!

Don't think it really matters what you bought as long as you are happy, after all it has no affect on anyone else other than you so making a thread to ask what to buy is almost like following a dream...

Enjoy your new system, I assume you have a good cooler if you went Intel? ;)
 
Journey said:
100% if you had a dream you totally did the right thing!

Don't think it really matters what you bought as long as you are happy, after all it has no affect on anyone else other than you so making a thread to ask what to buy is almost like following a dream...

Enjoy your new system, I assume you have a good cooler if you went Intel? ;)
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Yeah lol. I was thinking out loud, kinda in a rut. Its just so hard to make these decisions sometimes if you dont really follow the hardware that much until you're looking to get some.

I got a bequiet dark rock 4, I already have an older version of that and ive always liked it, they are quiet and fit easily. I did look at the dark rock pro and the noctua nh d15, but they were much bigger and didnt risk potential problems fitting it in. I could have worked it all out but I wanted to get my order in without wasting any more time.
 
Jimmy Weirdarms said:
Glad you got yourself sorted, it'll be a great machine I'm sure.

But there really was no need to worry!
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Yeah I reckon it would have been ok after maybe a few little hurdles at the start. Theres not much between them for gaming so im happy enough. I dont think whatever new ones Intel make next will be any better that ryzen 59xx, meaning ill not be missing out on much either. Id def have liked to got the Ryzen and had it been out a couple of months and been a tad more mature on the market I prob would have went for it tbh.
 
Doug2507 said:
Been with Intel all my days, decided to take the plunge and go for amd this time. Certainly a learning curve if you're into overclocking. Totally different from Intel and brain needs to adjust to what target you're going for rather than just peak overall clock. Happy enough though, had no issues, feels snappy, temps no problem, just a other cpu with a different oc strategy. Intel can't match the core / price point so was a no brainer tbh.
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Yeah I dont really overclock anything, I have done before, at one time I enjoyed that kida tinkering, but I found it didnt really give me much more performance and wasnt really worth the hassle. Im the kinda person that just wants things to work and last a few years :) I dont even like lights inside my pc, I like it quiet and dark, as if its not even there :D
 
been intel too since athlon days , no problems thus far on a 3600 but i went for a tried and trusted msi b450 board not b550

been rock solid for me havent even updated the board bios
 
Seem to have found the issue with the random reboots at idle.

Even though the machine is stable whilst gaming/benchmarking etc, when idle or doing very light work IE web browsing etc it would randomly reboot.
Turned PBO off & it's been stable for 12 hours now. Before I couldn't get an hour out of it at idle. Messed about with voltages, memory timings, windows power settings, all of which had no affect.

Will leave it off for now until a more mature bios gets released which hopfully will sort it out.
Still getting between 3.8ghz & 4.1ghz boost on all core depending on application, & 5ghz+ single core so not to fussed really, If I want to play around with benchmarks I can just set it for single runs as it works fine at load.
 
Robzere31 said:
Seem to have found the issue with the random reboots at idle.

Even though the machine is stable whilst gaming/benchmarking etc, when idle or doing very light work IE web browsing etc it would randomly reboot.
Turned PBO off & it's been stable for 12 hours now. Before I couldn't get an hour out of it at idle. Messed about with voltages, memory timings, windows power settings, all of which had no affect.

Will leave it off for now until a more mature bios gets released which hopfully will sort it out.
Still getting between 3.8ghz & 4.1ghz boost on all core depending on application, & 5ghz+ single core so not to fussed really, If I want to play around with benchmarks I can just set it for single runs as it works fine at load.
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My system is now doing the same thing.

Is your reboots generating critical error 41 kernal power failure codes in event viewer? I've had a couple random reboots - the screen goes black for 1 second and then it starts posting again. This is with PBO on, I havent tried PBO off.
Both times the reboots happened at idle, while benchmarking the CPU or GPU its stable

and what motherboard do you have and which bios is it on?
 
Long time Intel user switching to AMD in the New Year once house move sorted, SF750 in stock at reasonable price, and availability of other components (NR200P), Ryzen 7 5800X is steady and cheaper than now.
 
Robzere31 said:
Seem to have found the issue with the random reboots at idle.

Even though the machine is stable whilst gaming/benchmarking etc, when idle or doing very light work IE web browsing etc it would randomly reboot.
Turned PBO off & it's been stable for 12 hours now. Before I couldn't get an hour out of it at idle. Messed about with voltages, memory timings, windows power settings, all of which had no affect.

Will leave it off for now until a more mature bios gets released which hopfully will sort it out.
Still getting between 3.8ghz & 4.1ghz boost on all core depending on application, & 5ghz+ single core so not to fussed really, If I want to play around with benchmarks I can just set it for single runs as it works fine at load.
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Given I’ll be running a similar config this makes me a bit nervous. But cheers for sharing the resolution. Might leave PBO off for now.
 
Ive been a long time intel user now since the old barton days of AMD and n-force 2 boards. I had a rock stable 9900k at 5.1ghz all core stable for year plus, which never gave me one issue. thought i would switch back to AMD with the 5950x and its potential, i have to say its been a bit of a journey to 100% stability with WHEA error's at idle.
must have flashed about 6 beta bios versions to get 100% stability with no WHEA errors at all. Although the 5950x is awesome at many things its not the fastest at gaming but slaughters intel in encoding ect. Its much more of a silicone lottery as well, some not even getting reported speeds and hard resets for no reason.
and some getting good memory clocks and some not.

My 5950x can do 4.7ghz all core at 1.32v not the best, but not bad. it can also run 1900 mem DDR-3800 its fast and stable now but wasn't from the beginning. If you switch to AMD and ryzen 5000 series be prepared to put some time in understanding your bios and voltages and maybe many bios versions to get stability 100% early adopters curse you might say.

I expect in a few months bios's will mature and be very stable at stock. they will still be a learning curve to tune and run overclocked stable. in this regard intel is easier for sure. so before slamming your money down read a lot about what you are purchasing is the best advice i can give.
 
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