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Seasons greetings!
It's been a few years since my last build and it was all Intel at the time.
I'm going down the mini-ITX route now and already have a Streacom DA2 waiting to be filled with a Corsair SF750 on order.
Next is which processor. Will mainly be gaming, a bit of non-taxing Office work and occasional 4k video work. I'd be looking to go high-end so either i9 or Ryzen 9. Ryzen boards come with PCIe 4.0 but only 1Gb LAN so swings and roundabouts. It will probably be combined with a 3080 eventually but in the meantime I'll use a 1070 from a previous mining rig. Just about everything I've read and watched shows that AMD comes out on top as core count appears to overcome a slightly lower clock speed.
So, is it really as clear cut as that? Are the Ryzen 9 5900/5950X the top dogs currently?
It's been a few years since my last build and it was all Intel at the time.
I'm going down the mini-ITX route now and already have a Streacom DA2 waiting to be filled with a Corsair SF750 on order.
Next is which processor. Will mainly be gaming, a bit of non-taxing Office work and occasional 4k video work. I'd be looking to go high-end so either i9 or Ryzen 9. Ryzen boards come with PCIe 4.0 but only 1Gb LAN so swings and roundabouts. It will probably be combined with a 3080 eventually but in the meantime I'll use a 1070 from a previous mining rig. Just about everything I've read and watched shows that AMD comes out on top as core count appears to overcome a slightly lower clock speed.
So, is it really as clear cut as that? Are the Ryzen 9 5900/5950X the top dogs currently?