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Regrets going from Intel to AMD?

I can only speak from a gaming perspective but I ditched my 7600k for a Ryzen 3600 and the difference has been very noticeable in games but also slightly within windows.

Only regret is I wish I bought Ryzen initially and not the 7600k all them years ago
 
Given that you (the OP) didn't even mention games, there is zero reason to not buy Ryzen. It is a perfect use case.

Gaming does fantastic on these chips as well mind, only single threaded engines that need really high clocks are going to see marginal differences at the top end in games. And those cases are getting less and less.

Loved my Ryzen 1600, and now loving my 3600. Fantastic chips. Happy to hand AMD and their partners the money.
 
Scougar said:
Given that you (the OP) didn't even mention games, there is zero reason to not buy Ryzen. It is a perfect use case.

Gaming does fantastic on these chips as well mind, only single threaded engines that need really high clocks are going to see marginal differences at the top end in games. And those cases are getting less and less.

Loved my Ryzen 1600, and now loving my 3600. Fantastic chips. Happy to hand AMD and their partners the money.
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I do play games and it makes me ponder on why/how I left it off the list - a few years ago it would have been on top of the list.

I must be getting old. ;)
 
I'm looking forward to going back to AMD after a long absence.

Last AMD chip I had was on socket 754, which became redundant only a couple of months after I bought it.

Wasn't happy about that.

My current ancient Xeon 5650 @ 4.4 is still doing a great job, so I'm happy to wait until DDR5 is out and I will get whatever 12 core Ryzen AMD will offer at that time.
 
Only "downside" I've had (seems to be a common thing across the board with AMD) is slower cold boot times, even when using UEFI, disabled non essential hardware so that doesn't have to initialise etc.
 
I'm sure you'll love every moment with the new hardware, congrats!

Be sure to check into the Ballistix thread if you need any help getting the most out of your E-Die.
 
Still on a 5820k @ 4.6ghz, will be tempted with a Ryzen 4000 series chip though when they arrive. It's 3-4 years since I've had a good tinker with my machine and I fancy trying AMD again.
 
MrMarvelous said:
Would the 3900x be faster than a 4930K at 4.6Ghz? Will be used for gaming.
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Yes although depending on the rest of the setup & games played the difference will range from not noticeable to a decent margin.

As an example from my own testing a Ryzen 3900X (Well 3600 and above really) is a lot faster in Destiny 2 than the old 2700X (with a 2080Ti). Despite the latter not being a slow chip it seemingly struggled for whatever reason in certain parts of the game (Titan was the worst case). FH4 on the other hand showed a very small difference which, whilst measurable, was not noticeable on my 144hz Gsync monitor.
 
SonicSW20 said:
Only "downside" I've had (seems to be a common thing across the board with AMD) is slower cold boot times, even when using UEFI, disabled non essential hardware so that doesn't have to initialise etc.
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Really, I have the same board and cpu, although a different nvme drive and boot times seem plenty quick enough (although I was coming from a Haswell I5+sata SSD setup)
 
Armageus said:
Really, I have the same board and cpu, although a different nvme drive and boot times seem plenty quick enough (although I was coming from a Haswell I5+sata SSD setup)
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I do recall seeing longer boot times when I had my 3900X but it wasn't anything to write home about. My wife's 3600X boots just as fast as her previous Intel system so "shrugs".

Saying that even the 3900X on its slowest boot scenario would be a dragster compared to my 7980XE.... I genuinely think its broken sometimes considering the OS is on a 3GB/s NVME drive..
 
Armageus said:
Really, I have the same board and cpu, although a different nvme drive and boot times seem plenty quick enough (although I was coming from a Haswell I5+sata SSD setup)
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Yeah, lots of posts about regarding it. I have seen some claims that there's some sort of RAM profiling going on and setting speed / timings manually will reduce the boot time significantly. I've not got round to trying that yet as its really not a big deal at all.
 
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