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Regrets going from Intel to AMD?

I have a i7-4770K and haven't gamed since 2013 according to Steam and Origin, but I find myself stuck indoors and looking for things to do. I'm actually shocked that my i7 has basically become a bit rubbish now. I'm thinking the same move too.
Not had AMD for a while though. My last AMD CPU was an Opteron 165! Very flexible chip, great value at the time, but it really used plenty juice though.
Tempted to wait for next Gen AMD though. When is that due? Any planned date been announced yet?
 
As an example using 4770k overclocked to 4.7Ghz with 980Ti
Initially with an overclock of 4.6 ghz the framerate was in the low twenties.
After trying all options to up the clocks of the 980 in the end i basically doubled the fps with a 100Mhz extra overclock of the cpu to 4.7Ghz

Battlefront 2 avg 45 fps

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Rechecked Bios and upped the uncore from 42 to 44 and fps is now over 100 online and cpu 60% -70%
 
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I upgraded from a 4770k to a 3800X, reused my 1080Ti. No regrets. There were a few irritations with early bios, but it’s all resolved now. Performance is great, and reliability has so far been 100%.
 
I went from the 3770 to the R5-1600, doubled by RAM and kept my RX580, I only game at 1080, what res are you at and what games do you play that make the i7 rubbish?
 
Trig said:
I went from the 3770 to the R5-1600, doubled by RAM and kept my RX580, I only game at 1080, what res are you at and what games do you play that make the i7 rubbish?
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I reinstalled Crysis 3 because I do not remember playing it before. I have just bought a 1660 Super as a stop gap for now. It struggles to run Crysis on Max settings in 1080p.
i'm thinking a new CPU might be needed.
 
-Hotplate- said:
I reinstalled Crysis 3 because I do not remember playing it before. I have just bought a 1660 Super as a stop gap for now. It struggles to run Crysis on Max settings in 1080p.
i'm thinking a new CPU might be needed.
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I'm all for maxing games out but honestly Crysis 3 is one game that you can whack down to medium and nearly double your frame-rate and you will honestly barely notice the difference in the visuals, even on low the game looks amazing.
 
-Hotplate- said:
I reinstalled Crysis 3 because I do not remember playing it before. I have just bought a 1660 Super as a stop gap for now. It struggles to run Crysis on Max settings in 1080p.
i'm thinking a new CPU might be needed.
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Haha, Crysis is probably one of the games that takes the **** tbh, what else do you play?
 
Went from a 4690K @ 4.6Ghz to a Ryzen 1600.

Saw very little to no performance difference in some games to up to more than double the frame rates in others. Also had some micro stutter in a couple of games with the 4690K which the 1600 cleared right up, smooth as warm butter....

I'm now on a Ryzen 3600 sitting in the same now 3 years old Motherboard (thanks AMD) with another very significant performance up lift.

This was with a GTX 1070, I'm running a 5700XT now, a much faster GPU which flies along with the 3600.

I was very happy with 4690K initially on a GTX 970 but it aged very quickly paired with the GTX 1070, it would often struggle to keep up or out right throttle the crap out of it, not with the 3600 + 5700XT pairing, the 3600 fells like it could drive plenty faster still.

No regrests.
 
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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Agreed, although it's only about as slow to boot as my Intel HEDT I7 5820K, maybe a little faster. The mainstream Intel chips are significantly faster though. Also, my 3900X is faster in CPU limited areas in games than my I7 5820K overclocked to 4.1GHz, even with only a GTX 1080.
 
ltron said:
Agreed, although it's only about as slow to boot as my Intel HEDT I7 5820K, maybe a little faster. The mainstream Intel chips are significantly faster though. Also, my 3900X is faster in CPU limited areas in games than my I7 5820K overclocked to 4.1GHz, even with only a GTX 1080.
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Mine seems to be quicker to cold boot with the latest AGESA update (MSI board). My Intel laptop is still faster to cold boot but its such a minor "issue" it doesn't matter at all.
 
Shac said:
As an example using 4770k overclocked to 4.7Ghz with 980Ti
Initially with an overclock of 4.6 ghz the framerate was in the low twenties.
After trying all options to up the clocks of the 980 in the end i basically doubled the fps with a 100Mhz extra overclock of the cpu to 4.7Ghz
I would not have believed an extra 100mhz would have made that much difference but it was proof enough to me that the 4770K is badly bottle necking the 980Ti in Star wars Battlefront 2.
Battlefront 2 avg 45 fps

But using 8 core Ryzen with 980Ti fps is over 100.

Games are now starting to use more cores and the 4770K cannot even drive the 980Ti to the max let alone anything newer.
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I have a 4790k @ 4.5 ghz (basically a higher binned 4770k) and a 980ti in one of my systems and have no issues at all maintaining a fluid 100+ fps in swbf2 at 1080p and no issues maintaining 60+ at 1440p , something was wrong with your setup
 
Grim5 said:
Is it true once you go AMD you can't go back?

I see a lot of intel to amd movers but never the other way around, ain't no one going from amd to intel
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For many years (10 to 20 depending on who you believe) AMD lovers had to admit defeat and go to intel, as did neutral gamers.

For now it is Intel to AMD and a lot of that is down to both price and socket stability.
 
I think its more of a case of AMD are offering far better value at most price points at the moment. Can't see that changing until Intel get their 10nm stuff out, and even then it remains to be seen if that process shrink will be enough to level things out a bit.
 
No regrets going from a stock 4770K 8GB 2133MHz RAM to a 3700X with 16GB 3600MHz RAM. It definitely was not a necessary upgrade; TBH It isn't a very noticeable jump in gaming performance compared to my 4770k what with most games being GPU limited at 1440p, and the CPU is just as hot as my 4770K, but general performance feels smoother around the desktop, I have no SATA cables hanging around because I have 2 m.2 slot drives for all my storage, and I am now set for the next 5 years or whatever. I don't think I would want to upgrade my GPU again on that platform.
 
I was going to wait, started off getting the RAM on a "Jungle" deal so ended up with 32Gb rather than 16Gb, decided what board I wanted and then was waiting for a decent CPU deal, the 1600AF will tide me over, the 4000 series will be with us soon so I expect I'll be able to pickup a decent 3000 series as someone upgrades..
Theres always something new just around the corner, so you might be better off doing the same, as by the time you have saved up comes around the landscape will have changed..
 
I have a 4790k @ 4.5 ghz (basically a higher binned 4770k) and a 980ti in one of my systems and have no issues at all maintaining a fluid 100+ fps in swbf2 at 1080p and no issues maintaining 60+ at 1440p , something was wrong with your setup
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You sir are correct.

I rechecked bios settings.
Cpu was on 47 multiplier but the uncore was only on 42.
I bumped the uncore to 44 and the 4770k now shows over 100 fps at all times in online play and cpu useage is around 60 - 70 %
 
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