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Poll: Ryzen 7: Are you gonna buy?

Are you gonna switch back to AMD?

  • Yes

    Votes: 285 73.1%

  • No

    Votes: 105 26.9%
  • Total voters
    390
I'd really like to get one at launch, but I'm slightly put of by the fact that there will probably be better mother boards coming after launch. I'm really tempted to go for Asus Crosshair, but am put off by only 1 x 16 PCI lane and 2 x8 PCI, rather than 2 x 16's. Am looking to Xfire 2 Fury X's, so not sure if not having 2 x 16 PCI will be a limiting factor?

I see the Asrock Taichi & Fatality have 2 x 16 PCI lanes, but they don't have enough USB's for me and I'm not sure I trust them, although heard good things about them. Would never touch MSI or Gigabyte again, after previous experience.

Hmm decisions decisions!

Think I may end up waiting to see what else Asus are going to do with TUF, sabretooth or other ROG boards. Anyone have any insider info?
 
moogle said:
LOL, as much as I love AMD (although have been Intel the past 10 years) I wouldn't jump ship so quickly until the results are out. You must be pretty confident of the results!
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I'm not that confident but as long as the performance is decent enough I'm happy to support AMD. Lots of people complain about the market but don't actually pro actively do anything. I had the cash for the 1070 and 1080 but went without as I didn't want to offer my support to that pricing. It looks like AMD are being remotely competitive this time and I'd like to support them even if I personally take a slight performance hit.

Plus I though the trouser Ryzen joke was worth the switch alone.
 
I remember jumping on the very first athlon cpu. It was actually a very good cpu, but the biostar motherboard i had for it was appalling. Lets hope that motherboards/chipsets are up to scratch for this right from the start.

I have no intent to buy Ryzen currently as my 6700k will do me for a long while. But i desperately want to see AMD succeed with Ryzen. Competition is healthy.
 
I want to go with whichever is better for gaming primarily.

7700K would be slot in upgrade and currently the fastest gaming chip. Any hints of whether Zen will outperform the 7700K for gaming Gibbo? ;)
 
I'll be giving it a go if the bang for buck is good enough.

I have a 2500k system that'll need an update and I fancy a change of scenery :)
 
My 7 year old son has been asking for a PC for a while. He got an Xbox One S for his room for Christmas instead, as i wanted to hold out for AMD. He has a 27" monitor already in his room for use with his Xbox, i've also got him a case, PSU, keyboard and mouse ready.

If Ryzen turns out to be as good as it's shaping upto be, i'll give him my 4790k, Motherboard and RAM for his PC and buy him a 1060 / 470 GPU. Then upgrade mine, perfect excuse! (Prays).
 
Some online retailers in the USA have dropped prices this evening on their entire range of Intel CPUs.

Example:

Intel Core i7-6800K Broadwell 3.4 GHz LGA 2011-3 Boxed Processor

$499.99 SAVE $140.00
$359.99
 
Intel will drop their prices. Competition is good. If Ryzen is decent a fair few will change purely out of spite at intels price hikes pushing the i7 out of many people's reach, and making the other chips along with the other components needed ridiculously dear and thus putting many into the console market (is this a plan). Anyway c'mon Ryzen.
 
it's the 7700k that needs to drop - that's the highest performing gaming CPU out, not these 6 and 8 core X99 chips. They have their purpose (video editing etc) but for pure gaming performance, nothing beats a 5Ghz+ 7700k.
 
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