Trying not to upgrade

DrSteve

DrSteve

DrSteve

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It has been a wee while since I spashed out on an upgrade and I'm really tempted to order some new bits and pieces. I'm still running my trusty 2500K @4.6GHz. It has been sitting happily under a custom water loop since soon after release back in early 2011. I'm old now and haven't been much into gaming so hard to justify an upgrade for some office work and the odd bit of work on RAW images files.
My son has started to game now so I added an RX580 in place of the old 6970 and things seem fine at 1920x1080. Really that should be enough. Thing is I seem to have caught the overclocking bug again. I have some funds available and really fancy a new build followed by hours of tweaking and running prime95 to see how far I can push things. With that in mind I'm tempted by the following...


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £800.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Part of the reason for looking at Intel is the ease of just popping the new CPU under the existing waterblock. Having said that I do have a soft spot for AMD and look back fondly on my skt939 overclocking days. I have considered going down the 2700X route and I'm aware CES is only a week away so Ryzen 3000 might make me regret my decision but it's likely to be Q2 before the new chips land.
Just wonder what people think of the selection of parts. I appreciate it's probably a fairly unnecessary ugrade but sometimes it's nice to treat yourself and I'd really like to see if I can hit 5GHz.
 
Yep, that really is the sensible answer! I'm just not blessed with a lot of patience though. Guess I can hold out for a week though :p
 
It is very tempting to go in now, but im also going to wait, then go in hard whichever option seems the best bang for buck
 
I'll see what is announced next week then. Rumours / guesses seem to be similar or better IPC than Intel with more cores. Suppose we won't really know until there are some benches available. The way my luck normally runs though, if I do wait and decide to stick to a 9700k they'll up the prices on everything!
 
DrSteve said:
I'll see what is announced next week then. Rumours / guesses seem to be similar or better IPC than Intel with more cores. Suppose we won't really know until there are some benches available. The way my luck normally runs though, if I do wait and decide to stick to a 9700k they'll up the prices on everything!
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I doubt it as what AMD are after is market share and mind share, also with Ryzen they have taken a fundamentally different approach to CPU design and therefore their manufacturing costs are much lower. By first selling, then slowly moving production from Global Foundries to TSMC, they don’t have the huge overhead of their own Chip Fabrication plants any more. Intel is doubling down on its own Chip Fabrication plants, they’ve even spent $1B moving their plants from 10nm back to their 14nm+++ process.

Intel’s pricing is artificially high as they don’t want to seek to the enthusiast market at the moment, they are so short of 14nm supply they are focusing all production on Xeon server CPUs and their Tier 1 OEM partners such as Dell, Lenovo, Hp etc..

It’s only OcUK that seems to be able to get 9th Generation CPUs at anywhere near decent pricing, look at the prices in the US and then take off the 20% VAT and you’ll see why OcUK is shipping to the US!
 
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