So annoying.....
"see; the gaming performance is the same, man, this system is 7 years old, it cost half as much, how cool is that, man....."
He's using a 7970 for his game testing, i'll just leave it at that
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Xeon x5650 to Ryzen 2?
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So annoying.....
"see; the gaming performance is the same, man, this system is 7 years old, it cost half as much, how cool is that, man....."
He's using a 7970 for his game testing, i'll just leave it at that
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Thanks chaps, will hang fire for now then. I've already got a quick system, so may just buy a new tv instead!
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I think this itch is becoming difficult to contain.
As stated above and after watching countless benchmark videos, a Ryzen system isn't going to provide a day and night difference in gaming performance from what you currently have, which is what you want if you're considering an upgrade. Go with an 8 core Intel whenever they're up for grabs, that'll be something worth your money. Until then you can save up a bit.
I might wait for work to decom some of my servers, got my eye on a 36 core xeon lol
That video was terrible that guys so annoying. Cinebench shows a good jump from going to ryzen in it however and well those game benches are more or less useless unless your running a gpu around a 7970 performance level. I do still run a x58 system and looked at both ryzen and coffeelake but decided to wait for the refresh as i want to jump to 8cores/16threads
So annoying.....
"see; the gaming performance is the same, man, this system is 7 years old, it cost half as much, how cool is that, man....."
He's using a 7970 for his game testing, i'll just leave it at that
Haha I didn't notice that!
You'd gain 50+% IPC but probably lose a little bit of clock speed. DDR4 and PCIe 3.0 might help certain scenarios also but in general those things rarely make a noticeable difference. USB 3.0 would help any newer external/flash drives but can be added to an X58 rig pretty easily.
There'll definitely be a difference in any CPU-bound cases. Personally I am not CPU bound very often so am not considering upgrading given RAM prices right now. The only scenario where it'd help immensely is encoding but I do that overnight. Considerably lower power draw would be nice too but not important unless you use your PC a lot (e.g. many hours every day if you're studying/working from home for example).
There'll definitely be a difference in any CPU-bound cases. Personally I am not CPU bound very often so am not considering upgrading given RAM prices right now. The only scenario where it'd help immensely is encoding but I do that overnight. Considerably lower power draw would be nice too but not important unless you use your PC a lot (e.g. many hours every day if you're studying/working from home for example).
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USB3 is on my 58A and 870A boards.
IMO we can't possibly know yet. If they do manage to get a decent clock bump and a small IPC bump on the 12nm process then Ryzen+ could be an awesome option for you... but only if you are actually doing something as a major task where the extra CPU speed is actually going to make a difference to you.