Murph Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Well it looks good in AMD land so far. The new Ryzen chips are looking to give good performance for a reasonable price. Early benchmarks show that the Ryzen chips are a little faster and a h*ll of a lot cheaper than Intel. Power consumption is a max of 95W, with some 65W chips! I am thinking a 1700x for my new build. And then a couple of six core chips for the girls builds (I am trying to keep the builds under $600 each for them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingCanOpener Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 I'm going to be building a new PC this summer/autumn, so I'll be watching this closely. Took one look at the "gaming" PC's at Best Buy on Saturday and laughed a lot at how pitiful they were. Already have the case and storage, so I just need a motherboard/CPU, video card, memory (Thinking 32GB), and a new primary SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregShaw Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Read a couple of the Ars Technica reviews on it this week. Fixed most of the serious flaws in the previous Bulldozer generation architecture and finally gives some performance competition to the Intel family. However it doesn't look like it will be quite as good for gaming as the Kaby Lake series. Still, I am intrigued by it. I need to check the TonyMac86 site and see if anyone manages to make a Hackintosh using one, I have my doubts whether it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Just put a used Intel DQ67SW MB with a i3 2120 CPU into my daughters computer, of course now I realize that I need a SATA optical drive, another $29 + cable. The computer starts to boot, but then stop and repeats, I need the disc to reinstall the OS, but can't find it.......grrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 Looks like the 1080p performance is an issue with Windows 10 and its code. Microsoft is supposed to be releasing a fix. I should have enough $$$ by June to get my new system. 1700x RyzenGigabyte X370 Gaming 5 mobo32-64 gb of RAM1x Crucial MX300 M.2 SSD 525 gb1x Western Digital Black Caviar 2 tbEVGA 1060 Nvidia card with 6 gb ramCoolermaster HAF high airlfow full tower casex2 either Samsung or ASUS 4k 23.6" monitorsCorsair mechanical gaming keyboardLogitech 700 gaming mouse I am transferring two 1 gb WD drives from my current system to the new one, and keeping the old system for the kids to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 The bios updates on the ASUS Crosshair VI Hero board and actually pretty painless. I just updated to the latest 6401 BIOS, and it works fine. My final configuration:Asus Crosshair VI Hero (replaced the Gigabyte due to bad motherboard)1700 Ryzen with stock cooler32gb G.Skill Flare X ramWestern Digital 512gb NvME driveASUS 1060 cardWD 2 TB Black drive (Storage)2x WD Green (from old system)1x 500gb Samsung SSD for Steam libraryCorsair K70 keyboardLogitech 502 mouseLogitech 430 headphonesLogitech webcam (unplugged 99% of the time) Solid, stable, and relatively fast. Running Winders 10, I'd love to go 100% Linux, but I want (and need) Photoshop, iTunes, and games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 I hope you did not use the automaitc update function of the UEFI: Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky(el reg) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 Call me a fanboy, but I am looking for some AMD 50th Anniversary shirts, and cannot find them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 Call me a fanboy, but I am looking for some AMD 50th Anniversary shirts, and cannot find them! I think they only come in the anniversary Ryzen CPU. there is supposed to be a voucher in the boxes. But really, they should sell those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Murph Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 ​ Wow. Love it. I would love a 32 core threadripper if for no other reason than I could have the bragging rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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