No not a bad idea at all.
Welp, I know where my tax return is going
No not a bad idea at all.
So we gotta patiently wait a week for the official embargo to end? Cause I'm liking these unofficial benches being posted in this thread.
I find it a little weird but tbh I don't care too much. If it performs the way it does in the various other software benchmarks then I doubt it wil be lagging that much behind in Intel in terms of gaming performance.10 more days probably. Latest round of benches posted are quite "official" as in they came directly from AMD, and solely because of that I wouldn't put too much faith in them. Anyone find it a little bit odd that we still have no leaks of actual gaming performance, just the Cinebench again and again? We really need to see proper benchmarks.
Maybe the 25th.What is the embargo date?
If I don't want to do a media center, whats the best way to sell my CPU/MB?
Gaming benchmarks presented in the same way as the usual leaks would be put into question a lot more since there is not always an easy way to standardize them. All synthetic benchmarks leaks point to an awesome perf/money/watt CPU.10 more days probably. Latest round of benches posted are quite "official" as in they came directly from AMD, and solely because of that I wouldn't put too much faith in them. Anyone find it a little bit odd that we still have no leaks of actual gaming performance, just the Cinebench again and again? We really need to see proper benchmarks.
I find it a little weird but tbh I don't care too much. If it performs the way it does in the various other software benchmarks then I doubt it wil be lagging that much behind in Intel in terms of gaming performance.
Gaming benchmarks presented in the same way as the usual leaks would be put into question a lot more since there is not always an easy way to standardize them. All synthetic benchmarks leaks point to an awesome perf/money/watt CPU.
Do hope Ryzen lives up to these leaks, and does just as well in games. Would swap over if it does. My days of shelling out max $$$ for every last single digit percent are over when top end hardware breached the $1k barrier.
Ironically my x99 5820k rig went down for the count (thinking the bios update I did bricked the board since the other (unchanged) bios chip wont post either). So it would be prime time to get a 8c/16t cpu and mobo for sub $1k with 6900k+ performance. Also, overclock better than Broadwell-e/Haswell-e on top of that, Ryzen, and we're in for a treat.
Agreed. Proper benchmarks is definitely a better way of putting it and what I initially meant. The wait continues, but I am somewhat hopeful AMD delivers this time. It can't be that bad in general gaming scenarios, can it? xp10 more days probably. Latest round of benches posted are quite "official" as in they came directly from AMD, and solely because of that I wouldn't put too much faith in them. Anyone find it a little bit odd that we still have no leaks of actual gaming performance, just the Cinebench again and again? We really need to see proper benchmarks.
I share this sentiment.Come on AMD, make it rain motherfuckers!
intel
get
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Finally an end to their abusive monopolistic hold on the CPU market.
Im very happy for AMD right now.
Kinda wish i went with a 480 instead of the 1060.
Freesync monitors are cheaper and in more abundance. Wasnt like that just 9 months ago.
There's multiple 8GB 480's out for $175-200 you could always switch pretty easily.
Im very happy for AMD right now.
Kinda wish i went with a 480 instead of the 1060.
Freesync monitors are cheaper and in more abundance. Wasnt like that just 9 months ago.
Some other recent games that use up to 8 threads are Overwatch, Witcher 3, Gears of War 4 and Deus Ex: MD.
Witcher 3 actually scales extremely well beyond 8 threads too:
Toss that intel ssd and get a samsungYou just made me realize that once I replace my 2500K, my PC will be all AMD except the Intel SSD...
Watch Dogs 2 will eat up as many cores as you can throw at it. 4 Cores are dead as far as I'm concerned. If you want to future proof at all you need 6 or 8.
Toss that intel ssd and get a samsung
Man i remember the debate was whether to go i5 or i7 for HT. How times have changed.
At this point ill just wait for Vega. Ofcourse itll have to deliver though.
You should probably wait for gaming benches before cracking the champagne open.
The 1080 pays large dividends at 4K.I usually am not a fan of paying for heavily diminishing returns. Like the 1070 to 1080 is ~20% on average extra performance for more than 50% extra cost.
I wonder if AMD will even make an attempt, to penetrate the gaming laptop market.
The 1080 pays large dividends at 4K.
The bulldozer leaks where never this exciting
Everything points to a strong product from AMD this tome.
Im very happy for AMD right now.
Kinda wish i went with a 480 instead of the 1060.
Freesync monitors are cheaper and in more abundance. Wasnt like that just 9 months ago.
I wonder if AMD will even make an attempt, to penetrate the gaming laptop market.
I'd expect a Zen/Vega based HBM2 (or HBM3) APU at some point.I wonder if AMD will even make an attempt, to penetrate the gaming laptop market.
I'd expect a Zen/Vega based HBM2 (or HBM3) APU at some point.
Agreed. Proper benchmarks is definitely a better way of putting it and what I initially meant. The wait continues, but I am somewhat hopeful AMD delivers this time. It can't be that bad in general gaming scenarios, can it? xp
We know it's coming this fall.
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I'm quite certain that Ryzen will be a hit even if it will perform a bit worse than the hype train suggests at the moment. At this point nothing can be worse for AMD's CPUs than what they've had with BD and SR and Zen does look like a massive improvement in any case.
According to the snapshots of (already unavailable) Amazon pages, the Ryzen 7 1800X is likely to cost 499 USD, while Ryzen 7 1700X might be 100 USD cheaper (399 USD). The bundle on Amazon includes Corsair H100i v2 cooler, but you look down to ‘bundle details', there's a price for each item separately.
More importantly, the release date was confirmed (by Amazon) for March 2nd. For now, let's treat this as a rumor of high-credibility.
To the best of my knowledge, Gamers Nexus is the only PC hardware YouTube channel that always publishes FPS lows.That was what I meant. It's very disappointing to me that we've now had much better metrics (as in, more representative of the actual experience) to analyze game performance for roughly half a decade, but they are still used only rarely.
That's not to say that I expect Ryzen to do worse in these metrics -- just that we should judge its (and any CPU's) suitability for games based on them rather than average FPS.
US prices: (Update) AMD Radeon 7 1800X to cost 499 USD, Ryzen 7 1700X: 399 USD
Canadian prices from the same source: 1700X - 529 CAD, 1800X - 699 CAD
Why? Those prices are insane for a real OCA core with that perf.... Oh, I see... Yup, pretty insane, uh?Wow there's no way that's the price?
US prices: (Update) AMD Radeon 7 1800X to cost 499 USD, Ryzen 7 1700X: 399 USD
Canadian prices from the same source: 1700X - 529 CAD, 1800X - 699 CAD