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Should I get an i5-6500?

pretty strong choice for 1080p gaming. Of course, there's nothing wrong with waiting until 1080P gaming is actually a problem for you. Your question is for you to answer: which games are not running at satisfactory levels such that you should spend $ for higher settings/ more FPS.
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- Post #4
- Mar 8, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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6900K or wait for Skylake-E?

Enjoy your new processor and there's no need to address concerns about instead getting Ryzen, getting less cores and clocking more, cost efficiency, or not upgrading at all... it's about what makes you happy and the 6900 is a badass processor.
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- Post #30
- Mar 8, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

I'm seeing the 8C16T Ryzen 1800X on par with 4C4T i5 in games. For 6600K/7600K vs 1800X we are talking similar clocks but 4x the threads for the Ryzen. How multithreaded are teh games? I point to the gaming benchmarks and let you decide. Will an i5 be obsolete for gaming purposes in 2018...
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- Post #3,196
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

Hmm semantics to me. I was an early adopted of A64 dual core when it came out. We just knew that in a few years, everything would be multihreaded and push our little dual cores to the max. Then when quads came out, we just knew that soon, by 2010 we thought, everything would be fluidly...
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- Post #3,191
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

I see your point, but it's forward-looking with an undefined timeline. Obviously right now it is not valid, since XB1/PS4 has been out since 2013, and games (even AAA ported titles) are still weakly threaded, as we observed with the gaming benchmarks. That games will become more threaded to...
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- Post #3,187
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Coffelake Thread : Rumors, and Specs

3DXP in datacenter, autonomous driving, AI, FPGAs, IoT, are each enormous market opportunities that Intel needs only to grab a smidgen of to be profitable... The Altera acquisition is factoring into their revenue nicely tho will take time to cover the 16B acquisition cost lol. But Intel has the...
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- Post #75
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

Is that a joke? Game developers don't care if their customers can't run their product? Developers need SALES and the overwhelming majority of the user base is on 4C or less. Look @ latest Steam Hardware Survey; 98.32% of steam users are on 4C or less. Games have to be accessible at enjoyable...
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- Post #3,178
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Coffelake Thread : Rumors, and Specs

General rant on what Intel is doing, and why they haven't made "mainstream" 8C earlier... There just hasn't been huge demand there; AT is the 0.1% when it comes to hardware, and 95% of the consumers out there couldn't max out a quad core if you told them to. For what little demand there is for...
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- Post #73
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

Ryzen clearly superior workstation/content creation chip, no doubt there and every sane person must hand it to AMD for making a chip which is massively powerful, energy efficient, and cheap. That said I want to address the claim "Ryzen was never supposed to be a gaming CPU, so why are all the...
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- Post #3,106
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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So now I have a dilemma

4.1 Ghz on a 6900K would be considered a dud. 4.3-4.5 Ghz is common. 4.2 is a bad chip or limited cooling and 4.6 was the best stable OC i found. So yeah it's true Intel 8 core are not clocking to 5 Ghz like the quads. But they ARE clocking past Ryzen. That's a fantastic upgrade from the...
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- Post #53
- Mar 3, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

I think a lot of the (-) negative (-) sentiment in the reaction to Ryzen extends beyond lackluster gaming results, which may be 1/2... The other half of the negative sentiment is the (lack of) overclocking headroom. I'm a gamer but also an overclocker; hobby since 2003 and 20-30 CPU's OC'd with...
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- Post #2,732
- Mar 2, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Official AMD Ryzen Benchmarks, Reviews, Prices, and Discussion

Yea, also TheStilt had a good post showing how the architecture is super efficient at slightly lower frequencies where Naples is likely to be poised. Big savings in those serverfarms... Naples is where AMD needs to eat into Intel's marketshare and get that real sweet $$. HEDT is so dominated...
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- Post #2,712
- Mar 2, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What will you do with money left over from upgrading to RYZEN?

Instead of buying a Ferrari 458 I'm instead buying a Nissan GTR and the SAVINGS, HOLY FCK guys I'm rich! WOW thanks NISSAN made me so much $$$$ Edit: the comparison to $1000 price CPU is ludicrous; check Steam Survey and see what % users decide to buy at the peak of the price/performance...
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- Post #32
- Mar 2, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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So now I have a dilemma

Waiting is where it's at. From my perspective, the best bang for your buck isn't buying brand new systems; it's picking up last year's quality parts at discount rates from the wealthier techies who upgrade annually. In other words even if prices don't drop in the next month (and Intel price...
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- Post #35
- Mar 2, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Your Take on Ryzen? Worth buying or stick to Intel

My upgrade bug came out this morning, saw it's shadow, said NOPE 6600K @ 4.5 Ghz will continue to game great, went back to its gaming den for the next 12 months without upgrading. Which was a pretty obvious result but I, like others here, have a tendency to upgrade without reason. I just like...
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- Post #94
- Mar 2, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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