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When you do research on a part you plan on buying, do you just go to the tech reviewers and that's it? Or do you look at product ratings from the sellers and look at forums also?
Damn that sucksKinda pissed that my PRE ORDERED hardware isn't getting here the day of release and instead will be shipped then. Next time ill just go to frys.
There won't be any motherboards here till next week, there is only one store that has an AM4 motherboard available but it's over $450...My stuff is apparently sitting at the amazon sorting facility until the official release date. Hopefully tomorrow will be nothing but building but I'm not holding my breath.
Good times ahead, we need competition.Major price war coming according to sources within Intel. Intel stock took a 17% drop on the news and many outlets have already dropped the price on Intel chips. The thing is I am kinda excited for AMD because it keeps Intel from owning the market and keeps prices more affordable for everyone.
quote: HardwareCanucks
Neither of these games allow Ryzen to catch much of a break but they do highlight why I’ve repeated time and again that Intel’s i5-series processors are absolute gangbusters in the gaming price / performance category. They may not have all those fancy cores but their lack of hyper threading leads to substantially better resource allocation in many games. Perhaps DX12 will change this situation in some way but right now, buying an 8-thread or higher processor exclusively for gaming is a phenomenal waste of money.
So what my takeaway is from reading a bunch of reviews, for gaming purposes the 7700k (6900k is out of my budget for a CPU), is still a better purchase?
So what my takeaway is from reading a bunch of reviews, for gaming purposes the 7700k (6900k is out of my budget for a CPU), is still a better purchase?
A game developer explained that Intel benefits from CPU optimizations on some gaming benchmarks and that Ryzen numbers should or will improve overtime. These early tests have not had highly optimized drivers so that could effect overall gaming benchmarks.