So to those of you who have been following my tech post here lately? I’d like to say thank you and you are also probably aware that I was debating quite a switch. The products to make it happen finally came in. The moment of truth is finally here.
The image below pretty much says it all I will be switching from left to right. However after being Intel for the past 15 years+ a small part of me is growing reluctant to switch.
I know it’s the Ryzen 7 and not the Ryzen 9. However it was all I was able to obtain at the moment due to the stocking issues. I figured it could hold me over until roughly March when I can get the 5900x easily
Yeah… My feelings exactly. About to swap the Motherboards and Processors now. My first time on AMD myself. Handled many customer builds especially lately. But never my own hence my reluctance. No ones like change its seems lol
Im just reluctant after being intel so long. I fear drastic change of any kind in my life lol.
Im hoping I won the silicone lottery and can get a 4.8 OC All Cores.
Cant keep both. My i9 10900k and motherboard are returnable. So it will wash out the AMD. Either way ill be on the RoG Hero motherboard I really wanted the Dark Hero although thats not coming out till mid Dec at best. It wouldnt make sense to keep both anyway. i dont have two rigs.
My Current Rig
Case: Phanteks Eclipse p600s
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero Z490- Soon to be Crosshair Hero VIII
Processor: i9 10900k OC to 5.2- Soon to be Ryzen 9 5900x
I wanted to play with Intel hardware. Pricing and the cons it has turns me off. Like Z490 is significantly more expensive. I miss those days where you can get motherboard with 8-phase VRM for half the price.
The fact that you have to overclock them to the max to get any real performance out of them in gaming is a turn off to and then you have to find a stable OC. On AMD you just plug in the processor and you’re done. Now don’t get me wrong it’s a lot of fun doing this and it’s most Intel users first thing they do after they update their bios but it’s a turnoff to most
Well considering that build custom until bass gaming rigs for a living you’re not wrong and it’s very hard not to take my work mindset home with me when I’m doing my own rig.
Now I have my new Ryzen 5800x up and running. Going to see if I stick with it or go back to the 10900k. Its crazy this 8 core in Cinebench r20 MC pulls 6100 scores. My i9 10 core OC to 5.2 pulled 6750ish. Crazy!
If I was building a gaming PC from scratch I would go with the 5600x assuming it fit my budget. I’ve built equally with AMD and Intel (although mostly Intel the last ten years because bulldozer/piledriver sucked) and currently own the following CPUs
Intel i3-813OU - laptop
Intel i5-8400 work PC
Ryzen 2600x - wife’s PC
Intel OC i7-9700k - gaming PC
Like Sal, stated I need to see a 30-50% FPS improvement to justify an upgrade and for gaming that typically means GPU upgrade rather than CPU. Even with the ryzen 5600x or higher I would not see any difference in my WoW FPS from an OC 9700k. In order to see a difference I would need to invest a lot of money in both GPU and monitor upgrades (I don’t see a need for either) and even than the difference would be marginal. Going from 148 avg FPS to 167 avg FPS is the kind of benchmark victory fan boys dream of and go orgasmic over allowing them to call the other brand’s CPUs “trash”, “garbage”, etc., etc., but it’s a 13% increase in the real world. A 13% increase is the same as going from 25 avg FPS to 28 avg FPS and in both scenarios you need FPS app to tell the difference between the experiences. Also in the former example you need the GPU and monitor just to experience the differences.
I really wanted the Dark Hero although thats not coming out till mid Dec at best. It wouldnt make sense to keep both anyway. i dont have two rigs.