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Upgrading to Ryzen? What's in your old computer?

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

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Are you upgrading to Ryzen? What is in your old computer?

I think the reason that Ryzen is such a popular upgrade is that many people have been sitting on their older Core i5/i7 system and haven't found Intel's current offerings to be compelling enough to upgrade.
 
A X5680 on the main rig and a X5650 on another.

I doubt I'll be rebuilding anything soon myself, other than a storage issue lately.
 
Pick2 said:
Phenom II 1090T stock clocks with integrated graphics ... but I have 3 of them 🙂
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Similar, Ph2 1100T.

But I'll wait till the platform matures a bit. I don't really need to rush the upgrade.

Indeed, depending what price the smaller Opterons go at (or what architecture the Opteron APU has*), I may consider going down that route instead.


*to play around with accelerating OpenFoam on the APU.
 
i7 3770k at stock. Going to go to an 1800x in another month after some more motherboards get released. I do all my gaming at 1440p so thr 1800x will be more than fine.
 
FX-8350.

I only bought it last August but it was a cheap upgrade (came with a game I wanted. Net cost $100) and the 8350 is actually good in encoding, which I do a lot of.

I didn't think first release of Ryzen would be so good that I'd want to get it right away, but I probably will.

Before that I had a Phenom IIX4-965 that lasted from 2010 to 2016. Six years!! The 8350 is about 33% faster in games and 100% faster in encoding.

It looks like the Ryzen chips are likewise 100% faster in encoding and, depending on resolution and GPU, 33% faster in games.

It's the cheapest chip that's 90% of the 7700K in games and 90% of te 6900K in other CPU stuff.
 
i7-6700K... which isn't that old, built it last summer. I had a 8350 before that, which I only recently gave away (still a decent gaming machine with a GTX 970 in it).

About to upgrade the cooling in the 6700K system, see how it fares in benchmarks against my 1700X after I max out the OC for both. Likely the i7 will end up as the dedicated living room gaming, 4K streaming, Vive PC, and the Ryzen build will be my normal browsing, work/productivity, and occassional editing/transcoding (photo, video) machine.
 
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i7-6700K

About to upgrade the cooling in it, see how it fares in benchmarks against my 1700X after I max out the OC for both. Likely the i7 will end up as the dedicated living room gaming, 4K streaming, Vive PC, and the Ryzen build will be my normal browsing/work/productivity/editing machine.
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I've went back and forth with graphic cards and CPU's over time, I like being practical myself.
 
4770K @ 4.5 GHz here, Phenom II X4 955 before that. I just felt it was time to move beyond 4 cores. The 7700K is nice, but I didn't feel like replacing the RAM, motherboard, CPU etc. for yet another quad-core CPU, and Intel's 8-core CPUs are prohibitively expensive.
 
JimmiG said:
The 7700K is nice, but I didn't feel like replacing the RAM, motherboard, CPU etc. for yet another quad-core CPU, and Intel's 8-core CPUs are prohibitively expensive.
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That's basically it for me, too.

I remember AMD's ads for Bulldozer "Our 8 cores for the price of their 4!". Except with Ryzen, it's actually true and you get a great modern processor.

Until Intel drops prices on their 6+ core CPUs there's no reason, IMO, to look at any Intel CPU that costs more than $300.
 
Phenom 2 X4 910e
2x 2GB DDR2 1066
Shuttle SN78SH7

It's been a good little SFF computer for many years. Time for a new SFF system though.
 
I do want to upgrade. I have an A10-6700. It is a 65W piledriver based apu and i really want my next cpu to also be a 65w tdp unit(but without gpu for a few years until zen/vega/navi/hbm2 apus will be present). I also desire at least double the cores/threads. A 1400 would already be interesting. But i will wait at least six months before i make any decision. Motherboards bios need to mature, motherboards will get hardware revisions. Memory selected for best performance for ryzen may be presented by smart salespeople soon. And maybe, in about half a year, higher clocked ryzen will be presented.
Good times are coming. Patience is virtue if you are not in dire need of a new pc system.
At least those months allow me to save up money.
 
Well the system it's replacing is a 5 year old 3930k. I was thinking of getting SL-X upgrade next year so I could up the core count at least marginally. But this is so strong I decided I could build whole new machine for the cost of just the three major components I would need for the upgrade. Came out about right cept Video card but I have a spare 7970 to hold me over till I see what Vega is like.

The big advantage for me is that instead of an upgrade I can continue to use the 3930k for several tasks.
 
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