Question What is the CPU vendor of your primary rigs?

yeshua

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I wonder what Anandtech users are rocking. Please choose the options that you primarily use.
 

DrMrLordX

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I DONT HAVE A COMPUTER YET, JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT SPECS I SHOULD ORDER ON THE LAP TO AVOID THE OVER=HEATING ISSUE...WOULD EXTRA BATTERY AND FAN HELP TOO? THANK YOU FOR REPLYING

. . . you might want to try the Laptops forum? Also, try posting without all caps. Thanks.

I wonder what Anandtech users are rocking. Please choose the options that you primarily use.

Zombies don't rock anything. Well, not usually. Got a 3900x and a Snapdragon 855+ though, for what it's worth.
 

Ottonomous

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I have a 2500K/GTX 560 and 2600/RX 570, both because their direct competitors were impossible to justify and symmetrical increments in names is seductive

Ain't much, but I provided business to the biggest CPU companies in x86 and they should honestly appreciate my patronage
 

DrMrLordX

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AMD and Intel for me. I'm not counting Apple since it's in our phones.

Apple and Samsung chips can't really show up anywhere but a phone. Unless you'd got one of those Snapdragon 835 or 850 laptops . . . or unless you're counting tablets but not phones.

My 855+ is in a phone that is more powerful than any Qualcomm-based tablet ever released. I'm beginning to think it might even be more powerful than the 8cx since it can be overclocked. Asus is wacky like that. Until 8cx-based lappies start showing up in force, it will be impossible to know for sure.
 

yeshua

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Apple and Samsung chips can't really show up anywhere but a phone. Unless you'd got one of those Snapdragon 835 or 850 laptops . . . or unless you're counting tablets but not phones.

My 855+ is in a phone that is more powerful than any Qualcomm-based tablet ever released. I'm beginning to think it might even be more powerful than the 8cx since it can be overclocked. Asus is wacky like that. Until 8cx-based lappies start showing up in force, it will be impossible to know for sure.

I'm quite sure Apple is brewing a CPU which is destined for desktop class devices or laptops at the very least.

I'm curious what thxdd and Roger Wilco are rocking since they've voted Apple.
 

Guovssohas

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I have an i5 4690k, i've had it for years. I might upgrade to an amd 3700x, would that be a decent step? And would it be decent for the next 4 - 5 years?
 

burninatortech4

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I've been rocking AMD for my daily drivers since 2013. Before that I had a MacBook Pro with Intel (obviously).

Athlon X4 760K (crap) >> A10-7870K (meh) >> Ryzen 7 1700 >> Ryzen 7 2700X - Desktop
Intel T9900 >> A10-7300 (crap) >> Ryzen 7 2700U - Mobile
 

HutchinsonJC

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I'm still on an OC'd 3960x from Intel - Purchased in 2012. I've honestly not felt compelled to buy anything new through most of those years.

I've been eyeballing AMD's 3950x since it was announced. We'll see. AMD has definitely made things exciting.

I think it'll be funny to say that I upgraded from a 3960x to a 3950x. Or even... from a 3960x to a 3960x, though I think that's beyond superfluous for me.
 

ehume

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I have an i5 4690k, i've had it for years. I might upgrade to an amd 3700x, would that be a decent step? And would it be decent for the next 4 - 5 years?
I'm currently on an i7 4770k and my kid uses her i7 4790k. I had an i7 8700k I played with. Personally, I'd wait a bit unless you really feeel the neeed to hupgrade. Other than that, you are probably doing just fine with an i5 4690k.
 

Arkaign

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AMD 3700X and 2920 Threaddy for general computing and messing around. Old 1080ti Aorus is paired with the 3700X now, not ideal.

Some fancy Asus with Intel 7800-something and Gsync/1080 for portable gaming.

An old Dell I put an mSATA SSD into for general messing about in bed, that has an i5 Haswell Dual Core w/HT.

A custom HTPC running a locked i5 7400.

And the gaming rig, was a 8086k OC, now a 9900KS that I need to finish assembling. Has a 2080ti AMP, first Zotac thing I've bought in a long time. Been busy with too much else to finish this as soon as I wanted.

Sons have a Devil's Canyon 4790K @ 4.8, and an E5-1650 v2 (or was it a 1660?) OC to 4.5 or so, shockingly good for what it is.

I should probably sell the 2920 and my old 8086k stuff or find a family member who needs such rigs.

Oh, and around the house I have maybe 50-60 other PCs, hundreds of CPUs, few dozen laptops, etc that are not being used at the moment, from positively retro to 4770/1800X level. Need to start clearing some space, I'll build out some rigs for the food bank/resale shop to raise some funds for their community programs.
 
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yeshua

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I'm still on an OC'd 3960x from Intel - Purchased in 2012. I've honestly not felt compelled to buy anything new through most of those years.

I've been eyeballing AMD's 3950x since it was announced. We'll see. AMD has definitely made things exciting.

I think it'll be funny to say that I upgraded from a 3960x to a 3950x. Or even... from a 3960x to a 3960x, though I think that's beyond superfluous for me.

3960X - 3950X = -10X which looks like a downgrade. :smirk:

Oh, wait.

Jokes aside Ryzen 9 3950X will be a huge upgrade for you but it's still worth remembering that Comet Lake parts will be released in Q1 2020.
 

Golgatha

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The i7-5820k in my signature is definitely the CPU I've held onto the longest. Got it in summer of 2015 and really see no need to upgrade at the moment, as it's not holding back my 1080 Ti when gaming, and it's fast enough for me for everything else I do with it.
 
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Arkaign

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The i7-5820k in my signature is definitely the CPU I've held onto the longest. Got it in summer of 2015 and really see no need to upgrade at the moment, as it's not holding back my 1080 Ti when gaming, and it's fast enough for me for everything else I do with it.

Ah nice a 5820k!

I just ordered an E5-1650 v3 for a Dell T5810 I got for cheap on eBay as a project. What GPU do you have? I'd like to compare some benchmarks to see how it comes together, CPU wise, and maybe GPU if it's close enough. The CPU and a 1650S are on the way.
 

gipper53

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9700k in my Z370 desktop. My son is rocking my old i7 3770 for his gaming machine. That's about to be upgraded to a X99 with a 6850k pulled from a workstation I got free from work. Fortunate circumstances! He'll have that with a GTX 980 and a 512GB 950 Pro drive, plus an 850 Pro I've got lying here. More machine than any 12 year old deserves lol.

If I were building a new desktop today, I'd probably go with a 3900x.
 

Golgatha

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Ah nice a 5820k!

I just ordered an E5-1650 v3 for a Dell T5810 I got for cheap on eBay as a project. What GPU do you have? I'd like to compare some benchmarks to see how it comes together, CPU wise, and maybe GPU if it's close enough. The CPU and a 1650S are on the way.

The GPU is a GTX 1080 Ti. I could run a few CPU benchmarks though.