Question What is the CPU vendor of your primary rigs?

[yeshua]

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

 

[Golgatha]

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.

Yeah, if I were building something new for my primary rig, it would be a 3000 series Ryzen for sure.

 

[Arkaign]

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

Ah perfect! I have my old 1080ti I can put in it. When the CPU arrives, I'll drop you a line PCIe adapter cables arrived today. Basically I'm trying to see how the T5810 fares as a mid-range/cheap gaming rig (obviously not with a 1080ti in it permanently, but will be useful to basically eliminate GPU bottleneck for any gaming benchmarks).

For $266 shipped, I got :

E5-1620 v3 (replacing this with $60 E5-1650 v3 6C/12T unlocked)
Dell Proprietary X99 Mobo (if it works like the Lenovo S30 and HP Z400/420/440, I should be able to use XTU to boost multiplier a little)
360GB Intel SATA SSD
32GB Quad Channel DDR4 ECC 2133
625W PSU (meh)
Super Solid toolless case w/handles
DVDRW, Windows 7 COA for W10 Pro

Little more expensive than what I normally shoot for as cheap gaming rig bones, but was curious about the model.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Oh, and around the house I have maybe 50-60 other PCs,

Need more? Just sayin'...

Edit: We should talk some time, I want to find out a little more about your "food bank gig". I've thought about doing similar, I've got a whole stack-o-PCs in my "warehouse", that need a home. Hopefully, their PSUs still work, after a few winters in the non-climate-controlled storage. Most all of them have SSDs.

Edit: As far as my personal rigs, I'm all-in on Ryzen 6C/12T CPUs, for the last few years.

 

[Golgatha]

Ah perfect! I have my old 1080ti I can put in it. When the CPU arrives, I'll drop you a line PCIe adapter cables arrived today. Basically I'm trying to see how the T5810 fares as a mid-range/cheap gaming rig (obviously not with a 1080ti in it permanently, but will be useful to basically eliminate GPU bottleneck for any gaming benchmarks).

For $266 shipped, I got :

E5-1620 v3 (replacing this with $60 E5-1650 v3 6C/12T unlocked)
Dell Proprietary X99 Mobo (if it works like the Lenovo S30 and HP Z400/420/440, I should be able to use XTU to boost multiplier a little)
360GB Intel SATA SSD
32GB Quad Channel DDR4 ECC 2133
625W PSU (meh)
Super Solid toolless case w/handles
DVDRW, Windows 7 COA for W10 Pro

Little more expensive than what I normally shoot for as cheap gaming rig bones, but was curious about the model.

I can dial my multiplier down to 3.5Ghz easily enough to compare apples to apples. You'll probably want to set the 1080 Ti up with 100% fan speed, as mine isn't overclocked, but it does have serious aftermarket cooling on it and will run at max boost specs while testing.

 

[Thala]

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.

My Surface ProX runs 3GHz all-core (the little cores slower of course). Doubt you will get that performance out of a 855 in a phone with standard cooling. In addition The SQ1 has at least 2xGPU performance and 2x memory bandwidth.

 

[mopardude87]

Been mainly Intel,currently using a 7700k but part of me certainly wants a 3700x or 3900x. More like a 3900X cause honestly i need more cpu power like i need a hole in the head. Maybe i like the idea of a " fully operational battlestation" that can push games for at least the next 5 years without a sweat. Most likely will sit on the 7700k till Ryzen 4000 series. The 7700k isn't a bad chip currently for what i play, i just want new toys. Doing a entirely new build next years anyways.

 

[DrMrLordX]

My Surface ProX runs 3GHz all-core (the little cores slower of course). Doubt you will get that performance out of a 855 in a phone with standard cooling.

ROG Phone II has a special vapor chamber and even ships with a fan. It has OC software. You can push all three core clusters to max clocks and keep them there constantly if you want. It won't throttle with the fan at max speed.

In addition The SQ1 has at least 2xGPU performance and 2x memory bandwidth.

Now that may be a deciding factor. ROG Phone II only has an overclocked Adreno 640. The memory is pretty good though . . . 12GB LPDDR4x 3733. Not 4266, bleh. I would definitely like to see the SQ1 running Linux though!

 

[Thala]

Now that may be a deciding factor. ROG Phone II only has an overclocked Adreno 640. The memory is pretty good though . . . 12GB LPDDR4x 3733. Not 4266, bleh. I would definitely like to see the SQ1 running Linux though!

Thing is 8CX/SQ1 has 8 memory channels instead of 4 like the Snapdragon 855+ for double the bandwidth.
Running Linux? No Problem, thats what we have WSL2 for

 

[DrMrLordX]

Thing is 8CX/SQ1 has 8 memory channels instead of 4 like the Snapdragon 855+ for double the bandwidth.

I wonder how much of an issue that is performance-wise? Obviously having more bandwidth is generally better.

Running Linux? No Problem, thats what we have WSL2 for

I would rather run it bare metal, but that is a plus. Technically you get to run it bare metal on an Android phone, if you don't mind giving up 3+ GB of RAM constantly to the Android subsystem. Bleh. Also, having to VNC into your own Linux system kind of stinks. Command line stuff works fine but graphical applications? That's where the "fun" begins.

 

[Thala]

I wonder how much of an issue that is performance-wise? Obviously having more bandwidth is generally better.

Well, the bandwidth is necessary considering the GPU specs. I mean you can run some games 2880x1920..thats almost 6Mio Pixel.

I would rather run it bare metal, but that is a plus. Technically you get to run it bare metal on an Android phone, if you don't mind giving up 3+ GB of RAM constantly to the Android subsystem. Bleh. Also, having to VNC into your own Linux system kind of stinks. Command line stuff works fine but graphical applications? That's where the "fun" begins.

Thats not VNC but a native ARM64 XServer running on the Windows side on the Surface Pro X, did you check the attached picture?
Also nice, when i change the window size of the XServer dynamically - the XFCE4 session manager will automatically adapt to the new resolution.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Thats not VNC but a native ARM64 XServer running on the Windows side on the Surface Pro X, did you check the attached picture?

I'm talking about trying to run an X session in Android using a tool like UserLAnd. You either have to use SSH, vnc, or XSDL (and XSDL doesn't seem to work so well in Android 9 or 10).

 

[dr.m0x]

Jumped on the 3900x at launch and, constant bios updates aside, have no regrets. Had a lot of game crashes using PBO so settled on a 4.2ghz ago cores overclock which makes everything nice and stable. Could probably push 4.3 but it's quite a big voltage (and temperature) bump for that extra 100mhz on my sample so not worth it to me.

 

[kawi6rr]

Been using AMD for quite a while 2002 I think. AMD would usually offer better bang for the buck when I was building a new machine. Currently running a 2600x and have to say its a pretty nice chip.

 

[Charlie22911]

I’ve been using AMD exclusively In my primary rigs up until 2016 (K6-2, k6-III+, Athlon XP-M 2500+, Opteron 165, Phenom x4 945, Phenom x6 1035, FX 8350).
The FX debacle bummed me enough that I switched to Intel with a 6900k just before Ryzen dropped. I felt super burned by the lack of refinement and issues with x99 so I tried to jump back over to AMD with Threadripper 1950x, but Linux just wasn’t having it at the time.
Sold the Threadripper here and picked up a 7980XE. I’ll ride this system for a few years before jumping back over to whatever AMD has on offer, Zen 3 presumably.

 

[Markfw]

I’ve been using AMD exclusively In my primary rigs up until 2016 (K6-2, k6-III+, Athlon XP-M 2500+, Opteron 165, Phenom x4 945, Phenom x6 1035, FX 8350).
The FX debacle bummed me enough that I switched to Intel with a 6900k just before Ryzen dropped. I felt super burned by the lack of refinement and issues with x99 so I tried to jump back over to AMD with Threadripper 1950x, but Linux just wasn’t having it at the time.
Sold the Threadripper here and picked up a 7980XE. I’ll ride this system for a few years before jumping back over to whatever AMD has on offer, Zen 3 presumably.

Yes, and your old 1950x is happily crunching 24/7/365 on linux.

 

[Charlie22911]

Yes, and your old 1950x is happily crunching 24/7/365 on linux.

I really did love that system, ASRock really nailed it with the x399 Taichi. I’ve had a few moments of regret, but I had to ditch it after a kernel panic destroyed my array; unRaid just wasn’t being updated fast enough.
It was a fun build though, glad it’s serving you well now. For all the flaws the FX line had, it was the most reliable system I’ve ever owned. I’ll always have an irrational place in my heart for AMD.



Edit: for the sake of clarity, the FX was powering my server before the upgrade to Threadripper.

 

[potato masher]

I buy used, intel only. Depreciation can be a wonderful thing.