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jd1020 · 06-02-2017, 12:23 AM

Even though it goes against every bone in my body, I'm half tempted to say **** it and make my next build, which is maybe 2 months down the road, an AMD build.

I would literally gain nothing by doing it. The sole reason would be just to give AMD a little more market share and hope the Ryzen chips age better as more games start to move towards more threads.

Either way I doubt there would be any buyers remorse. I just have little faith in AMD's ability to keep up.

FlintHillsChiefs · 06-02-2017, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jd1020

Even though it goes against every bone in my body, I'm half tempted to say **** it and make my next build, which is maybe 2 months down the road, an AMD build.

I would literally gain nothing by doing it. The sole reason would be just to give AMD a little more market share and hope the Ryzen chips age better as more games start to move towards more threads.

Either way I doubt there would be any buyers remorse. I just have little faith in AMD's ability to keep up.

Threadripper should be out then. It's going to kick Intel's ass at that price point. 16 cores/32 threads and 64 PCIe lanes for $849? Wow.

I think Ryzen is really going to mature into a nice platform for AMD. I didn't feel super awed by the release at first, but I think the next reiterations and the maturation of software support is going to make it extremely competitive down the road.

jd1020 · 06-02-2017, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by FlintHillsChiefs

Threadripper should be out then. It's going to kick Intel's ass at that price point. 16 cores/32 threads and 64 PCIe lanes for $849? Wow.

I really have no interest in Threadripper. It's more like r5 1600 or maybe r7 1700 if I just want to splurge for no reason at all vs Coffee Lake.

**hometeam** · 06-02-2017, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by FlintHillsChiefs

Threadripper should be out then. It's going to kick Intel's ass at that price point. 16 cores/32 threads and 64 PCIe lanes for $849? Wow.

I think Ryzen is really going to mature into a nice platform for AMD. I didn't feel super awed by the release at first, but I think the next reiterations and the maturation of software support is going to make it extremely competitive down the road.

At the same time intel is going to claim less cores same power for a little bit more with the new i9s etc.

Competition is a good thing.

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