I can understand that. What is the best buy for you then? I mean right now
I buy a new Intel-based pc about every 18-24 months, just because. I swap manufacturers all the time. (Ibuypower, Dell, Gateway, Asus, HP). I think I have an i7-7700k box, but I'm not positive. I posted it here somewhere, but I'm lazy Ryzen will have to prove stability for years before I'll move to it.
Games dont require decent CPU anymore so any old CPU will do just fine as long as its i5/i7. My almost ten year old i7 can still run newest games just fine as long as GPU is good. GPU is the only thing that matters anymore.I never even had the idea to buy used components.
Games, yes, sometimes, but hardware ???
Me? No. I don't. If there is no reason to upgrade, and in my case there still isn't, I won't go for it. That doesn't mean I'm not interested in what's going on at the market.I'm curious why you buy new systems so frequently ? My server (2500k)
This is partionally true.Games dont require decent CPU anymore so any old CPU will do just fine as long as its i5/i7. My almost ten year old i7 can still run newest games just fine as long as GPU is good. GPU is the only thing that matters anymore.
We can't actually, everything inside consoles is outdated for ages and the only thing that saves that garbage is fixation on code optimization, a development process that for whatever reason lacks on PC. Consoles still use old SATA port for example making adding SSD inside them a waste of $.You can see the same in consoles.
Everyone and their mother, because diamonds are women's best friend, are researching a possibility to switch from silicon to carbon. Less power needed, no overheating, not touchy to chemical extremes, etc.
While today's CPUs run a few GHz, you don't need to know that already existing experimental diamond transistor is capable of 81 Ghz and Nippon Telegraph and Telefone Corp. projects it could reach 200 Ghz.
The only problem is the technology how to create these diamonds - smaller!
Please, the message above ment for Intel, someone pass to this japanese company. With an additional note that they should think PC, not consoles.
Seems the future is closer than I thought, more names are now in the game, more are researching diamond based CPUs:Available Ryzen CPUs are overkill only for MMOs and ports from phones. Sure, you don't have to go for 6core R5 but it's the best current option IMO if you had to upgrade today. An option that'll last you for many years that come. Unless someone suddenly reveals a diamond based CPU, but I don't see it happening in near future.
Just can't wait the day there is a superstrong diamond CPU inside our PC while phones still run silly Snapdragon and consoles swear on pathetic Jaguar.Forget overclocking, an MIT AI is bending diamonds to make our CPUs faster
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Flexing a semiconductor can actually improve its performance, and researchers at MIT, and in Russia and Singapore, are letting AI run wild on their chips to figure out the perfect blend of bend. But it’s not just silicon chips the team see one day benefiting from the research – diamond’s unique properties also make it a good candidate for the flexy chips of the future.
I suspect AMD has the same sorts of problems. Steam is saying less than 20% of users have AMD CPUs. There's not much point in figuring out sophisticated hacks for such rarely used CPUs.This will probably hit Intel quite hard. Their security and manufacturing issues couldn't have come at a worse time. Disable Hyperthreading? Cmon.
I suspect AMD has the same sorts of problems. Steam is saying less than 20% of users have AMD CPUs. There's not much point in figuring out sophisticated hacks for such rarely used CPUs.
If AMD makes a big comeback, though, that will change. Hopefully AMD will get ahead of the problems and deal with them in their newer CPUs but that's unlikely to help folks buying them now.
If AMD makes a big comeback, though, that will change. Hopefully AMD will get ahead of the problems and deal with them in their newer CPUs but that's unlikely to help folks buying them now.
My biggest problem with AMD cpu are the motherboards. Esp the ones for the low end (ryzen) cpu…. intel has great chipsets for their motherboards.
I'm not worried about AMDs chipsets, but more what the board manufacturers have been doing with them. MSI and Asus have really been slacking with quality BIOS updates, while Gigabyte and ASRock have been much better, when more often than not, it's the other way around. Also, the VRM designs on most of the boards have been "meh". Once they finally got some decent updates out, and no more RAM stability issues, XFR2 and Precision Boost 2 have been excellent.