re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

i'm color blind and i'm wearing my glasses that help and I can detect a difference, but I just don't know what it is.

for me, the difference is immaterial whatever it is

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thought you had a WiiU or whatever? 

Lmfao I thought it was called the 

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Traded it in for GameStop points in prep for the new switch when it was announced. But ended up buying mine at WalMart. So the GameStop points turned into a waste of time.

I still need a PS4 Pro. Might just wait it out. Besides the Zero Dawn there is nothing of interest.

I am a little disappointed in reading some of these gaming performance reviews of Ryzen.

I do more than just gaming on my PC, but gaming is still a big part of what I do in my spare time.

I think I'm gonna wait till Skylake E arrives before I decide if I want to build with Ryzen or not.

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I am a little disappointed in reading some of these gaming performance reviews of Ryzen.

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Some are good some are bad, there are a lot of inconsistencies out there early on. Best to wait a few weeks in general, even Broadwell had issues early on, it's normal.

Overall it's a very good well rounded 8 core CPU, especially the 1700 for the price. For some reason in benchmarks in games the 1700 is performing the best OC'd at 3.9GHz, and with SMT disabled. SMT is where games are suffering, and something that updates will take care of like early Hyperthreading days.

I never really wanted the 8 core, so I'm fine with waiting until Q2 for the 6 core offerings.

Overall I wanted it to compete across the board with the 6900K, and it does, very well.

Also depends on the games, so many sites test old arse games and there is where you start to get a lot of differences, more cores for gaming is something that is very new and still has a long ways to go before even 6 cores are properly utilized in gaming, so if you look at a new title such as Battlefield 1, a very CPU heavy game but also very well optimized, the 1800X is actually better than a 5GHz OC 7700K WITH much slower RAM and we all know how important RAM speed is now.




and then you have gigantic discrepancies like this:





Appears most of the issues lie with motherboard early BIOS versions. Again, just wait a few weeks or a month for more proper and legit benchmarks. There will be large improvements.


ETA: finally found the 1700 OC results I was talking about against a 5GHz OC 7700K. This is more on par with where all the results will be following some BIOS and software updates.

Great time for ppl recieving tax returns and tech hobby..

Ryzen
1080 Ti
Switch (tons of other Nintendo shtt)

Exciting week and weekend!

The 1700 for $329 and 8 cores 16 threads with the performance it offers both in newer games (going forward in the future as well) and workstations is an absolute steal.

Makes about as much sense as all the people comparing 4 cores to 8 cores in general.

Especially the old arse games from 5 years ago they still test.


This is where it's at that though for the realistic and solid gaming performance from the lowest end R7



Once a few more of the kinks are worked out with updates this is far more indicative of the very very good gaming performance Ryzen offers in addition to the ridiculous application tasks performance on par and above a 6900K. This is what makes it a no brainer at $329 for the 1700 or the $399 for the 1700X.

You should only get the 1800X if you are strictly building a workstation, in which case it is unmatched at the moment.

More importantly, with how insanely well it handles tasks related to applications and workstations, Naples is looking to be very strong on the server side and that is where AMD will make its bank. And then I sell my stock at about $20-$25/share and buy me a boat!

For sure, just sucked major balls elsewhere.

CPU based x264 encoding for streams versus so many streamers that buy and setup a 2nd PC just for their stream to avoid GPU based encoding.

If I was a heavy streamer I'd be all over a 1700(X) already.

Thanks for write up Ultimatehog.

I'm seriously debating getting a 1700x for my new computer build. Plan on gaming and using it to do some AutoCAD, Microstation to start a civil design business in near future. Going to wait a few weeks and see where dust settles, but do you think 8 core is too much or should I go with 4 core 7700k???

Here's my current build, already have everything but CPU, motherboard, video card and monitor: Optimo Build