Microcenter been having R7 2700X on sale for $130. I was going to get it, then missed it so I just went with the R5 1600 for $80 and put the extra $50 towards a NVMe SSD. It’s probably good enough for me for years to come, but if I wanted something better, the upgrade is a simple CPU swap.
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I’ll be in the same boat come next year. My 6500 is showing it’s age and i just got a 1080 from a friend so i wondering what i should do on the upgrade front. Might go AMD this round since i been a Intel guy for the last 2 PC revisions i did.
I’m actually wanting to build 2 PCs in 2020…one personal upgrade and one business.
I may just buy a ready made PC for the business side…write it off.
Looks neat…try out some new demos on steam this weekend.
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After the release of the Athlon 3000G I been thinking of building a cheap PC for my dad to replace the junker he’s currently using.
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Wow…that AMD chip is set to be cheap!
I can definitely make an inexpensive workstation.
And unlike Intel rightnow you get the on the box performance.
Are the AMD included-in-the-box Wraith coolers still considered good enough for typical gaming use?
Yea. They do a fine job cooling when using the CPU on stock.
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Finally going to get around to replacing my old ass B350 motherboard tomorrow.
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The current stock of AMD coolers, especially the wraith coolers are legit. The better Wraith coolers even allow for some minor overclocking.
Intel on the other hand has complete garbage trying to pass as stock coolers where the generic $10 cooler is better than the intel stock
Their CPUs run hotter than AMD. The heat that the higher end chips produce can keep me warm in winter. They definitely need to step their cooling game up.
Intel is not going to step up their cooling game.
There coolers been shit since the Pentium 4.
Intel sat on their ass and held the whole PC development field back for years as they do the tiniest increments to improvements as they felt AMD last real contribution was the 64 bit extension to the x86 architecture. AMD bid their time and did a complete new architecture of the zen cpu from the ground up, which is what ryzen was built on.
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took about two hours to do the complete swap of my motherboard out for this new one. And of course, because I changed it; my key that’s tied to my Microsoft Account has reached it’s point. Waiting on the new activation key now to be delivered.
I usually just contact MS support and tell them I just did a replacement of X, and they usually send me a reaction code online or email.
got it fixed. New key worked fine, and was less than $5. Now having to do the file verification on all of my games I have.
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Draw Slasher free until 12/20…
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What about a Linux distro for your work computer and maybe also for you personal computer?
There so many distros to choose from, I currently like Mint.
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Steam Winter Sale, the annual reminder that you can make great games virtually free and I still won’t have time to play them.