TechnTeach
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Alright so I won't lie, I'm one of the few "power" users I know who has actually preferred AMD for most of my builds over the years....some of this is the obvious cost factor, but I had really good luck with some early Athlon XP chips and some very slow Pentium 4's that pushed me to follow AMD....
Now my question is, will Ryzen (Renamed from Zen) stand any chance against Intel with their new AM4 platform? My two main desktops are currently an FX-8100/16G DDR3 and an FX-6300/20GB DDR3 but lets face it, the FX chips are old and slow....my 3rd Gen i5 laptop benchmarks higher in single and multi-threaded performance than either of my FX chips.
I've been reading that one of the new Ryzen chips took on an i7 6900k (with both virtually clocked to 3.0Ghz) and took a slim win, but will AMD be able to keep up the pace?
I'm considering building a new desktop here in the next 1-2 years and not sure which way to go...originally I was considering building an X99 system, but the cost for what I would need is going to go through the roof (mostly for the processor)...so a next-gen chip from AMD may be a good second choice if they can keep the performance higher and the cost down....I'm not looking for something that will be better than Intel as AMD's bottom line has always been their price point, but something decently comparable could be on my radar.
Now my question is, will Ryzen (Renamed from Zen) stand any chance against Intel with their new AM4 platform? My two main desktops are currently an FX-8100/16G DDR3 and an FX-6300/20GB DDR3 but lets face it, the FX chips are old and slow....my 3rd Gen i5 laptop benchmarks higher in single and multi-threaded performance than either of my FX chips.
I've been reading that one of the new Ryzen chips took on an i7 6900k (with both virtually clocked to 3.0Ghz) and took a slim win, but will AMD be able to keep up the pace?
I'm considering building a new desktop here in the next 1-2 years and not sure which way to go...originally I was considering building an X99 system, but the cost for what I would need is going to go through the roof (mostly for the processor)...so a next-gen chip from AMD may be a good second choice if they can keep the performance higher and the cost down....I'm not looking for something that will be better than Intel as AMD's bottom line has always been their price point, but something decently comparable could be on my radar.