Interesting times at the mo…
Be honest, If you were building a new rig what would you put in it AMD or Intel ?
I think I would stick Intel for heat reasons but I can see AMD making some wins Currently
- AMD
- Intel
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The last system I built was a R5 2600, chosen as I wanted a higher frequency than 1st gen, but still low cost CPU. The goal was an “all red” gaming system paired with Vega 56, and I have a 4k FreeSync monitor. While it wont give the highest fps compared to higher clocked Intel CPUs, it does a good enough job, at a low cost. (6 cores, all core turbo 3.9 GHz with upgraded air cooler, all core 4.2 manual overclock).
Having said that, I do have an 8086k in my gaming system. I only need to run stock for normal use, but for benching I’ve run all cores at 5.2 GHz.
Having said that, the question is what is my next build likely to be? We’re not likely to see Ryzen 3000 series for another 6 months, so the only new thing on the horizon is Intel 9000 series and their consumer level 8 cores. I don’t need it… but that hasn’t stopped me before.
I just so want the AMD to be good - there’s some nostalgia there and love still for the Barton2500
My next build was the question - and it’s likely to be a dedicated folder machine that all I want is the GPU - so for cost I would punt for a mid-range AMD to “test” the water with the new architectures.
Cores are king for my work, the i9000 looks so good, but that’s a long time for it to be in operation for decent ROI.
Folding is GPU’s all the way, my 980 gtx pegs the CPU per GPU at around 11% ± 1% throwing more cores at GPU it does nowt so 2 CPU threads cores for the 2 GPUs and 4 CPU crunch and 1 OS if I had the PCI slots it easy run 4 GPUs Maxed on my I7-4970K
sounds like you have some folding rigs running … yet I’ve not seen you mentioned in the Fadamor news reports
just popping a few in where I can only powered up yesterday, no opportunity to run constantly but while i can get away with it 
so should show in his next one
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@DoubleTop Ryzens are an interesting CPU depending on your use case. I’d suggest looking at the Zen+ cores which are the 2600 and above, and paring it with a 400 series chipset. Over the 1st gen, they have gained a fair bit of clock for a given power level. With upgraded cooling my 2600 does 3.9 all core boost. With the stock cooler was around 3.7 depending on the load intensity and ambient conditions. This is without overclocking at all. The 400 series chipset is required to enable their 2nd gen turbo feature which is more aggressive and fine grained than 1st gen or Intel. Also note the infinity fabric and LLC are tied to the ram clock, so you’d want to make use of the higher supported speeds and aim for 3000 or higher.
The biggest thing stopping Ryzen from wiping Intel is the FPU, if you make use of that much at all. At least in my testing with some x86 and AVX2 loads, it is about half the IPC of a modern Intel.
Just put together an AMD Ryzen 3 - 1200, budget rig for work.
VERY surprised how quick it is.
Think i’ll give the Ryzen 7 a go on the next rig based on what i’ve seen so far, performance / £ is superb. Rock solid too, looks like AMD are back in the game !
Sarge.
I went Intel for my newest system
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo|egrep “name|mip”
model name : Intel® Atom™ CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
bogomips : 3325.54
model name : Intel® Atom™ CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
bogomips : 3325.54
model name : Intel® Atom™ CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
bogomips : 3325.54
model name : Intel® Atom™ CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz
bogomips : 3325.54
I keep losing it under the crap on my desk but its here somewhere.
The last gaming rig went into the metal skip a couple of weeks ago, it didnt boot and all the caps were leaking but it was the one that used to get lugged up to the Lowfield and sometimes even get plugged in.
I’ve been Intel since the beginning. My first PC was an 80286-based behemoth Zeos tower and the die was cast then. I can’t say anything particularly bad about AMD other than they were “Johnny-Come-Latelys” to the CPU market compared to Intel. Yeah. A pretty damning criticism. 
Just finished a Cheap Arsed AMD Ryzen 3 ( i did say cheap ) build for work.
Totally shocked by the performance for the price.
Cheap motherboard, an old AMD 460 Gpahics card and a 250gb M2 on board ssd, very nippy under windows 10.
Haven’t built an AMD rig in years, but seriously happy with this for the price it cost to build.
Don’t write off the new AMD chips, A lot of bang for the buck…
Sarge.
For a cheap new system also look at the 2200G and 2400G both with APU for some basic level gaming potential. Both quad core, latter with SMT. AMD have in under two years moved quad cores from high end consumer to entry level. Do you want cores with that?
Really looking forward to Zen 2 (what will be Ryzen 3000 next year) as they improved the biggest weakness for my crunching, AVX performance. It will then be roughly on parity per Intel core.