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Lupus said:
Throw in the prices of the 40 series, I'm glad I upgraded 6 months ago and will probably keep this till the second AM5 chip
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Yeah I thought I was going to regret building a PC last month with the new AMD's coming out, but seems it was a good choice. These are expensive
 
TofuMofu said:
  • Ryzen 5 7600X – R6,299
  • Ryzen 7 7700X – R8,599
  • Ryzen 9 7900X – R11,999
  • Ryzen 9 7950X – R14,999
Damn, they are quite pricey.
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The 7950x is cheaper than the 5950x at launch so there's a bargain there :laugh:

Also, no B-series motherboards for a few weeks at least (think I read that on Reddit). People are saying the motherboards are going to be expensive compared to last gen so that's also a problem plus DDR5.
 
Neoprod said:
The 7950x is cheaper than the 5950x at launch so there's a bargain there

Also, no B-series motherboards for a few weeks at least (think I read that on Reddit). People are saying the motherboards are going to be expensive compared to last gen so that's also a problem plus DDR5.
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Yup that's where a large portion of the outlay is going to go, it'll be like having an intel where you need to upgrade every generation.
 
Neoprod said:
The 7950x is cheaper than the 5950x at launch so there's a bargain there :laugh:

Also, no B-series motherboards for a few weeks at least (think I read that on Reddit). People are saying the motherboards are going to be expensive compared to last gen so that's also a problem plus DDR5.
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October for the B660 boards apparently though we don't have an exact date. It's going to be nuts if cost to entry is R3k for a budget board. They're basically handing Intel market share.
 
UrBaN963 said:
October for the B660 boards apparently though we don't have an exact date. It's going to be nuts if cost to entry is R3k for a budget board. They're basically handing Intel market share.
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3k is the most I'd pay for a CPU coaster.

Smh.
 
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UrBaN963 said:
October for the B660 boards apparently though we don't have an exact date. It's going to be nuts if cost to entry is R3k for a budget board. They're basically handing Intel market share.
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I was looking at B660 boards yesterday because of that dude who posted about his impending build and the "good" ones are around 3k.

Good in quotes because you can run a 12400 with a AAA battery...a 2 grand board would work perfectly.
 
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As a big advocate of AMD processors, I'm staying well away from the 7000 series because of the power efficiency, high cost of upgrade & I can assure you there will be RAM timing issues again on this first round of motherboards.
I still remember waiting for my old X370 board for 5-10 minutes to check memory before every boot.
The average 60FPS gamer needs nothing more than a Ryzen 5600.
 
Faux_Grey said:
As a big advocate of AMD processors, I'm staying well away from the 7000 series because of the power efficiency, high cost of upgrade & I can assure you there will be RAM timing issues again on this first round of motherboards.
I still remember waiting for my old X370 board for 5-10 minutes to check memory before every boot.
The average 60FPS gamer needs nothing more than a Ryzen 5600.
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60FPS? What do you think this is, the PS5 thread?
 
Freaking hell could not get windows 11 to install on a tiger lake laptop on an Ssd, took ages to install than it just takes forever to actually do anything, but an hdd it installs fine?
 
The mobo pricing for am5 is just horrid. Was thinking of upgrading but the pricing is just too much.
 
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stefan9 said:
The mobo pricing for am5 is just horrid. Was thinking of upgrading but the pricing is just too much.
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At least the B-series isn't going to be delayed 6-7 months like with the 5000 series launch.

They'll still be more expensive than before with the Rand situation and whatever's going on with margins on chipsets but more options sooner is better for everyone.
 
Lupus said:
Freaking hell could not get windows 11 to install on a tiger lake laptop on an Ssd, took ages to install than it just takes forever to actually do anything, but an hdd it installs fine?
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I've done a number of win 11 fresh installs to SSD, without problems. Maybe check if your BIOS is up to date.
 
Faux_Grey said:
As a big advocate of AMD processors, I'm staying well away from the 7000 series because of the power efficiency, high cost of upgrade & I can assure you there will be RAM timing issues again on this first round of motherboards.
I still remember waiting for my old X370 board for 5-10 minutes to check memory before every boot.
The average 60FPS gamer needs nothing more than a Ryzen 5600.
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The power efficiency appears to be much ado about nothing as per neoprod's post. It is probably the most power efficient (x86) desktop CPU out there.

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5800x3d is sitll faster in some games,so guess il just buy that.
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deesef said:
I've done a number of win 11 fresh installs to SSD, without problems. Maybe check if your BIOS is up to date.
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If put in a old hdd to get it up and going to run an image on that working drive. But it's odd only effecting this tiger lake system
 
Barbarian Conan said:
The power efficiency appears to be much ado about nothing as per neoprod's post. It is probably the most power efficient (x86) desktop CPU out there.

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5800x3d is sitll faster in some games,so guess il just buy that.
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Yeah, from what I've read, the CPU's running at 95C out of the box is intentional. They've relaxed the controls that the 5000 series came with a bit to let the CPU's go deeper into the inefficient part of the power consumption curve. It's entirely possible to set-up your personal 7000 series CPU to be more conservative which is smart given our summers.

Maybe that decision they made was specifically for benchmarking \ review purposes for when Intel's next gen comes out later this year - AMD will look better on paper for synthetic benchmarks if 7xxx CPUs are using more headroom even if it wouldn't make a difference in the real world (lightly-threaded workloads like the majority of games and applications wouldn't get near the default power limits).
 
William1102 said:
Hey guys

Looking at 12th Gen i5 12400

Is there anything from AMD that can match or outperform for cheaper as the motherboards and CPUs are getting pricey
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Yeah I wouldn't touch 12th gen, intel released information on their raptor lake 13th gen CPUs which will release on the 20th October. The 13500K has 14 (4 more E cores) cores and 20 threads now at R5700 -+. !3th gen has all gotten more cores and a healthy mhz bump as well. Intel has hinted at 14% single threaded increase and 41% multi core performance increase.

Intel finally got their shyte together. Price/performance per core it looks like intel is going to win this round.
 
Freaking hell flashed bios, cloned a working install and yet this machine will still not work properly with this SSD wtf... Wondering if it might be the SSD now did my brand new drive come as a dud
 
Lupus said:
Freaking hell flashed bios, cloned a working install and yet this machine will still not work properly with this SSD wtf... Wondering if it might be the SSD now did my brand new drive come as a dud
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It is possible. Try a different SATA cable first.
 
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