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elf_lord_ZC5 said:
He seems to be coming around to AMD system, but will see - thanks guys for yhe input.
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Don't do it.

Do you want to be blamed for every crash, for every game that doesn't launch, every time the sound stutters while windows does something, every in-game stutter?
Let fanboys be fanboys and make your own life easy.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Don't do it.

Do you want to be blamed for every crash, for every game that doesn't launch, every time the sound stutters while windows does something, every in-game stutter?
Let fanboys be fanboys and make your own life easy.
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What??
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
My AMD Covid, build is still running perfectly. :)
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Mine as well, but some games have stutters on any system (e.g. Jedi survivor). BG 3 had a known and documented crash when you use Vulkan instead of DX12. RDR 2 had a crash when using sunbeam. My windows audio stuttered sometimes for a week or two and fixed itself when I move my USB dongle to a different port.
All these things would probably have happened on an intel system as well, but that won't stop someone from blaming AMD.
 
Lupus said:
You know what is scary, my sons AMD COVID build is coming up to 4 years old, even the 2060super is old now. It's like wtf how did that fly by.
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The good thing is prices come down. I paid R6k for my 5700G when it launched. I now see the Aliexpress shop I buy used processors from now have then for half that price!
 
Rouxenator said:
The good thing is prices come down. I paid R6k for my 5700G when it launched. I now see the Aliexpress shop I buy used processors from now have then for half that price!
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Yup his was early COVID so prices weren't bad yet, but at one point wow prices shot up badly. I managed to sell an RX580 for double the price I paid for it in 2019, I sold a 1660ti for the same price I paid for it 2 years previously, the prices were ridiculous.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
No, no idea, he has just always used Intel, and never AMD. When he grew up AMD was difficult to get hold of, and Intel always had an edge.

Told him I got AMD, as CPU and motherboards, where cheaper and performance was as good or better.

He still favours Intel.

But if you can give me options, and I can get him to check benchmarks, which he used to like. He may decide otherwise.

Fortunately it is his money, not mine.
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hes the laaitie, klap him and tell him to come right.

AMD is a better value proposition nowadays, AM4 is still viable even
 
I’m trying to install Windows 7 on a Ryzen 3600 system but it won’t boot - do I need to change a bios setting?
 
UrBaN963 said:
Use Windows 10, why are you using Windows 7?
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I am using Windows 11, but the installation media is a USB drive that was inserted into a friend’s PC who torrents too much so I don’t trust it anymore. My dad has Windows 7/XP dvds so the idea is to install from there on to the other PC, and use it to create a new clean installation USB.
 
AMD COVID builds unite

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Mines still going strong too.
COVID lockdown, in retrospect, was the greatest thing to happen to humanity.
Going from a “H” series notebook (whatever the Skylake equivalent) was to a Ryzen 7 5900x for work daily-driving :love:
 
NikeXT said:
I am using Windows 11, but the installation media is a USB drive that was inserted into a friend’s PC who torrents too much so I don’t trust it anymore. My dad has Windows 7/XP dvds so the idea is to install from there on to the other PC, and use it to create a new clean installation USB.
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This is insanity.
Download the Windows 10 installation media from Microsoft's website - https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/software-download/windows10

Create a bootable USB and install that way. You are building a wagon and then upgrading it to a car.
 
UrBaN963 said:
Use Windows 10, why are you using Windows 7?
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I currently run windows 10 but I do have a use for running windows 7 some games or applications don’t run on windows 10 even under compatibility mode and work fine on 7

Did it temporarily to use an old app and dual booted 7 and 10 which did work well until a few windows updates messed it up
 
UrBaN963 said:
This is insanity.
Download the Windows 10 installation media from Microsoft's website - https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/software-download/windows10

Create a bootable USB and install that way.
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That’s exactly what I’m trying to do, but the MS media creation tool only works on Windows. My main PC has Fedora installed , the M1 doesn’t do bootcamp.

UrBaN963 said:
You are building a wagon and then upgrading it to a car.
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No I’m using the wagon (non writable media) to take delivery of the software so it isn’t compromised. As a MI fan you should know that this is the perfect solution. Can’t infect the analog with the digital!

Anyway, I think I’ll just burn the iso if by some miracle I can find a blank dvd. Or wait to use somebody else’s PC.
 
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