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Burning Typhoon on 23 February 2017
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Pemalite said:
Burning Typhoon said:
I was just talking to a microcenter salesman. Yesterday, actually. He said the single core performance isn't quite matching with intel. He also said that having all those extra cores is useless if they're not being taken advantage of. I'd saw this thread before remembering to fact-check, but, this stuff better come out soon. I need to see benchmarks. I need a much more powerful PC than what mine is currently delivering. 4790k is no where close to cutting it, and I'm not paying 1500 on a CPU...

Yeah. I think AMD is just countering lower per-core performance with higher clocks, more threads.

But they are "close enough" to Intel.

We all need some reliable benchmarking done by the likes of Anandtech.

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For me personally, AMD has dropped the ball, they don't have any high-end boards...

I have no brand loyalty to anyone.  Doesn't make any sense at all.  You wont see me saying Street Fighter 5 > Mortal Kombat X, or Sony > Nintendo, or Intel > AMD.

I'm going for whatever option is going to be the best option for the dollar.  My Ryzen chip has been put on pre-order.  It will be much better than my lacking i7 4790k.  I should eventually pair it up with a GTX 1080, but we'll see how that turns out.

I'm deciding not to wait.  I've gotten my 2 year warranty on the CPU, incase anything bad happens with the CPU.  But, I'm not expecting my 4790k to come anywhere close to my 1800x.  At this moment, I'm glad I didn't opt for I7 7700k.  I would have been so mad that I didn't wait the extra day (Soonest I would have bought the 7700k would have been the day of the AMD presentation).  That's one of the reasons I was at microcenter.

I'm excited, though.  I was trying to do so much with my I7.  I couldn't record videos, while playing a game, unless everything was set to the lowest setting.  Same for streaming.  Except when I was recording console game footage. That was fantasic, and that's honestly all I thought I'd be doing...

But, since I had the PC capable, I got a graphics card, and when it came to PC gaming, it wasn't able to record and stream at acceptable quality anymore, for the most part... But, Street Fighter V did stream better on PC than it did from console, but that was the only exception.