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Pemalite on 12 April 2021
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JEMC said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Ryzen 5000 APUs leaked:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-5000-pro-zen-3-apus-game-changer-for-businesses

Quite some power in those 65W APUs as it beats Zen/Zen+ Desktop chips, partially due to outstanding cache performance. Main drawback: They are not compatible to PCI-E 4.0.

And the next one hit by the chip shortages is... Realtek.

Which means that Audio chips will become a rare commodity - and as a result, mainboards and Laptops will get their supplies limited in turn.

Those little guys pack a good punch, but I don't understand why AMD decided to not include PCIe 4.0. It could have been the final nail in the coffin of Intel's laptop market.

The shortage of Realtek chips is unbelievable. Is there anything that's not in short supply nowadays?

Pemalite said:

SSD (With DRAM cache)+8GB is good for a basic rig depending on what the rest of the system is and what they are doing with it.

I had to check it to be sure because I wasn't sure about it (the PC is from 2014). They're an A8-7600 paired with a Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3, and have a regular 3.5" HDD. I could have sworn that it had an FX 6300... well. my memory isn't what it used to be.

Changing to an SSD could also mean getting a new Windows license because he upgraded from Win7 to Win10 and, if I have to get RAM, SSD and Windows, it makes more sense to just go all for it and change the CPU and Mobo as well.

You are definitely held back by the spinning rust drive.
In saying that... The 4-thread bulldozer derived CPU isn't doing you any favors either, but that isn't the bottleneck for basic tasks like web surfing.

If you aren't willing to make the switch to an SSD... Perhaps a Sandisk Readycache drive if you can find one cheap might be more suitable, it will cache data from the mechanical disk and my own testing has shown marked improvements in system responsiveness.

But yeah, that system is showing it's age now... Even the old Ryzen 2200G would be a night and day difference.




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