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AMD about to overtake Intel in the DIY market?

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Pentium 90
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For me... (and think I'm missing one around the 1GHz era...)

Looking forward to Zen 3...

intel 386
intel 486
pentium
pentium MMX
Pentium 2
Pentium 3
Athlon
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Sempron
Pentium 4
Athlon 64 FX
Phenom II (quadcore)
4770k
now Ryzen

I don't know. But probably I am NOT looking forward to Zen 3 but rather real next-gen with all the goods like DDR5, new socket AM5, PCIe 5 for superior storage performance.
And of course, more cores, the more the better the happier the merrier :)
 
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i would love more cores and faster single thread, bigger better is always good.

I am amazed how efficient the newer CPUs are tho. i became real power concious since P4 and FX and subsequently Phenom was a hot CPU if i remembered right. but been wathing the wattage since 4770k for around the same power drawing the ryzen is a 6c/12t part basically around 2x more performances (synthetic benchmarks) wiht the same power. it is good....
 
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I don't know. But probably I am NOT looking forward to Zen 3 but rather real next-gen with all the goods like DDR5, new socket AM5, PCIe 5 for superior storage performance.
And of course, more cores, the more the better the happier the merrier :)

Anyone jumping straight into DDR5 on release must need their brain tested. Every single change of DDR has resulted in complete rubbish Ram for a year or so and very expensive rubbish Ram as well.
 
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Anyone jumping straight into DDR5 on release must need their brain tested. Every single change of DDR has resulted in complete rubbish Ram for a year or so and very expensive rubbish Ram as well.

Zen 4 with Raphael DDR5 will come later than Zen 3 with Rembrandt. Now go check your head :)
 
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Anyone jumping straight into DDR5 on release must need their brain tested. Every single change of DDR has resulted in complete rubbish Ram for a year or so and very expensive rubbish Ram as well.
That's why I will be dropping a 5700X in my B450 and sitting tight for a couple of years.
 
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After building my 7700k/GTX1080 build I kind of fell of the components scene. Finally come back as the 3080 generational performance increase seems very appetising. Catching up with 3-4yrs of news and I was surprised how much AMD is being touted everywhere even though I still see Intel cpus topping FPS benchmarks!?
Baffling isn’t it. Similar boat to you and equally perplexed by the love for the 3600 which gaming wise barely outperforms my 4 year old 7700k
 
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Who bought a pentium 4 and not an athlon 64 because they had 3ghz and up? Me :(

Well they were still fast, not great value for money in comparison but no slouch. I avoided the original P4 as i read a few mags and Williamette was a pig and even though some of the later variants especially Northwood (i had a couple) were excellent it always had that stigma. Then A64 came along and it was all about that until Conroe came along. Didn't think it'd take AMD over a decade to recover!
 
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It sure looks that way

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Oh, it has happen already.
 
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Well they were still fast, not great value for money in comparison but no slouch. I avoided the original P4 as i read a few mags and Williamette was a pig and even though some of the later variants especially Northwood (i had a couple) were excellent it always had that stigma. Then A64 came along and it was all about that until Conroe came along. Didn't think it'd take AMD over a decade to recover!

I had a 3.4 Ghz P4 Prescott CPU, ran hotter than a furnace from hell. Every 3 months I had to re-apply the thermal paste, because it got all burnt out, and would shut-down. One of the few times I owned an Intel CPU was when they had their crappiest.
 
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I had a 3.4 Ghz P4 Prescott CPU, ran hotter than a furnace from hell. Every 3 months I had to re-apply the thermal paste, because it got all burnt out, and would shut-down. One of the few times I owned an Intel CPU was when they had their crappiest.

I had a 3.4Ghz Prescott socket 478 that killed 2 mediocre boards by power consumption and general heating of the area i suppose. Terrible chips lol. I think even the best of 478 probably would struggle with those.
 
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I had a 3.4Ghz Prescott socket 478 that killed 2 mediocre boards by power consumption and general heating of the area i suppose. Terrible chips lol. I think even the best of 478 probably would struggle with those.
My 3.2GHz Prescott is the same. Fortunately I didn't cheap out and got a beastly Gigabyte board to handle it but it's still a bit scary temp-wise when she gets pushed.
 
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My 3.2GHz Prescott is the same. Fortunately I didn't cheap out and got a beastly Gigabyte board to handle it but it's still a bit scary temp-wise when she gets pushed.
Mine lived in an Asus P4P800 to the end i think and did ok, got a CT479 adapter for the board and dropped in a Pentium M 2Ghz, good lord how it performed and even more so when i dropped in a massive 50gb Vertex LE SSD a bit later :D
 
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