AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
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Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#2What about ECC memory? Intels desktop processors fail hard on that feature.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#3What about Win7 drivers? Even if the Redmond based company doesn't like marketing about it (an understatement) - please support it. (Recently AMD announced Win7 support only to remove the announcement after after a few days.)
Even Intel supports Win7 with their most recent CPU as well, even if it's not officially marketed, and one has to search around for the driver.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#4Wow... I really hope this is true and that it's a sign that AMD have their mojo back. Partly because I have a sentimental favoritism towards AMD, and partly because Intel (and Nvidia) need competition.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#5Looks like my next desktop build can be all AMD. With radeonsi/radv catching up and upcoming Vega and Ryzen, it looks quite attractive.
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#6That does not really make sense. Why would physics simulation and prime calculation be so much slower?
I would not trust those benchmarks.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#7What about ECC memory? Intels desktop processors fail hard on that feature.
Why do you need that in desktop env? What's the usecase when it can be beneficial to have expensive ECC RAM instead of the ordinary one?
I was always thinking that ECC can prevent blue screens/kernel faults, but I haven't seen those in years on my laptop without ECC.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#8What about ECC memory? Intels desktop processors fail hard on that feature.
Why do you need that in desktop env? What's the usecase when it can be beneficial to have expensive ECC RAM instead of the ordinary one? I was always thinking that ECC can prevent blue screens/kernel faults, but I haven't seen those in years on my laptop without ECC.
Besides many obvious reasons (preventing real bitrot), it's also a security factor acting against attacks like rowhammer.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#9One must bear in mind that wccftech has always been one to leak stuff. Take what you might want to from that.
More importantly though, Intel definitely needs competition. This is really good news and I hope it plays out well.
Re: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It
#10What about Win7 drivers? Even if the Redmond based company doesn't like marketing about it (an understatement) - please support it. (Recently AMD announced Win7 support only to remove the announcement after after a few days.) Even Intel supports Win7 with their most recent CPU as well, even if it's not officially marketed, and one has to search around for the driver.
Call me selfish but I think it is more important for them to contribute to GNU/Linux and *bsd projects.
I know Microsoft has a contractual obligation to support 7 for a while but I think there's next to zero chance they will reset Windows 10 and go back to Windows 7. You will need to get away from Windows 7 at some point. Better start making preparations now.