Peter Jansen

I would like to make a suggestion for a next video. It kind of is a review. One big difference between Ryzen and Intel is that Ryzen has more direct connections between the CPU and other hardware, where Intel connects certain other hardware via other interfaces (bridges) Ryzen has more direct connections. It is being hypothesized that this might explain why many reviewers and gamers experience Ryzen as smoother than what would be expected based upon the FPS. Linus has actually developed a way to test this, he did this a few years ago. He used a light sensor and a camera on the screen (if I remember correctly with Crysis 3 in the well known skybox, this way you could see an oversized gun shoot) to detect the input lag for a wireless mouse. My compliments for that video. It should be easy to adopt this to test wether or not the input lag for Ryzen (R7 1700-1800X) is lower than for certain Intel CPU's (6900k, 7600k and 7700k). Click on a mouse button and detect how long it takes for the action to happen on the screen. At the very least it would be an interesting video and Linus and his guys have already figured out how to do this. Why not test Ryzen's input lag this way and see if it is lower than what would be expected based upon the FPS. Either you come with something new or you falsify a hypothesis which is gainig popularity. Also this, Ryzen realy should be tested in combination with high end AMD GPU's. I know that that is a bit more difficult now but a Fury X and a R9 295 might as well be used as a GTX 1070 and you could crossfire RX 480 cards (R9 295 also is CF), that limits the games that you can test but it is well known what games have a good CF scaling, just compare CF with a single card. Let's face it, AMD does still support CF in a decent way. Here the proof that Ryzen performs better with AMD cards. It is not about AMD being better at DX12 or Vulkan, it is about AMD getting a higher penalty in these API's than Intel when being paired by a Nvidia card and a higher bonus when paired with a AMD card (DX12), it is about the delta between Intel and AMD for the difference between a Nvidia card and a AMD card. It is about Nvidia's drivers not yet being optimised for Ryzen. I suspect that this is not intentional and that Nvidia will attempt to fix it.

I just joined the forum, that Catchpa makes it quite difficult to register. It is highly debatable what is a river and what is a sea, what is a mountain and what is a tiny hill. Not to mention the crappy quality of the images. Also it sucks that you have to allow some Javascripts from Google, but you can't tell because they don't call the script Catchpa, it took me a while to figure out that I couldn't get past the Catchpa wall because of the blocked script (NoScript, it helps a lot to keep viruses off my computer). I can understand the usage of a text based system ("what is fourteen minus three?") but that Catchpa garbage sucks.