I Went Team Red; A Ryzen Gen 3 Story

[engrdan]

This is my second official PC build and I love it! I've learned quite a bit since my novice days back in 2015, and with Lian LI's O11 Dynamic Razor edition case readily available and AMD knocking it out of the park with their Gen 3 series CPUs, everything just came together perfectly. SSDs are not included in the build parts list since I just transferred them from my old build and updated drivers for the new hardware. I create/analyze energy models for my engineering job and am also a huge PC gamer so it's nice to have a rig that can kick butt at both.

 

This Build; https://pcpartpicker.com/b/cVtgXL

 

Previous build; i5-6600K and a 980Ti (https://pcpartpicker.com/b/WFvV3C).

[Creed1]

Very cool! I'm actually looking at upgrading my i5 6600k to some type of Ryzen 3rd Gen CPU. Probably not a 3950x, but most likely a 3700x.

[engrdan]

Awesome! you won't be disappointed!  the Gen 3 lineup is great all around.

[GDRRiley]

12 hours ago, Creed1 said:

Very cool! I'm actually looking at upgrading my i5 6600k to some type of Ryzen 3rd Gen CPU. Probably not a 3950x, but most likely a 3700x.

even a 2nd gen chip would be a big jump.

I love my change from a 6600k @4ghz to my 2700 at 4ghz

[engrdan]

For sure. We've come a long way since the Skylake days.

[thatpc.]

i went from a i7 2600k to a ryzen 5 2600x I don’t regret a single thing