Would you do this trade?

[Princess Luna]

Would you trade a single 1800x chip for an entire FX-9590 build from 2012? (600w psu, 16gb ram, gtx 770, drivers, case and everything) for workstation purposes. Now obviously Ryzen is a better performing CPU with DDR4 rather and all that but say you bough the processor but end up short money something went wrong and can't finish the worstation you needed to work, would this deal interest you?

[KyleKyleKyle]

No.

[airdeano]

no, the achievement vs workflow is vastly improved over the older architecture. even with the possibility of more improvements alleged in the maturity of the CPU platform makes it a non-issue looking backwards.multiple single-threaded applications will run circles around the older platform. crippling your output on the older platform is counter-productive.

 

plus the reliability factor of thermals, support and negligible hardware can easily put the kibosh on productivity.

 

first, i'd say the 1800x was a mistaken purchase due to the cost as the 1700 can be made to match what the 1800x can do in speed enhancement. $90-$150 motherboard instead of top tiered 'gaming' monikered motherboards really won't make a hill-of-beans difference in productivity. DDR4 2133 DIMMs without francy-dancy heat spreaders could have been purchased from the pricing difference from just the CPU purchase alone.

 

short answer as before, no.

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, airdeano said:

no-

My brother and I have already made a full 1800x one, he uses it at work he does the video editing and rendering from weddings parties etc that kind of thing, it was a long waited and hugely appreciated upgrade from the old 3770 one.

 

In the process bought a second 1800x too, now those were on the pre-order discount and even if the 1700 has good chances of matching the end performance, we had no issue going for the purest silicon version hehe. Anyways we have been looking on local online market and such deal could be made, a second workstation right now would increase productivity... but indeed feels a waste of the good CPU, better just keep it.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

You can probably get full price if you sell the 1800x again, so the question is whether the 9590 rig combined second-hand price is above or below the price of an 1800x in your country.

In the end it may be better to sell the 1800x an build a used ~$500 PC tailored to your needs.

[airdeano]

it would be a vast waste of cash output.

even looking on a lot of the user benchmarks the newer platform is making it evident that the older stuff needs to remain ousted.

53% overall better than FX in single thread, quad-core development and mixed-core speeds.

34% overall better than FX in just raw effective speed.

only things the FX has over the R7 is cost, base clock speed, and turbo boost speed.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

4 minutes ago, airdeano said:

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The performance of a 1800x alone is zero. Spending more money on a motherboard, etc is a different story.