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Leifty
By Leifty
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Alright so I got a few good deals on black friday and just went for it. I bought a ryzen 7 2700(non x), asus rog strix x470-f gaming, samsung 970 evo m.2 ssd and 16gb G.skill trident z 3200mhz cl16 ram. That came on a total of 815$. Those parts would normally cost 990$ 
I got an asus rog strix gtx 1080 and a deepcool captain 360ex to pair this with already. 
So im gonna be using this computer for gaming only and at 1440p resolution. Ive looked at a number of benchmarks and the 1080p results are giving me cold feet about ryzen, even tho I know at 1440p ryzen delivers close to the same as the top intel chips. 
If I were to go for an intel build, i'd get a i9 9900k (i7 8700k costs more than an i7 9700k in norway and at point id rather just get the i9), the gigabyte z390 aorus master + ssd and ram. Which would cost around 1400$.. 
Money isn't really a problem but I still like to get a good value of whatever im buying. So heres my options:

  • Keep what I bought (maybe change the ram to g.skill flarex 3200mhz cl14?)
  • Buy the intel build for the small loan of 1400$ 
  • Refund and wait till next year (currently using an i5 3570k @4.4ghz on an asus maximus formula v) 

Sincerely most indecisive guy ever...


 

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at 1440p might as well stay with Ryzen

 

dont bother to change memory, unless it's cheap to do so (within $50)

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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I think that you should keep what you are buying. Amds are good and their prices much better than intel's. I think that you will have a great system with this setup. I personally use a ryzen 5 1600 and it is great. 

PC: 

Ryzen 5 2600

Corsair Vengance lpx 16gb 8x2

Mobo: AsRock X570 Pro-4

Graphics: MSI Radeon rx 580

Storage: Sandisk 240gb SSD

              Seagate Barracuda 1TB

PSU: EVGA 600B

Case: NZXT h500i

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4 hours ago, Leifty said:

Alright so I got a few good deals on black friday and just went for it. I bought a ryzen 7 2700(non x), asus rog strix x470-f gaming, samsung 970 evo m.2 ssd and 16gb G.skill trident z 3200mhz cl16 ram. That came on a total of 815$. Those parts would normally cost 990$ 
I got an asus rog strix gtx 1080 and a deepcool captain 360ex to pair this with already. 
So im gonna be using this computer for gaming only and at 1440p resolution. Ive looked at a number of benchmarks and the 1080p results are giving me cold feet about ryzen, even tho I know at 1440p ryzen delivers close to the same as the top intel chips. 
If I were to go for an intel build, i'd get a i9 9900k (i7 8700k costs more than an i7 9700k in norway and at point id rather just get the i9), the gigabyte z390 aorus master + ssd and ram. Which would cost around 1400$.. 
Money isn't really a problem but I still like to get a good value of whatever im buying. So heres my options:

  • Keep what I bought (maybe change the ram to g.skill flarex 3200mhz cl14?)
  • Buy the intel build for the small loan of 1400$ 
  • Refund and wait till next year (currently using an i5 3570k @4.4ghz on an asus maximus formula v) 

Sincerely most indecisive guy ever...


 

The ryzen 2700 is great. You would also need to change the mobo so it would be a hassle to switch to Intel. The ryzen is perfectly capable but may bottleneck your GPU a little bit

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