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First off, invest in a UPS before getting any new components. A surge protector, despite its name, doesn't do too much against lightning (it passes through far too fast and does its damage before the protector has a chance to shut off. Most strips will allow about 200v@20a to pass through before shutting off. A standard consumer-grade UPS has a conversion time of ~16ms, just short enough to keep your PC from being fried and when experiencing electrical noise (also known as dirty wall power), it'll switch over to battery to be safe. Higher end UPS units (such as double-conversion units) run off of the batteries all of the time, meaning that there's no time to switch over to battery in a problem, and it protects further. Unfortunately, those are crazy expensive. Just get a standard UPS, you should be much better. Now, to the question at hand:

I think that AMD's Ryzen line is an excellent choice at this point in time, and the 2700 is a great processor. Ryzen has had time to "mature," and you shouldn't run into issues that people experienced at launch. I say go for it. Good luck on your updated build!

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Okay so the issue is that I had a power surge that fried my motherboard and possibly my 5820k with it. The storm actually screwed up a lot of devices in my area.

 

Anyways I'm trying to figure out how to get back up and running. I've got a 1080ti and a full water-cooling setup so I don't like the idea of buying a cheap CPU to get me through. So I've been looking at ryzen for value options. Honestly, I want the 2700 with an ASROCK Taichi board. Unfortunately, that's expensive. I can't bring myself to buy it without looking for more options. I'd like to stick with the Taichi board unless someone has complaints since I can just upgrade CPUs down the line. What CPU do you guys think I should get? Should I stick to Intel? Or try Ryzen?

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First off, invest in a UPS before getting any new components. A surge protector, despite its name, doesn't do too much against lightning (it passes through far too fast and does its damage before the protector has a chance to shut off. Most strips will allow about 200v@20a to pass through before shutting off. A standard consumer-grade UPS has a conversion time of ~16ms, just short enough to keep your PC from being fried and when experiencing electrical noise (also known as dirty wall power), it'll switch over to battery to be safe. Higher end UPS units (such as double-conversion units) run off of the batteries all of the time, meaning that there's no time to switch over to battery in a problem, and it protects further. Unfortunately, those are crazy expensive. Just get a standard UPS, you should be much better. Now, to the question at hand:

I think that AMD's Ryzen line is an excellent choice at this point in time, and the 2700 is a great processor. Ryzen has had time to "mature," and you shouldn't run into issues that people experienced at launch. I say go for it. Good luck on your updated build!

"Not breaking it or making it worse is key."

"Bad choices make good stories."

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