New Ryzen released. A half way point between 1800x & 1950, a 1900 Threadripper.

http://www.techradar.com/news/amd-releases-budget-8-core-ryzen-threadripper-1900x-processor

No thanks, not for home use as it wants too much power for being about same speed as a 1800X. Of course, if you need the other things it offers, like lots of PCIe lanes or support for really large amounts of ECC RAM, go ahead.


What I would like is half a 1800X but not the 1500 model with its four disabled cores but one built as a four core model from the start. Why? Because it should draw less power when idling or under light load, like right now when I am only on these forums. The power draw at full tilt looks good enough to me, it is when not doing much that it is unsatisfactory.

Mainly it has the advantage that you can upgrade from it to the higher TR chips, whereas you can't with the 1200-1800's, but guess that depends if it's for a gamer or someone that would use the bonus of TRs.

Know it'd be great for my rendering stuff, but still out of my price range when board, memory etc come into it.

Ah welp.

So.. anyone here getting a Vega?

Why should I buy one of those? It's not necessary for playing pixelated roguelikes. :D

Vega has not impressed me enough in gaming benchmarks and that is the only heavy work my graphics cards ever do. With the high price for electricity (seems not high enough though) it is a no thank you for me.

Nah, happy with my RX480.
I don't think Vega is as bad as some are making out, but the price is definitely not doing it any favours.
Then again, Nvidia are rumoured to be raising prices again soon, so that may help on the AMD front.

RX480 should last me long time, but will be interesting to see what AMD plan for next years cards.

Yeah, I'm not in the market for that kind of performance myself. My RX 470 is plenty for anything I play. I do agree that the Vega 64 is disappointing as a answer to the GTX 1080. Right now it is objectively worse in both performance and power draw (I'm thinking drivers can fix some of the performance gap). The Vega 56 is looking quite nice though.

Uhh.. Tales of Maj'Eyal in Eyefinity? :) (actually, I'm pretty sure any slightly modern card could do that :P)

This channel (by an AMD staffer) shows some of the game play with a Vega card, does look more than I'd ever need.
Apparently he's going to do some 2*vega clips when those arrive too.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMattB81/videos

I will when the prices for GPU's go back to being reasonable. hopefully by this winter.

I'll get a Vega56 at some point. Probably around christmas since I'd want a non reference design and getting one is pointless until I get a new monitor, plus it isn't even listed for purchase here yet. At 1920x1200 my 580 is absolutely fine until at least then, but I don't like my monitor (it's a corporate model primarily and it has a tilt/ rotatable stand that is 'loose' so it wobbles noticeably and gives me eye strain) and when I replace it it will hopefully be with a larger screen and better resolution- plus maybe freesync.

Depends on pricing though, Vega64 is at 1080Ti level prices here, which is just absurd.

Welp, think I'm about to fold & grab an Ryzen 1700x. Was contemplating a 1700, but that little extra boost can always help :)

Now all I need is a cooler, memory, mobo & a case. Ouch! hehe

Talking of Ryzen stuff, one of the main overclocking guys at OCUK did a benchmark of Terragen3, showed quite good results.
Posted it to the Terragen forums. Turns out it came second place in all tests, first place was a dual cpu Xeon that costs hell of a lot more.

Seems like AMD definitely got the prices right. Well, at least for cpus ;)

@fishbaits: I would go for R5 1600 and invest more money in memory & mobo but depends of your needs and budget.

1700 is recommended over 1700x unless you are not planning to overclock. stock cooler is very decent and will allow you to match 1700x without spending extra and without buying new cooler.

im on 1600 regular stock cooler and have it overclocked to 3.8. might push 3.85 but hit voltage limit and can't get to 3.9 stable. prime just crashes immediately.

I second lukaszthegreat advice. The r7 1700 is the best buy. It comes with a great cooler that is good enough to allow you to easily overclock the 1700 to the values of 1700x. You can then spend the extra money on something else, maybe even on a better cooler if you you're worried about the stock one.