5950x for $430

[Icon Charlie]

I still have my X48 Rampage Formula, x3360, and 4GB of G.Skill PC8500

And there is nothing wrong with that

BTW I recently read an article on how the X99 platform is still relevant today. This is what is bothering me greatly with current day components.

Back then the quality of components, even 4 ply pcb boards, IMHO are superior in quality than what is being churned out and sold pricing that is far beyond inflationary pressures.

Back then you could buy with confidence that used components could last a good amount of time.

Not so these days as we are hearing more and more component failures from IMHO cost cutting measures to achieve maximum amount of profit.

Series 1000 and 5000 IMHO were AMD's best achievements. The 7000 series has been a big letdown by many, namely cost.

 

[Mats]

The 7000 series has been a big letdown by many, namely cost.

The performance is good tho, like how close the 7700 comes to last generation 5950X in applications (= on average) with half the core count.

 

[Icon Charlie]

The performance is good tho, like how close the 7700 comes to last generation 5950X in applications (= on average) with half the core count.
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Performance is fine but at what cost. Cost in monetary gain? Cost in increased wattages? Cost in increased heat output?

Cost... Total cost of the entire platform. Secondly we did not have that many Cpu's and motherboards catching on fire and other issues in the previous generation.

Yea I understand where you are coming from but you are talking to a guy with deep pockets who can purchase anything he wants. I used to upgrade every generation because overall they were decent enough of a value per performance to make the change. And yea I have used every generation CPU except the 7000 series because of the overall cost to use Versus the performance you get.

The 7000 series. The entire package does not carry that much value over performance for most people.
Otherwise regardless of the economy more people would be upgrading a lot more than they are now.
And it's not making me, the dude with lots of money, ( you know, The Wallet Warrior, The Whale, The Senior Sneaker Pimp Daddy, yea those types of people hehehe... I can laugh at myself) to make that change. Maybe in a year or so but not right now.

IMHO There is another lingering issue and that is the Infinity Fabric concept. I strongly believe that is the reason future core sizes are going to be the same as what is

Overall there is really nothing compelling to throw a grand or 2 just to get maybe 50% max in certain performance ratings.

If the AMD tax was not enforced on the motherboards then you would have a lot more people switching over even changing to DDR5.

I am also still wondering why AMD did not offer an DDR4/5 option like Intel did. That alone made people switch over to their newest CPU.

AMD Dropped the ball (and so did the rest of the Tech Industry) on this thinking that your average consumer is going to just upgrade during an stressed economic crisis.

They dropped the ball so fast that the Real Winner is Sony and their PS5.

I mean why not when the average consumer can buy a console a lot cheaper to play games on than buying a standard computer.

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Lets see what happens later on