Recent content by mwnn

There's little to regret - that's certainly not the case for anyone who bought the 7700k or 6700k with a top end board for top end prices. Yet another socket change from Intel. eBay is bound to be flooded with older quad core Intel chips soon. The 8700k seems to get quite toasty when pushed...

Not sure what's going on if your processor is getting hammered by a web browser - I prefer Opera myself. Some anti-virus software can slow machines so badly you have to ask if it's even worth using. Even my old Phenom x4 955 BE only shows <5% utilisation under Windows 10 LTSB whilst I'm typing...

I'd be extremely hesitant to chuck a lot of money at these old AMD platforms. $20 plus another $50 here and a bit more here and there - and before you know it you've spent what you would've on a bottom range Intel/Ryzen chip. I've got a similar predicament. My old Phenom x4 955 BE that I bought...

I think anyone banking on magical patches to fix Ryzen performance on currently released games will be sorely disappointed. The games are made - finished - done. The highest number of sales any title will have will be in it's opening weeks. Long term support is virtually non-existent. Half the...

Couldn't go back to Win 7; there must be several gigabytes of hotfixes alone by now! It's easier to just install & activate Windows 10 LTSB than to strip out the bloatware with DISM and deal with all the other limitations from Home & so-called Pro editions. In the longer term moving/or at...

It won't hurt to wait a bit longer after waiting for so long for AMD to produce something as good as the Phenom II. There could well be defects/flaws in the initial Zen release fixed by later revisions so it might not pay to be an early adopter. We're just now starting to see certain software...

The old days of picking up a game on disk/cd/dvd which required no major fixes and where patches added substantial free content are long gone; I attribute that to the limited spread of the Internet at the time. Kickstarter, Greenlight, Day 1 patches, DLC, shark cards, quest compasses...

Not sure what the Zen joke is really. I'm sure the board makers will toss in every available toy they can. Crimson drivers are improving. I can't really fault any of the previous/current GPUs I've owned; they've delivered performance-wise for a long time. The lowered purchasing cost compared to...

I hope the release date doesn't continue to keep slipping. So it's "sometime" in 2017 now? That would imply to me that either: > Genuinely more can be gotten out of the Zen design - I suppose that's a positive > The Zen design doesn't deliver as expected (i.e. Bulldozer) i.e. they're now in...

In all honesty I'm often tempted to just pickup a Phenom x6 off eBay like 1190T / 1100T and wait for Zen to mature / Intel's next. It's just the bad pricing considering the age of the chip which holds me back. If I could only get one for £30/$40 instead of the £80+++ they're going for. I...

And still no release... >( And nothing concrete that would indicate an impending release. I really would've expected to see a model list, speeds, pricing, etc by now. How many years have we been waiting for this? Either this thing is absolutely marvellous or it's a complete clunker. And...

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4790K/3502vs2384 http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K/3502vs1537 The point is quite clear isn't it? (unless Haswell is crap now because of it's "age") Performance that will most...

Ambiguous marketing talk aside... I don't see any reason why it can't be truly competitive for some time to Intel's latest and greatest. Keller doesn't strike me as someone who'd leave the Zen project knowing it was a lame duck. And if AMD are bullshitting they're dead in the water anyway...

A fresh design could prove to be just the ticket for AMD if Intel have hit a bit of a wall with their tick-tock cycle. But I'm sure there's bound to be more power waiting to be tapped in Intel Core chips and they could always just slash the price. I'd be hoping Zen's main selling chip would...

Can't really blame him picking up an FX 8350 over the pathetic i5 6400. PassMark - Intel Core i5-6400 @ 2.70GHz - Price performance comparison PassMark - AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core - Price performance comparison PassMark - Intel Core i3-6320 @ 3.90GHz - Price performance comparison...