I don't game or have any kind of specific performance need at all, besides opening a million tabs, and having other programs running in background. Think general office usage.
If this is all I need, would it be better to go with ryzen then? Is ryzen power efficient?
What CPU has the fastest single thread speeds? I need the lowest latency possible for audio simulation software.
The Cougar QBX is literally the exact same case for (less) than half the price.
Cheapest usable mITX case is the Thermaltake Core V1.
Oh I didn't even read the part about your TT V1. What exactly are you looking for and willing to spend?
>this kills the intel shill
no then. if it were a Nitro+, then yea.
They said AM4 is supported until 2020, but it's not 100% guaranteed that the motherboard manufacturer will update those 300 series boards.
My assumption is that most/all X370, X470, and upcoming b450 will get a BIOS update for zen2 next year... but I wouldn't be surprised if some b350 boards do not get further BIOS updates.
Pulse or Sapphire?
I mean either way probably yeah. That's only like 100 euro more than a 1050ti for like 45-80% higher performance, right?
Sure it's a 2 year old arch, but a replacement for them isn't coming until next year it seems.
It's still good performance for the money. It'd be nice if prices is cheaper, but ~$250-300 for cards that are overkill for 1080p 60fps for almost every game is still decent.
Ryzen is far, far better perf/watt than Intel. Don't have this graph for updated, but it'd look even worse for Intel if I did since the 2000 series is even better perf/watt.
>audio simulation
>Is ryzen power efficient?
AMD has been beating Intel over the head with performance per wat since Ryzen launched. Of course it's power efficient
It's digital guitar amplifier simulation, guitar effects processing, whatever it is called