>upgrade every year >undervolt >flash GPU bios >overclock >get fast (read magical) RAM >expensive cooler >extensive tweaking of their system >play mental gymnastics that they dont need features in games/boycott games that implement them >cherrypick benchmarks all day to find the few rare occasions when AMD is only slightly behind to argue cost/performance
>Just to prove to strangers on the internet their hardwares aren't inferior to intel and nvidia
>Upgrade every year >expensive cooler >overvolt >delid >bclock >get B-die >extensive tweaking >flash gpu vbios
I needed to do all this for my z170 system with a pascal gpu and it was still completely obsolete a year later and I can't reach 5 GHz all core or get memory over 3300 MHz. I'm not buying another Intel system until they fix this shit.
If I bought an X370 board that same year I could at least have used a cheaper cooler, no delid, PBO & Ryzen DRAM calculator would handle all the tuning, and would have an upgrade path.
I have a 1080 ti on water with no power limit, so I don't think anything from Turing or Navi will be a worthwhile upgrade at least.
I've always had problems with AMD gpu's but my latest build was a 1700x and reference sapphire vega 64 that I put together. My system was crashing randomly pretty often and eventually I flashed the bios and I haven't had any problems since. Each time I build I get better, but I got with AMD/Intel/Nvidia based on what works best for the build and what's a good price/performance for what I want to do with it.
Brayden Walker
I thought Intel stopped bundling stock coolers? Also the need for B-die is greatly diminished on Zen+. Both Coffee Lake and Zen+ will benefit significantly though.
Can confirm. Went from some intel garbage to a TR 2950X for my dev workstation. Visual studio has never run this well. It's also great way to shit test software designed for high core count server environments with the convenience of your local debugger on standby.
Mason Ramirez
>bought Ryzen 7 1700 a few months after launch >did some minor OC, 3.8GHz ~1.3V >did a BIOS upgrade a few months later that let me put memory at advertised 3200MHz vs the 2933 it was running at >haven't fucked with it since because it does what I need it to
I'll probably pick up a 3700X after it drops, otherwise I have no reason to do anything else. Intel won't have anything even approaching the 3700X in that price and TDP range or for a consumer platform for a while.
Angel Gonzalez
I have a lot of cores, and a lot of fucking VRAM. Life is good.
Hunter Sullivan
I love how these threads get the intel shills triggered harder than anything.
Jackson Peterson
>Buy a bunch of parts >fuck up putting it together >spend like 200 at pc repair shop getting it installed and copy of windows 10 for them to install cause yr too lazy to learn how to partition by yourself >set flashy bios mode to Overdrive