Ryzen or i7700

[Perfect Storm]

If you could choose between the two which one?
I can't decide, the latest game test shows that i7700 scrore higer than Ryzen and again Ryzen scores higher when do other jobs like compiling etc.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...n-gaming&num=1

The i7700 is 4 cores
Ryzen is 8 cores

It's a difficult choice.

[QIII]

Right now there are several threads on the forums where users have paperweights because they cannot get Ubjntu to run on Ryzens. Fedora, however, seems fine.

I suspect some installation misunderstanding, but just so you are aware.

Personally, I'm going for a Ryzen because the kinks will be worked out.

[uNoubu8a]

It all depends on the main purpose of your system. If you will mainly be gaming then the i7700 is the way to go as its threads run at a much greater clock speed (and it is cheaper than the AMD CPU). If multi-threaded applications are your main concern than 8 cores > 4 cores

[Perfect Storm]

I do heavy gaming like Total Warhammer and xcom2 on linux.

[mastablasta]

i will likely go with ryzen 5 when it comes out. it is slightly chepaer than intel equivalent. ok maybe it ownt' do as good in games, but as i found out recently it is mostly more important to have a good GPU than CPU for games.

lately i've been running well plenty games from 2008, 2009 on a single core CPU (in windows). they would mostly run on max settings or close to that (which is good enough for me). the reason i am able to do that is the GPU.

there was a good article a while back on how to build good gaming PC under 500 GBP. they added monster GPU, good ram, SSD and a pentiumG CPU. this is basically how the consoles work (strong GPU deswcent CPU).

so with Ryzen 5 and descent GPU (well what the budget will allow) i can get together a descent PC that will also be able to edit a few videos. that's what i was thinking. and it shoul dcome cheaper than intel i5.
Maybe it should even be a ryzen 3?

it all depends on the budget in my case which might be quite slim.

overall it seems to me that with Ryzen AMD is back in the game, add opensource support to GPUs and i start thinking (more like dreaming) about AMD/AMD rather than Intel/Nvidia

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

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[Perfect Storm]

Thanks, but I'm going pure Linux. (I save 999.- DKK).

[Perfect Storm]

I think I'm going with Ryzen. If ubuntu and its like have trouble with the chipset I could go with Arch (been there before).
Hopefully the issues will be iron out and better performance added soon.

[Perfect Storm]

I was thinking for build:
Chip: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X / 3.6 GHz Processor
Board: ASUS PRIME X370-PRO
Ram: Kingston HyperX Predator - 2x8GB DDR4 3200MHz
Video: ASUS GeForce GTX1080ti 8GB
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO MZ-75E500 - 2.5″ SATA-600 500GB

Anything I shuld be careful or awere of?

[uNoubu8a]

As much as I love the AMD comeback the i7700 is a very nice chip, very tempting.