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03-19-2021 at 09:43 PM #2

for this price id honestly rather get a 10700kf, 260 bucks rn, and a z490 will run you maybe 180 ish bucks, so you for 50 bucks less than 3700x bundle, you'd have a faster gaming cpu

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03-19-2021 at 11:30 PM #3

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for this price id honestly rather get a 10700kf, 260 bucks rn, and a z490 will run you maybe 180 ish bucks, so you for 50 bucks less than 3700x bundle, you'd have a faster gaming cpu

i was gonna disagree with you regarding the faster part, but then i read you mean gaming, for which i think you may be correct since gaming is single application. But for all other purposes, including video editing and processing, the Ryzen 7 listed here will be faster and at a significant less power draw (65W vs 125W). The pricing is thus justifiable.

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03-20-2021 at 08:10 AM #4

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i was gonna disagree with you regarding the faster part, but then i read you mean gaming, for which i think you may be correct since gaming is single application. But for all other purposes, including video editing and processing, the Ryzen 7 listed here will be faster and at a significant less power draw (65W vs 125W). The pricing is thus justifiable.

I am astounded every time I read how much power Intel CPUs use compared to AMD (and especially ARM). It's just crazy how bad it is.

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03-20-2021 at 04:31 PM #7

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dont trust the "tdp" as how much power it will draw, thats not what tdp is. only way to find power draw is real-life benchmarking and testing. Ryzen tdp is very wacky and a 10700kf is able to reach way higher clocks than a 3700x, so it can justify more heat and power. DONT TRUST TDP ALONE TO TELL EFFICIENCY, ITS NOT ACCURATE

How come you described Zen2 TDP is "wacky" when comparing to a 10700K? BTW PL2 spec is for non-overclock. I don't know if 5.1G vs 4.4G is way higher clocks but higher clocks not necessarily mean anything. A Pentium 4 can run at 5G too.

At this price point 10700 and 3700x is a draw. Just pick one makes more sense or you believe

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Bad deal on a 2 year old tech. Ryzen 6000 soon

"Soon"?? Ryzen 6000 not due until next year sometime. That's not soon.

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If they said the world ends next year, that is soon

True, but in technology terms next year is not soon.

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03-20-2021 at 08:21 PM #12

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Bad deal on a 2 year old tech. Ryzen 6000 soon

I am using a 7 years old technology now. Two years old sounds pretty sweet to me.

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03-20-2021 at 08:36 PM #13

Lol. I'm using 12 year old cpu Xeon 3680 Vega 56+, just ordered Ryzen 5600. I can play 1440 now lol

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03-20-2021 at 08:46 PM #14

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for this price id honestly rather get a 10700kf, 260 bucks rn, and a z490 will run you maybe 180 ish bucks, so you for 50 bucks less than 3700x bundle, you'd have a faster gaming cpu

This would be sweet depending on which motherboard and if you get a good 10700KF and you can get all 8 Core stable at 5.0Ghz with a good AIO cooler.

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