Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:40 pm
I've stood by the line for years, but this weekend I'm pulling the motherboard + FX-8320e out of my erstwhile workstation and selling them. The single threaded IPC's on par with Conroe; ganged up together they're more formidable, but most games and apps don't scale that well. Waste heat, latency, and architectural inefficiency outside of well-threaded integer-thumping apps have been hallmarks of the experience, even on Piledriver. The 6600K I grabbed last year (which I'm also pulling and selling) comprehensively embarrasses it. I'm tired of juggling two systems when one Ryzen 1700 will maintain parity or slay both of them working together in a fraction of the power. Between those two and the 2008 Mac Pro sitting under my desk, I may have enough money to buy the Ryzen replacement and a round trip plane ticket to see a friend when this is all said and done.
All of that said, someone wanting a Server in the Corner™ with ECC support could do much worse. Strap on a decent spare cooler (or use the Wraith AMD's been nice enough to include now), throw in some RAM, undervolt the chip, and toss in a graphics card you don't care about. It'll handle everything from torrents to VMs to scientific computing to DVD ripping, and stay responsive through it all. But it's not sexy, and even in the niches where it excelled its value proposition was the big selling point.
Last edited by
Concupiscence on Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Science: Core i9 7940x, 64 gigs RAM, Vega FE, Xubuntu 20.04
Work: Ryzen 5 3600, 32 gigs RAM, Radeon RX 580, Win10 Pro
Tinker: Core i5 2400, 8 gigs RAM, Radeon R9 280x, Xubuntu 20.04 + MS-DOS 7.10
Read me at
https://www.wallabyjones.com/