source article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-launches-zen-4-ryzen-7000

My personal highlights:
1. AM5 Socket
- AMD is finally moving away from pin grid (pga) and moving onto land grid like intel. (no pins, lga)

2. Platform improvements
- 5nm tech & base clock increase. 4GHZ avg clocks on old platform, nearly 6GHZ on new platform (wtf)

3. iGPUs by default (not an apu)
- Finally, they are including igpus to offload acceleration stress. 
(great to hear, igpu is one of my main reasons for running intel.)

4. DDR5
- future proofing, plus ryzen will benefit from higher frequencies.

5. PCIe 5
- "doubled bandwidth" over past gen

I've been running a 4690k for ages and held off on upgrading, but I might finally upgrade this year coming up.  

What are your thoughts, will you be upgrading?

People keep speculating about silicon and chip shortages because of Taiwan. I'll upgrade before it hits even harder

(August 31, 2022, 08:05 AM)gulag Wrote: People keep speculating about silicon and chip shortages because of Taiwan. I'll upgrade before it hits even harder

I agree. I have a weird feeling about 2023/2024..

(August 31, 2022, 06:02 PM)griimnak Wrote:

(August 31, 2022, 08:05 AM)gulag Wrote: People keep speculating about silicon and chip shortages because of Taiwan. I'll upgrade before it hits even harder

I agree. I have a weird feeling about 2023/2024..

Don't say it, man. 2021/2022 was hard enough.

(August 30, 2022, 11:25 PM)griimnak Wrote: source article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-launches-zen-4-ryzen-7000

My personal highlights:
1. AM5 Socket
- AMD is finally moving away from pin grid (pga) and moving onto land grid like intel. (no pins, lga)

2. Platform improvements
- 5nm tech & base clock increase. 4GHZ avg clocks on old platform, nearly 6GHZ on new platform (wtf)

3. iGPUs by default (not an apu)
- Finally, they are including igpus to offload acceleration stress. 
(great to hear, igpu is one of my main reasons for running intel.)

4. DDR5
- future proofing, plus ryzen will benefit from higher frequencies.

5. PCIe 5
- "doubled bandwidth" over past gen


I've been running a 4690k for ages and held off on upgrading, but I might finally upgrade this year coming up.  

What are your thoughts, will you be upgrading?

will upgrade if the stock ever reach local shop, which always not happen and i order everything online that also expensive.

Everyday I stare at my 2014 specd computer... and it no longer ages it just decays, but I think I might hold out justtt a little longer and save up till ddr5 becomes a bit cheaper and grab up one of the 7000s, tho seein these improvements I might just have to make dealings with the mafia just to get my hands on one

good news, chip manufacture always competition (intel vs amd) for best product

(September 1, 2022, 03:52 PM)cottonday Wrote: Everyday I stare at my 2014 specd computer... and it no longer ages it just decays, but I think I might hold out justtt a little longer and save up till ddr5 becomes a bit cheaper and grab up one of the 7000s, tho seein these improvements I might just have to make dealings with the mafia just to get my hands on one

Yup, this 4690k was built around that same time. I'm really impressed the silicon held my OC all of these years.
A true champion. It definitely still suffices as a gaming system, but you'll start to see the age of 4 cores in 2022 when rendering/compiling/grepping etc.

Holding out is nice because we'll feel a tremendous difference compared to those who incrementally upgraded.

(September 3, 2022, 01:03 AM)griimnak Wrote:

(September 1, 2022, 03:52 PM)cottonday Wrote: Everyday I stare at my 2014 specd computer... and it no longer ages it just decays, but I think I might hold out justtt a little longer and save up till ddr5 becomes a bit cheaper and grab up one of the 7000s, tho seein these improvements I might just have to make dealings with the mafia just to get my hands on one

Yup, this 4690k was built around that same time. I'm really impressed the silicon held my OC all of these years.
A true champion. It definitely still suffices as a gaming system, but you'll start to see the age of 4 cores in 2022 when rendering/compiling/grepping etc.

Holding out is nice because we'll feel a tremendous difference compared to those who incrementally upgraded.

I feel yer just got me a laptop with an ole r5 3000k and tho its like yesteryears old the difference between my desktop and it are massive, cant imagin in my feeble goblin brain how to new ones might compare against what ive got

the best ever bonus from new r7000 is an LGA socket damn! this thing can be fixed, unlike am4.
this is so dumb for cpu's to get bent pins, and more importantly when people pull out cpu with cooler it damages socket pins inside of motherboard.

only that is enough, and as a bonus they add a ton of things in. but from what i have seen already, new motherboards have not one, but two chipsets, that's unusual for modern hubbed mb with single chip on io. tho amd moved io circuits inside cpu this is bad. when something happens on usb side it's most likely to kill the most valuable pc part - cpu.