IdiotInCharge
NVIDIA SHILL
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2003
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Yeah but I am tired of running like 3 or 4 computers all the time. I am hoping that the 3900X lets me do it all out of one box instead
It's a bad idea. You can consolidate, but let servers be servers and workstations be workstations. I'll always have a 'server' of some sort that's always on and a workstation for specific high-performance tasks.
plus some of us have been running at least 6 cores since 2010 when the 1090t came out and back then things use to require a lot less cpu horsepower.
I mean, if you jumped on the marketing BS... I wasn't interested in a performance downgrade for more 'cores' personally. Also, stuff still required a lot of horsepower- quality was lower, and things took longer.
am sure others as well not want to look at the "year" and go "well @#$% I guess need to be very very careful spend any $$ these days...never know if being told truth or being fleeced"
I bought my 8700K and 9900K knowing full well I was paying a bit extra for top quality, and I got it. Both were purchased in the 'shadow' of Zen, but AMD just didn't have their shit together and memory support was such a clusterfuck that I didn't bother -- hell, the memory for Zen / Zen+ was scarce and stupidly overpriced.
Doing it today, yeah, I'd be going all AMD, but it's not like I'd be saving money: I'd have to be pickier about boards and RAM, and that eats up cost just as easily. Intel mostly doesn't care as long as you don't go for the bottom budget stuff. It just runs.