euskalzabe
[H]ard|Gawd
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In March 2017 I upgraded my PC to Kaby Lake - I wish I had waited 6 more months to get the upgraded-core models, but we didn't know those were coming. My 6-core FX 6300 was ancient, and I didn't trust 1st gen Ryzen before release (and I needed to upgrade right then). So, an i5-7500 it was.
It's been a year and a half of tremendous disappointment. Playing games I have no issue, then again I play at 2560x1080, not like that should be hard for this CPU. However, on day to day workloads, I've been so surprised by how much this CPU sucks. I was expecting some great value, like I experienced with my Sandy Bridge i5-2500, and instead I feel like I got hot garbage. It is utterly impossible to edit RAW pictures in Photoshop (24mp from a Nikon D3400, nothing fancy here) while playing 1080p video in the "background" on my 2nd monitor. Youtube keeps hitching, it stops, Photoshop functions like molasses... it's just not feasible to do both things at the same time.
Somehow, my FX6300 did this for 4 years with 0 issue - and I'm talking the same scenario: 1080p youtube and 24mp RAW file editing, using the same 8GB RAM capacity then as now - but my RAM is now faster. I am in disbelief at the - disgraceful - performance I'm getting for a $200 CPU. What gives? Am I somehow missing something? The kicker is that even setting Chrome/Photoshop both to use GPU rendering, the CPU still cannot cope, which I can clearly see in the task manager spiking:
This CPU has left such a horrid taste in my mouth, it's convinced me to get the next generation Ryzen in 2019 for 6 core/12 thread - which is cheaper than a current gen i5. Maybe the i5-7500 was a bad CPU, but if I was sold this product for $200, that's what Intel thought I deserved for $200, and that's an outrageous thought. Is it just me?
It's been a year and a half of tremendous disappointment. Playing games I have no issue, then again I play at 2560x1080, not like that should be hard for this CPU. However, on day to day workloads, I've been so surprised by how much this CPU sucks. I was expecting some great value, like I experienced with my Sandy Bridge i5-2500, and instead I feel like I got hot garbage. It is utterly impossible to edit RAW pictures in Photoshop (24mp from a Nikon D3400, nothing fancy here) while playing 1080p video in the "background" on my 2nd monitor. Youtube keeps hitching, it stops, Photoshop functions like molasses... it's just not feasible to do both things at the same time.
Somehow, my FX6300 did this for 4 years with 0 issue - and I'm talking the same scenario: 1080p youtube and 24mp RAW file editing, using the same 8GB RAM capacity then as now - but my RAM is now faster. I am in disbelief at the - disgraceful - performance I'm getting for a $200 CPU. What gives? Am I somehow missing something? The kicker is that even setting Chrome/Photoshop both to use GPU rendering, the CPU still cannot cope, which I can clearly see in the task manager spiking:
This CPU has left such a horrid taste in my mouth, it's convinced me to get the next generation Ryzen in 2019 for 6 core/12 thread - which is cheaper than a current gen i5. Maybe the i5-7500 was a bad CPU, but if I was sold this product for $200, that's what Intel thought I deserved for $200, and that's an outrageous thought. Is it just me?
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