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That's what I used to think, 90% of 8700K performance at half the price. A lot depends on the chip holding its max turbo clock on stock/cheap air cooling, though (most reviewers use high-end AIO). EDIT: A 8400 can indeed max turbo on the stock cooler, if you don't mind the noise: I was...

To my best knowledge, the 12nm LP process used by the Ryzen refresh is just an evolution of the licensed 14nm LPP with tighter design rules, correct me if I'm wrong. The increased density should result in some clock speed improvements, but wouldn't expect anything groundbreaking. Vega is...

Not trying to argue with you, but games do care, for now. 3D API overhead is a major reason high single-core speed is even necessary for consumer/gaming use (and where Intel holds any kind of major advantage). Once modern low-overhead APIs become the standard, 6-8 cores at a decent power...

I'd say Intel's sin was segmenting the lineup too hard (out of greed?). For the record, Intel "14nm" process is by and far the most dense (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/14_nm_lithography_process), I'd count that as a pretty significant fab and engineering advantage. See...

While the process remains the same, as far as I know, it would subjectively appear that the yields have improved to some extent (improving quality down the line). I've read some reports of RMA replacements needing less voltage (while some reported no improvement), my RMA chip was also slightly...

Pentiums generally have ECC support, and that seems to be case for the Kaby Lake G4600 at least. ECC support on the i3s is more patchy, at least the locked i3 7100 has it according to ark.intel.com. Even the unlocked i3-7350K lists ECC support. I guess Intel didn't want to enable ECC on the...

Unless you do some heavy transcoding on the CPU, a Pentium is more than sufficient for a NAS. Has ECC support too. AsRock makes some very well-featured mITX boards, but I've had some problems with their software. Or just get an embedded board like suggested in the above post (can be a bit more...

Wouldn't expect miracles if they stay on the same low-power process, maybe ~200MHz more headroom and a small IPC boost (glad to be wrong, though). Ryzen is essentially a server chip, it's designed for efficiency over maximum performance. The reason most non-X SKUs operate in the 3.0-3.5GHz range...

@silk186 That depends on the RAID controller. TRIM should work with 6-series and newer Intel chipsets.

Definitely SSDs for that kind of workload. Crucial M500 is a good choice because of the enterprise features and good GB/$. I wouldn't worry about striping SSDs if you need the performance and don't mind a little downtime in case of a hardware failure. Just keep your OS and programs on a separate...

A lot depends on the size of your working set. If it is too large to fit in RAM and there are lots of small random reads then yes L2ARC will be useful. It's all about the latency. You can use arcstat and arc_summary to monitor your cache hit rates and see for yourself if it's worth it for you...

Mmh, you would be trading fast cache for a larger amount of slow cache. And that might be wasted unless your usage pattern is I/O heavy. Data that is accessed frequently gets thrown to the L2ARC. So if you're mainly using your file server for streaming movies it does nothing for you.

You should max the RAM (ARC) before even thinking about L2ARC. The L2ARC index needs to be stored in ARC eating into your already low amount of RAM. L2ARC is more for the situation where you already have lots of RAM and need good IOPS. Wouldn't consider it for a normal home file/media server.

Striping mirrors (1+0) is a lot safer. If you mirror two stripes of 3 drives (0+1) and lose just one drive from each set your data is gone. With the same drives in striped mirrors you can lose two drives from both sets since all drives in a mirror hold the same data. However, the failure...

To my best knowledge zfs wouldn't rebalance the data but would favor the larger vdev for new writes, correct me if I'm wrong.

AM3+ is still the most recent consumer platform with full virtualization and ECC support as far as I know. So, I guess there are still cases like low-cost WMware servers where AM3+ might make sense.

Heat is not really a problem if temps fall within safe limits. As long as you're not planning to overclock, that is.

G1830 ~60$ / G3220 ~70$ / G3420 ~87$ Asrock H81M-DGS ~47$ MSI 650 Ti 1GB ~125$ / HIS 260x 1GB ~135$ / Gigabyte 260X 2GB ~140$ / Asus 650 Ti 2GB ~145$ Take your pick of the GPUs, they all destroy the A10 iGPU. I'd probably go with G3220 + 650 Ti 2GB. And the setup above can just use the...

The 45/65W A8-7600 is easily the star of the lineup imo. Great ~100$ CPU for building small, general purpose mITX systems for your friends and relatives. Can't see much value in the K-models tbh. Might as well buy intel if building a regular desktop.

Hey, it's not all bad. At least you will be able to buy lots of "broken" mobos for almost nothing and bake them. BGA ftw.

And if you think about enthusiast platform in terms of tweaking, AMD has full virtualization and unbuffered ECC RAM support down to the cheapest desktop processor.

+1 In my experience, enthusiasts aim for the price-performance because it's simply more fun that way.

I'm sitting on a PII 965 + M4A79T Deluxe + GTX 580 myself (gaming, audio, 2D/3D gfx) and can't see a worthwhile upgrade short of going Intel. You might benefit from more cores if you do heavy CPU rendering or video encoding but that's about it. I recall 1045T is good to around 3.5-3.6GHz...