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Limp Gawd
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If you plan on exclusively gaming at 1080p and not using your PC for pretty much anything else ever, get an intel chip. If you have gobs and gobs of money and are doing heavy multi-threaded loads which would benefit from a 2%-5% performance gain for twice the cost of an AMD solution, go with intel's highest end i9 X chip. If you get a raging boner or damp in your lady bits for optane or thunderbolt 3 built into the motherboard, go with an intel solution.
For pretty much every other usage scenario, I suggest AMD at this point. Since the bitcoin miners and VRAM scarcity have driven prices up on mid-range GPUs, I'd say go with a high end GPU (NVIDIA 1080 or better for gaming, AMD VEGA for mining... or keep waiting for NVIDIA's latest, which is rumored for early 2018 at this point).
Based on lots of research on the matter, I'm under the impression that the Ryzen R5 1600 and 1600x processors may be the best value in CPUs in five years (the whole line up is solid, regardless). If you need beefier than that, Threadripper is probably the best high-end bang for buck in quite awhile too. If price doesn't matter, I think it could be argued that intel can win out by a small margin but at a much higher price point for a negligible performance gain. However, if I didn't get a massive discount on intel CPUs due to being an electronics retail minion, I'd only be buying Ryzen, Threadrippers, or Epyc for friends and family beyond the previously mentioned exceptions.
As for the 960 Pro sammy, I'd say go with the Evo if you're a bang for the buck person. I went with the 950 pro a build back, and the 960 evo on most recent. The Pro line, though great, is pretty far off the mark when it comes to bang for budget, especially when compared to the current EVo
We can see what will happen on socket 2066, but most the numbers I've seen so far just look like it's a new platform mostly for the sake of having a new platform / performance gains are pretty insignifcant between 1151 or 2011-v3 versus 2066. If there is a significant performance jump on the intel side in a year, AMD will likely slash prices to compete as they've typically done.
Just my two cents. Hope it helps.
For pretty much every other usage scenario, I suggest AMD at this point. Since the bitcoin miners and VRAM scarcity have driven prices up on mid-range GPUs, I'd say go with a high end GPU (NVIDIA 1080 or better for gaming, AMD VEGA for mining... or keep waiting for NVIDIA's latest, which is rumored for early 2018 at this point).
Based on lots of research on the matter, I'm under the impression that the Ryzen R5 1600 and 1600x processors may be the best value in CPUs in five years (the whole line up is solid, regardless). If you need beefier than that, Threadripper is probably the best high-end bang for buck in quite awhile too. If price doesn't matter, I think it could be argued that intel can win out by a small margin but at a much higher price point for a negligible performance gain. However, if I didn't get a massive discount on intel CPUs due to being an electronics retail minion, I'd only be buying Ryzen, Threadrippers, or Epyc for friends and family beyond the previously mentioned exceptions.
As for the 960 Pro sammy, I'd say go with the Evo if you're a bang for the buck person. I went with the 950 pro a build back, and the 960 evo on most recent. The Pro line, though great, is pretty far off the mark when it comes to bang for budget, especially when compared to the current EVo
We can see what will happen on socket 2066, but most the numbers I've seen so far just look like it's a new platform mostly for the sake of having a new platform / performance gains are pretty insignifcant between 1151 or 2011-v3 versus 2066. If there is a significant performance jump on the intel side in a year, AMD will likely slash prices to compete as they've typically done.
Just my two cents. Hope it helps.
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