Saturday, July 29, 2017

AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

Built out a new system.

It is an AMD Ryzen system, the 6 core unlocked with 16 GB RAM a raid 0 pair of 2.5 inch 1 GB server drives (not laptop drives) for system and a 4 TB Toshiba HD for data.

I also splurged and picked up an Nvidia 1080 GTX graphics card w/8GB VRAM, a step up to my 1070 GTX.  I did this primarily because I have a 1440P monitor and I have found that the 1070 struggles with games a tiny bit.

This system performs very well.  If you are hemming and hawing about purchasing one of the new AMD CPUs, don't.  They have made vast improvements over the bulldozer series of CPUs... in fact these Ryzen CPUs bring them back into direct competition with Intel.  Pretty amazing they were able to pull off this chip!

That is all for now!