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AMD's Ryzen 5000 CPUs Get Major Price Cuts, Up to 25 Percent:
AMD's Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors are two years old, but the Zen 3 chips are still among some of the best CPUs on the market. If you're looking for your next upgrade, U.S. retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Micro Center, and Newegg, are currently selling the Ryzen 5000 lineup at reduced prices.
The Ryzen 5000 price cuts are probably an answer to the recently released Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake product stack that has helped Intel recover market share in the Japanese and German markets. While Ryzen 5000 still dominates the list of best-selling processors on Amazon and Newegg, Alder Lake has been creeping up to the Zen 3 parts. For example, the Core i7-12700KF is the seventh best-selling chip on Amazon, whereas the Core i7-12700K is in the third spot on Newegg's charts. Moreover, it's that time of the year when retailers start making space for the next wave of processors.
AMD has already confirmed that Ryzen 7000 (Raphael), Ryzen 5000's successor, will hit the market in the second half of the year, so retailers have likely started to offload Ryzen 5000 parts. Ryzen 7000 lives on the completely new AM5 platform with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support. The transition to the AM5 socket means consumers will have to invest in a new motherboard, although the topic of the memory remains in the air. Intel's Alder Lake supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory modules, but AMD hasn't confirmed if Ryzen 7000 will also have hybrid memory support.
The story continues with a chart of prices for various models and has links to vendors, too.
Random question: Is your primary computer a desktop or a laptop? I've been laptop-only for the last 15-20 years -- my computing needs have been relatively modest.
(Score: 2) by aim on Friday March 04 2022, @01:24PM (1 child)
What's "primary" for you? The machine where all my important files reside is my self-assembled server. Runs quietly w/o terminal in a corner.
I then use my older or newer laptop to be productive, using the files from that server. But, frankly, I don't like working purely on a laptop - smallish keyboard, screen way to small and color rendition not necessarily good, I abhor touchpads - so I end up connecting decent keyboard, mouse, screen anyway. In that context, might as well use some mini pc hanging from the back of the screen - that's what I'll get next.
That said, my newer laptop was actually chosen for work in the outside (runs long on battery, decent performance) - I like it, but for the task chosen; not so much at home sitting at the desk, where it eats up space that could be better used.
Also, there is no chance in hell I'd move over to a tablet. Had a rather high-calibre one (recently died), never really happy with it. Money wasted, really.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday March 04 2022, @03:21PM
A tablet is just a cheap laptop with worse interface. Unless all you're really wanting it for is to watch Netflix or the like, you don't want one. Though, You could get one as a cheap drawing tablet + entertainment consumption device.
My primary computer is a Ryzen 5 3600 with 1TB NvME Storage, 32GB RAM, a Nvidia GTX 1650 OC, and 750W Platinum PSU, whole setup set me back around $1k. Wife's computer (My 5 year old computer) is a Ryzen 7 1700, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, a RX480, and 650W Gold PSU, aprroximately $1,100 at time of purchase. Now, I can the GTX 1650 for more than I paid for it and the RX480 for nearly as much as I paid for it, if not more.
What I want to do is get a new Ryzen 5 5600g, put it in the new machine. Move the Ryzen 5 3600 to the old machine along with the Nvidia GTX 1650. Then, sell the RX480 and Ryzen 7 1700. Then swap computers with my wife again. So I can still play what I want and hopefully get a new GPU sometime soon for the 5600g setup. Then, swap computers with her again. 'cause that RX480 is going to give out sooner rather than later. Most of my machines that I've had, the GPU is what's died first and that 1700 isn't supported by Windows 11. Though, maybe I just need to kick that bad habit and learn to love some of the pain that Linux brings. Really, only two issues I've found with Linux gaming right now. Space Engineers doesn't play nice with it and I was not successful in getting any of the SteamVR games working. SteamVR itself worked fine, but none of the games worked, at least of the ones I tried.
Dungeon Defenders and Terraria are my current go-to games and they both work very well on Linux. Most of the games I tried, I was able to get to function on Linux, but some are just blegh.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"