Very nice. Still running an i7 920 on a Gigabyte GA-x58-UD3R that replaced
(quickly) an EVGA FTW3. Having issues with this board and have been looking at
upgrades. Been out of the loop lately and don't really know what's out there.
Will check this out. Looking for a quick and easy (fairly i
Ryzen 1700 is the best pick. Most will run at 3.8 to 4.0 GHz and outperform
a similar clocked i7 in everything but gaming. It's a great workhorse CPU
for multitasking. If you don't have a Jet account, new sign ups can get 15%
off the first 3 orders. I set up a Jet account to drop the cpu price to
Minor nitpick and just FYI--SMT doesn't work that way. It's a very common
misconception. There isn't such thing as a "real" core and a "SMT" core--both
logical CPUs represented by a physical core with SMT are 100% equal--they just
share execution resources. It's important that the thread schedul
