Ryzen price politics

[BitMaster]

If you bought 32GB 2133 you payed at least like 240€ now, that is still quite some money.

 

16GB 2133 will buy you a nice 850Pro SSD 256GB....about same price.

 

 

I try not to waste my money more than I already do by gaming DCS on a Computer WAAHHHH

[Pilotasso]

they dont loose 240€ if they sell the 2133 mems. I have spent some time doing that in the past, I always got most of the money back, specially if the parts are recent.

[Moafuleum]

I hope you can forgive me when i didn't read the whole pages so in case I already missed it, I'm sorry, but:

 

The thing we are of course only interested in, is: What would you prefer for DCS :D

 

Has somebody already suggestions for a new processor, if someone liked to upgrade within the next month (i5-7600(K) vs. R5 1600(x)). How is the Ryzen expected to perform with DCS?

[BitMaster]

You cant beat the 7700k if you oc it, thats a fact for DCS and most other games that do not utilize all or many cores.

 

For anything else the Ryzen is an alternative.

 

How much difference..?? nobody knows the hard facts yet. If I had to guess, maybe 20-25% less maybe. i7@5G and Ryzen@4G

[Nash]

I think for DCS nothing can beat 7700K as of yet ... May be Zen2 will have a surprise for Intel ...

I have decided to stick with Intel till Ryzen decidedly beats Intel in both multi and single core performance.

[Pilotasso]

your right the 7700K is faster for DCS. But I cant stand on that leg alone, I have to consider general use and have that projected into the future to properly engineer my next rig.

 

And during my research I came to the conclusion I'd rather give up Mhz rather then cores. Why? there's nothing that the I7 can run that R7 can't almost equally well. I can tweak and overclock any CPU but I cant grow more cores. I can change the AMD CPU later for minimal cost, the I7 is on a dead end.

 

Adding insult to injury, 6 months from now (at most) they will finally lower the I7 7700K price when they re-brand it as I5 8600K cofee lake tech for 100$ less and no IPC improvements. That's mental.

[BitMaster]

No doubt, if you build a general purpose machine with "some" DCS you just cannot disregard the Ryzen, I wouold do that too then, actually if I had the time and use for it I would just get one to "have it". It's just I dont need an 8-core for anything I do, I can run 3-5 VMware machines off 3 SSDs with this CPU for testing. Sure..and 8 core could do it faster and even more..4 more cores..no question at all !

 

Wish I had one to play around with...LoL

[BitMaster]

ooops ~45% faster than 7700k after optimization for AMD....

 

not that this is true for each and every game but it shows that there is significant potential in that Ryzen monster.

 

 

*found on [H]ardocp forum btw

[Drag0nWIng]

anyone tested dcsw with ryzen cpu?

[alessander]

anyone tested dcsw with ryzen cpu?

Yes. I compared R 1700 vs FX-6300 in DCS1.5.

The FPS in heavy processor load track (unrestricted for VGA) to increase by 40-50% in default and by 50-90% at a frequency of 3.8 for both CPUs.

I have HD7870XT VGA, therefore in DCS2.0 the difference in FPS is insignificant.