Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance

BlackLaZoR , 3 hours ago

Ough! Thats future sales of Intel CPUs going down the drain.

doingthestuff , 3 hours ago

Ryzen changes their sockets less often too. I went from a 2600 to a 3700x to a 5800x with the same motherboard. Unless Intel really steps up their game I don’t see any reason to switch back.

Badeendje , 3 hours ago

Excellent point!

I have been rocking and since the first Aylin series, simply because I think Intel deserves and requires a competitor. The fact that the new (and last few) amd units are good value for money helps a lot!

Valmond , 3 hours ago

No, or very few, locks in too. Like overclock or have virtualization.

EtherWhack , 2 hours ago

Wasn’t that before they switched to LGA though?

elgordino , 2 hours ago

They’ve committed to support AM5 (the LGA socket launched 2022) through at least 2027.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-promises-am5-socket-life-support-through-to-2027-and-beyond/#

BlackLaZoR , 1 hour ago

This is a solid policy. AFAIK even with ancient Asus B350 Board, you can use Ryzen 5800X3D - which is still a solid gaming CPU

givesomefucks , 56 minutes ago

Yep.

I was debating it because I still had a 1700x, bit the bullet and went with the 7800x3d

In three years I probably still won’t need a cpu upgrade, but the last AM5 x3d will give me another 3-4 years into am6

kopasz7 , 1 hour ago

AMD for platform, Intel for NIC (and optane SSD)

Best combo IMO.