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There are some real bargains to be had with the 2nd Gen Ryzen, specifically the Ryzen 5 2600X (unlocked 6 cores 12 threads 3.6 – 4.25 Ghz) @ £140. The supplied Wraith Spire cooler is fine too.
And for another £60 there’s the Ryzen 7 2700X (unlocked 8 core 16 thread, 3.6 – 4.35 Ghz) with an RGB Wraith Prism Cooler. This time last year I built a gaming machine around the still available CCL Kallis Ryzen 7X AMD Motherboard Bundle @ £369 with 16GB HyperX DDR4 and the Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE
Add BT 5 & WiFi 6 in one card, Gigabyte GC-WBAX200 802.11ax @ £27 and I added an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 256GB M.2-2280 SSD & a 2TB Barracuda.
The GTX 970 won’t be too good with modern titles due to lack of VRAM. For the graphics we went with an MSI Radeon RX 580 ARMOR 8GB OC which at £180 is still good bang per buck.
I used a BitFenix Nova Mid Tower Gaming Case and some extra BitFenix Spectre PWM 120mm Fans,
but for a previous bling build (with a Ryzen 7 1700X) I used a Phanteks Eclipse P300 with a Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML120L RGB Liquid CPU Cooler and Cooler Master MasterFan MF121L RGB (120mm) Chassis Fans.
There’s a lot you can do with the RGB, it’s just set to all red for the photos.
One thing to remember about SSD’s is that games R currently not optimised for them and so it does not matter how fast your SSD is. Games will load approximatley at the same speed wether or not your SSD is so called fast or slow. So on thast basis a 1TB cheapy sloey may be just what you want went it comes to game storage and let us not forget that a SSD will load a game at least x2 the speed of a HDD. Gay
Yeah, not a huge difference between SSD’s in loading games – but far better than a HDD according to this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYextvB9l4
Exception being Fallout 4, where load times are linked to framerate! There is a mod to improve this…
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Wash my mouth out but the new MacBook Air looks interesting with single core performance that is better than the AMD Ryzen 5900 with a Geekbench score of 1687 vs 1616 for the Ryzen 5900! Of course on the multicore stage the Ryzen eats the MacBook’s lunch and nearly doubles the Macbook score. However for a ‘pad’ this is amazingly good performance. link
I ordered an M1 Mac Mini today :scratch: I’ll see how it goes when it gets here. The Geekbench benchmarks are impressive but then looking at the devices I have, the portables have the best single core scores!
Perhaps the Mac Mini isn’t the best use of the chip – after all, low power consumption etc suits the mobile market. However, this is the cheapest one to try (and education discount applies…) Still a few apps I like using on the Mac and the idea I can use iPad apps on the Mac was also of interest. I’ll see how things work out and would be willing to share the experience.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Interesting. I know Android has been doing that for years – everytime an app is opened etc. A snapshot of my app activity on the 9th! And you need to keep it on to be able to use various Google items.
I’m sure Windows collects similar. I mean looking at the blocked domains in my Pi Hole, the tracking domains are the top 10 blocked sites, so this doesn’t seem that new and seems to be across the board.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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