Intel owners who have switched to AMD

[Atomic77]

Other than my iPhone, ipod and my ipad my laptop is the only other Non Intel device that I use. I believe that for most of my computing life ive been mostly on the side of intel.

 

[freeagent]

Ram came today, shiny



The board is supposed to be here today too but I have my doubts.. it was coming from Toronto but they had some bad weather yesterday so it might be delayed a day or so.

 

[xu^]

in the last week i did my 1st build in approx 13 years...

Gone from a
Q9450@3.2ghz
Asus P5K Premium, socket 775
8gb DDR2 Corsair XMS
GTX 770
Antec 650w 80+ gold (but it was around 4/5 yrs old)

and built probably what most of you would class as outdated

Ryzen 5 3600
MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
16gb Vengence 3600 ram
GTX 970 (after a GTX 1660 when i can find 1)
Corsair 650w 80+gold

and all i can say is wow!!! at the difference, its night and day.

Most impressed that it all started up on the 1st try with no problems, all in my old and heavily modded Thermaltake Armor case , full sized and is huge, with loads of room and cooling.
Overall im very happy with how it went and the performance ,even on the mediocre GTX970 is amazing, to me anyway.
My 1st AMD CPU since the Athlon 1.4 Thunderbird

 

[freeagent]

Nice man! My board will be here tomorrow hoping for a seamless start too lol

 

[Robert Bourgoin]

Coming back to AMD after my last Intel and Nvidia that crashed way too much. So on I go back to AMD after a long time. I was a socket A fan and still have my Abit NFS-V2 that runs! I have windows 2000 on it.
I just keep it as a collection piece. Well I haven't messed with AMD since a 939 build. So here is my list of stuff I just purchased yesterday, waiting for it all in a week or so.

G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GTZRC 2x16GB tridentz rgb series

Socket AM4

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked

cooler master Liquid ML360 ARGB close-loop
360 radiotor,triple sickleflow 120mm 3rd generation dual chamber pump

Asus ROG Strix B550-E Gaming AMD AM4 3rd generation Ryzen ATX

Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB

WD Black 6TB Sata 6GB/s

XFX RX 6800 16GB GDDR6 2XDP PCIe 4.0

EVGA 1000P2 P/S

Ryybozen USB 3.0 Switch selector
2 in 4 out USB3.0 sharing switch box

Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG Certified (white) ATX Full Tower Gaming Case (O11D XL-W)

Windows Pro 10

 

[freeagent]

My board is on the truck for delivery woot. I almost pulled the trigger on a 500gb sn850, Then I almost pulled the trigger on a 1tb sn750. Both are still in my cart.. I have enough for one or the other. Sigh.

I was worried about those pins for nothing I think. There sure is a lot more than I remember.. last time I saw them was on 939 lol. Everything went together smoothly, and it fired up first boot. Windows installed in about a minute and a half lol. Somewhere around there.. the stock cooler is ok. It works.. I did wipe my photo drive by accident luckily I have a couple of backups. Oops. This thing rips. My Z77 wasn’t horrible either in retrospect.



That little cooler looks so rinkydink compared to my other coolers. Those pins had me sweating, but not as my as screwing down the stock cooler before I mounted to board in the case. The cables are a bit thick in the back but I had limited time before I had to get my kids from school.. I’ll get back to it later

 

[Robert Bourgoin]

Coming back to AMD after my last Intel and Nvidia that crashed way too much. So on I go back to AMD after a long time. I was a socket A fan and still have my Abit NFS-V2 that runs! I have windows 2000 on it.
I just keep it as a collection piece. Well I haven't messed with AMD since a 939 build. So here is my list of stuff I just purchased yesterday, waiting for it all in a week or so.

G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GTZRC 2x16GB tridentz rgb series

Socket AM4

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked

cooler master Liquid ML360 ARGB close-loop
360 radiotor,triple sickleflow 120mm 3rd generation dual chamber pump

Asus ROG Strix B550-E Gaming AMD AM4 3rd generation Ryzen ATX

Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB

WD Black 6TB Sata 6GB/s

XFX RX 6800 16GB GDDR6 2XDP PCIe 4.0

EVGA 1000P2 P/S

Ryybozen USB 3.0 Switch selector
2 in 4 out USB3.0 sharing switch box

Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG Certified (white) ATX Full Tower Gaming Case (O11D XL-W)

Windows Pro 10

I decided to go the Asus Strix X570-E Gaming instead for the extra lanes, also adding an M2 4th generation
TEAMGROUP T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive SSD TM8FP7002T0C311 (Read/Write Speed up to 5,000/4,400 MB/s)
And for the Freesync: 32" AOC CQ32G1 Curved Frameless Gaming Monitor, Quad HD 2560x1440, VA panel,4 ns, MPRT,144Hrz, Freesync.

Amazon seller holding back like stealing my money, won't ship probably because he doesn't have anything to ship so on with the show!
Next up-----

GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 ATX Motherboard

 

[Robert Bourgoin]

Almost got everything, waiting for my motherboard 's
Seems with a little help from Amazon support they lit a fire under the sellers A_S and decided to cooperate and presto my Asus Rog Strix570-E Gaming is one the way from California,
Humm, problem is I gave up on that seller coming through with the board on time so I went to Newegg and purchased a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master.
So I have two coming at the same time, same state. Which one am I building with? I really took a likening to the Gigabyte but have never done a build from them.
Asus many times through the years, Customer service is great with returns and such. No experience with Gigabyte but I am steering that route.
What board would you go with? Maybe keep both around till one is up and running.

 

[Alyjen]

I went from 6600K on Z170 board to B550 with 5800X. Still waiting for decent card but with with my old GTX 970 things like Borderlands 3 or even Overwatch runs faster, and without any micro shutters or hiccups.
Platform itself was a bit harder to set up. Memory timings, FCLK stability etc. all this was harder than I remember from Intel platform but also more rewarding looking forward to pair it with RTX 3080

 

[freeagent]

Sweet man! I think my plan is to give my XT to my boys when 5 series CPU’s are a little more available. I have another 16gb kit of 3200 cl14 coming today maybe pair them with a good budget board and they should be set. I ordered a tube of TFX and it arrived yesterday.. I want to paste up my cpu so I could try to clock it a bit but I don’t want to waste it on a stock cooler and my mount won’t be here for another 10 days. But I will probably pull the cooler off today anyways because I dont really have anything better to do.

 

[Alyjen]

As soon as I'll get my RTX I'm going to get some extra case and build computer for my boys with this old Intel I have, I have enough spare parts now, only missing GPU & case

 

[freeagent]

Nice man, my oldest boy will get the AMD, and my youngest will get my Z77 OC Formula with 3770K. They both like all of the lights.. so I may have to get some RGB accessories for them.

 

[AusWolf]

To be honest, I don't really understand the question.

I came from a Core i7-7700 (non-K) in an ASUS Rog Strix B250i (mini-ITX) board. It was smooth and stable.

I now own an ASUS Tuf Gaming B550M Pro Wifi board and a Ryzen 3 3100 (waiting for a 5950X). It is just as smooth and stable as the previous system was.

 

[freeagent]

To be honest, I don't really understand the question.

I came from a Core i7-7700 (non-K) in an ASUS Rog Strix B250i (mini-ITX) board. It was smooth and stable.

I now own an ASUS Tuf Gaming B550M Pro Wifi board and a Ryzen 3 3100 (waiting for a 5950X). It is just as smooth and stable as the previous system was.

Because in the distant past AMD didn't run this nice, at least not for me. I was asking Intel owners who have made the switch how the felt about their experience. It wasn't bait, or anything like that. I rolled with AMD for Socket A, 939, and now AM4. Its been a good experience. I had money to buy a pc, and I remembered seeing how some guys weren't happy and went back. I didn't want to waste my money on a frustration box. I'm too old for that shit. No I'm not too old, I just didn't want to deal with bs. Myself, I haven't built a new pc since X58 was new, my last pc was Z77 that I got as a hand me down.

Side note: my TIM came in today and knocked 12c off my normal temps, I haven't put a load on it yet, just got it all back together. CPU stayed in the socket too.. yay!

Edit:

I have my fan on turbo so I know it'll rev up to 3600 or so.. I did get it to spin.. but.. it doesn't constantly spool like it used to. I guess I only had about 1/3 of the IHS covered. I've got some TFX now, but its a bit thick to work with.. takes a bit longer.. I like a little more smoosh to it if I'm honest. Ill order some more TF8 on payday

 

[AusWolf]

Because in the distant past AMD didn't run this nice, at least not for me. I was asking Intel owners who have made the switch how the felt about their experience. It wasn't bait, or anything like that. I rolled with AMD for Socket A, 939, and now AM4. Its been a good experience. I had money to buy a pc, and I remembered seeing how some guys weren't happy and went back. I didn't want to waste my money on a frustration box. I'm too old for that shit. No I'm not too old, I just didn't want to deal with bs. Myself, I haven't built a new pc since X58 was new, my last pc was Z77 that I got as a hand me down.

Side note: my TIM came in today and knocked 12c off my normal temps, I haven't put a load on it yet, just got it all back together. CPU stayed in the socket too.. yay!

Personally, I think it's placebo. I've owned Intel starting from a Celeron 300 MHz from the Pentium 2 era, through various Core 2 Duos, Core i3s and i7s (the latest one being the 7700 non-K), and AMD as well: Athlon 64, FX-8000, now Zen 2, soon Zen 3. None of these left any negative taste in my mouth. The only negative feeling I had was with of performance: the FX was extremely slow in single-core use (e.g. games), and even though my first ever Celeron was blazing fast in its first year, it suffered even with next year's games - together with the 4 MB S3 Virge graphics card it was paired with that only ran DirectX 7.

 

[freeagent]

The part you highlighted was guys talking about chipset/memory issues, at least by the sounds of it. Which is what I had when I ran 939. No problems with Socket A.. probably was my OCZ ram lol. So far out of the box this thing is pretty good, no complaints. Much faster at just about everything than my 3770K is, that's not placebo.. that is a fact. But I would expect that after nearly a decade of using the same hardware.

 

[AusWolf]

The part you highlighted was guys talking about chipset/memory issues, at least by the sounds of it. Which is what I had when I ran 939. No problems with Socket A.. probably was my OCZ ram lol. So far out of the box this thing is pretty good, no complaints. Much faster at just about everything than my 3770K is, that's not placebo.. that is a fact. But I would expect that after nearly a decade of using the same hardware.

Ah I see. Well, my nvidia nforce 150 chipset for the Athlon 64 ran extremely hot, and it was quite picky with RAM. Though I wouldn't attribute this flaw to AMD, rather than nvidia making terrible motherboard chipsets (no wonder they've left that business).

 

[sil3ntearth]

I built my wife and sister 1st gen. ryzen systems when it came out and so far the biggest issue has been RAM, that and my wife's motherboard is a piece of crap and seems to have constant USB power issues.

If I were building a ryzen system today the two things I'd focus most of my effort researching is RAM and motherboard. I don't feel I have to be as picky on Intel systems outside of making sure they have the features you want.

 

[freeagent]

I built my wife and sister 1st gen. ryzen systems when it came out and so far the biggest issue has been RAM, that and my wife's motherboard is a piece of crap and seems to have constant USB power issues.

If I were building a ryzen system today the two things I'd focus most of my effort researching is RAM and motherboard. I don't feel I have to be as picky on Intel systems outside of making sure they have the features you want.

Lol I hear you man. Sorry to hear.

Honestly, I checked the QVL at Asus and G.Skill they said yep we work together and I said ok. I think the test will come tomorrow.. I bought a kit of F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW and I will attempt to run them together at their rated speeds

If they don't play nice its not a big deal.. I'm going to get a lower end board for this CPU and that ram for my boys to use with my GTX 980 until they cant use it.

 

[Deleted member 193596]

i swapped my 10850k for a 5800x (i had a lot of AMD Hardware in the last ten years)

so far the experience is great.

it sucks less power in AVX2 Prime95 (with PBO and no powerlimits) than my i9 while loading a game..
and with my current PBO settings i see around 4850 Mhz while playing games (all core) and single core boosts up to 5050 Mhz.

 

[freeagent]

That's awesome man. I want a new CPU but they are pretty tough to come by right now. Looks like I'm hooked on hardware again lol. Just gotta wait for stock to roll in anytime now would be nice..

 

[sil3ntearth]

Lol I hear you man. Sorry to hear.

Honestly, I checked the QVL at Asus and G.Skill they said yep we work together and I said ok. I think the test will come tomorrow.. I bought a kit of F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW and I will attempt to run them together at their rated speeds

If they don't play nice its not a big deal.. I'm going to get a lower end board for this CPU and that ram for my boys to use with my GTX 980 until they cant use it.

Yeah, I mean, basically since launch they've been ok with G.Skill Trident RAM. I remember building one that Asus sent parts for at my last job. 1st generation promotion system. Man that PC was a bitch to get working right. Still gives me nightmares. I'll probably wait until the next generation stuff comes out and build my wife a new system with the 5000 series stuff. That 1700x is getting long in the tooth for all the video work she does.

 

[NoJuan999]

Honestly, I checked the QVL at Asus and G.Skill they said yep we work together and I said ok. I think the test will come tomorrow.. I bought a kit of F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW and I will attempt to run them together at their rated speeds

If they don't play nice its not a big deal.. I'm going to get a lower end board for this CPU and that ram for my boys to use with my GTX 980 until they cant use it.

I have been using the G.Skill Configurator to check compatibility with Ryzen systems for the last few years and it has been reliable for me so far.
That F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW is listed as compatible with your B550-F and 3600XT so I would expect it to work fine.
That will depend on your BIOS of course, some BIOS versions are better than others for RAM speeds / OCing.
RAM Configurator-G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd.

 

[freeagent]

I wouldn’t be too heart broken if they didnt mix well. I bought it for my boys build, that’s the start. Once the new AMD CPU’s are readily available I will get one for myself and a cheap board for my boys to use with this XT. The letter carrier came and went already, but I saw the can post parcel delivery guy a couple of streets over on my way to get some Tim Hortons for breakfast. So I might get those sticks today.. fingers crossed.

 

[DR4G00N]

I wouldn’t be too heart broken if they didnt mix well. I bought it for my boys build, that’s the start. Once the new AMD CPU’s are readily available I will get one for myself and a cheap board for my boys to use with this XT. The letter carrier came and went already, but I saw the can post parcel delivery guy a couple of streets over on my way to get some Tim Hortons for breakfast. So I might get those sticks today.. fingers crossed.

I'd be surprised if they didn't work together considering they're identical kits other than the heatsink (that's assuming they have the same pcb layout). F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW is a pretty old model so it may have A0 or A2 depending on whether it's new or old production. I run the same kit in my rig, works great.