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<font face="Calibri">Hi Daniel,<br>
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I went all AMD on my build from late last year. There were a
couple of teething issues in the first few months, but all have
been sorted out by early this year. I'm running a 3900X and
5700XT. I'm not really fussed on PCIe 4 for graphics performance
at the moment, but I have 2 x NVME gen4 SSDs in RAID 0 (mdadm),
and they don't compete for bandwidth with the GPU. I can also
swap out the graphics card later for one with higher performance
if desired because I'm not limited by PCIe 3. I wanted a build
that had a jump in performance, and would last me for years.<br>
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There were driver (and UEFI) issues at first, but I don't have any
issues now, and I'm quite happy with it. For what it's worth,
this was also my first AMD machine.<br>
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-Nic<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/04/2020 2:47 pm, Daniel wrote:<br>
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Still looking at hardware choices for desktop Linux at home: I recall watching someone say that the most expensive product of a certain ‘fashionista’ computer company wasn’t much faster than one that cost much less because most software wasn’t optimised to make use of its capabilities.
Is the supposedly 69% faster PCIe 4 worth going out of my Intel comfort zone ... will a Linux box (cpu & video as below) work well and go a lot faster?
Ref
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/3400176/pcie-40-everything-you-need-to-know-specs-compatibility.html">https://www.pcworld.com/article/3400176/pcie-40-everything-you-need-to-know-specs-compatibility.html</a>
~~~ AMD ran Futuremark’s unreleased PCIe feature test to show how a Ryzen 7 3800X coupled with a Radeon RX 5700 in PCIe 4.0 mode offered 69 percent more PCIe throughput performance than a Core i9-9900K and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ~~~
Thank you
Daniel
(In Perth but I don’t get out much)
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