AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench

Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by lunchables on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:59AM (#20232409)

And the motherboards from two years ago (AM4) will support the latest Zen2 / Ryzen 3000 series CPU[0]. Meanwhile intel changes the socket every generation which adds another $100-$300 to the cost of a CPU upgrade.

[0] double check your board manufacturer for bios updates to support new CPU, my cheap B350 board does.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by TheCapn on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:17AM (#20232582)

Helpful link for knowing which motherboards are able to get their bios flashed to support Zen2 without an installed CPU/memory:

https://redd.it/bvfo57

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by Iggy173 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:00AM (#20233566)

This is unfortunately not helpful to those of us who haven't made the jump to AMD yet :(

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by lunchables on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:22AM (#20241830)

Well the good news is you can pick up a very inexpensive board now, even a used one, and it will be compatible with the latest CPU. I bought my motherboard July of 2017 and will be upgrading my CPU to a Ryzen 3000 after 7/7 launch.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench by undersuit on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:58AM (#20234167)

It's been 24 years since you could use an Intel or AMD processor on the same motherboard and some people just can't get over it.

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