Got myself AMD FX-8350 a decade ago, used it daily with minor overclocking and replaced with Ryzen 3950X last year. This old FX-8350 went into dedicated Linux machine for things I weren’t able to do with virtual one. I am curious how long will it run:-)
Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)
by gibspaulding on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:56AM
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Those FX series had a really bad reputation at the time, but it seems the extra cores have helped them age better than might have been expected. My old FX 6300 is also in a Linux box now hosting a Jellyfin server and it does quite well!
Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)
by jandrese on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:50PM
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Ha, I was just about to mention the FX-6300 I have running in a server that hosts 3 Minecraft instances. It's not the fastest thing ever but it gets the job done. I was going to replace it when it got too slow, but that hasn't happened yet.
Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)
by captswag on Friday March 19, 2021 @10:49AM
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My first computer was also an AMD? But that wasn't because I loved AMD or knew anything about processors. I believe my parents bought me that one because it was cheaper than Intel.
Fast forward to today, my current desktop is an AMD Ryzen 3600X.
Did you happen to own any AMD stocks back then?
Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020)
by geocrasher on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:06AM
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My first computer was also purchased by my parents. Nope, no stock.
I avoided the bulldozer/piledriver series chips, and got a first gen Ryzen 5 1400. It's a fantastic chip, very fast especially at the price, and will last me years I'm sure.
In the late 90's I also did good business selling computers based on the AMD 486 DX4/120's and 133's. Those things were so fast for the time.