Would You Switch To Ryzen Now?

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My second 5960X recently died (likely by my Strix board) so I've been using a temporary 6850K. Waiting for me at home is a brand new 5960X and a replacement X99 Deluxe II as a precaution. In light of the recent Meltdown news, I'm curious as to whether or not I should cut my Intel/X99 losses and jump ship to AMD. I have some reservations about the newer platform and the loss of 40 lanes for my SLI setup but will quite likely not miss the drop to dual channel memory. What would you do?
 
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I suppose that depends on what you use the system for. But really, every CPU has some sort of vulnerability right now. Many have patches being deployed or coming in the very near future, so the problem could mostly go away.

As for Ryzen vs X99, well the X99 platform is a bit older. If you feel like you might miss the PCIe lanes, an 8c/16t Threadripper CPU is only like $50 more expensive than an R7-1800x, just the motherboard price difference.
 
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I think it is a bit early to make the call. Until we know the actual performance hit, it is just guess work. It is possible that the hit will be very minor. It is possible it will be done as a system wide patch impacting AMD chips as well as others.

For my use, I would stay with Intel until I know better. I did get a couple of threadripper 1950x's but that was for a special purpose where I wanted the core count and quad channel ram but was unwilling to pay double for an i9 based system.

I might change out some of our home PCs (5930, 6850 & 8700) for Ryzen 7's if the performance hit is extreme/worst-case scenario, but I would be surprised if this proves to be the case.
 
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I'm inclined to think the performance impact is likely being overstated especially for consumer workloads as nothing sells like panic, but the fact remains I was sold specific performance figures for a product. Then there's the issue of how older platforms will be treated by Microsoft and OEMs as patches/updates rollout.
 
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It's hard for me to recommend buying ryzen right now, the ryzen refresh on their new 12nm manufacturing process is coming out sometime this year.

Its supposed to improve clock speed but still be around the same price as ryzen 1.

Hopefully x370 will still be supported but I have heard that it will be a new x470 chip for the refresh line.

If you need something though, get the best you can afford.
 
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