Hi guys I'm getting the final pieces (motherboard cpu and memory) to my gaming rig, do I go ryzen 3600 or get an i7 8700k based system, I have a gtx 1070.. thanks
I think he's saying, albeit cryptically, that if you are gaming at 4K then you'll be GPU-limited rather than CPU-limited, so you'll get identical gaming performance between Ryzen and Intel's equivalent. I could be wrong, mind
The only reason I will is I hate ZIF sockets and want the mto be put in the bin of history! Otherwise I totally would go AMD!
It's actually possible to quite easily repair a snapped CPU pin yet nigh on impossible to repair a CPU socket pin. I literally got sweaty when I opened up my X399 socket.
But its also far far harder to damage a socket, motherboards tend to cost less and LGA sockets have glfar better cooler retention systems usually!
Not using a CPU that will last years and use the socket for about 10 seconds in 5+ years is a little silly. But you do you man lol.
I've damaged two sockets beyond repair. One pin. I've never damaged a CPU with pins ever. The very fact that sockets now come sealed with a cover says it all. IE - manus got sick of taking boards back with bent pins. There are numerous warnings about it in the manual. You also need to make sure that every screw is torqued evenly, or pins can refuse to make contact etc. This is particularly an issue with Threadripper. Any way, our issues with sockets and pins on CPUs aside I agree with Otis. It's something you have to do once, maybe two times in years. As long as you do your research before hand it's almost impossible to mess up unless you drop something which is human error. It's a silly reason not to go Ryzen, basically, but as he says each to their own.
