I bought 2700x listed as "new, unpacked" few weeks ago (official shop) and got dead one with many missing and bent pins. ...
I bought 2700x listed as "new, unpacked" few weeks ago (official shop) and got dead one with many missing and bent pins. ...
That store always lists whatever is wrong with the product (if that's the case).. this one didn't have a thing - customer care employee told me it was indeed never supposed to get into retail. But I got fully refunded with small discount on next purchase as apology. But still just wanted to warn any people who wants to buy used AMD CPUs - there are fragile pins on it that can easily bend and even fall off if the user is careless when unmounting the Cooler (especially the Wraith Prism Cooler has thousands of cases of this happening). If you can't touch it and look closely before you buy it, don't buy it.Sound like it was a false listing for sure, unless it also disclosed something like 'new, unpacked...but damaged packaging". Hopefully you have recourse to get a refund.
.... If you can't touch it and look closely before you buy it, don't buy it.
I have a 1700 that still does a terrific job at 1080p gaming paired with an RX480...and worked really just as well at 1440p when I put my RX-5700XT in for a test. So yeah, a 2700X will definitely be a valued addition to a gaming system if you're looking at one for a fair price.
It does get hot if you use a fixed overclock but that's only to be expected of an 8core/16 thread CPU of older process generation (just look at Intel's furnace line). These were the first Ryzen CPU's that used PBO and it can work pretty well on the right motherboard and BIOS (it has to allow undervolting with negative offsets). With PBO it will stay much cooler (compared to a fixed overclock) in terms of actual heat output while in use.
They truly don't compare to Zen 3 CPU's, with their first rate IPC, in FPS gaming action. But I play triple "A" games...Witcher 3, Ghost Recon, RDR2 and even some Cyberpunk 2077. All of those I can still get good gaming action at no less than 40 FPS...perfect for those game types.My exp with r7 1700 in short
No game can utilize all threads,
It will suffer from very high fps games compared to mordern cpu, 5600x/11400 etc
So its best paired with high resolution and target 90-100 fps
It runs hot compared to Zen 2/3...but not hot enough to heat your room while transcoding in winter. That can make for an unhappy compromise that really begs for an Intel CPU to do proper double duty.I recently ditched my 2700x
It runs hot.
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Over priced.
It runs hot compared to Zen 2/3...but not hot enough to heat your room while transcoding in winter. That can make for an unhappy compromise that really begs for an Intel CPU to do proper double duty.
Being overpriced is really a non-issue if you have one...unless "ditching" really means "scalping" at resale. Which is really a plus for the scalper!
12600KF is hell of a beast and I think everyone will agree on that. This CPU indeed completely trashed any AMD CPU in total performance..BUT..AMD stayed still victorious in price to performance as the stuff you have to buy to get your 12600KF started is way higher than on AMD.. Ryzen just requires 80$ motherboard with 40$ RAM and you're good to go. With Intel you can forget about that lol. You have to get totally new motherboard and those don't come cheap..and if you want to fully utilize its power u need DDR5 RAM and PCI E 5.0 and that all comes with price. (My newly built PC costed me 400$ in total..Intel 12600kf build would cost me 700$+)Just playing games it heated the room in the winter. Even when idling there was warm air blowing out the radiator. I purchased a 12600KF for £60 more than the 2700x retail price. It absolutely smashes the 2700 on performance and all the talk about the 12600KF being power hungry? When gaming now the cpu don't even get hot. I mean the air blowing out the rad is cold even my gpu runs a hell of a lot cooler compared to what it did with the 2700x. No more issues with frame rates when gaming either as my memory now runs stable with xmp setting whereas with the 2700x It wouldn't function properly past 2666mhz.
Just playing games it heated the room in the winter. Even when idling there was warm air blowing out the radiator. I purchased a 12600KF for £60 more than the 2700x retail price. It absolutely smashes the 2700 on performance and all the talk about the 12600KF being power hungry? When gaming now the cpu don't even get hot. I mean the air blowing out the rad is cold even my gpu runs a hell of a lot cooler compared to what it did with the 2700x. No more issues with frame rates when gaming either as my memory now runs stable with xmp setting whereas with the 2700x It wouldn't function properly past 2666mhz.
Processor cheap...the rest of the platform precious.Just playing games it heated the room in the winter. Even when idling there was warm air blowing out the radiator. I purchased a 12600KF ...
12600KF is hell of a beast and I think everyone will agree on that. This CPU indeed completely trashed any AMD CPU in total performance..BUT..AMD stayed still victorious in price to performance as the stuff you have to buy to get your 12600KF started is way higher than on AMD.. Ryzen just requires 80$ motherboard with 40$ RAM and you're good to go. With Intel you can forget about that lol. You have to get totally new motherboard and those don't come cheap..and if you want to fully utilize its power u need DDR5 RAM and PCI E 5.0 and that all comes with price. (My newly built PC costed me 400$ in total..Intel 12600kf build would cost me 700$+)
Processor cheap...the rest of the platform precious.
Lucky for Intel, they started trying to innovate again. It's telling that it's being compared to a two generations passed processor. Even so, they're not very good for people living in high energy-cost economies, especially those with a tiered pricing structure where they have to be super careful about tipping into the next bracket. It's terrible when you have to shut down your system on the last couple days of the month just cause it's such a blast furnace.
in gaming 5600x will bring about 50% more frames at much lower TDP. Regarding productivity they are about the same with 5600x/5600g taking an edge - which is great as it has only 6 cores.Back on topic though I wouldn't bother with a 2700x. The 5600 isn't that much more.