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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 3550 @ 3.30GHz 46 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Intel Corporation DH67BL (CPU 1) 37 °C
Graphics
DELL SE2416H (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (NVIDIA) 45 °C
Storage
931GB TOSHIBA HDWD110 (SATA ) 35 °C
238GB SPCC Solid State Disk (SATA (SSD)) 40 °C
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What are you using this for? Just to help form suggestions with relevant components.
well i would like some AMD alternatives to get rid of intel me and backdoors, and honestly it's so that i have a smoother experience playing games or using multiple apps at the same time aswell
So gaming and a memory boost, got it. You understand you'll have to change your motherboard because the Intel v. AMD sockets are different, correct?
Not to mention the memory (RAM) standards are most likely going to be different as well going from DDR3 to DDR4/5
Also, what is your overall budget for the upgrade?
^^ but any am4 cpu is prob your best choice tho for price
Used market is pretty good for them
AM4 and specifically the X3D processors are great for a litany of things, but that's going to ultimately depend on budget availability because those aren't on the cheap side at all lol
You know any task other than gaming that benefits from that extra l3?
Typically depends on the generation (and other components used with it), but most of the time gaming, simulation/rendering, and video encoding projects are going to perform better with those processors. Not all of them, however, it really depends on the process and what it's actually doing. AMD processors usually have a lower power draw as well.
games depend more on single core performance
just plot single core benchmarks with price and pick one
That’s so generalized tho 😭
Depends a lot on the game
jesus christ
id say save your money and try to build a new AM5 build instead, AM4 isn't dead but if you're already going to upgrade just go straight to the modern era
you can keep the 980 iguess but you would need new cpu, motherboard, and RAM
and you can definitely find all that for the $400USD range
Wonder when we’ll learn about his budget
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Am5 is def the way to go if he has like $500 tho
yea am4 build is probably gonna be in the $250USD range but with some extra money bro can just jump up to modern specs
ignoring the gpu
idk why i assumed he had like $100 😭
what sort of PSU do you have btw?
uhhh how do i check 😭
also does amd also have backdoors
i just want privacy ffs 😫
Budget first
How much money do you wanna spend
not sure but i prefer the lower range when it comes to prices
Idk what “the lower range” means for you
😭
Is it around 200
Or like around 5
i'd be willing to spend around 200-350 tbh
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honestly if i were you id just say wait until you can have a larger budget
like $400 is enough for am5 even
what's wrong with am4?
there's nothing explicitly wrong with it but if you're gonna upgrade why are you gonna save $50 just so you can spend another $400 in 2 years?
hardware vulnerabilities aren't really a thing anymore
and if they are they would probably go for tens of millions on the black market, and only really nation states would have access to them
so if there were vulnerabilities, assuming you haven't pissed off the KGB or the NSA or the CCP recently, you really have nothing to worry about
and if you do, you have bigger things to worry about, but also keep your drivers up to date because drivers can patch out basically all hardware vulnerabilities
I’m guessing he’s concerned about intel ME?
AMD has something like PSP, which sometimes gets linked to ME, but iirc it’s different
It might be amd SPS
Idk
why even need hackers when big tech companies already spy on you and sell your data
that's what i mean by backdoors
If that’s really the only reason you’re upgrading, most big tech companies probably don’t care about that personal data anyways, they just wanna target ads
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+ his point was, how would anyone other than government agencies get access to something like that
What weird article did you read bro
You don’t have to get away from intel because you think they are spying on you, they don’t care at all mate
was thinking of mass surveillence (which they're trying to make legal in EU) but who knows if they haven't been doing that already
fact is, even if they didn't care about our personal info as of now, if let's say you speak up against something they say, they are infact able to shut you down with either blackmail, or whatever method they can think off
call it a tin foil hat call it paranoia but still
Yep, will call it a tin foil hat, but I don’t think there really is space to argue with you.
go ahead then, it's not like i can judge you for not being paranoic lol
Seems like you got some time to save up then
At least you have a good taste for series, Dexter is the best
yeah it is one of my favourite series, the ressurection s1 finale is amazing
Haven’t watched resurrection yet
Will do though
please don't make it sound like i'm a schizophrenic nutjob 😭
well you are making me think in this direction