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AMD Ryzen 5600X

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If it helps, the ASRock B550M Pro4 supports ECC. At least when paired with a Ryzen 5600X and 4x 16GB (Kingston KSM26ED8/16HD @3200MHz) memory modules. It's what I've been using for 15+ months as my main development desktop. This is how they show up in the system (Linux) from dmidecode: Handle 0x000F, DMI type 16, 23 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: Multi-bit ECC Maximum Capacity: 128 GB Error Information Handle: 0x000E Number Of Devices: 4 Handle 0x001A, DMI type 17, 92 bytes (this section is repeated 4 times though, once per DIMM stick) Memory Device Array Handle: 0x000F Error Information Handle: 0x0019 Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 16384 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: None Locator: DIMM 1 Bank Locator: P0 CHANNEL A Type: DDR4 Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) Speed: 3200 MT/s Manufacturer: Kingston Serial Number: [snipped] Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: 9965745-028.A00G Rank: 2 Configured Memory Speed: 3200 MT/s Minimum Voltage: 1.2 V Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V Configured Voltage: 1.2 V Memory Technology: DRAM…
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> Out of curiosity, what do you use the higher 20gbps transfer speeds for? Images, videos, movies, file transfer/backup. 50 megapixel RAW images from a DSLR that can capture up to 20 images a second get big and when my daughter is a much better volleyball player than I am a sports photographer so I have to spray and pray to capture those high-speed hits. Transferring a day's photos via a card reader was so slow, I added a USB3 2x2 port to my home server (Ryzen 5600x) via a PCI-E card. 4K 10-bit mobile phone video clips get big too.
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Ah I didn't realize it was that old. Well, in that case I'd recommend both a graphics card and a CPU upgrade. In my gaming PC (with a 4070 Ti so a pretty strong GPU) I replaced a 5600X with a 5700X3D. It has made my VR experience essentially perfect.
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6.10 broke my fedora gaming proton box and I was on holiday at the time and so upset I just nuked it and put windows on it to play games. Now it's only powered on on the weekends to play games and I've moved all my linux needs to a VM on my overspecc'd Mac. I also had an AMDGPU system. 5600X, AMD 6800 GPU, Fedora 40. -> now win11 (which has so much cruft out of the box I am considering nuking it and going back haha)
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> We will look back at our meagre 4 GB/s NVMe of today as old junk. Nah, I don't think so. There is a natural resistance against the newer more expensive machines. The non-tech people largely started looking on the area as always chasing the new shinies, and they are absolutely correct. I as a programmer, had to replace my gaming PC last year because the old one (which was 11 year old) had its motherboard give up. And I settled for 5600x with 1080 Ti and DDR4 RAM and a 4-7 GB/s NVMe SSD. Some of the more demanding games struggle because the GPU is old but outside of that that machine is impressively and hugely powerful. Even in those games it still keeps 45-60 FPS just fine. I would want to get a better GPU but honestly, the price jump from a 1080 Ti all the way to the 3070 and beyond is just insane and I can't justify it. I am gaming something like 4h a week, 12h in rare cases, usually about 6h. I really don't see the draw of all these innovations. Servers, surely, okay, but even for workstations I'd think we are much more in a need of machines with more memory channels -- that the Threadripper Pro stations offer -- and not RAM and SSDs that go into the higher double-digits of GB bandwidth. It's very obvious that most programmer tooling is not making full use of hardware resources. You have to go as low as a Celeron J CPU to actually see programmer tooling monopolize your machine. Even i3 CPUs and old Ryzens are flying. Unless you are crunching data all day every day then…
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Currently have a desktop as my primary device with an AMD Ryzen 5600x. Never felt that I was pushing that system. Had a Macbook Air 2019 that was starting to feel sluggish. Desktop was fine since I was working from home the last 2 years. But I’ve finally got an office and also need to travel so need something more portable Will be switching over from Ubuntu to Mac as well
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CPUs, like smartphones, don't really need an upgrade every year, but the manufacturers feel the need to come up with a new lineup each year, even when the changes are minimal at best and cosmetic at worst. Most desktop CPUs are already very good enough at their job and don't need an upgrade. There are exceptional workloads where CPU speed is a bottleneck, but I think we have run out of easy ways to improve it. I upgraded from Intel 3570K (a 2012 CPU!) to AMD 5600X two years ago simply because the old motherboard had no M.2 slots and honestly didn't feel any difference in CPU speed.
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Why are you comparing the pricing of an RTX 4080 with a console? From my experience an RX 6650 XT provides me with a similar experience, and I picked that up for £200. With a Ryzen 5600x from £120 stuck in an Era ITX, it's just a shame that we don't have prebuild Steam Machines like this. That's the only reason I would recommend a console, prebuilts. Otherwise I'm able to play games that are otherwise only able to be played on one console brand or the other. That's a massive savings.
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On Ryzen 5600X, 7B and 13B run quite fast. Off the top of my head, pure CPU performance is about 25% slower than with an NVIDIA GPU of some kind. I don't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but the generation speed only starts to get annoying for 33B+ models.
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I'm curious if anyone has a similar story but running Linux instead of macOS? I have a DIY AMD 5600X system (128 GB RAM, two M.2 drives) that is fast but warm. In the summer it can be uncomfortable in my upstairs office, despite A/C. I could be tempted into trying an ARM workstation if I thought it would make a big difference on heat. I don't really do gaming, except occasional Minecraft with the kids. My GPU is a 10+ years old GeForce GTX 560, and it seems fine. (But maybe that only works with x64? I don't know.) I've already had a taste of Apple's ARM speeds with my M1 Macbook Air. Running `make clean && make` on Postgres is practically instant. I don't understand what's going on there to make it so fast. But for my daily work I'd rather be in Xubuntu. Is anyone out there doing something similar?
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I was always intrigued by AMD processors in the 90s, although pretty much stuck with Intel. I built an Athlon 64 PC in 2004 - it was the first 64-bit consumer processor. Intel was going down the Itanium path, and AMD just added 64-bit extensions to X86, which ended up being the winning strategy. I remember writing an article about it for my job at the time. That served me well until I upgraded to a Phenom II X6 in 2010. I was super excited by the prospect of having 6 cores, even though I had no real use for that many. That PC lasted me for over 10 years, although I did upgrade the RAM, added an SSD, and upgraded the GPU twice. Was still a competent PC at the end for both gaming and software development, and managed to part it out for a decent amount of money. Late last year I finally succumbed the the Ryzen itch and upgraded to a Ryzen 5600x. It's a fantastic platform, and hopefully that PC will last me another 10 years with only minor upgrades.