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things i just love about the computer industry is the naming conventions you

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can put your ek predator cooler inside your acer predator desktop one of the

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best gpus on the market shares a name with the world's most mundane display

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resolution and the industry as a whole has more references to force than the

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entire expanded universe so then it was a huge surprise to

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no one when AMD continued this proud tradition of uncreative naming by

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designating their lineup of new ryzen cpus as ryzen 3 5 and 7.

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the same numbers that team blue started

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using all those years ago but

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to AMD's credit they've gone a different direction with what those numbers

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actually mean starting at the bottom we've got ryzen 3

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though i would hardly call this bottom low end every ryzen 3 chip comes with 4

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cores and 4 threads similar to an Intel

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core i5 a 65 watt TDP means that the small

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included wraith stealth heatsink that looks somewhat similar to an Intel stock

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solution should do you nicely if you're not interested in overclocking a ryzen 3

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will run you between 109 and 129 dollars

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depending on exactly which model you choose stepping up we've got ryzen 5 which has

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both 4 core 8 thread and 6 core 12 thread models positioning them

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actually against mainstream grade core i7s except at the very high end so that

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one is simple enough but the cooler situation here is a

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little confusing the lowest end 1400

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gets the same stealth cooler as before

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then the other chips get the beefier wraith spire except for the top end six

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core 1600x which has no bundled cooler

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at all and a higher 95 watt TDP

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so ryzen 5 will run you between 169 and

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189 for 4 cores or 219 to 249 if you

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want something with six at the top of the mainstream stack is the ryzen 7

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lineup all of which are 8 core 16 thread

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affairs again here you'll see tdps between 65

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and 95 watts and only the lowest end

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non-x ryzen 7 1700 includes aspire led

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cooler though with that said i'd expect many of the folks buying the top tier

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ones to want high performance after market cooling anyway if you pull the

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trigger on a ryzen 7 expect to pay between 329 and 499 dollars but wait

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there's more that's not the end of it for the first time in a decade AMD is

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finally competing on the super high end as well with a product called ryzen

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threadripper this dramatically named processor is

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based on their server lineup and comes in 8 12 and 16 core variants all with

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simultaneous multi-threading and 64 pci

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express lanes these puppies produce copious amounts of

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heat you will need to provide your own excellent cooler the cpus are physically

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massive with over 4 000 lga style

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contacts and with pricing from 549 to 999 they are

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expensive though it's still cheaper than

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Intel's closest equivalents so then which one should you choose if you're

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interested well believe it or not if you won't be doing anything more demanding

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than gaming ryzen 3 is probably an

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excellent bet as there are hardly any games out there today that can

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substantially take advantage of more than four cores though with that said

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the extra threads and cores of a ryzen 5

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might make sense for you if you're a light content creator or a game streamer

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if you're a content creator who's doing more heavy lifting such as video editing

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a higher end ryzen 5 or a ryzen 7 is a

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great bet for you as for the super deluxe Threadripper

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well that one makes sense if you need high-speed quad channel memory tons of

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cores for virtualization and pci express

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lanes out the wazoo for GPU compute uh

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high-end networking or like crazy storage setups

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regardless of what chip you pick though there are a few things to know well two

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one every ryzen skew is unlocked and

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overclockable out of the box so you won't be paying an Intel style premium

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just to tweak the multiplier in your BIOS and two

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ryzen isn't quite as strong in applications like games that skew more

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heavily towards single core performance due to its lower per clock performance

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compared to Intel however many tests

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have shown that ryzen is a suitable performer in many of those applications

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and actually a better value for multi-threaded applications so if you're

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spending a lot of time in adobe premiere or streaming in hd you might be

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pleasantly surprised so let us know in the comments then have

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you taken the Ryzen plunge yet what are your thoughts so far and if you have

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