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in the late 90s and early 2000s there was actually a pretty good chance that

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someone shopping for a pc was buying one for the first time maybe to check out

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that newfangled internet these days though not only does pretty much every

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household in the us already have a computer but with the slow iterative

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improvements that Intel has been making over the last five years unless it's a

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pretty darn old one it probably does

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everything they really need it to do and an upgrade to the latest hardware

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would be unlikely to bring about a worthwhile increase in performance but

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AMD's ryzen promised to give people a

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reason to upgrade again bringing more processing cores than ever before to

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lower price points than ever before so

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now that the whole lineup is available is it actually worth the upgrade for you

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we've got the answer and you can watch the video for it or you can just click

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off below performance aside

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verizon's early bugs prevented us from issuing a

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full-on recommendation but the good news

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today is that many of the issues present at ryzen 7's launch have now been fixed

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as long as you don't try using RAM faster than 3200 megahertz which we've

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tested to be the point of greatly diminishing returns anyway and this is

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great because there are reasons to upgrade to a new system beyond raw CPU

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speed both mechanical and solid-state drives slow down over time maybe you've

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got a bad capacitor somewhere causing weird stability issues or maybe you just

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want more modern features like m.2 drive

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support and native usb 3.1 10 gigabit the last of which is actually unique to

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AMD's platform at this time now our initial testing of each ryzen product

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has consistently put AMD's offerings in the same general ballpark as the blue

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team's similarly priced modern counterparts typically trading off per

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thread performance for sometimes vastly superior multi-threaded performance with

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background tasks like encoding and

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streaming gameplay simultaneously benefiting dramatically you can see just

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how much in our stream quality investigation here so AMD likes to think

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that all of this makes for a very compelling deal

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but how does ryzen stack up against your old

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battle station we've grabbed four common cpus off the

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shelf since the turn of the decade to answer this question once and for all

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now as we dive in with gaming and single-threaded workloads we can already

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see how the trade-off between per thread and multi-threading impacts ryzen

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it generally trails behind even Intel's

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older hardware and games but beats even Intel's newest offerings

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in multi-threaded workloads so if you're a gamer running an older

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core i5 or core i7 and you are into

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streamer and you're not interested in any of the platform improvements

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honestly you might be better off investing in

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some more cool games to play or like a new wireless mouse or something

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with that said if you're in the never Intel camp and you're an AMD user who's

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been waiting and waiting for a compelling upgrade

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go ahead pull the trigger and feel good about it

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now let's look at the productivity and creative workloads wow

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if your use case isn't purely gaming

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it's pretty much a sure thing that you're going to realize some kind of

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noticeable performance benefit from an upgrade to ryzen

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as we observed in our launch reviews even compared to Intel's latest and

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greatest in today's multitasking world

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especially ryzen 5 and ryzen 7 are an

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absolute breath of fresh air ryzen delivers a strong value for

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multitaskers and content creators pretty much across the board

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now we could have just left our comparison there but it's pretty common

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practice as a system nears its best before date to try to squeeze a little

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more life out of it through overclocking so we decided to take advantage of

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ryzen's across-the-board overclocking support and run all the tests again

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against the older cpus also overclocked

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overall the story here is actually pretty similar to be honest Intel's cpus even

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going back five years are great for gaming and turning up the juice on them

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wasn't going to change that with that said for the folks with mixed

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workloads you know 3d animator by day gamer by night

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those guys will be really happy to see ryzen

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continue to dominate the workloads that they need to make money

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and close the gap somewhat in games pushing

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more of the system bottleneck onto the GPU

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so it comes down then to what matters most to you Intel is the undisputed

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gaming king and even folks with second

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or third gen core i5s and i7s

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wouldn't see enough performance benefit to justify an upgrade to ryzen

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and sadly outside of some edge cases

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like high refresh rate 1080p gaming that kind of applies to Intel's latest too

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but if you're an AMD user or

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your work relies on multi-threading or heavy multitasking then you'll find that

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ryzen has a lot to offer and without

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unforgivable sacrifices in gaming especially if you pair it with a b or x

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series motherboard and a decent cooler so you can take advantage of xfr and

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overclocking to get the most out of it so then as i mentioned before you'll

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