Have you looked at what options you have with your current mb and what socket? Which xeon do you have and how much ram? No one wants to ditch 16 gig of ram. And no one wants to upgrade an older socket and have the mb or ram fail 6 months later I do feel the clocks on Ryzen 2 (hopefully next year) will be better then what is out now.
Once I upgraded from a 486 DX4/120 to a 5x86 133, the upgrade looked impressive on the bargraphs in the reviews. Afterwards I could tell it was a little faster but I knew I just blew a bunch of cash and felt like a moron, main reason I post the way I do
Actually I disagree. Overclocked as high as I can, I can play any title out there @ high or better @1440p. That's with my cruddy 8350. ONLY If you can only afford a potato, it'll work.
First generation i7s still do the trick as well with a similar IPC to FX yet I don't see anyone reccomending those. Just because something is currently still doing okay doesn't make it wise as a new purchase, just okay for an existing machine.
Uhm, like 10GBit NIC? Or some fast SSD? 0o We are talking PCIe, right? Not classic PCI? Because the Prime X370 Pro does not have classic PCI.
You can't get away cheaping out on the board for FX, you also can't use the stock cooler when overclocking on that platform. That is two strikes against AM3+ and then there is performance.... Two years ago it was different but now? No, FX is dead.
I have a couple cards that I need to use for stuff. At the moment its a wifi card, but theres hardware I used to use for stress testing hard drives that I got used that connected on PCI. Theres other hardware too, but no reason to list.
