Neko91 Posted May 21, 2020 Posted May 21, 2020 I'm working on specs for a new gaming PC and trying to decide between an AMD and Intel CPU (specific ones not chosen but higher end). I would go with AMD but I've heard that it doesn't play well with Skyrim (I've been playing LE but may give SSE a second try). I've been doing research but input from LoversLab folks would be welcome.
27X Posted May 21, 2020 Posted May 21, 2020 Right now is literally the worst time in history to buy or assemble a PC. Worst. Anything you buy except RAM will be literally obsolete by the end of the year. The consoles are bringing a paradigm shift, and PCs will take about a year to catch up, nevermind Intel AMD and nVidia are refreshing their lineups in four months with a minimum throughput increase of 50% per tier.
Vocaloid Posted May 21, 2020 Posted May 21, 2020 AMD for now is the best choice if you don't want to wait before AMD & Intel & Nvidia will update their hardware products
Neko91 Posted May 24, 2020 Author Posted May 24, 2020 On 5/21/2020 at 5:22 AM, Vocaloid said: AMD for now is the best choice if you don't want to wait before AMD & Intel & Nvidia will update their hardware products Thanks for your comment! Intel seems to be better with single-threaded applications, and people have reported having ENB issues with AMD, so I think I will be going with one of the Intel i7's.
Vocaloid Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 8 hours ago, Neko91 said: Thanks for your comment! Intel seems to be better with single-threaded applications, and people have reported having ENB issues with AMD, so I think I will be going with one of the Intel i7's. I playing in Skyrim SE with AMD Ryzen 3700x and with active ENB for a long time and no find any issue with it. Besides, single-thread will be useful in Oldrim, but in SE version multi-threaded give you much more performance, depending on processor model. Issue with ENB may cause by videocard, especially with AMD cards with optionals non-certified drivers versions. But even in this case i did not see any of them (tested with NVidia GTX 780 & AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT on many AMD drivers version). By the way about CPU. I have a TON of mods in my SSE ( 1928 active in NMM) and in this case i have about + ~29FPS with a processor that i mention above and now i have stable 75 FPS (this is unfortunatelly limited by VSync on my monitor). But anyway, i did not urge you buing AMD hardware, it's up to you. This is just my point. However, like i said before, for now AMD processors is the best choice. And if you have a limited budget, AMD videocards will be a good choice too.
Kakabishan Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 On 5/21/2020 at 6:13 PM, Neko91 said: I'm working on specs for a new gaming PC and trying to decide between an AMD and Intel CPU (specific ones not chosen but higher end). I would go with AMD but I've heard that it doesn't play well with Skyrim (I've been playing LE but may give SSE a second try). I've been doing research but input from LoversLab folks would be welcome. Intel is the best for single core performance, and Skyrim doesn't benefit greatly from multithreaded CPUs, even Skyrim SE to a point. But AMD is the best for value / performance for several other games. I would go for an AMD CPU. If you plan to just play Skyrim only, then go for an Intel CPU I have an AMD CPU and I don't have any issues with ENBs. AMD is definitely better if you play other games as well, since Intel is sucking at the moment and are overpriced
27X Posted May 25, 2020 Posted May 25, 2020 53 minutes ago, Kakabishan said: Intel is the best for single core performance, and Skyrim doesn't benefit greatly from multithreaded CPUs, even Skyrim SE to a point. But AMD is the best for value / performance for several other games. I would go for an AMD CPU. If you plan to just play Skyrim only, then go for an Intel CPU I have an AMD CPU and I don't have any issues with ENBs. AMD is definitely better if you play other games as well, since Intel is sucking at the moment and are overpriced Nope. 3900XT has 12% ipc AND better non LN2/LHe clocks than 10900KZ. Intel doesn't have the single core crown anymore period, and Zen 3 isn't even out yet. The only lead Intel now has is literal LHe benchmarks, and no one is actually going to use LHe to stream games on twitch or for anything else an actual computer would do anyway. 3900Xt can also hit 5.2 gigs on a golden sample. With air cooling. Zen 3 is also 20% faster than zen 2, clock for clock. Intel is fucked.
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