xman111 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 hey guys, have an i5-8400 on a z-370 motherboard with 16gb DDR4 ram. Run about 10 dockers, a Windows 10 VM that hosts Blue Iris for recording my video cameras, and Plex. Just looking for a CPU upgrade as i am always running about 70 percent and sometimes max it out. Hoping to just buy a motherboard and CPU and reuse my ram. What is a good upgrade to give me a little headroom without using a ton more power? Is the best bang for the buck Ryzen or Xeon? Any help would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment
jpowell8672 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Ryzen https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html Quote Link to comment
xman111 Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 thanks for the link, are all the Ryzen bugs worked out? just have to see what is a step up from mine.. Quote Link to comment
jpowell8672 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 34 minutes ago, xman111 said: thanks for the link, are all the Ryzen bugs worked out? just have to see what is a step up from mine.. I believe most of the bugs are worked out for Ryzen 2nd gen but there is still work to be done for 3rd gen since it is still so new, as expected for newer cutting edge tech. Quote Link to comment
jpowell8672 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-8400+%40+2.80GHz&id=3097 Quote Link to comment
xman111 Posted October 15, 2019 Author Share Posted October 15, 2019 trying to figure out how much real world difference upgrading to a Ryzen 3600. if I go from 6 cores to 8, do the threads show up as virtual CPUs or am I just gaining 2 CPUs? Quote Link to comment
xman111 Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 unded up going Ryzen 3700x in a 570 board and couldn't be happier. Fast, lots of cores/threads, low temps and power. Quote Link to comment
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