If it makes you feel any better, I swapped out my daughter's PC from an i3-4160 to a Ryzen 5 2600x. The only thing I re-installed where the chipset drivers. So far she hasn't had any issues. I also swapped the motherboard on my R5 3600 HTPC without issues there as well.
As lobz said, it's...
Given the evidence provided for higher 1% and .1% lows and often decent scaling with higher core counts on many game engines, what exactly are we confused about? If you're building a new system for gaming, you should buy what you can afford. If you can afford more than 4 cores, you'll clearly...
Skyrim launched on 11/11/11, but I doubt the date really affected their sales one way or the other. It seems pointless to me to artificially delay a release for marketing purposes, but if having that extra time means a smoother release than Radeon VII, then I'm all for it.
To be clear, there are likely hundreds of threads running on your system at any given time. What multi-core processors allow for is x-number of threads to process simultaneously. They could load up 100 threads in their test app, but only up to 56 would be getting processed at the same time...
I've not had many computers over the years, so the the upgrades have always felt significant.
~1996 - An old IBM machine that I cannot recall the model of. I know we started out with Windows 3.1 and it had a whopping 611MB HDD.
2000 - AMD (Athlon) K7 @ 750MHz
2003 - Gateway Laptop from 2003...
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