The title was : Does Ryzen potentially "kill" the unofficial consumer Xeon DIY PC builds?
My answer was no.
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Thanks for the post PG ! you are right.
I wasn't trying to impress.I'd have shown the dual 8168 Xeons if I was.....7000+ cinebench.
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The answer is yes,since only hardware enthusiasts on tech forums who live in a bubble would think cost wouldn't be an issue for DIY PC builds.
People do DIY builds do so to save money or get better value for money by farting around with hardware,if not they would just buy an off the shelf system like most people,so since cost is a factor,yes it does kill Xeons for DIY builds since the price differential is massive.
The newly adjusted pricing for the HEDT platform probably kills off Xeons for many DIY builds anyway.
Intel also killed off the compatibility of consumer socket Xeon CPUs with normal motherboards by restricting the chipsets they could be used in,so even made those CPUs worse value for money.
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I don't care about cost , and I don't OC anymore.
the 1950x I have access to does 3040 cinebench at stock, this rig (out of the box,stock,untweaked) does 3445.
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My comment stands.
Your comment does not stand,as in the realworld cost is a factor,ie,computing has over the last 40 years shown that lower cost technologies always win out over time. Or maybe you need to ask Cray,IBM,etc who found their expensive niche CPUs being massively outsold by mass produced cheaper ones in servers and supercomputers by companies like Intel who undercut them.
ARM did the same thing in phones and tablets when compared to more expensive CPUs from Intel and AMD.
So in the end for bragging points you spent massively more just to get just over 10% to 15% show-off points when if you had spent still less on an AMD system,you would have got a faster one in that benchmark.
Also if you didn't care about money you would just buy an off the shelf system and be done with it instead of fiddling around building PCs. There are plenty of bespoke well built system with great support available in many countries.