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I can't wait to see the AMD Ryzen CPUS. Time to upgrade my trusty Phenom II 955

I'm such a pessimist with AMD CPUs, I just have bad memories of power hungry, hot running chips with lots of microcode bugs and problems with ACPI etc...

> I just have bad memories of power hungry, hot running chips with lots of microcode bugs and problems with ACPI

Sounds to me like the original Phenom series of CPU's. They were very power hungry and ran very hot (140+ Watts at stock clocks)... the newer cpu's are a bit better, although they still lag in performance.

If AMD's Ryzen benchmarks are to be believed, that seems like it will change very soon though.

Could be interesting, we've been burnt badly by 2014 era AMD server CPUs that are gutless as crap and have so many microcode bugs it's a right PITA.

Around ~2008-2010 AMD server CPUs were quite competitive, iirc.

I have an FX-8350 (similar multi-threaded best-case performance to i5-6600k) and I love it, but AMD's benchmarks are rarely to be believed.

> but AMD's benchmarks are rarely to be believed

I think that statement applies to all vendors, generally.

Can't believe there are people saying AMD hasn't been CPU relevant for over a decade, when this one is Q1 2009 and the Phenom II 975 is Q1 2011 (6 years old this year).

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