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The machine turned up promptly and I installed Linux on it. Runs lovely. Early days, but something that used to take 3 hours and a few minutes on the old box now runs in 1 hour, so a clear 3x speedup. Something else that runs in 30-40 minutes now takes 7 minutes for a 4x - 6x speedup. So in...

>Why don't you just go for 12 core and put a cheap as chips GPU in there? I did originally. That proved to be too expensive for my budget. I've priced up the 5800X at £285, the 7600X at £340 and the GT1030 graphics card at £110. I have seem some graphics cards for £60. The 5700G is £230 and I...

I will be running the CPU at stock frequency. Article quote: In simple terms, processor manufacturers only ever guarantee two values that are tied together - when all cores are running at base frequency, the processor should be running at or below the TDP rating. End quote. Which AFAIK...

My understanding is that the 5700G is a 65W part and the standard PCSpecialist cooling is for a 105W part, i.e. 40W of slack. Failing that, I can always run the box with covers off. That's how the 8350 runs happily. Interesting, but openbenchmarking.org has the 5700G at three times the speed...

Software development. It also gets used as a build server, where all cores can be used, so the more the merrier. I had hoped to get a 12 core machine, but since they all need a graphics card, then it looks like I will be sticking with 8 core. As I said originally, no gaming. Thanks for the...

Thanks for the tip. The fact that these CPUs have iGPU I hadn't noticed. AMD dropped the 'G' suffix. Even the lowly 6 core 7000 series in a machine is £1,200 so over budget. I don't really want to go over about £800. I currently have a six year old 8 core FX-8350. Yes, the same number of cores...

Hello there, I've been pondering an 8 core or 12 core machine. Either expensive 8 core or cheap 12 core. I can see the 12 core Ryzen 9 5900X needs a graphics card and I can see that the 8 core Ryzen 7 5700G doesn't, so that's about £60 saved. I only need VGA, I don't do gaming. Given I am...