On 2019-08-25 1:58 p.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
As I said in previous post I gave my new build z390, i7 8700 build to
my son in exchange for his old i7 950 Gigabyte x58 system.
Well I played around with the old box for a week or so then found it
was not to my liking, That board has been rather troublesome for the
last 9 years, So I decided that's enough, Out you go.
Not wanting to spend another $1000+ dollars I did a fair amount of
research and decided to do something I have never done before.

Â*Try an AMD CPU, so I ordered An AMD Ryzen 5 3400G CPU With onboard
Vega 11 graphics andÂ* Wraith Spire cooler, an Asus B450 F motherboard
and 16 GB of CorsairÂ* 1600 MHZ memory All for abut $450.
Put it all together in the same Coolermaster CM 690 II case and power
supply.

Everything fired up nicely so I installed a fresh copy of Windows-10
ver 1903 and all was good, I had to give Microsoft my 8.1 key to
activate.
I just did a benchmark using Half-Life lost coast test demo and am
getting 256 FPS, So all looks great.
Surely this shoulb be my last build (I hope not) :-)

Rene

I think I just saw an Intel salesman, selling all his INTC stock :-)

Â*Â*Â* Paul


Well I have been using Intel CPUs for about 24 years and was and still
am quite happy with them, This was more of a bang for your buck thing
and my less than former demands, so figured I would give AMD a whirl.
BTW in my previous quote I stated 1600 MHz memory, That was a senior
moment error, it is 3200 MHz memory. :-)

Rene