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Here is factorio and dwarf fortress:

These look like problems for the CCD prioritisting. The 5800x3d is handedly beating it.

Update from the reviewer in the comments: That’s why I did a side test with Factorio on the CCD with V-Cache, which, as expected, boosted performance by nearly double.

1769

Unless Windows itself adds a feature to sort scheduling to individual CCDs per application, I’m definitely going with the 7800X3D after these results. But it would be awesome if that happened. It would be like having a dedicated streaming box right there on the same PC.

1770

I timed it, and my AM5 on a reboot, took 27 seconds from the time the screen went dark on the way down until I was back at the Win 11 login prompt.

Most of that page is just having you eyeball stuff that will already be enabled if you’ve installed the latest drivers and Windows updates.

For anyone that is an early adopter on a 7000X3D chip, here’s the official AMD blog page about prepping your system:

How To Set Up Your System with A New AMD Ryzen™ 9 … - AMD Community

TLDR: Download the latest motherboard BIOS, download the latest AMD chipset drivers, update Windows, and ensure the Xbox game bar is up-to-date in the Microsoft Store.

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O:

That is nearly IDE HDD kinda boot time! Wild. And not in a good way. Is there some technical reason for this?

1772

AMD did drop a new chipset driver yesterday.

1773

LOL, I’m out of the loop, as I don’t go around booting other folks’ gaming computers, but seems fine to me. Booting under 30 seconds for the occasional boot isn’t something I’m losing sleep over and not appreciably different from the Intel 12700K boot times I had previously on the same WD Black NVME drive, but I suppose there are faster boot times to be had.

1774

My AM4 takes15s to cold boot but closer to 30s from clicking restart.

1775

I read the other day that cold boots aren’t cold anymore, Windows kinda half-hybernates (the OS part, not the apps) when you shut it down. That’s why restarts are now slower, because the OS actually restarts for real in that case.

1776

Wait, you have to restart to reboot because reboot only does a restart? That’s some logic there.

1777

Actually, you have to reboot to get a clean shutdown and start, because shutdown just puts it into deep sleep. It’s crazy.

1778

You can turn “fast startup” off in Windows 10:

Hybrid sleep/“fast startup” caused a lot of problems for me and other people, like slow boot or not booting at all, magically disappear after a full restart.

1779

Nice deal if you’re looking to build a budget machine. 5600X half-off at Amazon. $150.

1780

Ahhh, thanks for the link. I’ve always had hibernation disabled, so I don’t think I’m affected by Fast Startup. Unless it stealth runs and you just can’t toggle it without turning hibernate back on. So strange.

1781

Well, I gave up on waiting for an affordable GPU and just went ahead with the rest of my upgrade(am hoping Visual Studio and the rest of my dev setup will benefit greatly). Ryzen 7700X, 32gb ddr5, 2tb WD Black. I guess I hadn’t realized how sluggish my old setup had become as it’s very noticeable to me how much snappier Windows feels now. Boot up is pretty fast too so I don’t think there is any reason for me to move Windows over to the newer nvme drive.

Where are people at on upgrading to Windows 11 being worth it? My old setup had TPM but the CPU was still a generation too old to be compatible with Win11.

1782

If you have a HDR display, Win11 has better support for it. Other than that, from my POV it’s just Windows. I have a Win10 and a Win11 machine and I often forget which OS I’m on.

1783

Thanks, I do have a monitor that’s technically HDR but never gets used in HDR mode because of how much of a pain that is in Win10. I think I’ll upgrade for that alone.

1784

There’s not much reason to upgrade from Windows 10 for now.

1785

We have a new gaming CPU champ.

1786

Seems like a winner.

AMD’s 7800X3D has impressed me a lot. At $449, it offers some of the best PC gaming performance you can find right now, while delivering it in a package that consumes a lot less power than Intel’s equivalents. It’s so impressive that I think it should be most people’s next gaming PC CPU.

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I’ve had a $300 5800X3D in my cart at Microcenter forever, but my eco-mode 5600X seems to be just cruising along still.

I also can’t be bothered futzing about with the case and cooler etc :)