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No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On? (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For me, it's because:

  • I have a 5950X and it seems pointless to upgrade from there. Sure the new stuff is faster, but disproportionately so for the price. I would need to replace a bunch of components.
  • I recently upgraded to 128GB RAM, and it was cheaper to do that with DDR4
  • I've had 2 faulty Ryzen processors (1700X, then my first 5950X), and I've learned to wait until the kinks are ironed out.
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Out for curiosity, why do you need 128gb of ram?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    As of yet, I don't. But the idea is I eventually move my VM/container host back to my more powerful desktop machine. It also runs Gentoo, so now I can build everything in RAM, even large packages like Firefox, without having to close other programs.

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