potustheplant

Isn't ryzen not recommended for transcoding? Plus, I've read that power efficiency isn't great. Mostly regarding idle power consumption.

First, that's your personal usecase. Second, they're very handy in some games were you have to select an area for example or when you're in desktop mode. I haven't used them that much either but they are useful.

Believe it or not, that minuscule fingerprint reader looking thing on the bottom right is a touchpad. I really don't know what they were thinking.

Yes, it did. It cost more and performed worse (in some cases 30% worse) than an i5 3470.

Fine for what? Youtube? That cpu had poor performance even when it was released.

Why would being an "fps fan" have anything to do with the performance of your system being decent or not? There are plenty of demanding games that aren't shooters.

60fps is the minimum for a fluid image so you don't have to be an "fps fan" to want that.

2080ti came out in late 2018 and is only 2 generations old. The 7700k came out in early 2017 so it's a bit older and I doubt you get actually "decent" fps in 4k or VR. Decent being 60+ at least.

since you’ll be lucky to get 200€ back if you sold the old machine.

Which is partly why I upgrade at least 1 component every 1.5/2 years. You can still sell the old part for a decent price. But, like you said, it's not for everyone. Some people might prefer to buy a console and use it until it's completely obsolete.

Not jealous at all, just disappointed I guess. I just can't congratulate a person that had the skill/luck/whatever to get 1M with a minimum effort and they then decide to drop out of a job that could actually contribute something to society to do the banal and functionally useless job full time. It's incredibly wasteful.

Also no, I wouldn't go for the "lucrative" route if I already have more than enough money.

Finally, I have several friends that are phd students and you don't have to be super smart to do that. You do need dedication though. But the same can be said for quite a few lines of work.

I know but if you had a Ryzen 1000 you could eventually upgrade to a Ryzen 5000. For example, I started with a 1600 that I then upgraded to a 3600 and finally a 5600.