Sales from MindFactory:

Great to see AMD is getting in some money in!
I personally bought 2x Ryzen 1700 this month.

I'm likely gonna sell my 6700k and get an 8700k, but hell yeah competition.

now only if developers quit being lazy and start using more cores

As a game developer, a lot of users ask questions on how to utilize more cpus in the client engine, or a back send server

it's really happening

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Oct 3 2017 02:25pm

You are not a game developer, fanboi xD

Lol

Yeah, I am actually

but I mean, you can put down people all you want I don't care, lol

all I am saying is in the game dev world, increase of using threads and more cores is a common question asked

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Oct 3 2017 03:41pm

games have it extra hard because no matter how you split the workload one thread is always going to be the bottleneck, and depending on the situation the thread holding the others back could change. Like with Stellaris, the thread that makes draw calls might be the bottleneck early in a game but by the time you get to year 100+ the thread that handles AI is holding it back. Like how game logic always has to wait on physics and vice versa. Gets a lot more complicated the more threads you're trying to make a game use even though the amount of resources you have to work with increases linearly.

The quad core being mainstream era lasted an insane 9 years. Pretty funny when you consider the dual core age before it lasted only about 3. Despite that, look how long it took after the quad core chapter began for new games to properly utilize more than 2 cores. It was like half a decade into it before dual cores were struggling to perform. I think the quad cores we have now will stay relevant for quite some time because devs are gonna drag their ass on this.