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is also fine imho.
I had a 2600 and it worked like a charm.
I think of the Zen1+ the cheapest might be the 2300X.
Problem is that those CPUs were such a bargain for what they offer on gaming, that scalpers deplenished all the stock, they are nowhere to be seen at MSRP, that was a less 100 usd CPU in the past.
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But it can also depends on motherboards of course. You can go from Zen 1 to Zen+ without changing one, but for Zen 3 you might need a new one depending on the chipset.
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That's why, in my case, I jumped directly from a 2600 to a 5600X.
And even then, at 1440p or 4K there's no difference between the two.
Last edited by Koopacabras on 25 October 2021 at 6:37 pm UTC
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I think towards the end I was running slightly tuned-up voltages and the C-states disabled and it was able to keep Blender and heavy compilation workloads running without crashing. I did have some other crashes, but those may have been due to my GPU having an overheating problem at the time, so it's hard to say for sure whether the CPU was being fully stable.
Also you definetely need the newest bios you can get, because afaik this problem was patched at firmware level of the cpu microcode.
Also I would rather recommend running at least kernel 5.8 or newer.
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I'm not sure but the motherboard could also well be part of the problem. It took countless BIOS updates to make it operate somewhat reliable- and it still acts weird from time to time.
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