@ron What are you going for?

I am having my eye on that new amd processor the ryzen 5 1600

Nice, didn't know about that one.

Any particular complete machine with this you're looking at?

I always build my own

new mobo, new cpu, new ram

the rest is still good

OK

@ron But Ryzen 7 is available?!

It looks like the i7 7700K is much better value for money unless you actually need 12 cores though.

I have the i7-6850K 6 core at 3.6Ghz. That's pretty snappy as well 🙂

@edvin - with the move of

Field

to a

Pane

(vs.

Control

) - we no longer require

FieldSkin

as all of it's functionality is in

AbstractField

- correct?

450 euro's later I have a fully functional system again.

@edvin the price difference between the 5 1600 and the 7 1700 is quite big, I dont need that kind of power. (yet)

with the new mobo I can always easily swap it out

the poker came in an hour ago, typing on it now

I really like the brown switches quite natural feel for me

I decided to go for a new cabinet too

the old one was falling apart a bit after 12 years

@edvin here in the netherlands, the i7 ia almost 200 euro's more expensive and the mobo's are also way more expensive. the ryzen (according to all the benchmarks I have read lately) comes close to the performance in multicore, multithread processes and are only something like 10% slower in single thread because the clock speed is lower

so the choice for me was clear

middle of the road system for a good price

and I can re use most of the components I already had

@ron Wow, it came already? That's was pretty fast! Is it weird to access the arrow keys, pgup, pgdn etc?

@ron Yeah, middle of the road is good. I always pay a lot extra for the top range model, and end up with almost no noticable speed gain for day to day work.

I really love the sound of the browns on that particular keyboard.

it is something to get used to, I think I will for now only use this keyboard and take it to work and everything. It is nice and small will fit easily in the bag. I really like the switches on this one.

btw that ryzen 5 1600 does the same as your i7 6850

That's what I did in the beginning, just take it back and forth to work. If you get used to it and still love it, you could easily order another one, exactly the same design etc.

yeah that is my plan. It types so nice and I just have to figure out how to do the things like CTRL-F10 in an easy way