<story><title>AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/263110-amd-triumphantly-returns-full-year-profitability-forecasts-strong-2018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soulnothing</author><text>Another Ryzen owner here. I came from mobile 2nd and 3rd gen i7s.&lt;p&gt;The price to performance is insanely good. I&amp;#x27;m on an x370 desktop, with 2xrx550 and rx560. I&amp;#x27;m using it as a virt&amp;#x2F;dev host. I have 16 docker instances running on the host os (Arch Linux).&lt;p&gt;Then 3 vms with PCI pass through. One for windows gaming&amp;#x2F;development. Until about three weeks back I was getting a solid 60fps @ 1080p on high across most games, but recently it&amp;#x27;s been down below 10fps. The next VM is a Linux developer desktop. Lastly, an emulator box connected to a projector away from my desk.&lt;p&gt;To switch between I just have dongles, 1xhdmi and 1xusb, behind my keyboard, and alternate the plugs. I did this because I couldn&amp;#x27;t find a good hdmi kvm that did 4k above 60hz.&lt;p&gt;This year has really been amazing for enthusiasts.</text></item><item><author>xedarius</author><text>I recently bought a Ryzen. I was moving from a mac to a pc and I hadn&amp;#x27;t owned a pc in over 10 years. Thing is, 10 years ago my pc had 4 cores .. and at the time of choosing Ryzen it was the only consumer processor (with a reasonable price tag) that was offering more cores.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very pleased, my Ryzen is fast and stable, I&amp;#x27;m glad the company is reaping the rewards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>Why has the framerate dropped so much?</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/263110-amd-triumphantly-returns-full-year-profitability-forecasts-strong-2018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soulnothing</author><text>Another Ryzen owner here. I came from mobile 2nd and 3rd gen i7s.&lt;p&gt;The price to performance is insanely good. I&amp;#x27;m on an x370 desktop, with 2xrx550 and rx560. I&amp;#x27;m using it as a virt&amp;#x2F;dev host. I have 16 docker instances running on the host os (Arch Linux).&lt;p&gt;Then 3 vms with PCI pass through. One for windows gaming&amp;#x2F;development. Until about three weeks back I was getting a solid 60fps @ 1080p on high across most games, but recently it&amp;#x27;s been down below 10fps. The next VM is a Linux developer desktop. Lastly, an emulator box connected to a projector away from my desk.&lt;p&gt;To switch between I just have dongles, 1xhdmi and 1xusb, behind my keyboard, and alternate the plugs. I did this because I couldn&amp;#x27;t find a good hdmi kvm that did 4k above 60hz.&lt;p&gt;This year has really been amazing for enthusiasts.</text></item><item><author>xedarius</author><text>I recently bought a Ryzen. I was moving from a mac to a pc and I hadn&amp;#x27;t owned a pc in over 10 years. Thing is, 10 years ago my pc had 4 cores .. and at the time of choosing Ryzen it was the only consumer processor (with a reasonable price tag) that was offering more cores.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very pleased, my Ryzen is fast and stable, I&amp;#x27;m glad the company is reaping the rewards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usernam33</author><text>Sounds like an awesome setup :)
How much load does your cpu have running so many containers and vm&amp;#x27;s?
I have heard of software solutions for io switching.
So you could get rid of usb switching.&lt;p&gt;I run an Arch host with passthrough myself but it was really a long project setting everything up just right. Especially for gaming.&lt;p&gt;Really looking forward to buying a Ryzen or Threadripper to go further and virtualize my working enviroment etc.</text></comment>