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*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

My last machine was a 6 core 4960x clocked at 4.5ghz for everyday 247 use.

No more intel. Ive always been an AMD fanboy so any excuse to avoid the market hogger really lol.

I work with lots of vms, routing software etc so the cores will help.

Surely the 1700x at 4ghz can best my last machine?
 
zoomee said:
My last machine was a 6 core 4960x clocked at 4.5ghz for everyday 247 use.

No more intel. Ive always been an AMD fanboy so any excuse to avoid the market hogger really lol.

I work with lots of vms, routing software etc so the cores will help.

Surely the 1700x at 4ghz can best my last machine?
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1700X is a multi core monster. It's around X6950 performance for 1/5 of the price.
 
jigger said:
1700X is a multi core monster. It's around X6950 performance for 1/5 of the price.
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A bit of an exaggeration perhaps. It's more like a 6900k.
A 4ghz 1700x is doable if you are lucky. 3.9 is more of the norm. That said the difference from 3.7-4.0 ghz is minimal, ram is where the speed is.
 
gavinh87 said:
A bit of an exaggeration perhaps. It's more like a 6900k.
A 4ghz 1700x is doable if you are lucky. 3.9 is more of the norm. That said the difference from 3.7-4.0 ghz is minimal, ram is where the speed is.
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So totally accurate description then. Why undermine your own point in a single post?
 
jigger said:
So totally accurate description then. Why undermine your own point in a single post?
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I haven't undermined anything. Some people will want that 4.0ghz despite the small gains with the extra heat and voltage.
I'm actually running mine at 3.8 since 3.9 isn't worth it imo.
 
zoomee said:
My last machine was a 6 core 4960x clocked at 4.5ghz for everyday 247 use.

No more intel. Ive always been an AMD fanboy so any excuse to avoid the market hogger really lol.

I work with lots of vms, routing software etc so the cores will help.

Surely the 1700x at 4ghz can best my last machine?
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Go Ryzen 7 or Threadripper then, but be warned that IOMMU isn't exactly hassle free on either of those platforms yet. Ironically it works well on Intel's platforms.
But if AMD is a must, 1700X is a good choice and it seems to be priced quite alright nowadays, 4Ghz isn't assured, but 3.9Ghz shouldn't be difficult to get.
 
AndreiD said:
Go Ryzen 7 or Threadripper then, but be warned that IOMMU isn't exactly hassle free on either of those platforms yet. Ironically it works well on Intel's platforms.
But if AMD is a must, 1700X is a good choice and it seems to be priced quite alright nowadays, 4Ghz isn't assured, but 3.9Ghz shouldn't be difficult to get.
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GPU pass through works fine. The grouping can be a hassel if you have similar cards and depending on the board PCIE configuration of the motherboard.
 
nashathedog said:
No overclocking just stock, I try to run windows update and it goes from 0 to 100% and then starts again and goes to 100% then back to 0% then it ends up crashing.

I can't install Nvidia drivers either, They tell me it's not compatible with this version of Windows which I imagine is because Windows needs updating but I can't get it too update. I've been at it all day now so I might give up until tomorrow as it's driving me mad
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Try the following:
  1. Stop the Windows Update service
    • Start -> Run (Windows+R) services.msc
    • Find "Windows Update" service in the list and stop it (right click, then stop)
  2. Clean out the windows update garbage
    • Go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
    • delete all files in the "DataStore" and "Download" folders.
  3. Restart the "Windows Update" service (back to the services window and right click, then start)
Then try checking for updates again and see what happens - it clears all the crap out and seemed to work for me, when i had a recent windows update failure.

Definitely worth a try before resorting to a complete reinstall!
 
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