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AMD Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) - *** NO COMPETITOR HINTING ***

Resisted the upgrade bug for the 9xxx series Intel chips, not sure I'll manage it here.

Shout out to my 4790k though, maybe I remember wrong but I can't remember ever having such an easy decision of what to upgrade to.
 
NinjaCool said:
Give us some juicy reviews now!! :D
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I honestly wouldn't trust the accuracy of Day 1 reviews. There simply won't have been enough time to tinker with, and properly understand full functionality. I suspect that there'll still be some performance under the hood that can be extracted by someone will to take a deep dive.
That being said, I'm still expecting parity across a wide variety of games. It'll be interesting to pinpoint just what the bottlenecks are in some games that show a notable deficit or lead, and there are bound to be a few of each. For instance, we already know that in CS:GO it is the L3 cache rather than anything else that is most important for performance.
 
Drojman said:
Resisted the upgrade bug for the 9xxx series Intel chips, not sure I'll manage it here.

Shout out to my 4790k though, maybe I remember wrong but I can't remember ever having such an easy decision of what to upgrade to.
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Snap! Mine's been through multiple cases, delidded to get the temps down etc
As far as gaming went, people called me mad for spending £250 on a CPU! "Who needs all those threads?" "for gaming, an i5 is all you'll ever need"
How times change eh
 
carbide said:
Snap! Mine's been through multiple cases, delidded to get the temps down etc
As far as gaming went, people called me mad for spending £250 on a CPU! "Who needs all those threads?" "for gaming, an i5 is all you'll ever need"
How times change eh
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Double snap here.
4690k here.
I actually bought a 9900k from the states during the gouging, but when I saw I could flip it here for £150 profit I couldn't resist.
 
Interesting so far, 3600 which is the lowest in the stack, running on a b450 without the agesa to allow better settings, OC, PBO etc (non X though so probably won't have these) also on 2666mhz ram up against an 8700k @4.3 all core with same ram and they are pretty much neck and neck.

It kept to 65w also

Bides well for higher up the stack, and with all enhancements enabled etc, going to be interesting seeing the 3800x on an x570 and earlier motherboards, that's what I'm most interested in.
 
beany_bot said:
If we see parity today. You can be absolutely certain that ryzen will beat intel in ~6 months+.
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Will also be interesting to see if anyone dares to review against fully secured Intel chips, with all their security patches and fixes etc.

That 3600 review with rubbish ram was already looking good, can't wait to see proper reviews with x570 and all the boost enhancements on the higher end chips
 
TrM said:
4.7ghz is boost clock on 8700k



i bet people do run the very hot 8700k at 4.3ghz bad itx cases and low profile cpu coolers and full builds with bad coolers cant tame the 8700k beast at 4.7ghz:)
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Potatowithearsontheside said:
I honestly wouldn't trust the accuracy of Day 1 reviews. There simply won't have been enough time to tinker with, and properly understand full functionality. I suspect that there'll still be some performance under the hood that can be extracted by someone will to take a deep dive.
That being said, I'm still expecting parity across a wide variety of games. It'll be interesting to pinpoint just what the bottlenecks are in some games that show a notable deficit or lead, and there are bound to be a few of each. For instance, we already know that in CS:GO it is the L3 cache rather than anything else that is most important for performance.
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There will be very little if any memory testing, overclock testing etc
 
Grim5 said:
There will be very little if any memory testing, overclock testing etc
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Your statement probably only applies to older gen motherboards, I expect reviews with chips on x570 to show all enhancements in action, or atleast I hope they do

They will push x570 hard, so makes sense to show what the boards can bring out of the chips
 
carbide said:
Snap! Mine's been through multiple cases, delidded to get the temps down etc
As far as gaming went, people called me mad for spending £250 on a CPU! "Who needs all those threads?" "for gaming, an i5 is all you'll ever need"
How times change eh
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Yup, I went through a couple of cases trying to find the best. I'll probably stick with my current Corsair case though, might be time for some cable management though.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Will also be interesting to see if anyone dares to review against fully secured Intel chips, with all their security patches and fixes etc.
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The big game changer there is the word "dares". When i start to read the reviews latter today, unless a reviewer specifically says they are running a fully patched Intel system and comparing it against a Ryzen system running 1903, then that reviewers results are worthless.
I suspect most won't "dare", because they know full well the wrath of an angry Intel will drop on them like a ton of bricks.
 
kitfit1 said:
The big game changer there is the word "dares". When i start to read the reviews latter today, unless a reviewer specifically says they are running a fully patched Intel system and comparing it against a Ryzen system running 1903, then that reviewers results are worthless.
I suspect most won't "dare", because they know full well the wrath of an angry Intel will drop on them like a ton of bricks.
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Beware of TPU, then. :)
 
Do you guys install amd chipset drivers? I have a fresh install of windows 10 from a few weeks ago with just nvidia drivers and no other drivers installed and the reset just default Microsoft. Should I install the amd driver set?
 
beany_bot said:
If we see parity today. You can be absolutely certain that ryzen will beat intel in ~6 months+.
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SiDeards73 said:
Will also be interesting to see if anyone dares to review against fully secured Intel chips, with all their security patches and fixes etc.

That 3600 review with rubbish ram was already looking good, can't wait to see proper reviews with x570 and all the boost enhancements on the higher end chips
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Be interesting with end of year intel releasing 10 core .
As reps have mentioned end of year gets interesting , and then 7nm EUV Vs 10nm intel Q3

Hoping Ryzen comes strong today :D
 
Well I bought a Crosshair VII Hero last week in preparation for Zen 2, however yesterday my dad came over and gave me his rainforest staff discount code so I might actually go for an X570 board depending on the prices. According to 8Pack older gen boards have bugs and stuff at the moment so it might give me the excuse to jump ship. In work today but will be hitting F5 as soon as the clock hits 2PM. Hopefully OCUK has enough CPU stock to supply everyone :)
 
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