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

[Stephanie Peterson]

Looks like some of these chips are hitting power limiters, until thats resolved the overclocking and some actual stock benches will be lower.
Strong first showing though.

 

[MyBrainz]

what did I say about PBO killing processors with volts ??

This is why i do 4.2Ghz all core at 1.365v.. PBO i was seeing up to, and sometimes over 1.5v on my 2700X

I had tamed it a little bit after tweaking but was still around 1.45v, too high for me.

 

[azazl187]

Where are these Intel price drops then?...

 

[Rainmaker]

Taichi price is absurd, ordered CPU and Mobo elsewhere, shame on you OCUK

TaiChi is RRP here. The other place(s) are offering a chunky discount.

 

[LeMson]

In their video the 9900k still wins in pretty much all the games they tested. Unless a few quid matters not sure why you would get the 3900x over a 9900k for gaming. All rounder though it’s nice.

https://youtu.be/oDVUdpcKZMA?t=2060

Have a listen

 

[Boomstick777]

Went for 3700x, that performance vs it's power use is incredible. what beast these chips are !

 

[esoteric]

So I can breath easy knowing there are sensible motherboards priced around £200.

Think I'll sit on this for a few days for some breathing room, see how things go then make my choice. If I was hasty I would have ordered a 3700X and a Gigabyte Aorus Elite.

 

[muon]

TaiChi is RRP here. The other place(s) are offering a chunky discount.

The RRP is stupid compared to competing brands I think. So I can see why Asrock might have changed their price at the last second.

 

[Temi_D]

Ordered x570 Taichi and 3800x elsewhere, should get them tuesday gives me enough time to do some benchies on my current rig to compare, should be a decent uprade.

Where? The only other place I see the Taichi has it for pre-order

 

[subbytna]

Ryzen 5 3600 review

https://ithardware.pl/testyirecenzje/premierowy_test_amd_ryzen_5_3600_zen_na_trzecim_biegu-9706.html

Too hot, very poor overclock, 1.45V, used more power than 8C/16T 2700. Not very impressed.

A no name reviewer?

Jays2cents, pauls hardware, Linus, etc all say it's good.

 

[Boomstick777]

Now just need a decent leap in GPU's and my system will be complete xD

 

[Drollic]

The gaming x at sub £190 with 10+2 and aorus elite with 12+2 at sub £210 seem like very good value compared with higher end boards and especially when you consider overclocking doesn't seem to yield much.

 

[DragonQ]

So it is safe to say the BIOS is a piece of **** at the moment?

That's the price to be paid for architecture innovation I'm afraid. Same happened with X99 and Ryzen 1, but it should improve over the next month or two.

Rainforest can't even confirm if the CPUs will be available today or not, so ordered from here instead. Reviews look about what I expected so happy with that.

 

[RavenXXX2]

So, 7-3700X is on par with i9-9900K.



The power consumption is bad considering that 7nm is supposed to lower it, not to increase it..

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/18.html

I'm going by hardware unboxed numbers not crappy techpowerup where a 9900k use the same power as a 9600k lol.

 

[willhub]

Will the CPU increase in performance over the next few months? I'm wondering if I should go 2700x and another 16gb ram so I have 8 core 32gb setup especially for cities skylines. Would I come to regret it would I see cyberpunk running much better with 3700x? Or 2700x extra 16gb ram and in future new GPU?

 

[oweneades]

Tachi ordered, um elsewhere I am afraid.

 

[muon]

Will the CPU increase in performance over the next few months? I'm wondering if I should go 2700x and another 16gb ram so I have 8 core 32gb setup especially for cities skylines. Would I come to regret it would I see cyberpunk running much better with 3700x? Or 2700x extra 16gb ram and in future new GPU?

3700X is considerably faster than the 2700X. The price difference is £60? I don't think that is worth it.

 

[subbytna]

Also that £750 gigabyte x570 board is a disgrace price

 

[ChrisD.]

I still can't find the CPUs on the OcUK page but can on pretty much every competitors.

 

[mcast]

tl;dr
9900K 5% better in games
3900X better at everything else