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AMD have silently reduced the UK prices of the Ryzen 7 lineup

gavinh87 said:
But if a stock CPU can do it then why can't an overclocked one?
Me and others have had ryzen's pass realbench but fail when encoding videos
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This is the reason I run realbench h264 encoding at 30-40 runs to test stability as it falls down there before the RB stress test. Runs solid on everything else and not one crash from day dot.
 
Scramz said:
This is the reason I run realbench h264 encoding at 30-40 runs to test stability as it falls down there before the RB stress test. Runs solid on everything else and not one crash from day dot.
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Thats a fair method. People think realbench is good stability test, its not. I've had crashes in overwatch and bf1 but pass realbench for 8 hours.
 
gavinh87 said:
Thats a fair method. People think realbench is good stability test, its not. I've had crashes in overwatch and bf1 but pass realbench for 8 hours.
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That is the 'stress test', do 30-40 runs of the H264 encoding only, I find it pulls out more than the 'stress test'
 
gavinh87 said:
I've started using OCCT now. That and IBT are the ones that push it the most.
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They push harder because of AVX instructions but as 8Pack said, no need. Unless AVX is part of your heavy load, then it is pointless as its not really real world usage.

EDIT: My overclocks completed all aspects of Realbench that I performance and not had one crash since day dot with 24/7 use including gaming and VMs. If you use AVX then of course test for it, if not don't worry and enjoy your speeeeddddddd! :D
 
Scramz said:
They push harder because of AVX instructions but as 8Pack said, no need. Unless AVX is part of your heavy load, then it is pointless as its not really real world usage.

EDIT: My overclocks completed all aspects of Realbench that I performance and not had one crash since day dot with 24/7 use including gaming and VMs. If you use AVX then of course test for it, if not don't worry and enjoy your speeeeddddddd! :D
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Thats where we differ, I can pass realbench and aida stress for hours, but they quickly fail in bf1 and the like. If I can pass AVX tests then nothing will break it :)
 
gavinh87 said:
Thats where we differ, I can pass realbench and aida stress for hours, but they quickly fail in bf1 and the like. If I can pass AVX tests then nothing will break it :)
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I agree with Aida stress and Realbench stress test, they fail with gaming for me, but Realbench H264 encoding 30 runs doesn't, it falls over before the 'stress tests'. If it completed that, I add a very small .005v on top and its perfect. I have found this on all CPU's (5820k, 4790k, etc) I have used.

You have posted a fair bit about failing these tests at 3.9Ghz and personally I think your CPU should be performing better than that for gaming, give the h264 method a try, it might save you from more headaches. :D If not, you maybe just a little bit out of luck with the lottery. Unless there is something else falling over in the system.
 
I just want that RAM issue to be fixed, I have a nasty feeling that it's the IMC that struggles more than anything but I still think I can wait for Zen+ or Cannon Lake.
 
Doogles said:
I just want that RAM issue to be fixed, I have a nasty feeling that it's the IMC that struggles more than anything but I still think I can wait for Zen+ or Cannon Lake.
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There is hundreds hundred of supported RAM kits for AM4 platform on vendors websites, however, a lot of people don't check and purchased RAM blind and hope it works.

There is clearly as issue with RAM support but there is plenty ready to run as 3200Mhz.
 
Scramz said:
I agree with Aida stress and Realbench stress test, they fail with gaming for me, but Realbench H264 encoding 30 runs doesn't, it falls over before the 'stress tests'. If it completed that, I add a very small .005v on top and its perfect. I have found this on all CPU's (5820k, 4790k, etc) I have used.

You have posted a fair bit about failing these tests at 3.9Ghz and personally I think your CPU should be performing better than that for gaming, give the h264 method a try, it might save you from more headaches. :D If not, you maybe just a little bit out of luck with the lottery. Unless there is something else falling over in the system.
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You're right i have. But only to spread word that not all can do 3.9, at least not 100% as stable as a stock CPU can. There are numerous people over at ocn that have found the same.
For people looking to buy the 8pack kits are going to expect 3.9, except not all of them achieve stability at that speed.
 
8 Pack said:
It's the final stages of memory training not passing consistently on all dimms this^^

I agree leave price fix issues. Especially memory.
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Agree issues should be a focus but isn't that irrelevant given the CPU is not going to change more the boards and BIOS? So selling the chip is not connected to that, or I'm missing the point which wouldn't be the first time ;)
 
UK prices are dropping. Didn't think it was genuine before.

I'm not sure how much of that has to do with exchange rate going from 1.25 to 1.30 as well as taking reduced margin.
 
I noticed that too, its getting cheaper to even buy from other EU countries. All we need is DDR4 prices to come down.
 
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