*** AMD ThreadRipper ***

[Panos]

I kinda feel sorry for the motherboard manufacturers, from kabylake to coffeelake they've had like 9 new different chipsets that's they've had to design and build over the last 9 months. Must be a nightmare.

I agree.

5 motherboards + 2 inc (Prime, Strixx) on a TR4 socket/ X399 platform
39 AM4 boards of various chipsets
24+ (many coming) X299 boards in the mean time, with all of them having to support CPUs announced just as they had them on display, and caught the manufacturers by surprise (their words from Computex).
52 (+ 1 Extreme with monoblock) for Z270, a dead platform.
And possibly another 20+ for Cabylake just on release day.

 

[8 Pack]

Yeah it's put extreme pressure on resources at even the biggest vendors.

 

[roysters]

So can i use my existing corsair vengeance 3200 dual channel 2x8GB memory kit on this threadripper? Or do i have to buy a new quad channel kit? just trying to make a budget and seeing what i can reuse.

 

[humbug]

So can i use my existing corsair vengeance 3200 dual channel 2x8GB memory kit on this threadripper? Or do i have to buy a new quad channel kit? just trying to make a budget and seeing what i can reuse.

If you get another 2x8GB to make 4x8GB yes, they have to be the same brand and model tho, or at least when mixing kits its best practice to get the same ones.

 

[roysters]

ah ok! so makes sense to get another dual 2x8 opposed to a new quad 16GB

 

[humbug]

ah ok! so makes sense to get another dual 2x8 opposed to a new quad 16GB

If you already have 2x8Gb DDR4 yes, if you buy new Quad Channel 32GB kit you will get 4 modules anyway and at a cost of < £400, if you already have half of that you save < £200.

Quad Channel = 4 modules, Dual = 2

 

[awaybreaktoday]

Average Joe with sample brought from a computer shop https://www.twitch.tv/videos/166323219 from 1hr 20mins, 4.0GHz 1.3875 volts, Temps underload 71C.....

 

[SupraWez]

Has anyone tried running VMWare ESXi on it yet

 

[Panos]

I wonder if we going to see the likes of the Asus X399 TUF or EVGA ever going to release a X399 boar. Especially the X299 Dark is very sexy one, begging you to buy it....

 

[Burr]

It'd be cool to see EVGA release an AMD motherboard but i have a feeling it won't happen, certainly not anytime soon. EVGA are too much in bed with Nvidia.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

FYI - been benching my 4770k in prep for Threadripper build - found that my 4770k @ 4.4ghz scores 168 in single thread Cinibenech R15. 1950x in Anandtechs review scores 167 - essentially same single thread perf as a 4.4ghz 4770k - so certainly no slouch when it comes to single threaded perf.

 

[gavinh87]

FYI - been benching my 4770k in prep for Threadripper build - found that my 4770k @ 4.4ghz scores 168 in single thread Cinibenech R15. 1950x in Anandtechs review scores 167 - essentially same single thread perf as a 4.4ghz 4770k - so certainly no slouch when it comes to single threaded perf.

Thats good to know, I hit 163 on ryzen [email protected]. But ryzen is **** for gaming

 

[Panos]

Thats good to know, I hit 163 on ryzen [email protected]. But ryzen is **** for gaming

If you use AMD GPU is fine, and everything scales nicely. if you use NV CPU, pray for them to fix the drivers. (same issue SkylakeX has).

 

[Deleted member 66701]

If you use AMD GPU is fine, and everything scales nicely. if you use NV CPU, pray for them to fix the drivers. (same issue SkylakeX has).

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

 

[Panos]

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Since the Vega FE video isn't enough for you , we could argue until Monday, but leaving it there. Just 48 hours

 

[gavinh87]

If you use AMD GPU is fine, and everything scales nicely. if you use NV CPU, pray for them to fix the drivers. (same issue SkylakeX has).

Not seeing an issue tbh

It seems to be a tombraider problem more than anything.
IF there is a problem, its kind of hard to prove at the moment giving that AMD doesn't have any fast graphics cards.
Perhaps when vega gets released we can dig deeper.

Watching part 2, it seems that its the 480 that has issues with ryzen lol.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

IF there is a problem, its kind of hard to prove at the moment giving that AMD doesn't have any fast graphics cards.

And probably wont on Monday either!

 

[gavinh87]

Shots fired!
I'm thinking a £999 for 1080 performance :/

 

[Panos]

Not seeing an issue tbh

It seems to be a tombraider problem more than anything.
IF there is a problem, its kind of hard to prove at the moment giving that AMD doesn't have any fast graphics cards.
Perhaps when vega gets released we can dig deeper.

Watching part 2, it seems that its the 480 that has issues with ryzen lol.

These are from APRIL. A lot of water has gone through the Ryzen motherboard & ram optimisation since.

Look closely the per core CPU usage on the 1080 & Vega FE, on the 7700K @ 4.5Ghz.
You will see that most of the time the 1080 is using 1 core pretty heavily, while the Vega spreads usage more evenly.
Fps is the same between Vega FE and 1080 and both working at 100%. Consider how the performance is hit when you have 4Ghz ryzen there.

 

[gavinh87]

These are from APRIL. A lot of water has gone through the Ryzen motherboard & ram optimisation since.

Look closely the per core CPU usage on the 1080 & Vega FE, on the 7700K @ 4.5Ghz.
You will see that most of the time the 1080 is using 1 core pretty heavily, while the Vega spreads usage more evenly.
Fps is the same between Vega FE and 1080 and both working at 100%. Consider how the performance is hit when you have 4Ghz ryzen there.

We spoke about this the other day https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31045286/
1 game isn't enough to draw a conclusion.