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*** AMD "Zen" thread (inc AM4/APU discussion) ***

drunkenmaster said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rUndzpdo1I

Not really a fan of linus but he shows some stuff, you can skip past some of the waffle.

Default test the 1800x beats the 6900k comfortably in Cinebench at half the price, 1700 destroys the 6800k while $100 lower (without factoring in cheaper mobo), etc.

What will be most interesting now is overclocking and, he said X chips should overclock better but I'm not convinced, he shows at the end with BF1 comparison the 1700 non X boosting to 3.64Ghz, on a 65W tdp chip... that to me screams awesome potential with overclocking. I think he might mean, the X chips have XFR so might overclock better at stock?


XFR range was barely mentioned by him, he said 100Mhz more but it's unclear if that is the best you can expect on any cooling, or on stock cooling alone?

1700 for the price and potential binning for lower power usage to me is the chip I'd want. The others just seem too expensive to me, and anything less than 8 cores just isn't an upgrade from the 5820k, not really anyway.
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Agree i too am intrigued about the 1700
 
Was considering the 6 core like may others on here as it looked like the sweet spot price/performance-wise, but at £315 if the 1700 can perform up there with the other 2 higher parts with manual (non-XFR) overclocking then I may have to grab one!
 
So if they are gonna be put up today, is OCUK actually gonna be able to answer questions on the product they have listed and people pay for? ;)
 
DragonQ said:
DDR4 prices are probably what's going to deter me from upgrading tbh. It's getting silly now.
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Very saddening, speaking with Corsair and Kingston they are saying the trend is an uptrend for the whole year. :(

Sad times when we were offering 32GB kits six months ago for £80. :(
 
malachi said:
Might buy a 1700 for my 2nd gaming PC. Need to see the price of boards now. DDR4 Prices are on the up again :(
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Ah damn. It will be now that there will be more demand for it with Ryzen. I will wait until it comes down. I am not exactly in a rush to upgrade anyway. But really happy with this good news with Ryzen.
 
haszek said:
So if they are gonna be put up today, is OCUK actually gonna be able to answer questions on the product they have listed and people pay for? ;)
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We will not answer, we are a reseller and it could be seen as bias, as such now we take a neutral standpoint and will not recommend products or speak performance terms, you will have to wait for reviews which will be coming soon and many of them. :)
 
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