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

DragonQ said:
£88 for the cheapest B350 is a bit disappointing considering the cheapest Z270s are £115. Was expecting more like £60, especially considering Ryzen is more SoC-like than even Kaby Lake.
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True,but the B350 can be used for overclocking unlike the B250 motherboards.

You need to realise the B350 is equivalent to the 970 series on AM3+ and the decentish ones at launch on AM3+ were more like £70 to £80ish when we had better exchange rates.
 
I was going to order the asus ROG crosshair motherboard but i received my Noctua NM-AM4 fitting kit to use with my noctua nh-d15s but looking at the kit, i dont think it will fit around the cpu socket correctly, there are some capacitors very close to the cpu socket and i think it will interfere with the fitting kit.
 
Found interesting important information from other forum warned about Ryzen very poor OC on both air and water coolers.

https://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1661545&page=7&p=19805500#post19805500

Also found this pic of Ryzen 1800X with all 8 cores on LN2 reached 5.1GHz at 1.853V from Austin Evans on youtube but it was removed so I found a mirror. http://mirror.ninja/5vixv8

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Well 5.1GHz on LN2 at very high voltage is not very impressed, I would suggest you to put off or cancel pre-order until official reviews or you would regret sold off your good CPUs like 6700K, 7700K etc after bought a Ryzen CPU and found it cant OC at very low voltage on both air and water coolers!
 
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