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

[Legend]

They do if you understand the context, but not for this platform yet.

You have a custom loop on a BWE system, I'd expect you would have experienced how better cooling can aid overclocking. (Lovely build btw)

Yes, custom loops as I mentioned are a league unto their own. You'll absolutely see better performance with that kind of set up, even with a single 360 rad. I'm talking about AIOs, not custom loops, vs air coolers.

 

[Mercutio]

and yeah... full custom is the way one day There's space for a 480x240 mm radiator with a bit of re-jigging

 

[Fire_fly]

The phanteks I got is decent and comes in great colours. Any one know if it works on am4?

Details about it are in the AM4 cooler thread. You need to send off proof of purchase for both the cooler and the CPU to Phanteks and they will send you out the new mounting brackets.

 

[eyetrip]

Well, already ordered 32gb of 2400 ddr4 so guess I have made up my mind and will get a 1700 and an Asus prime pro.

And with luck the only thing I may change in next few years is upgrade cpu to one of the future ryzens and get Nvme ssd when 1tb is needed by me.

Oh, and a gpu upgrade some time down the line.

Came close to ordering 6800k little while back, but glad waited.

 

[h4rm0ny]

*Eyes the emergency break lever on the hype train*

You know that's just for show, right? It used to connect to something, but these days we just let Silent Scone pull on it for fun. No stops till the 1st of March now.

Its starting to sound like these things don't really overclock at all, unless on Asus Crosshair or similar £250+ boards and even then only by about 5%, make you wonder why they are even unlocked, its a starting to look like yet another AMD gone wrong somewhere major, they should have saved themselves yet another label of that sort and humiliation and just locked them all, for now.

So much evaluation based on overclocking. Yes, I know the name of the forum but I still don't get people who think a CPU line is awful if it doesn't overclock by whopping amounts. Overclocking came about back in the day because chip quality was so irregular that Intel and AMD had to be very conservative with what they clocked their chips officially and there was a lot of opportunity to get lucky and crank up the speed by 25%. These days half the time it's marketing with Intel charging you extra just to crank the speed up to where they know it can reach, anyway. Chip makers are able to get near the potential of the chip more consistently now. I get the impression some people are happier if chip makers deliberately underclock chips just so that they can feel they've got a bargain. It's a brand new architecture with apparently excellent IPC and 8c/16t. I thought it would come in around 3.3GHz. We should all be blown away it's doing 4GHz, imo. Not saying things like "AMD gone wrong somewhere major". I recall you were like this with Polaris as well - another chip that did what it set out to achieve and at a competitive price but before it came out you were hyping it up to ridiculous levels and then angry and disappointed afterwards.

Everything we are seeing (bar some reports of slight shakiness in the lower-tier chipset) is suggesting Ryzen is a triumph. But it's not going to butter your scones for you.

 

[h4rm0ny]

Mine runs at 20 GHz stable...

I got to 23GHz, but I have to turn the plug socket on and off very fast.

 

[PiKe]

I haven't been following Ryzen for long as forgive me for not reading the previous 451 pages but what is the point of the 1700? The i7 7700 is a tenner more but appears to have better single threaded performance, all I keep seeing is cinebench results being banded around because of the multicore performance but games will not be written to take advantage of 8 does let alone 16 threads.

 

[labbby]

I haven't been following Ryzen for long as forgive me for not reading the previous 451 pages but what is the point of the 1700? The i7 7700 is a tenner more but appears to have better single threaded performance, all I keep seeing is cinebench results being banded around because of the multicore performance but games will not be written to take advantage of 8 does let alone 16 threads.

Dx12 and vulkan are geared to take advantage of more cores.......

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I haven't been following Ryzen for long as forgive me for not reading the previous 451 pages but what is the point of the 1700? The i7 7700 is a tenner more but appears to have better single threaded performance, all I keep seeing is cinebench results being banded around because of the multicore performance but games will not be written to take advantage of 8 does let alone 16 threads.

https://translate.google.co.uk/tran.../cpu-skalierung-kerne-spiele-test/&edit-text=

 

[harney]

But it's not going to butter your scones for you.

Well count me out then ...this is 2017 and would expect it to do that at least ..... tomorrows world said we would have flying cars all in the sky by now ......

 

[FrozenShivers]

I haven't been following Ryzen for long as forgive me for not reading the previous 451 pages but what is the point of the 1700? The i7 7700 is a tenner more but appears to have better single threaded performance, all I keep seeing is cinebench results being banded around because of the multicore performance but games will not be written to take advantage of 8 does let alone 16 threads.

Some people do more than game.

 

[humbug]

You know that's just for show, right? It used to connect to something, but these days we just let Silent Scone pull on it for fun. No stops till the 1st of March now.



So much evaluation based on overclocking. Yes, I know the name of the forum but I still don't get people who think a CPU line is awful if it doesn't overclock by whopping amounts. Overclocking came about back in the day because chip quality was so irregular that Intel and AMD had to be very conservative with what they clocked their chips officially and there was a lot of opportunity to get lucky and crank up the speed by 25%. These days half the time it's marketing with Intel charging you extra just to crank the speed up to where they know it can reach, anyway. Chip makers are able to get near the potential of the chip more consistently now. I get the impression some people are happier if chip makers deliberately underclock chips just so that they can feel they've got a bargain. It's a brand new architecture with apparently excellent IPC and 8c/16t. I thought it would come in around 3.3GHz. We should all be blown away it's doing 4GHz, imo. Not saying things like "AMD gone wrong somewhere major". I recall you were like this with Polaris as well - another chip that did what it set out to achieve and at a competitive price but before it came out you were hyping it up to ridiculous levels and then angry and disappointed afterwards.

Everything we are seeing (bar some reports of slight shakiness in the lower-tier chipset) is suggesting Ryzen is a triumph. But it's not going to butter your scones for you.

My Disappointment with Polaris had nothing to do with overclocking, its the fact that its the third GPU from AMD which sits in the same price and performance bracket, actually the 390X is faster.

I had assumed after some years that AMD had made a competitive GPU again, turned out they actually slipped backwards.

 

[flopper]

I haven't been following Ryzen for long as forgive me for not reading the previous 451 pages but what is the point of the 1700? The i7 7700 is a tenner more but appears to have better single threaded performance, all I keep seeing is cinebench results being banded around because of the multicore performance but games will not be written to take advantage of 8 does let alone 16 threads.

In actual gaming practice, there wont be any perceived difference but anything else you may do, editing,streaming, utube etc..then more cores helps as AMD Ryzen allows you to build a powerful gaming and everything else PC for a unprecedented price performance ratio. Its why I await the 6c/12t version as it be perfect for my gaming and usage.

 

[MDPlatts]

Always used Thermalright for my Air Coolers - still have the pure 100% Copper True in its box as the last of the kind I bought - all of 1900g

https://www.dvhardware.net/news/thermalright_ultra_120_true_copper_expr.jpg

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[Lokken86]

In actual gaming practice, there wont be any perceived difference but anything else you may do, editing,streaming, utube etc..then more cores helps as AMD Ryzen allows you to build a powerful gaming and everything else PC for a unprecedented price performance ratio. Its why I await the 6c/12t version as it be perfect for my gaming and usage.

Better just get the 8c 16t before the pound does down even more and you end up paying the same as a 1700 is on release day for that 6 core one

 

[h4rm0ny]

My Disappointment with Polaris had nothing to do with overclocking, its the fact that its the third GPU from AMD which sits in the same price and performance bracket, actually the 390X is faster.

I didn't say that your reaction to Polaris was due to overclocking, just that you were - against what many of us kept telling you - expecting it to be much more powerful than it was. And then when it turned out to be what AMD consistently portrayed it as (an efficient and capable mid-range card at a lower price point), you railed against it. You got tripped up by your own expectations that people had kept trying to save you from all along. AMD's high-end cards are Vega and are yet to come.

I had assumed after some years that AMD had made a competitive GPU again, turned out they actually slipped backwards.

Well I wont derail this thread by debating that here. Suffice to say I strongly disagree and if you do it to yourself all over again with Zen, don't say we didn't try.

RyZen seems to be an excellent chip - much better than most of us hoped a year ago. My own predictions were low 3GHz to 3.5GHz clocks and my chief worry was a poor IMC. Seems I was wrong on the clock speeds and I'm reserving judgement on memory performance till I see real reviews. (Though cautiously pleased to see Gibbo claiming capability up to 3200).

 

[hrockh]

really looking forward to thge release of this chip

 

[Hotwired]

Always used Thermalright for my Air Coolers - still have the pure 100% Copper True in its box as the last of the kind I bought - all of 1900g

https://www.dvhardware.net/news/thermalright_ultra_120_true_copper_expr.jpg

So it's just a copper paperweight now?

 

[flopper]

Better just get the 8c 16t before the pound does down even more and you end up paying the same as a 1700 is on release day for that 6 core one

I debated 8 or 6 but for my needs a 6 core fits perfectly.
I can wait and the cost wont be a factor at those price ranges.
Getting a Vega card along the way so have to fit the budget to

 

[xs2man]

I haven't been following Ryzen for long as forgive me for not reading the previous 451 pages but what is the point of the 1700? The i7 7700 is a tenner more but appears to have better single threaded performance, all I keep seeing is cinebench results being banded around because of the multicore performance but games will not be written to take advantage of 8 does let alone 16 threads.

There is really very little out there (that many people will use) that will still only use a single thread though. And what is out there, it looks to be marginal difference. I'd imagine most people do some sort of multi-tasking with their computers. Even gamers surely? And going forward, I expect most games to be built utilising more cores. We are already seeing it now. When I play GTAV (well every game really) on my 4770k I have HWMonitor on another screen so I can see how my system is coping on ultra settings. I noticed that it's the actual cores that take the punishment, not the threads. So even in a game that's a couple years old now, multi-core matter. And it's not going to go backwards in the future is it?