Had my despatch email for both now
When did u pre order yours out of interest Alexp?
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When did u pre order yours out of interest Alexp?
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So to summarise things...
Reviews are all over the place, for Gaming and even for non gaming tasks
You need to run Windows in High Performance settings to make the most of the chip
SMT is a hinderance until its patched correctly in windows, Patch due in a month or something?
Motherboards are still being worked on
So once the above gets sorted, the chips would benefit from being re-benched, something most reviewers wont do for whatever reasons, AMD has another stain on its release history... seems history often repeats itself with AMD launches
But i maintain the performance is there, definitely, just need to be patient and wait for the fixes to unleash it.
Reviews are all over the place, for Gaming and even for non gaming tasks
You need to run Windows in High Performance settings to make the most of the chip
SMT is a hinderance until its patched correctly in windows, Patch due in a month or something?
Motherboards are still being worked on
So once the above gets sorted, the chips would benefit from being re-benched, something most reviewers wont do for whatever reasons, AMD has another stain on its release history... seems history often repeats itself with AMD launches
But i maintain the performance is there, definitely, just need to be patient and wait for the fixes to unleash it.
The thing is he plays a lot of FSX which is an ancient game and I'm worried he'll get terrible performance in it. Will have to think things through, can't believe AMD didn't have all these things sorted ahead of time.Hold... it has teething problems, some reviews are getting excellent gaming performance, IMO once all the issues are fixed that will be the reality of the CPU.
Still no despatch email here either
Got the same on order. called up to be told no more ROG boards. Tiny batch coming tomorrow and another batch early next week with hope of clearing pre-orders by mid next week.
Will be keeping my order with here though due to the 48 hour ASUS turn around warranty.
Thanks for the info, shame that you preorder a bundle and end up losing out.
So to summarise things...
Reviews are all over the place, for Gaming and even for non gaming tasks
You need to run Windows in High Performance settings to make the most of the chip
SMT is a hinderance until its patched correctly in windows, Patch due in a month or something?
Motherboards are still being worked on
So once the above gets sorted, the chips would benefit from being re-benched, something most reviewers wont do for whatever reasons, AMD has another stain on its release history... seems history often repeats itself with AMD launches
But i maintain the performance is there, definitely, just need to be patient and wait for the fixes to unleash it.
They have 2 more CPU launches coming, so there will be reviews and rebenches.
Yeah, the way I see it, there are bugs/issues/etc that can cause it to underperform, there is no bug/issue/etc I can think of that would cause it to outperform a 5GHz 7700K while running stock boost.
Chips look good and as bugs are ironed out will look even better, good work AMD.
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Will the 1700 be a good choice if you are not bothered about Gaming?
ergh.... I could find processors for sale.... but no motherboards.
Pretty rubbish showing on availability for this launch.
On the performance side, I think it's fine, so not disappointed in reviews really... just that it's not there to friggin buy
Pretty rubbish showing on availability for this launch.
On the performance side, I think it's fine, so not disappointed in reviews really... just that it's not there to friggin buy
Depends what you want to do with it.
For sure. Beats equivalently priced Intels in most productivity tasks. Only gaming looks a little dicky at the moment
Thanks dude. I'm pretty content though. I'm working really hard at the moment. Got Sunday off but actually I'll just be forced to chill now rather then tinker so its all good. I'm enjoying the anticipation very much.
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AMD knew before launch the windows drivers would not be there for another month,so that means things like windows power control,scheduling,etc is not optimised currently and then there is the SMT issue in games.
Yes very much so you have more options. If you want more just clock it up to 4ghz. If not leave at stock it comes with a fan. You could even reduce voltage a little and make more energy savings with it if you wanted.
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Think I'll wait a few weeks and see what MATX and ITX motherboards appear/get announced before making a decision.
Wise choice by then everything should be ironed out....I am too very interested in a good all round matx board