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

It's alive!.... Maybe.

Woke up far too early to get this sorted before work.

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Haha, good question. Luckily I gave myself a few hours to sleep while the custom loop got the air bubbles out.

I'm booting in windows now and everything seems fine. Not sure if I want to bother OCing yet until a few more bios revisions.
 
jigger said:
The best chips seem to hit 4.2Ghz. Those all seem to be 1800X chips.
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Was thinking they would do more with water cooling and maybe they will in a month or so with better bios's?

If I was upgrading I would definitely go for a good mobo a 1700. Seems to be best bet.
 
TwsT said:
Realbench seems to be the botty kicker for power draw and heat production,

Cinebench has thrown up consistent errors too as it does use all 16 threads
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I'm not sure what other tests one could run for consistent results. Cinebench shouldn't be that taxing. (in the sense of pass / fail)

Relentless81 said:
all those ocing the 1700 have you been monitoring vrm temps? On am3 the cpu could be pushed but it was the vrms that got too hot
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Having active airflow on the VRM area is probably a good idea.
 
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Can someone please link me to the best/latest BIOS for Asus CH6? I have to board arriving today.

I can see 5704 on the site. But wondered if there was a Beta anywhere?

Edit: oh, that is Beta. Nevermind!
 
Rossi~ said:
Can someone please link me to the best/latest BIOS for Asus CH6? I have to board arriving today.

I can see 5704 on the site. But wondered if there was a Beta anywhere?

Edit: oh, that is Beta. Nevermind!
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Another one is gonna be released this week, that will stop bricking the board and which improve 2x16gb memory
 
haszek said:
Another one is gonna be released this week, that will stop bricking the board and which improve 2x16gb memory
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That's good to know. I have 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance. I am receiving 2x8Gb shortly in the meantime.
Interesting as to what they do to improve 2x16GB, because the issue is likely the dual rank, so would assume it'll solve more issues.
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Gaming 5 review up, but waiting for the k7 :(

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/gigabyte_x370_aorus_gaming_5_aorus_review/3
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From that article
DDR4 performance is greatly improved up to an excellent 3200 MHz which just goes to show early restrictions were actually all bios related. The Memory speed was the on area we hoped that the manufacturers would find improvements in during the early days of the Zen architecture and Gigabyte are already giving air to our hopes. Once you break the 3000 MHz barrier there are lots of performance benefits to be found and it's probably the sweet spot between raw speed and entry cost.[/QUOTE said:
Again AMD too fast out the gate to let reviewers test these.
Looks promising though.
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Couple of questions for those lucky enough to have had their delivery :)

a) Is the platform stable other than having a few ram issues at the minute? AMD haven't always been the best when it has come to drivers.
b) Does the cpu underclock itself when idle as intel chips do when you have an overclock set? I know overclocking disables xfr but I was wondering if it affected the down clocking too.
 
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