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

[harney]

This was a serious question. People posting on forums pretending to know what their talking about doesn't count. Has this actually been mentioned by AMD or MS?

From what i have been reading r7zen performs better on 7 i am about to build and test a ryzen build later tonight and test 7 vs 10

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

OK,a mate is showing some interest in a R7 1700(not really for gaming though) and he won't overclock. What is a solid board for him say at £80 to £150 currently??

He might be running it at full load for a few days(or a week or so) at a time. A decent number of SATA ports would be useful.

 

[Zeed]

^ great achievement... Really force the last bit of performance from the Cpu lol

Hows Those Asrock motherboards looking ?? You had time to play about with them yet ??

I went asus due to... USB Ports..... Oculus rift with controllers and 3 cameras = 5 usb ports thats why i went with Asus with whole army of USB's

 

[teppic]

From what i have been reading r7zen performs better on 7 i am about to build and test a ryzen build later tonight and test 7 vs 10

It'd make sense if the scheduler isn't as buggy. Right now if you leave SMT on you get a performance drop from bugs, if you turn it off you lose a ton of potential performance.

 

[Panos]

It'd make sense if the scheduler isn't as buggy. Right now if you leave SMT on you get a performance drop from bugs, if you turn it off you lose a ton of potential performance.

On the Ryzen gaming thread in here, shows that Ryzen gets a hefty boost on gaming by up to 30% on windows 7 compared to 10.

When I have the stuff next week (waiting 8pack to give us some feedback on the Taichi), I will make an extensive benchmark list and differences. Since I am going to use 2 drivers each with different version of windows.
And also post benchmarks on speeds 3.9-4-4.1 regardless the power draw.
Since it is going straight away under the Predator 360

 

[Frozennova]

OK,a mate is showing some interest in a R7 1700(not really for gaming though) and he won't overclock. What is a solid board for him say at £80 to £150 currently??

He might be running it at full load for a few days(or a week or so) at a time. A decent number of SATA ports would be useful.

Not a single issue so far with my Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 (Only 6 SATA ports though)

 

[Relentless81]

Have we got a release date for the R5's yet? Not sure how much longer I can hold on!

 

[nemesisuk2]

Not a single issue so far with my Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 (Only 6 SATA ports though)

Bit disappointed I can't change vcore. I can see me going x370 in a few months.

 

[ben90]

Have we got a release date for the R5's yet? Not sure how much longer I can hold on!

Sometime in April.

 

[Frozennova]

Bit disappointed I can't change vcore. I can see me going x370 in a few months.

Yes you can change the vcore.

Edit: it also actually seems to be one of the better boards as far as ram support. Some people are struggling to run anything above 2133 yet this is happily doing 2666 at the moment

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Not a single issue so far with my Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 (Only 6 SATA ports though)

Thanks,I will put it on the list.

 

[nemesisuk2]

Yes you can change the vcore.

Edit: it also actually seems to be one of the better boards as far as ram support. Some people are struggling to run anything above 2133 yet this is happily doing 2666 at the moment

How odd, I can't find Vcore in the bios. Isn't under MIT voltages

 

[triss]

Have we got a release date for the R5's yet? Not sure how much longer I can hold on!

Just get a R7 if your in a hurry

 

[Panos]

I am not using fixed volts for my OC, I dont like to

Have you managed to push the 1700 at 4.1? How much voltage it needed?
Also I do not remember your Ram and timings, could you please share them again?

 

[ultralaser]

A friend has mentioned (and he generally knows his stuff) that Ryzen has quite a few new instructions added to it's instruction set, which is why the performance isn't quite there yet. How much truth is there to that?

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A friend has mentioned (and he generally knows his stuff) that Ryzen has quite a few new instructions added to it's instruction set, which is why the performance isn't quite there yet. How much truth is there to that?

Probably - lets hope AMD starts poking the devs then!!

 

[harney]

OK,a mate is showing some interest in a R7 1700(not really for gaming though) and he won't overclock. What is a solid board for him say at £80 to £150 currently??

He might be running it at full load for a few days(or a week or so) at a time. A decent number of SATA ports would be useful.

Hearing good things re MSI tomahawk ...problem not so many sata's

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Hearing good things re MSI tomahawk ...problem not so many sata's

Thanks - another one to the list.

It probably is being run mostly under Linux BTW,only Windows for a bit of light gaming.

 

[harney]

Thanks - another one to the list.

It probably is being run mostly under Linux BTW,only Windows for a bit of light gaming.

Been seeing great results on other threads with the tomahawk and scramz on here is doing well with it too .....

Is it possible to use a pcix sata card with the ryzen to add more

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Been seeing great results on other threads with the tomahawk and scramz on here is doing well with it too .....

Is it possible to use a pcix sata card with the ryzen to add more

It will be all run at stock since its bioinformatics type stuff,which runs for days at a time,maybe longer.

Although its not really required,do any motherboards support ECC memory,as IIRC the Ryzen IMC does support it(I think)?? If it doesn't its not a biggie since it is silly money anyway.