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

A friend recently got his new Ryzen 1600 rig, and within minutes of putting Windows 10 on it is getting
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT errors. Not overclocked, everything in BIOS looks correct.

Anyone know if this is likely to be faulty hardware, or just drivers?
 
OK,so just to check that the Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 and MSI Tomahawk B350 are the best two B350 motherboards still after the newest BIOS updates- doing a build list on a tight budget for a mate,and they only have a £80 to £100 budget for the motherboard. I expect they probably won't be overclocking - they were considering an R5 1500X,but I think an R5 1600 looks better(I might just see if I can get them to overclock though),even though it will push the budget. The card will be either a RX470 8GB or an RX480 4GB.

Also regarding RAM,they can only get 8GB now,so I the GSkill Trident 16GB 3200MHZ set gets a recommendation on here,are there any decent value 8GB sets?? I can get a 3000MHZ Corsair 8GB set for under £70 - the cheapest GSkill Trident 3200MHZ 8GB kit is nearly £100.
 
eddiew said:
A friend recently got his new Ryzen 1600 rig, and within minutes of putting Windows 10 on it is getting
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT errors. Not overclocked, everything in BIOS looks correct.

Anyone know if this is likely to be faulty hardware, or just drivers?
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http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2342759/fix-clock-watchdog-timeout-error.html

You should really keep this in a separate thread though as it isn't related specifically to ryzen, it can affect any system.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
OK,so just to check that the Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 and MSI Tomahawk B350 are the best two B350 motherboards still after the newest BIOS updates- doing a build list on a tight budget for a mate,and they only have a £80 to £100 budget for the motherboard. I expect they probably won't be overclocking - they were considering an R5 1500X,but I think an R5 1600 looks better(I might just see if I can get them to overclock though),even though it will push the budget. The card will be either a RX470 8GB or an RX480 4GB.

Also regarding RAM,they can only get 8GB now,so I the GSkill Trident 16GB 3200MHZ set gets a recommendation on here,are there any decent value 8GB sets?? I can get a 3000MHZ Corsair 8GB set for under £70 - the cheapest GSkill Trident 3200MHZ 8GB kit is nearly £100.
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If they are on a budget, get the cheaper ram and get the faster CPU/GPU.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I might just price up the option with a cheaper RAM,and then tell them the faster RAM which adds some more performance will cost X pounds more.
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The difference between RAM speed is not noticeable unless you run monitoring software or in benchmarks. I ran 4x8GB @1866 with my MSI b350 at first and games (Bf1, division) ran fine.
P.S - I have an MSI B350 Tomahawk in the mm;)
 
prjwebb said:
It doesn't appear to make a huge difference until you start playing cpu heavy games on a 1080ti at 1080p
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I can say i definitely notice the difference from 3200 to 2400. My 3200 has been sent back on an RMA and i miss it. Alt tabbing from games is slower, occasionally i get frame rate hits in overwatch and bf1 where it tanks for no apparent reason. It's like it cannot feed the CPU quick enough. Gtx 1070 playing 1080p 144hz.
 
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