If you are bothered about looks, it's a fail. The spec is great though.
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*** AMD "Zen" thread (inc AM4/APU discussion) ***
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If you are bothered about looks, it's a fail. The spec is great though.
I believe you get LED bling with the 1700.
Soldato
My brain is starting to melt out of my ears trying to pick mobo & ram to go with my R600..!
I like the idea of X370 for better specced components such as vrm but I don't need crossfire & doubt I ever will. Also.. buying a motherboard that costs almost the same as the cpu? Seems to defeat the point of going for price/performance. And ram? - well just got to bite the bullet on that
I think I may just go with the tomahawk & some CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 (even though it will probably be hynix not b-die)
Mate will be doing a build with the MSI B350 Tomahawk and a R5 1600,so I will report back.
Thanks. A while back MSI announced some new boards & one of them was the B350 gaming carbon pro. Stock is starting to appear in the uk & buildzoid has good things to say about the vrms so might plump for this one. The new asus strix b350 looks nice to, no stock i can find yet though.
Caporegime
Caporegime
My bad... sorry
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I suspect that the big arrow is pure marketing and not supposed to be indicative of anything just yet. Perhaps I have been brainwashed by the Intel 'Tick' 'Tock' but I would be expecting a reasonably small IPC gain and MhZ gain to Zen+ as the platform matures without any major arch changes that would be needed to see anything more than modest IPC gain.
Of course that is complete guesswork!
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Obviously the flipside is also possible with the millions of chips out there and a completely new process we could see AMD identifying relatively small changes that create large improvements in efficiency that they can't fix with microcode updates and Zen+ could be the chip that takes AMD from being pretty close to parity with Intel to leaving them with egg on face.
I suspect that the big arrow is pure marketing and not supposed to be indicative of anything just yet. Perhaps I have been brainwashed by the Intel 'Tick' 'Tock' but I would be expecting a reasonably small IPC gain and MhZ gain to Zen+ as the platform matures without any major arch changes that would be needed to see anything more than modest IPC gain.Of course that is complete guesswork!
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Obviously the flipside is also possible with the millions of chips out there and a completely new process we could see AMD identifying relatively small changes that create large improvements in efficiency that they can't fix with microcode updates and Zen+ could be the chip that takes AMD from being pretty close to parity with Intel to leaving them with egg on face.
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Hey everyone, just got my rig running over the weekend with a 1800x and 16gb of trident z Rgb, got it running stable at 2933 but at 3200 just reboot cycles.
Got the cpu to 3.975, 4.00 is possible but i have to drop the memory speed in order to get it so I just settled for a happy compromise. My boards a gigabyte x370 gaming 5 and so far I couldn't be happier, ryzen has definitely thrown the cat among the pigeons
Got the cpu to 3.975, 4.00 is possible but i have to drop the memory speed in order to get it so I just settled for a happy compromise. My boards a gigabyte x370 gaming 5 and so far I couldn't be happier, ryzen has definitely thrown the cat among the pigeons
Soldato
Looks like the major new AGESA update will be out soon:
https://www.techpowerup.com/233106/amd-readies-ryzen-agesa-update-to-improve-ddr4-memory-support
Hopefully better DDR4 compatibility soon!!
https://www.techpowerup.com/233106/amd-readies-ryzen-agesa-update-to-improve-ddr4-memory-support
Hopefully better DDR4 compatibility soon!!
Soldato
Hey everyone, just got my rig running over the weekend with a 1800x and 16gb of trident z Rgb, got it running stable at 2933 but at 3200 just reboot cycles.
Got the cpu to 3.975, 4.00 is possible but i have to drop the memory speed in order to get it so I just settled for a happy compromise. My boards a gigabyte x370 gaming 5 and so far I couldn't be happier, ryzen has definitely thrown the cat among the pigeons
Don't be afraid on increasing RAM voltage. This new bios has borked my voltage requirements it seems. Before it was 1.35v now I need 1.45v but its solidly booting every single time like it was before this update.
Can't come quick enough!
Caporegime
If that was true I'd feel a bit gutted buying Zen as is.
But as above if that's over excavator then fair enough, but I thought they were already touting Zen as 40 over?
Caporegime
I've felt a little left behind on my Asus board, hope this comes out and improves things.
Have a weird problem if I try a restart sometimes it just won't post.
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Thanks ill try upping the voltage and see how it goes. As for the BIOS updates im hoping it will just be a case of install that and were all fine.
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Interesting about the latest NVidia driver causing stutter that is not present in the older driver, hopefully new driver will fix that.
That's over Excavator surely? Well the graph illustrates that.
Yup, that's a year old slide. AMD ended up exceeding that and getting a 52% increase.