Do we think "tray" AMD CPUs will be available at some point?

nomadd · 2 Aug 2019 at 09:14

Just watched the Tech Yes City YouTube video on the "Snowman" CPU cooler. Seems to get pretty good thermals and low noise - far better than the OOTB cooler for the 3600.

Anyone know what the score is on the AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs being available at some point in the future without the boxed cooler? Was thinking maybe they'd be £10-15 cheaper, pretty much covering the cost of a better cooler (or at least a decent chunk of it.)

Thoughts?

Skynet5 · 2 Aug 2019 at 09:26

I always just assumed with was just because it was a new release.

Were 1 and 2 series available OEM?

LePhuronn · 2 Aug 2019 at 13:26

Have AMD ever sold tray chips to the general public?

marms · 2 Aug 2019 at 13:39

LePhuronn said:
Have AMD ever sold tray chips to the general public?

They used to sell oem Thunderbird and Athlon XP chips but that was a long time ago.

Dave2150 · 2 Aug 2019 at 13:59

Better retail boxed as then no secret binning done. Sealed box is worth more than £10 imo.

Gibbo · 2 Aug 2019 at 16:17

Yes we stock them, but they are not for sale to consumers, we use them for system builds.

The saving is only around £10, no box and only 1yr warranty.

Skynet5 · 2 Aug 2019 at 17:01

Ah. Never knew this. Last amd I bought was the k2 3dnow lol

Jumper118 · 2 Aug 2019 at 23:06

Just buy retail and sell the cooler?

nomadd · 2 Aug 2019 at 23:15

Gibbo said:
Yes we stock them, but they are not for sale to consumers, we use them for system builds.

The saving is only around £10, no box and only 1yr warranty.

Oh, OK. Thanks for letting me know.

robfosters · 2 Aug 2019 at 23:16

What’s the point when you can sell the cooler for more than the price difference and get a full retail box and warranty?

nomadd · 2 Aug 2019 at 23:19

marms said:
They used to sell oem Thunderbird and Athlon XP chips but that was a long time ago.

It's OK, I've found them: https://web.archive.org/web/2001010...alog/online_catalogue_cpu_s_processors_6.html

Time for an upgrade.

robfosters · 2 Aug 2019 at 23:32

I had a Duron. Used to bang out Quake 3 arena a treat.

Panos · 3 Aug 2019 at 02:15

nomadd said:
Just watched the Tech Yes City YouTube video on the "Snowman" CPU cooler. Seems to get pretty good thermals and low noise - far better than the OOTB cooler for the 3600.

Anyone know what the score is on the AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs being available at some point in the future without the boxed cooler? Was thinking maybe they'd be £10-15 cheaper, pretty much covering the cost of a better cooler (or at least a decent chunk of it.)

Thoughts?

But why? The Wraith cooler is good enough and you do not need anything bigger, except if you have the 3900X.
The AMD cooler is superb, not the cheap crap.

marms · 3 Aug 2019 at 05:56

nomadd said:
It's OK, I've found them: https://web.archive.org/web/2001010...alog/online_catalogue_cpu_s_processors_6.html

Time for an upgrade.

That Duron 800mhz guaranteed to 1ghz was the cpu i used in the first pc i ever built.

Jamin280672 · 3 Aug 2019 at 07:14

marms said:
That Duron 800mhz guaranteed to 1ghz was the cpu i used in the first pc i ever built.

You must be fairly young then or left building your own PCs until later, slot 7 with a cyrix CPU was my first build, it was crap lol.

marms · 3 Aug 2019 at 07:31

Jamin280672 said:
You must be fairly young then or left building your own PCs until later, slot 7 with a cyrix CPU was my first build, it was crap lol.

I was just too busy drinking and partying when i was younger, my first pc was a P2 350mhz with 4gb hard drive, 64mb ram and 17" crt monitor for £1000 from the big pc chain, it's the only pre built pc i ever bought.

d_brennen · 3 Aug 2019 at 07:46

marms said:
That Duron 800mhz guaranteed to 1ghz was the cpu i used in the first pc i ever built.

700 for me, but it also hit 1000MHz give or take a couple no problem

nomadd · 3 Aug 2019 at 08:48

marms said:
I was just too busy drinking and partying when i was younger, my first pc was a P2 350mhz with 4gb hard drive, 64mb ram and 17" crt monitor for £1000 from the big pc chain, it's the only pre built pc i ever bought.

I'm just going to say: 6502 1.1MHz with 5KB RAM and a cassette drive and a TV.

You kids, you don't know you're born..

Jamin280672 · 3 Aug 2019 at 08:59

nomadd said:
I'm just going to say: 6502 1.1MHz with 5KB RAM and a cassette drive and a TV.

You kids, you don't know you're born..

Alright Grandad, just googled it, was that pre Apollo one ?

nomadd · 3 Aug 2019 at 10:10

Jamin280672 said:
Alright Grandad, just googled it, was that pre Apollo one ?

Apollo 1 computer cost millions - even back in the day. And it ran at a whopping 2MHz! I couldn't afford that kind of state-of-the-art.

To quote: "The [Apollo 1] computer's performance was comparable to the first generation of home computers from the late 1970s, such as the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET"

That's the kind of computing power we eventually got in affordable computers in the UK in the early '80s - so you weren't far off.