Good to read. I'm interested to see what they'll do with these APU's in the future.
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OcUK Ryzen APU review thread
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Good to read. I'm interested to see what they'll do with these APU's in the future.
They are limited when it comes to FPS and very graphically intense stuff - but for strategy/indi games they are great.
I think they have a really awesome general desktop chip here. You couldn't choose Ryzen for a workstation PC before now unless it was high end enough to have a discrete card. Now you can and they are a very attractive proposition.
I think they have a really awesome general desktop chip here. You couldn't choose Ryzen for a workstation PC before now unless it was high end enough to have a discrete card. Now you can and they are a very attractive proposition.
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Great, just ordered the 2200, strix b350-f and a used x4 950 to flash bios if necessary, that will be returned.
Please tell us if the X4 950 was required or not!!
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Will do. Hope it outputs 4k 60 chroma over HDMI.....
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Its not a bad little chip, £45 and keeps pace with a £60 G4560 in most games.
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Ok mobo came with updated bios. It might be going back because it can't run 4k 60 youtube content back smoothly, I mean WTF. The GPU decode is hitting 90+% and causing massive frame drops. Unless someone can come up with a solution it's going back.
Drivers? Pretty sure all modern AMD GPUs (including the new Vega iGPUs) can decode that sort of stuff fine. My RX480 can do 2160p60 HEVC for sure. You might also try switching between VP9 and AVC/HEVC in YouTube's settings.
EDIT: Turns out Raven Ridge has a different video decoding engine to the discrete GPUs, which is less powerful. However, it should be able to handle what you're trying according to this:
EDIT: Turns out Raven Ridge has a different video decoding engine to the discrete GPUs, which is less powerful. However, it should be able to handle what you're trying according to this:
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OK gonna do a reinstall of windows and see how it goes.
Is this from OcUK?? What web browsers are you using??
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No Amazon and there was no sticker confirming raven ridge support. It's the same with all browsers but I think it's a bit better after installing fresh windows, around 80% use with 4K 60 video, forget 8K. The 1030 does it better but this is a tidy little package.
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Am also happy with R5 2400g, can play games at 1080P on mid to high settings, and it uses so little power and runs cool with cheap aio. Surpisnlgy quick CPU part in general. Keeps pace with all the quad core intel chips I have owned. For £149 surely this chip is a steal?
I do hope we get maybe a 6 core APU with better iGPU in the future, as I would like to bump up to higher settings etc in future games and really want to avoid the need to a DGPU from now on. AM really only playing 1 or 2 PC games atm so not a current concern. APU upgrade path would be great though.
Miners can have the DGPU's at the current prices thank you very much xD
I do hope we get maybe a 6 core APU with better iGPU in the future, as I would like to bump up to higher settings etc in future games and really want to avoid the need to a DGPU from now on. AM really only playing 1 or 2 PC games atm so not a current concern. APU upgrade path would be great though.
Miners can have the DGPU's at the current prices thank you very much xD
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Just fired up portal 2 and WTF, it only plays it maxed out at 4k no AA at 60+ FPS. It's a keeper. I got a dodgy cooler with mine, bearing has gone and it's as loud as ****. Good job the Noctua AM4 mount kit is landing tomorrow.
Ah,OK - it could be the drivers,so it would not surprise me when they launch newer ones things improve in that regard.
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What are people's thoughts on these for home server / NAS duties? (Bear with me!)
Main limitation I'm finding with non APU Ryzen is that to add a decent NIC and HBA/RAID controller you obviously can't use the main x16 PCIE slot, as building a completely headless system is a non starter for me at least...
but with APU Ryzen, even though there are less lanes you can at that point use what would have been the GPU slot for a PCIEx8 storage card, and still have a x4 slot free for faster networking (and still retain 1 M2 x4 and USB 3.1???)
Am I completely off on this? Does anyone knows if the is correct? Or are the APUs more limited? I notice they still have the Virtualisation features and ECC listed on the specs at least
Really don't want to go E3 Xeon if I can help it
Main limitation I'm finding with non APU Ryzen is that to add a decent NIC and HBA/RAID controller you obviously can't use the main x16 PCIE slot, as building a completely headless system is a non starter for me at least...
but with APU Ryzen, even though there are less lanes you can at that point use what would have been the GPU slot for a PCIEx8 storage card, and still have a x4 slot free for faster networking (and still retain 1 M2 x4 and USB 3.1???)
Am I completely off on this? Does anyone knows if the is correct? Or are the APUs more limited? I notice they still have the Virtualisation features and ECC listed on the specs at least
Really don't want to go E3 Xeon if I can help it
I added the Gamers Nexus review.
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What are people's thoughts on these for home server / NAS duties? (Bear with me!)
Main limitation I'm finding with non APU Ryzen is that to add a decent NIC and HBA/RAID controller you obviously can't use the main x16 PCIE slot, as building a completely headless system is a non starter for me at least...
but with APU Ryzen, even though there are less lanes you can at that point use what would have been the GPU slot for a PCIEx8 storage card, and still have a x4 slot free for faster networking (and still retain 1 M2 x4 and USB 3.1???)
Am I completely off on this? Does anyone knows if the is correct? Or are the APUs more limited? I notice they still have the Virtualisation features and ECC listed on the specs at least
Really don't want to go E3 Xeon if I can help it
Nah, that sounds like a winner. Sit it behind the TV and it can do media server duties too. Be a nice little low power setup too if done right.