*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

[Frozennova]

About time we had one of these to discuss benchmarks, overclocks and any issues people have found

I'll kick off with this little lot arriving this morning


AMD Ryzen R7 1700
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3
2x4GB Team Group Dark 3000mhz CL16

Box built everything and booted into windows to ensure everything was fine on arrival, then updated to the latest F4 bios.

I haven't spent much time tweaking as yet but my chip seems quite happy @ 3.6ghz 1.18v (stock vcore).

As things stand at the moment 2666mhz is the highest memory speed I can achieve

 

[Frozennova]

Did you try the D.O.C.P. mode - it just works with my 2666 Vengance LPX (e.g. it read the XMP profile).

I had no luck going above 2666mhz either manually setting 2933mhz or loading the 3000mhz XMP profile on my Gigabyte board

 

[Frozennova]

Best stability tester?

And is voltage reading ok for you in CPU-Z? mine always shows 1.55V

Asus AI Suite shows 1.32V currently

CPU-Z reports the same as Ryzen Master for me.

For stability these days I tend to do a couple of SuperPi 32M runs then just use it. I've had systems that'll do 24 hours in Prime95 that fall over fairly quickly in the real world

 

[Frozennova]

I'd still like to know if there is a way to OC and still have it step down when idle....

Should work with power saving set to balanced in Windows

 

[Frozennova]

3.9Ghz and 2932mhz on the RAM so far with BIOS 5803 - Broke 1700 on cinebench.

Spoiler: 3.9Ghz/2932Mhz

Nice result

Crosshair has BCLK adjustment, you should see better results dropping the memory ratio and cpu multi and increasing BCLK

 

[Frozennova]

Hmm, I double checked that it was completely stock, set it off running 16gb stress test for half an hour.

Just walked past pc and could see it had rebooted.

So either this board is duff, or there is something going on with using realbench as a stress test.

I'd hold out for some BIOS updates. I'm having no luck getting past 2666mhz at the moment (Although I didn't try particularly hard)

 

[Frozennova]

Is that compatible out of the box or did you have to buy the bracket

I've got a D15S and bracket on its way as OCUK have them in stock now

 

[Frozennova]

Where from?

OCUK does not sell it, however, I am not able to say due to forum rules but I googled 'Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4' and it was about 3rd search result.

You can buy the cooler and AM4 bracket as seperate items from OCUK,or alternatively I've gone all out and bought the NH-D15S and AM4 Bracket

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Noctua NH-D15S Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler= £69.95
• 1 x Noctua NM-AM4 Mounting Kit= £6.49
• 1 x Noctua NM-AM4-UXS Mounting Kit= £6.49
• 1 x Noctua NH-U12S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-F12 Fan= £54.95

Total: £148.38
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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[Frozennova]

Yeah I wasn't waiting for mounts tbh I don't really care how things look as long as they go fast.

I should have done that with my old Titan Fenrir instead of ordering the Noctua

 

[Frozennova]

F5 bios up for the Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_ga-ab350-gaming3_f5.zip

 

[Frozennova]

My 1700 seems to struggle at 3.9 :/ maybe the board I'm using b350 tomahawk but i know others here have had success.
at 3.8 1.29 is stable but 3.9 has had me go up to 1.375 and is still not stable, not sure I want to push it anymore. Not until my bracket arrives. Stock cooler not doing a bad job though, kept it under 70 degress even whilst doing 5 consecutive runs of cinebench.

Looks like you've just got a poor clocker.

So far the theory of the binning processing being almost entirely down to leakage is true. 1700s are hitting a wall at around 3.9-4ghz where they stop scaling with volts whereas the 1800x and having an easier time getting there

 

[Frozennova]

With better cooling I think I would get to 4.3 with my 1800x.....

What sort of voltage do you need to push that far?

 

[Frozennova]

Well this got out of hand quickly.

 

[Frozennova]

Those who have bought Ryzen what model do you have what is the stock voltage both base and turbo?

1700

Stock voltage 1.18v doesn't change with turbo that I've seen. This chip will do 3.6 on all 8 cores at that voltage

 

[Frozennova]

Missed that....looks like the B350 chipset has issues...

Like what? I did 3 hours of Encoding in Handbrake this time last week at 4ghz with my B350 motherboard and 1700, and finished another 4 and a half hours an hour ago (Although at 3.6ghz)

 

[Frozennova]

Run a proper bench...and report back....

Real bench...Do what AMDMatt is doing.

So the stress test that uses Handbrake as its primary method of loading up the system

 

[Frozennova]

Be thankful you don't have a b350. That can't pass realbench at stock settings.

Nothing wrong with my Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3, has no issues running an hour of Real Bench @ 3.6ghz let alone at stock

 

[Frozennova]

out of curiosity, what settings did you select in stress test when you ran it for an hour?

Just set to 1 hour and 4gb RAM as that's the max it will run with as I've only got 8gb in the system..

That's also with RAM at 2666mhz

 

[Frozennova]

Agreed nothing wrong with B350 boards at all. I've actually needed to bump the voltage up a little for 3.6ghz to 1.21v for it to be completely happy doing a big encode in Handbrake (1080p 1:1 Bluray Rip with SuperHQ Preset encoding in x265)

 

[Frozennova]

Gigabyte post them on their forum for all boards, there's an AM4 beta bios thread just for them IIRC.

You can find the Gigabyte AM4 BETA BIOS thread here

http://forum.gigabyte.us/thread/886/am4-beta-bios-thread