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*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

So flashback didn't work? Did you ensure that you were using the BIOS version that you were upgrading from, not the one you were trying to upgrade to?
 
Journey said:
Erm, well if you told them to skip it, ask for it back, I'll pay the postage since I may be able to fix it :))
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lol would love to, however, do not have the time nor inclination to contact, deal with, spend money on................
 
CEUOTC said:
Cannot be bothered arguing the toss with those lot. Aye the thermal paste was present and cleaned off by myself to the best of my ability on the initial build. I did this whilst fault finding as it came with stock V1.0 BIOS and would not run with my RAM. Have not asked for a photo and told them to skip it.

I explained in very clear language how the fault happened, and it irks a little that they will not have even tested the board and purely rejected the RMA on superficial "damage" to the mobo. Damn shame as the MSI B350 Tomahawk is a solid board.

Here is the fabulous line from SCAM:

"This has been rejected due to thermal compound found on several contact points inside the CPU socket and One screw has been over tightened to the point of exposing copper. We are unable to process this RMA, would you like us to return it to you?"

lol
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i bought a dfi mobo from these lot a while back and was using it started bellowing smoke!
took it back and got fobbed off, also was asked did i want it sending back so i said yes just so i could throw it in the bin.
only bought hd 5870 since then because i was impatient but never again!!
 
Got my 1700 delivered though it won't be doing much for several months until I get a mobo and RAM. A couple of questions.

Do steppings matter any more these days in regards to silicon lottery and overclocking?
I don't quite get the clocks. It says 3.7GHz boost for the 1700 - is that one core or all cores? Say I overclock it to 3.9GHz, will that also be one or all?

Thanks :)
 
doodah said:
Got my 1700 delivered though it won't be doing much for several months until I get a mobo and RAM. A couple of questions.

Do steppings matter any more these days in regards to silicon lottery and overclocking?
I don't quite get the clocks. It says 3.7GHz boost for the 1700 - is that one core or all cores? Say I overclock it to 3.9GHz, will that also be one or all?

Thanks :)
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The 3.7ghz boost is for one core at a time (it may be 2 but i overclocked as soon as I got it)
When you overclock ALL the cores will run at that speed. Not all chips can do 3.9ghz, 3.8-4.0 is the norm and as usual down to the lottery.
 
Thanks :)

Awesome, yeah I won't be getting 4GHz for **** - have a knack of getting mediocre clockers. Will be happy with 3.8, anything above is a bonus.
 
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eyetrip said:
Ran latencymon and was getting huge spikes fairly often. Seems to have been reduced a great deal using 2t instead of 1t.
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Interesting what setup?

I finally got my 360 AIO cooler on today. I can confirm that the AM4 bracket for the corsair Hxxx series works on the thermaltake water 3.0 series. Both made by asetek. Good thing too as thermaltake are useless :)

Looks like I'm at 45c load with my 3.6ghz 1.25v overclock that was 80c under load on the stock cooler. Happy with that. Going to aim for 3.8+ tonight and see what happens.
 
Doesn't look like 4ghz is happening but this cooler is excellent. I crashed prime95 after 10mins at 1.425v but was only at 62c!
 
What voltage are people running for their 24/7 builds?

Much stability testing to do but with some tweaks looks like 4ghz may be doable at 1.425v which is 1.404v under load in CPUZ. 63c full load. Is that too high?

Might test minimum volts for 3.9 today.
 
Ste said:
What voltage are people running for their 24/7 builds?

Much stability testing to do but with some tweaks looks like 4ghz may be doable at 1.425v which is 1.404v under load in CPUZ. 63c full load. Is that too high?

Might test minimum volts for 3.9 today.
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40.25 x 100
1.375v
LLC Level 2

Safe is basically under 1.45v. 63c load is absolutely fine :)
 
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