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*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***
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OKey got to ask as someone.. I am literally on a knife edge of upgrading to a Ryzen 1700, Is it really worth it this month/time considering thread ripper and new ASUS ROG STRIX X370-F due soon?
What are your uses? Single core performance won't change you will just have a lot more cores to play with.
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I am dying on a very old 8350 that bottle necks hurt me greatly every day.
Intel to me are far too overpriced for old architecture.
Threadripper sounds interesting on paper, yet I cannot find any prices and I understand that it needs a new socket which brings all the early issues that come with them.
Minds all over the place, and where I save money it will be added to more storage. Current PC uses all 8 sata ports and has 29TB of space. Would rather condense these into m.2 for caching and so forth for raids.
But focus of question itself is are the current Ryzen 1700 worth it right this moment? Are there any expected price drops, or motherboard revisions I should be aware of?
Thanks again.
Definitely worth it over an 8350 and a 9590, I had both. Threadripper will be circa £600+ I believe. New motherboards should come with later bioses. C6H is very competent now. For the mobo, ram and processor below. I paid about £720 but with selling older system recovered about £180.
Nothing on the horizon regarding motherboards for ryzen. I'm sure you have read that ryzen is picky with memory and requires a decent speed to get the most from it.
Are you into overclocking or are you a plug and play person?
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I recently learnt to Overclock to see if I could squeeze more life out my 8350, as well as my GPU + Ram. From what I understand the 1700 / 1700x / 1800x are all exact same Dyes. Also that they are all unlocked as well. Therefor to buy a 1700 on a x370 platform to get better OC's.
Pretty much, expect 3.8-3.9ghz on a 1700 and you won't be dissapointed.
Pair with 3200CL14 memory and you're golden.
You'd certainly benefit greatly from having a Ryzen 7 setup, multicore is it's strong point.
However, if you can I'd advise you wait and see how Threadripper lands, as that'd be the better performance option for multicore production but at a higher price. It'd also be worth to see whether Ryzen gets a price cut when it's released.
If you can't wait, go for Ryzen, create a thread and we can advice you on RAM (Samsung B-Die) and motherboard (e.g. ASUS CH6, Strix or Asrock Taichi).
Just ordered the 1600 and it's on its way, plan to OC to 3.8-3.9 if the hardware will allow me, im reading that the stock wraith cooler isn't up to scratch at that clock speeds, however, what would you recommend using instead? I read people recommending the CM 212 evo but unsure which variant? Nudge in the right direction would be appreciated 
failed after 9 mins. What's your nb voltage? I'm trying 1.392v and 1.114v nb now. Not happy with these voltages, if this fails I'll probably stick with 3.8ghz...
Edit : held for 10 mins, fingers crossed!
Failed after 13 mins, going 3.8. Game over man.
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Had my first nasty crash to black screen last night and then had some fun getting it to restart. Was getting a tad worried for a while!
Things were a bit toasty in the case, but it has been worse in recent weeks even with the 1800x running at 3.85ghz the whole time... Perhaps the B350M-A got a bit twitchy with my ram now running a 2800mhz?
Still not interested @ 2933 though.
Things were a bit toasty in the case, but it has been worse in recent weeks even with the 1800x running at 3.85ghz the whole time... Perhaps the B350M-A got a bit twitchy with my ram now running a 2800mhz?
Still not interested @ 2933 though.
Had my first nasty crash to black screen last night and then had some fun getting it to restart. Was getting a tad worried for a while!
Things were a bit toasty in the case, but it has been worse in recent weeks even with the 1800x running at 3.85ghz the whole time... Perhaps the B350M-A got a bit twitchy with my ram now running a 2800mhz?
Still not interested @ 2933 though.
Run some memory testing programs to verify ram can run at that speed.
Had my first nasty crash to black screen last night and then had some fun getting it to restart. Was getting a tad worried for a while!
Things were a bit toasty in the case, but it has been worse in recent weeks even with the 1800x running at 3.85ghz the whole time... Perhaps the B350M-A got a bit twitchy with my ram now running a 2800mhz?
Still not interested @ 2933 though.
Weird, my 1700 @3.85 on an msi b350 tomahawk arctic has been running for a few months now at DDR3333 tight timings. I have 3600 rated g.skill ram though, samsung B die. My cooling is decent enough though, got a 240 AIO on there. I think my vcores about 1.36 and soc voltage is about 1.1. I think the ram volts are at rated 1.35v. I can get it to boot and both 3466 and 3600 but havent managed to get it stable at those speeds yet. Its plenty fast enough at 3333 though, I think the timings are like 14,14,14,28 1t off the top of my head.
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