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*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

Curious if anyone has gotten higher than 3600 on memory? I'm holding fire at the moment as I want to give my sandy a proper spanking as I think there's more in it if I give it some proper tinkering but itching to go ryzen. Seen a lot of good results with 3600 and the boost it give infinity fabric.
There much point jumping from a 4.8ish 2600k (Assuming I can get there. It's an early sandy chip) for gaming? Semi tempted to wait 1 more year for zen2 and just throw another big gpu at the rig for now.
 
Mercutio said:
Curious if anyone has gotten higher than 3600 on memory? I'm holding fire at the moment as I want to give my sandy a proper spanking as I think there's more in it if I give it some proper tinkering but itching to go ryzen. Seen a lot of good results with 3600 and the boost it give infinity fabric.
There much point jumping from a 4.8ish 2600k (Assuming I can get there. It's an early sandy chip) for gaming? Semi tempted to wait 1 more year for zen2 and just throw another big gpu at the rig for now.
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3466CL14 is faster than 3600CL16.
The timings are too high to provide any performance benefit.
 
Mercutio said:
Was under the impression that higher memory clocks always won with ryzen? Is there a point where the IF catches up and the benefit is pushed elsewhere?
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The increase in memclk/dficlk only helps when it's bottlenecked, this stops about the 3200 mark by which point latency brings the benefits. 3200cl12 to 3466cl14 with efforts on the subtimings is where you should be aiming.
 
Ok my latest issue... I set the boot to ultra fast and now it doesn't seem to detect DEL in time for me to get into the BIOS. haha. Anyone had this how do you solve it!
 
Ste said:
Ok my latest issue... I set the boot to ultra fast and now it doesn't seem to detect DEL in time for me to get into the BIOS. haha. Anyone had this how do you solve it!
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Gigabyte used to had app Fast Boot which had option to get in to BIOS easily, not sure if it's available for this board but worth checking. I normally stay away from ultra fast boot when still playing with setting.
 
Hi guys I just build ryzen system , everything was ok at first started without problems. Tried to download the new updates from and website got info that my ssd was full which it wasn't. Restarted the system got bootmgr error, now I cannot fix the windows bcus the keyboard and mouse doesn't work, legacy USB is switched on.

Any ideas?
 
About to pull the trigger on a self build but am undecided on whether to go for AMD or Intel.

How are people finding the Ryzen for 1080p gaming?

Thinking the money I would save on going AMD would be better spent on the GPU.
 
Damien. said:
About to pull the trigger on a self build but am undecided on whether to go for AMD or Intel.

How are people finding the Ryzen for 1080p gaming?

Thinking the money I would save on going AMD would be better spent on the GPU.
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dont see why not

in the other thread ive seen a 1700 + 1080Ti with great ssds for £1400! for £100 you can make an extremely good 1080p box.

i just bought a half build from OCUK should arrive in a few days
i went 1800x due to not OCing

but if your overclocking
1600/1700 + 980+ you got a very good box for cheap!
 
smogsy said:
SNIP
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Hi Smogsy,

Thanks for the feedback.

I have budgeted 2k for a new machine but initially I was looking at Intel + 1080. As you mentioned, going AMD could release funds for a 1080ti meaning further future proofing.

I just don't want to go AMD and be held back by a CPU bottle neck.

Completely out of touch with hardware these days after being a laptop gamer for last 5 years.
 
Damien. said:
Hi Smogsy,

Thanks for the feedback.

I have budgeted 2k for a new machine but initially I was looking at Intel + 1080. As you mentioned, going AMD could release funds for a 1080ti meaning further future proofing.

I just don't want to go AMD and be held back by a CPU bottle neck.

Completely out of touch with hardware these days after being a laptop gamer for last 5 years.
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put it this way i have a 5930K 6 core 12 threads & 1080TI
im going to 1800x 1080TI

you wont be bottle-necked with any 4 core/8 thread cpu out now days. period. However if you it to last get as many cores/Threads as possible.
AMD does get a few less FPS at 1080p, but as the Ryzen 5 1600 is 2nd most sold CPU right now on Amazon. You shall see AMD chip just get better and better over time.

If just gaming
1600 + GPU of your choice + 3000/3200 RAM

will get you as good performance as a decent i7 & allow you to get a better GPU too.

at 1080p i would probably go GTX1080 + a 1700. (easier to change a gpu than a cpu later imho)


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,748.94
(includes shipping: £14.10)



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Damien. said:
Great build, thanks again Smogsy.

Will almost definitely pull the trigger on that!

PS, would you mind spec'ing some RAM for that build.
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Ryzen is picking with ram right now,

if you can afford this
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...3200mhz-dual-channel-kit-black-my-08l-tg.html
Samsung b Die RYzen works best with right now

Ryzen loves high Memory speed it increases your CPU speed & interconnect speed

if not get some Corsair LPX (much cheaper)

the spec is almost same as mine.
mine is a 1800X build, going for extreme slience
 
Done some minor tweaking but with your suggestions in mind, how does this look?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,849.54
(includes shipping: £14.70)



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Gigabyte 5 is out of stock, but anyway is it really not worth it to add £40 to get top quality mobo Asus CH6 at the moment? £210 seems like an awesome bargain. I've not used this Giga so not sure.
 
I would like someone to be completely honest with me, rather than selling me their home team, I'm about to invest in a new CPU/MB/RAM, I find the 1600x quite interesting, but if rock solid stability is one of my main priorities would it be wise to go with Ryzen? I leave my machine on 24/7, my 2500k hasn't crashed in years.
 
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