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GTiPUG · 19 Aug 2017 at 13:04

This thread has made me reconsider waiting for Coffee Lake. I don't like Intel at all as a company, so might just keep an eye out for a used 1700/1800 and buy that with a new motherboard.

It'll be nice to be back to team red, but I'm wondering if I'll notice a difference from a 4790k...

gavinh87 · 19 Aug 2017 at 13:19

GTiPUG said:
This thread has made me reconsider waiting for Coffee Lake. I don't like Intel at all as a company, so might just keep an eye out for a used 1700/1800 and buy that with a new motherboard.

It'll be nice to be back to team red, but I'm wondering if I'll notice a difference from a 4790k...

Not unless you are noticing frame hiccups or play games or use programs that can use more cores.
The biggest difference for me was smoothness, my minimums now are a lot better coming from a 4770.

opethdisciple · 19 Aug 2017 at 14:30

When a bios comes out, do you guys go off and retest your overclocks again?

GTiPUG · 19 Aug 2017 at 15:42

gavinh87 said:
Not unless you are noticing frame hiccups or play games or use programs that can use more cores.
The biggest difference for me was smoothness, my minimums now are a lot better coming from a 4770.

That's interesting, I didn't think Ryzen would outperform a Haswell. Maybe it's worth it to satisfy my upgrade itch.

gavinh87 · 19 Aug 2017 at 15:48

opethdisciple said:
When a bios comes out, do you guys go off and retest your overclocks again?

Only if it offers something new. I'm still on one from months ago on the crosshair.

GTiPUG said:
That's interesting, I didn't think Ryzen would outperform a Haswell. Maybe it's worth it to satisfy my upgrade itch.

This was a locked 4770 I might add. AVG/max FPS are more of the same as they are both capable of maxing out my 1070 but the minimums and frametimes are much better. Level1techs did a study on the smoothness with ryzen compared to kaby.

GoogalyMoogaly · 19 Aug 2017 at 15:49

Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this question, but how many PCIe lanes do Ryzen CPUs (up to the 1800X) have?
Currently only using the 1 GPU, but that may change during the lifetime of the motherboard and CPU.

kitfit1 · 19 Aug 2017 at 15:50

opethdisciple said:
When a bios comes out, do you guys go off and retest your overclocks again?

Personally i always do and always have done. Microde changes within a bios will always have knock on effects even if the only listed changelog is ram related. Sometimes a clock has to go down for a new bios, if that new bios does not give me any important gains to make a downclock worthwhile i simply flash back to the older bios and wait for the next new release.

kitfit1 · 19 Aug 2017 at 15:53

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this question, but how many PCIe lanes do Ryzen CPUs (up to the 1800X) have?
Currently only using the 1 GPU, but that may change during the lifetime of the motherboard and CPU.

The most important thing if you want to run 2 GPU's isn't the CPU but the Mobo. A 370 will run 2 GPU's full chat, a 350 will run 1 GPU full chat.

Scougar · 19 Aug 2017 at 16:47

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this question, but how many PCIe lanes do Ryzen CPUs (up to the 1800X) have?
Currently only using the 1 GPU, but that may change during the lifetime of the motherboard and CPU.

Dude, you are a person that needs threadripper. Stop wasting it on Ryzen. You have the time, the money. I mean no disrespect. You are should totally get thread ripper.

If not, then you should wait for a further revision of zen, so higher clocks are there.

GTiPUG · 19 Aug 2017 at 18:08

gavinh87 said:
Only if it offers something new. I'm still on one from months ago on the crosshair.

This was a locked 4770 I might add. AVG/max FPS are more of the same as they are both capable of maxing out my 1070 but the minimums and frametimes are much better. Level1techs did a study on the smoothness with ryzen compared to kaby.

Ah okay, cool. That's pretty interesting, will check it out.

GoogalyMoogaly · 19 Aug 2017 at 22:08

Scougar said:
Dude, you are a person that needs threadripper. Stop wasting it on Ryzen. You have the time, the money. I mean no disrespect. You are should totally get thread ripper.

If not, then you should wait for a further revision of zen, so higher clocks are there.

Have you seen the price of Threadripper!?

Scougar · 20 Aug 2017 at 09:30

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Have you seen the price of Threadripper!?

Yes..seems like an absolute bargain for what you get.

eyetrip · 20 Aug 2017 at 10:28

Decided rather than considering threadripper, I'd be better moving my development into a proper physical rather than running inside a vm, and will run server VM's, and still have my gaming/photo+video editing/encoding machine.

I have a itx case with decent psu running that I could replace motherboard/cpu/ram in and shift some stuff from this machine for storage.

Just not sure what to do for cpu. Don't think I'd want to go with less than 8 core cpu for my main, so was considering throwing a 1600/x in dev machine, but as it's going to be running VM's and compiling likes cores, I'm probably better off sticking to 8 cores for that too.

So, I'm probably leaning towards 1700/1700x/1800x.

I won't be overclocking, and as it'll be a 24/7 machine, I may stick my current 1700 in there. Would like a 1800x to push for 4ghz, but just not sure it's worth it over 1700x at £300 or 1700 at £255

Hmmm, decisions

Edit: Actually, I decided I can't be bothered taking my existing 1700 out, so will jsut get another 1700 to stick in that machine.

Anyone know whether an aspire wraith will fit a cooler master elite 120 itx case?

gavinh87 · 20 Aug 2017 at 10:42

eyetrip said:
Decided rather than considering threadripper, I'd be better moving my development into a proper physical rather than running inside a vm, and will run server VM's, and still have my gaming/photo+video editing/encoding machine.

I have a itx case with decent psu running that I could replace motherboard/cpu/ram in and shift some stuff from this machine for storage.

Just not sure what to do for cpu. Don't think I'd want to go with less than 8 core cpu for my main, so was considering throwing a 1600/x in dev machine, but as it's going to be running VM's and compiling likes cores, I'm probably better off sticking to 8 cores for that too.

So, I'm probably leaning towards 1700/1700x/1800x.

I won't be overclocking, and as it'll be a 24/7 machine, I may stick my current 1700 in there. Would like a 1800x to push for 4ghz, but just not sure it's worth it over 1700x at £300 or 1700 at £255

Hmmm, decisions

I certainly wouldn't bother going for the 1800x. 100-200mhz ain't going to make much difference. Spend the extra on bdie or GPU.
Or treat the Mrs. But only if you have no options left

eyetrip · 20 Aug 2017 at 10:53

gavinh87 said:
I certainly wouldn't bother going for the 1800x. 100-200mhz ain't going to make much difference. Spend the extra on bdie or GPU.
Or treat the Mrs. But only if you have no options left

I'm just going to migrate half my 64Gb over rather than buying more- only had the 64Gb because was doing so much on the one machine. 32Gb for each of these should do nicely. And it'll be nice not having this machine be critical to having fully operational all the time, meaning can tweak it more.

Pity am4 itx boards are so pricey currently

gavinh87 · 20 Aug 2017 at 10:59

eyetrip said:
I'm just going to migrate half my 64Gb over rather than buying more- only had the 64Gb because was doing so much on the one machine. 32Gb for each of these should do nicely. And it'll be nice not having this machine be critical to having fully operational all the time, meaning can tweak it more.

Pity am4 itx boards are so pricey currently

Yeah never understood why you pay more for less lol.

eyetrip · 20 Aug 2017 at 11:48

Dang, doesn't seem like the spire will fit inside coolermaster elite 120. Means spending more, and trying to keep this as tight as possible.

And I can't actually seem to find a cooler that will fit....

opethdisciple · 20 Aug 2017 at 13:41

Any one experienced any issues when overclocking that you cant wake the PC up with m/k if the monitor goes in to power save mode during testing?

Monitor goes to sleep after 10 mins. I notice that wireless keyboard hub no longer has power but mouse still has power led. But nothing can wake PC up. I changed the usb ports for m/k too but nothing.

Happened twice now. Disabled monitor power save mode during overclocking....

Good thing I am testing my overclock. As although I did a quick test on Fri and played 2hrs of BF1, it's currently failing to pass Prime 95 now so upping volts.

gavinh87 · 20 Aug 2017 at 13:44

opethdisciple said:
Any one experienced any issues when overclocking that you cant wake the PC up with m/k if the monitor goes in to power save mode during testing?

Monitor goes to sleep after 10 mins. I notice that wireless keyboard hub no longer has power but mouse still has power led. But nothing can wake PC up. I changed the usb ports for m/k too but nothing.

Happened twice now. Disabled monitor power save mode during overclocking....

Good thing I am testing my overclock. As although I did a quick test on Fri and played 2hrs of BF1, it's currently failing to pass Prime 95 now so upping volts.

Can't say I have noticed that and I've had mine overclocked since release.

opethdisciple · 20 Aug 2017 at 13:55

Actually I think it's the GPU that's the issue. I see the fan stop light has gone off :confused:

and no signal is going to the monitor any more. All I'm doing is running Prime 95.

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