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*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

somethingbrite said:
Has the Ryzen/motherboard/bios ecosystem settled down?

Am thinking of chosing AMD over Intel for my next build and am wondering if the early teething troubles have been ironed out.

Haven't run an AMD chip since Barton core and the focus will be gaming with a bit of 3d modelling.

1700x or 1800x partnered with Crosshair 6 a good choice? Ideally 16gb ram as minimum. OC capability would be nice. (water cooled)
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Been running 1700x, CH6 and a 1080 GTX for a while and once you get your overclocks/ram sorted its rock solid. However, the tweaking required can be a little more complex than other platforms. Main thing is its important to choose your RAM carefully. Personally if I was looking to buy now I would be keeping an eye on what the Ryzen refresh will bring.
 
DragonQ said:
What's the difference between the two CPU-Z screenshots?
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Nothing, i forgot to select the memory tab :O

somethingbrite said:
Has the Ryzen/motherboard/bios ecosystem settled down?

Am thinking of chosing AMD over Intel for my next build and am wondering if the early teething troubles have been ironed out.

Haven't run an AMD chip since Barton core and the focus will be gaming with a bit of 3d modelling.

1700x or 1800x partnered with Crosshair 6 a good choice? Ideally 16gb ram as minimum. OC capability would be nice. (water cooled)
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I did have a problematic time with getting the memory above 2400Mhz on my ASRock AB350 Pro 4, which came with the 3.20 BIOS, that's a November BIOS and given that the later BIOS (4.60) just said it was to support Ryzen 2 i didn't bother with it, at least initially, i just thought "you know what, its a £75 board and the LPX 3000 Memory Dimms are low end, 2666Mhz was probably all i was going to get out of them, and i was going to be happy with that.

However, i thought since i probably would upgrade to Ryzen 2 later in the year i though i might as well upgrade to that Ryzen 2 BIOS now while i'm messing on with it anyway, well i'm glad i did, after updating i set 39x on the CPU, XMP profile 2666Mhz and expected it to boot loop several times, it didn't, it just booted right into windows, no drama it just worked, so i punted for 2800Mhz on the XMP profile, no problem, so i went for 2933Mhz, again booted right into windows, these cheap 3000Mhz Dimms even booted at 3066Mhz but with looser timings.

After having upgraded to the latest BIOS it just works, its no different to a mature Intel platform, go into the BIOS, dial in the settings and as long as its a stable overclock it boots without issue.

So if you go Ryzen the first thing you should do is upgrade to the latest BIOS.

And i love this thing, 6 core 12 threads, its a powerful chip, i mean; its beaten a 5.1Ghz 8600K in the Cinebench thread, it runs cool on my NZXT Kraken X31 with that overclock, the hottest i have seen it get was 55c and because i had set the fan curve to come in full speed at 75c those fans are practically idling, almost silent.
 
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For a Ryzen builds if you have the budget best to buy the 3200c14 8 pack ram. I had 2 x 8gb running at 3333c14 with an increase to 1.4v for the memory. And now 4 x 8gb running at 3200c14 with cpu voltage increased from 1.2v to 1.25v.

With tweaking it will likely go higher but I am after stability and a simple setup.
 
humbug said:
Nothing, i forgot
to select the memory tab :O



I did have a problematic time with getting the memory above 2400Mhz on my ASRock AB350 Pro 4, which came with the 3.20 BIOS, that's a November BIOS and given that the later BIOS (4.60) just said it was to support Ryzen 2 i didn't bother with it, at least initially, i just thought "you know what, its a £75 board and the LPX 3000 Memory Dimms are low end, 2666Mhz was probably all i was going to get out of them, and i was going to be happy with that.

However, i thought since i probably would upgrade to Ryzen 2 later in the year i though i might as well upgrade to that Ryzen 2 BIOS now while i'm messing on with it anyway, well i'm glad i did, after updating i set 39x on the CPU, XMP profile 2666Mhz and expected it to boot loop several times, it didn't, it just booted right into windows, no drama it just worked, so i punted for 2800Mhz on the XMP profile, no problem, so i went for 2933Mhz, again booted right into windows, these cheap 3000Mhz Dimms even booted at 3066Mhz but with loser timings.

After having upgraded to the latest BIOS it just works, its no different to a mature Intel platform, go into the BIOS, dial in the settings and as long as its a stable overclock it boots without issue.

So if you go Ryzen the first thing you should do is upgrade to the latest BIOS.

And i love this thing, 6 core 12 threads, its a powerful chip, i mean; its beaten a 5.1Ghz 8600K in the Cinebench thread, it runs cool on my NZXT Kraken X31 with that overclock, the hottest i have seen it get was 55c and because i had set the fan curve to come in full speed at 75c those fans are practically idling, almost silent.
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Yes you can find that here a ryzen 1600 beating a 8600k in a benchmark.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31553656

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31553730

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31557275

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31557979

I'm quite impressed a humble 1600 beating a 8600k here folks.

You can pick up a 1800x for like £259 or 300 quid imagine what that would score (around same price as a 8600k - almost).

But then it comes down to what ram speed he has etc, etc, etc.
 
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^^^^ :)

A couple of things about voltages, this is directly from AMD's Robert Hallock.

If you have the latest BIOS and are still struggling to get your Memory upto rated speeds, assuming they are high, like 3000Mhz+, increasing the voltage on them to 1.4 volts helps a lot with stability, or if you can get them upto rated speeds you might find that running them at 1.4 or 1.45v you can tighten your Timings a bit, it is safe to run them as high as 1.5 Volts but only put them as high as you need, don't go over 1.5v.
Another thing is SOC voltage, some boards give that a slightly different name, for example on my ASRock its called VDDCR_SOC, setting that to 1.1v will also help get the memory stable at high speeds, don't go higher than 1.2v on that.

And V-Core, there are a lot of different "safe numbers" being thrown around for that, from 1.375v to 1.5v, so from Robert Hallock himself "try not to go over 1.425v, you are risking the long term life of your processor by going higher than that"

I have set mine to 1.408v after V-Droop stress it drops to about 1.38v.

https://youtu.be/vZgpHTaQ10k?t=3m26s
 
Still can't get higher than 2933Mhz stable with the new Asus X370 Prime Bios, guess that's the most my chip can go with my B-die kit. I can get it to boot at 3200 and even higher, but I get memory errors which is no bueno. Sometimes by some miracle the memory training works well and 3200 is stable (>400% HCI Memtest), but if I restart and do a HCI Memtest afterwards I get memory errors within the first minutes of memtest. 2933Mhz is the only memory speed that doesn't give me errors regardless of memory training.
 
humbug said:
its no different to a mature Intel platform, go into the BIOS, dial in the settings and as long as its a stable overclock it boots without issue.
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Just to point out this is very luck based, for every guy who it works fine for there's another guy who can't get RAM supposedly QVL tested by the board manufacturer to post at rated speeds.
 
Bit late to the Ryzen train, does this look ok?

Load temps whilst doing benchmarking are around 43 degrees on my DH-15

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Was a quick setup job so further tweaking is needed.
 
JamesM said:
Bit late to the Ryzen train, does this look ok?

Load temps whilst doing benchmarking are around 43 degrees on my DH-15

Was a quick setup job so further tweaking is needed.
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Looks good.
I'd take a look at RAM stability if you're running 3600MHz CL16.
 
humbug said:
Looks ok, a bit lower than mine but nice RAM speed, that's 3600Mhz, nice...
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Whats the maximum voltage for these things?

HWInfo shows CPU Core Voltage at 1.4v but the sensor on my Crosshair Hero VI shows 1.33v as per the CPU-Z window. Which one should I believe?

CPU fan is on auto, infact everything is on auto at the moment :rolleyes: so I could improve the curve, system is near enough silent.

Played a number of games last night with no stability issues, PUBG, PC2, World of Warships, etc.. It's also currently running Nicehash on the CPU and ran all night without a hick up. (Running CryptoNight and getting better returns than my 5820k whilst using less power)

Very impressed, should have jumped into Ryzen ages ago.
 
JamesM said:
Whats the maximum voltage for these things?

HWInfo shows CPU Core Voltage at 1.4v but the sensor on my Crosshair Hero VI shows 1.33v as per the CPU-Z window. Which one should I believe?

CPU fan is on auto, infact everything is on auto at the moment :rolleyes: so I could improve the curve, system is near enough silent.

Played a number of games last night with no stability issues, PUBG, PC2, World of Warships, etc.. It's also currently running Nicehash on the CPU and ran all night without a hick up. (Running CryptoNight and getting better returns than my 5820k whilst using less power)

Very impressed, should have jumped into Ryzen ages ago.
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Ryzen is a fantastic chip, granted i came from a 4.5Ghz 4690K but i was blown away by its performance and the efficiency, a 6 core 12 thread CPU overclocked barely reaches 55c under Aida64 stress testing, this with a cheap Kraken X31 AIO, and its on a silent fan curve.

Anyway. HWInfo gives me multiple readouts for the CPU voltage, for safety i go for the highest reading.

vZgpHTaQ10k
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This is what AMD said about it.

humbug said:
^^^^ :)

A couple of things about voltages, this is directly from AMD's Robert Hallock.

If you have the latest BIOS and are still struggling to get your Memory upto rated speeds, assuming they are high, like 3000Mhz+, increasing the voltage on them to 1.4 volts helps a lot with stability, or if you can get them upto rated speeds you might find that running them at 1.4 or 1.45v you can tighten your Timings a bit, it is safe to run them as high as 1.5 Volts but only put them as high as you need, don't go over 1.5v.
Another thing is SOC voltage, some boards give that a slightly different name, for example on my ASRock its called VDDCR_SOC, setting that to 1.1v will also help get the memory stable at high speeds, don't go higher than 1.2v on that.

And V-Core, there are a lot of different "safe numbers" being thrown around for that, from 1.375v to 1.5v, so from Robert Hallock himself "try not to go over 1.425v, you are risking the long term life of your processor by going higher than that"

I have set mine to 1.408v after V-Droop stress it drops to about 1.38v.

https://youtu.be/vZgpHTaQ10k?t=3m26s
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I think as long as your highest voltage is 1.425v or less and its stable its perfectly fine, mine is at about 1.41 but i added a little extra for good measure.

Its an awesome CPU, i love it.
 
humbug said:
Ryzen is a fantastic chip, granted i came from a 4.5Ghz 4690K but i was blown away by its performance and the efficiency, a 6 core 12 thread CPU overclocked barely reaches 55c under Aida64 stress testing, this with a cheap Kraken X31 AIO, and its on a silent fan curve.

Anyway. HWInfo gives me multiple readouts for the CPU voltage, for safety i go for the highest reading.
This is what AMD said about it.

I think as long as your highest voltage is 1.425v or less and its stable its perfectly fine, mine is at about 1.41 but i added a little extra for good measure.

Its an awesome CPU, i love it.
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Perfect, thanks for the info.

I noticed that tRC is higher than is stated in SPD so will adjust the voltages and see if I can get the timings tighter. Might see if 4GHz is within reach as well.

I'll have a tweak tonight when I get home and see what I can push out of this.

I only purchased the 1600 as a stop gap until Ryzen 2 comes along, looks as though it could be a decent chip.
 
That looks like good volts.

I can't get mine to 4Ghz, i think you need an X chip for that, i can get to and do run it at 3.925Ghz, anything over that will not even boot no matter what i do to it.

But in this case i don't care about the Mhz, the IPC is way higher than the 4690K its replaced so its still faster anyway, i might get tempted by Ryzen 2 myself tho :O
 
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