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*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***
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IIRC one M.2 slot is PCI-E 3.0 and the other 2.0 due to one connecting to the PCU and the other to the chipset, but also there are limits to what you can use all at once between the M.2, SATA, U.2 and PCI-E slots. I'll just double check.
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Here's the bits form the manual:
Also you can't use the bottom PCI-E 16x slot (PCI_E6) when both M.2 slots are populated.
Doesnt matter anyway. I managed cinebench at 4ghz 1.4v and now it will bsod at 1.435v and am not pushing it more. 3.9 life for me.
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3.9 does seem to be a sweet spot for volts and clocks.
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Reverted back to BIOS version 1.31 as was unable to run RAM @ 3200 with 1.33. A-XMP works fine on 1.31 so ram is now at 2933. 3200 not stable.
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Ok, Finally got it built and working. Had a horrible day and nothing to do with Ryzen and more to do with Microsoft.
Anyway here is the system.
Corsair Carbide 540 case,
Ryzen 1700 CPU,
MSI X370 Pro carbon motherboard,
16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 DDR4 memory,
I have still a bit of tidying to do, but it's looking ok. Just haven't figured out how to change the red lights that are left to white. I can turn them off, but can't seem to change the colours. Could change all the other RGB lights without any problems.
Sorry to say that I haven't done much of anything with this yet. I haven't been able to reactivate windows since upgrading. My key is linked to my Microsoft account, it just won't activate and after hours all day with support, all they can tell me is that I need to find my Windows 7 Key before I can activate Windows 10. Of course I have no idea where my windows 7 key is as I didn't think I would ever need it again.
My first impressions though are pretty positive. I had no trouble with the build and it booted up first time. It is slow to post though, but other than that it went well. I am just running at stock at the moment and the memory is at 2133. Everything seems much smoother than my 2500k. Have opened a lot of apps and webpages, while unzipping a few large archieves that I have and nothing seemed to slow down at all.
Can't really say much about the motherboard as I haven't explored much yet. It's solidly built and easy to work with. I will get a chance tomorrow to try a few different things.
Anyway here is the system.
Corsair Carbide 540 case,
Ryzen 1700 CPU,
MSI X370 Pro carbon motherboard,
16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 DDR4 memory,
I have still a bit of tidying to do, but it's looking ok. Just haven't figured out how to change the red lights that are left to white. I can turn them off, but can't seem to change the colours. Could change all the other RGB lights without any problems.
Sorry to say that I haven't done much of anything with this yet. I haven't been able to reactivate windows since upgrading. My key is linked to my Microsoft account, it just won't activate and after hours all day with support, all they can tell me is that I need to find my Windows 7 Key before I can activate Windows 10. Of course I have no idea where my windows 7 key is as I didn't think I would ever need it again.
My first impressions though are pretty positive. I had no trouble with the build and it booted up first time. It is slow to post though, but other than that it went well. I am just running at stock at the moment and the memory is at 2133. Everything seems much smoother than my 2500k. Have opened a lot of apps and webpages, while unzipping a few large archieves that I have and nothing seemed to slow down at all.
Can't really say much about the motherboard as I haven't explored much yet. It's solidly built and easy to work with. I will get a chance tomorrow to try a few different things.
Soldato
Good to see.
I believe the red led is showing that it's running at PCIE slot is running at x16, and it will turn white if it's at x8.
With regards to Windows, perhaps fleabay is your friend
Finally, where are those white braided cables from?
I hereby challenge every Ryzen owner to beat my Cinebench score @4Ghz. Let's see what you've got gentlemen.
R7 1700 @4Ghz
3200MHZ CL14
1.350V
Score: 1770
EDIT got a slightly better score by 1 point with lower voltage now 1.350v. Not bad for a £320 CPU.
Did this get beat?
Good to see.
I believe the red led is showing that it's running at PCIE slot is running at x16, and it will turn white if it's at x8.
With regards to Windows, perhaps fleabay is your friend
Finally, where are those white braided cables from?
I got them from Here
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cases-and-modding/modding/sleeved-cables/value-extension-bundles
I forgot to get the sata cables.
Soldato
Cheers.
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I ususally do also, however 1.33 was out so gave it a bash.
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Not many people mentioning how their Windows 10 activation went, I read as long as its OEM and linked to you Microsoft account you just need to press the Troubleshoot icon and in there you can link it to your new PC I cant remember the exact details but as long as you signed into your Microsoft ccount it should work
Your CPU cooler is in taking hot air from your GPU, will it not mount the correct way?
I had a real hassle with Microsoft over same thing at weekend.
And I had my windows 7 key
Yeah, I had it linked with my Microsoft account, but when I went through the process it said the key didn't match the version of windows I had. Which is impossible as how would it have activated in the first place.
It was the only way to mount the cooler. I am not really worried, The case has amazing airflow and I won't be doing any extreme overclocking, it won't affect anything to much.
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When you install Windows you need to be careful which version you choose, just picking the wrong Language setting has caused me a head ache in the past
Yeah it's annoying dealing with them. They said to me that they wouldn't be able to activate my system using a key alone, that they would need proof of purchase.
They are like trained monkeys, just following a set guide and don't think for themselves. This is how it went for me. I was in contact with one support guy and he went through a list of things and then got me to do a reinstall of windows to see if that would fix the problem. When that was finished I contacted support again, but got a different guy, I gave him the case number and he went away for a few minutes to read all the things the other guy had done. He came back and started asking me the exact same questions, in the exact same order. I told him that I did all those, then he suggested I reinstall windows. I told him that I already did that.
You aren't going to believe what he said back to me!! He said "And did it work?"
Why would I have contacted support again with the same problem if it had worked?I gave up at that stage.
I had everything installed perfectly. Trust me, this wasn't anything I did wrong.
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Are you going to have to buy another license?
I'll be reinstalling when I get a 1600X in a couple of weeks and I did the free upgrade from W8.1 it seems completely hit and miss whether or not it activates but if it doesnt its a case of buying a new license which I'm going to have to consider in the cost of the build