*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

[ubersonic]

Oh and it was working as an 8c 16t earlier and it is an R7 1700. Any ideas anyone?

Long shot but go into device manager, expand the "Processors" bit and you should see six items (may be 12), right click each one and select uninstall, once they're all gone reboot the machine (don't worry it will put them back but may put the correct amount in).

You have to do this on some Intel systems sometimes when adding a second CPU because Windows doesn't realise it has extra cores available if the physical CPU hasn't changed, so there's an outside chance you have the same issue.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Put Sensi MI Skew back to disabled/default. Download the latest HWINFO build. One of its sensors uses the 20c offset so you get a accurate temperature reading. My Ryzen chip is running cooler than i thought.



It should get fixed, but I've no idea when.

It looks like for some reason my last HWInfo install did not overwrite the existing installation. Now I idle at 35 and top out at 57C on IBT. Thank's

 

[rolypolyman]

Bug i think, you'll need to clear CMOS to restore.

Avoid this feature for now via the Bios. Use the Ryzen Master Tool instead to temporarily disable Cores.

Hi, update, started up computer this morning and its back to 8c16t and alls well. Bonus tried memory on xmp settings and its running at [email protected], so far so good.

 

[rolypolyman]

You have an 8 core cpu you want to downgrade to 6 for a length of time so you can 'pretend' to get an upgrade later?

Why not disable smt while you are at it?

People have some really strange ideas

Aye ok was intending buying the R5 1600X 6c12t but saw the R7 1700 for a great price so thought you no what I don't need 8c16t so I will disable 2cores and upgrade when the times right. Not really a free upgrade but it would feel like it. Anyway back working as an 8c16t now.

 

[rolypolyman]

Long shot but go into device manager, expand the "Processors" bit and you should see six items (may be 12), right click each one and select uninstall, once they're all gone reboot the machine (don't worry it will put them back but may put the correct amount in).

You have to do this on some Intel systems sometimes when adding a second CPU because Windows doesn't realise it has extra cores available if the physical CPU hasn't changed, so there's an outside chance you have the same issue.

Thanks for that Uber, sounds like a great idea but as you can see problem fixed itself. Tvm.

 

[rolypolyman]

I've decided to go back to stock clocks and just let XFR do it's thing. I think for a while I'm going to focus on getting voltages as low as i can whilst running stock.

What's everyones lowest idle clock frequency with balanced power profile?

Hi, my 1700 idling on balanced is 1546.86Mhz @ 0.814v with memory at 2927.4 @1.35, temps 25/26/27c keeping fans on quiet, ran a cpu benchmark and temp topped at 41c(which seems low) @ 1.210v all cores 3194Mhz 100%Utilization Wraith Spire at 1271rpm. Sorry seem to have taken over the thread, if only I knew how to multi quote.

 

[16979]

got my build up and running 1800x and asus ch6 board but ive got temps around 49-53c is that normal I'm on corsair110 aio and cpu is @3.9

 

[ozzyo99]

got my build up and running 1800x and asus ch6 board but ive got temps around 49-53c is that normal I'm on corsair110 aio and cpu is @3.9

You need to -20 deg for 1800x reporting. Your idle is 29/33.

 

[16979]

can I alter it in bios ?

 

[corkhead]

Still waiting for my BeQuiet AM4 bracket
All the other stuff has been sat there for a week now.. torture!
Might cave in and order a Noctua with AM4 bracket included soon...

 

[Howie87]

So my AM4 bracket turns up and it's time to swap out the wraith cooler that came with my 1700 with an AIO.

Loosen all the screws... Give it a wiggle. Damn, seems a bit stuck. Give it a twist... Wiggle a little more...

BANG!!!

The whole cooler flies out my motherboard with the CPU still attached and the retention lever still locked in the down position.

I look at the bottom of the CPU and to my horror see bent pins everywhere. I twist of the CPU and clean it up a little and try to slide a credit card between the pins to straighten them out but they're so tiny and close together it won't fit.

I ended up using a flick knife and holding it up to the light while looking through one eye, bending the tiny pins back and desperately trying not to break them off by using too much force.

Once they were all straight I dropped it back onto the socket and it went right in. Dunno if the retention mechanism was broken or what, but I bolted the AIO down on top and fired it up. Booted into bios and had it back into windows in no time.

I don't THINK I did any damage

 

[CEUOTC]

So my AM4 bracket turns up and it's time to swap out the wraith cooler that came with my 1700 with an AIO.

Loosen all the screws... Give it a wiggle. Damn, seems a bit stuck. Give it a twist... Wiggle a little more...

BANG!!!

The whole cooler flies out my motherboard with the CPU still attached and the retention lever still locked in the down position.

I look at the bottom of the CPU and to my horror see bent pins everywhere. I twist of the CPU and clean it up a little and try to slide a credit card between the pins to straighten them out but they're so tiny and close together it won't fit.

I ended up using a flick knife and holding it up to the light while looking through one eye, bending the tiny pins back and desperately trying not to break them off by using too much force.

Once they were all straight I dropped it back onto the socket and it went right in. Dunno if the retention mechanism was broken or what, but I bolted the AIO down on top and fired it up. Booted into bios and had it back into windows in no time.

I don't THINK I did any damage

Ouch! Glad it is sorted tho, effin expensive!

 

[Hagar]

Spoiler

Loosen all the screws... Give it a wiggle. Damn, seems a bit stuck. Give it a twist... Wiggle a little more...

BANG!!!

The whole cooler flies out my motherboard with the CPU still attached and the retention lever still locked in the down position.

This has happened to me before but on an Athlon II.

A bit of warmth in the heatsink and CPU helps. But I think that the stock 'glue' is quite stiff and a non setting paste is the best alternative.

 

[Howie87]

Yeah, prodding the pins of a brand new CPU with a knife isn't exactly an experience I'd like to repeat. The stuff that comes on the wraith cooler is like superglue though so be warned! Replaced it with some Arctic MX-2.

 

[Aretak]

Spoiler

So my AM4 bracket turns up and it's time to swap out the wraith cooler that came with my 1700 with an AIO.

Loosen all the screws... Give it a wiggle. Damn, seems a bit stuck. Give it a twist... Wiggle a little more...

BANG!!!

The whole cooler flies out my motherboard with the CPU still attached and the retention lever still locked in the down position.

I look at the bottom of the CPU and to my horror see bent pins everywhere. I twist of the CPU and clean it up a little and try to slide a credit card between the pins to straighten them out but they're so tiny and close together it won't fit.

I ended up using a flick knife and holding it up to the light while looking through one eye, bending the tiny pins back and desperately trying not to break them off by using too much force.

Once they were all straight I dropped it back onto the socket and it went right in. Dunno if the retention mechanism was broken or what, but I bolted the AIO down on top and fired it up. Booted into bios and had it back into windows in no time.

I don't THINK I did any damage

The AMD retention handle does only 'retain' the CPU up to a certain point in my experience. I've pulled AM3 chips out of the socket along with the cooler several times due to a particularly sticky thermal paste connection, so it seems normal. Never bent any pins doing it though, but I guess you would do if you were pulling at a slight angle.

I've also bent pins on AMD chips before and it's yet to kill one. In fact, I dropped a Phenom II X6 just a couple of weeks ago and bent a bunch in one corner. Straightened them out with a thin knife and it worked just fine. They're pretty tough for such tiny bits of metal.

 

[Howie87]

Yeah, the Ryzen pins are so thin though I was really worried about them breaking from metal fatigue.

 

[rolypolyman]

Ouch, scary stuff Howie, I didn't like the look of the paste on the Wraith Spire cooler so I cleaned it all off and put some paste I had on instead, running ok at 24c. How far can you OC with these coolers?

 

[markyb]

Guys, any reason why I'm seeing slower performance, FPS in Planet Coaster?

Ryzen 1700x, 16Gb of DDR4 @ 3200 14-14-14-34 with a Geforce 960GTX 4Gb (+120 core + 160 Memory OC) Fresh install of Windows 10 with all latest drivers.

My previous rig i5 2500k @ 4.1Ghz, 12Gb of DDR3 @ 1600 with the same Geforce 960GTX 4GB (+100 core + 100 Memory OC) Windows 10.

In both screenshots I'm running the same park and on average I'm seeing around 8-10fps lower than the i5.

Seeing 8-11fps on the Ryzen
Seeing 16-25fps on the i5

Any ideas?

 

[eyetrip]

So my AM4 bracket turns up and it's time to swap out the wraith cooler that came with my 1700 with an AIO.

Loosen all the screws... Give it a wiggle. Damn, seems a bit stuck. Give it a twist... Wiggle a little more...

BANG!!!

The whole cooler flies out my motherboard with the CPU still attached and the retention lever still locked in the down position.

I look at the bottom of the CPU and to my horror see bent pins everywhere. I twist of the CPU and clean it up a little and try to slide a credit card between the pins to straighten them out but they're so tiny and close together it won't fit.

I ended up using a flick knife and holding it up to the light while looking through one eye, bending the tiny pins back and desperately trying not to break them off by using too much force.

Once they were all straight I dropped it back onto the socket and it went right in. Dunno if the retention mechanism was broken or what, but I bolted the AIO down on top and fired it up. Booted into bios and had it back into windows in no time.

I don't THINK I did any damage

Thanks for this - I'm hoping to remove wraith later and put my water block back on...

 

[Howie87]

How far can you OC with these coolers?

I wouldn't go much past 1.3 Vcore on the wraith as it will be hitting 80C when heavily loaded. If you're lucky you might be able to get 3.7GHz on all cores at that voltage. I'm running my 1700 stock at the moment though as bumping the ram up to 2933MHz seems to make cold booting extremely hit and miss when combined with an overclock. With Ryzen being extremely responsive to memory frequency and the 1700 XFR turbo reaching 3.75GHz anyway I'm just enjoying the low power draw, decent single core performance and nice temps.