*** Official Ryzen Threadripper Owners Thread ***

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@sandys - thanks, just tried what you suggested, 2 options: Auto and disabled, set to disabled and it did just that running @3.5GHz - no boosting as expected. Set back to auto and back to 4GHz max boost....

Have you tried switching on PBO in Ryzen Master and see if that changes the boost clocks?

 

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As promised, here's a run down of the 1950x stock vs 2950x PBO comparison. Don't focus on the actual numbers too much - it's a year old windows install with about 40 apps running in the system tray and two VM's running - the comparison is just to see the uplifts offered.

The reason why I think this comparison is relevant is that I never ran my 1950x permanently OC'd as in my mind, losing XFR wasn't worth the permanent 4ghz OC. Now with the 2950x's PBO, it offers the best of both worlds (I'm still tuning PBO though, I'm sure I can get more out of it).

 

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Been thinking about getting into the TR club. Plan is to buy a 1900X at the end of the month as a cheap way into the platform while they are still available and then buy a motherboard and RAM as funds allow.

Anyone see any flaws in the plan?

Take a look on the members market. A few members are selling 1st gen threadripper chips after their gen 2 upgrade

 

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Certainly a great effort in the number of tests run, but this doesn't prove that XFR2 is working on your system as default as you have invoked PBO.

XFR does work on my system - I can see it in in HWInfo.

I loaded optimised defaults in the bios, disabled PBO, set mem speeds and booted - XFR shows boosting on four cores up to 4.4 ghz (actually 4.375ghz but that's I think that's an issue with HWInfo not showing peak boost correctly).

 

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@ketma drop me your email address and I'll send you over an F11d bios for the Gaming 7.

 

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Great news ketma No idea why f10 worked for me but not for you - prob just a quirk with some compatibility between components specific to our systems but glad it's all ok for you now. I've applied f11d myself and seem to be getting around 3% uptick in scores for low core tests (cpu-z single core went from 478 to 492).

 

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<thumbs up>

 

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Thanks. Really useful article. Looks worth a bit of tinkering.



Yes I don't think I'll run a 24/7 overclock as the AMD automatic boost seems pretty good. I'll probably do a bit more playing around with the memory. Just need to decide which motherboard, after a solid stable board with quality components and plenty of potential for future upgrades including a 16C 7nm TR eventually.

With PBO, there is almost zero point in manually overclocking the 2xxx series Threadrippers.

Here's my comparison between my old 1950x and my 2950x with PBO enabled.

 

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So I've seen nothing but positive press on the MSI Meg Creation but is there an alternative I should also be considering?

Any other X399 board is fine if you aren't using a 2970wx or 2990wx as the other cpus don't need the beefed up powerstages for overclocking. I don't think there is a 'bad' X399 board.

 

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True. But considering that we will need them for next couple of years, are an investment.

The X399 Taichi is perfect for the 2920X. Cheep (£250s) and cheerful to be replaced next year with the pci-e 4.0 ones.

Yeah, I'd have picked up a Taichi instead o my current board but they took ages to come into stock when I built this system at the launch of the 1950x.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

@mikez Yeah, share the bench mark and I'll run it. I'll disable some cores as well so you could get an idea of what a 2920x would do.

 

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Hello guys

You can find the benchmark below

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmarks-suite

You can use the below settings so it takes only a few mins:

- data/time -> data
- equations to solve -> 40000
- leading dimension of array -> 40000
- trials -> 1
- data alignment -> 1

Thanks a lot!

Any tips on how to run the benchmarks?

When I run the bat files it says:-

This binary version of the SMP LINPACK benchmark is optimized for and runs on only genuine Intel processors

 

[Deleted member 66701]

If you're asking strangers on a forum to run benches for you, at least make them easy to run for us

 

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Thanks TrixX. Anyone with 2950x, what oc clocks you getting and with what cooling?

I leave PBO on - manual clocking isn't worth it imho. With PBO, all core clocks are between 4ghz and 4.1ghz depending on workload. Pulls 325 watts. Cooling is EK TR4 v2 block, rest as per sig.

 

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It's great for gaming - no issues.