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Ryzen "2" ?

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I'm trying max frequency stable with my Corsair h90 cooling system
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I prefer the look of my 1700 RGB cooler, but yes exciting times 4.3GHz max boost. Look forward to OC results, would be great to see 4.5GHz. Maybe, maybe not.

I plan to hang onto the 1700 for a while yet though.
 
Ok thanks, be exciting to find out!! What did the 1600X do? I know the turbo algorithm has been updated with these new models.

If you can confirm what it is @LOLN1 later man then that would be great. Be really really nice to have a great boosting cpu that boosts high and you can leave at stock for full stability :cool:
 
Marketing always blow things up to be a lot better than you expect. It'll be single core at 4.35 otherwise it would already have been leaked "all core boost 4.35".

I'm just living in hope that it can be overclocked to comfortably sit at around 4.2Ghz across all cores.
 
By the way if meltdown mitigation is "valued", my view may shift to AMD given its immune to meltdown.

If I install the meltdown patch on my laptop it takes 8 seconds to open task manager first time after a bootup, vs a fraction of a second without the patch (broadwell i3). I also get random kernel locking issues causing things to hang.

On my desktop (coffee lake i5) both the above issues dont occur, but the system is laggier in heavy kernel lock situations, e.g. starting chrome uses a crap ton of kernel calls if a lot of tabs, and it takes twice as long to start if meltdown mitigation is enabled, I get visible stutters in games that vanish if I disable the mitigation, and steam even noticeably takes longer to start, it feels like I cancel my recent hardware upgrade with some on top, so needless to say I have removed the mitigation on my desktop. I dread to think how bad things are if spectre is mitigated as well.

In the server space intel is facing a torrid time, some workloads have doubling of cpu usage when meltdown+spectre is mitigated, this is compulsory on the likes of amazon EC2 as amazon patch it on the host. Microsoft know its really bad in the server space which is why windows server OS disabled the mitigation by default. So I think in server land AMD could be making some big gains in the short term until intel sort themselves out.

So I am no intel fanboy, just my earlier comments relate to what type of performance I value from a CPU for my type of workload. Luckily I dont consider meltdown and especially spectre as a serious threat as my systems are locked down to make it hard for the rogue code to even get a chance to run on my systems so I dont mine keeping those mitigation's away from my desktop, but obviously the story could change at any given moment.
 
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