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Ryzen 3900X thread

Gibbo said:
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £518.99 inc VAT



100-100000023BOX, 12 Core with 24 Threads, 4.60GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 64MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 3 Year Warranty



Only £518.99 inc VAT.

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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - OEM @ £499.99 inc VAT



12 Core with 24 Threads, 4.60GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 64MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 1 Year Warranty



Only £499.99 inc VAT.

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What's the difference between these two apart from price and warranty?
 
Hades said:
What's the difference between these two apart from price and warranty?
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One has a chance to be a good clocker, the other one likely not so much :p

I always buy retail boxed, there is a much higher chance to get a much better silicon like that imo. Some may say otherwise, but that has been my experience.
 
TNA said:
One has a chance to be a good clocker, the other one likely not so much :p

I always buy retail boxed, there is a much higher chance to get a much better silicon like that imo. Some may say otherwise, but that has been my experience.
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Thanks.
 
Hades said:
What's the difference between these two apart from price and warranty?
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One is tray 1yr warranty product. Cost less.
The other is retail, shiny box, 3yr warranty, cost more.

Both are identical.

I'd personally pay £20 more for retail box and the warranty. :)
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
I really don't get the point of oem chips, pretty much retail price but **** all warranty and generally poor binning.
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Presumably they are targeted at system builders who would only be offering a one year warranty on the entire system and wouldn't be overclocking.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
I know it was a long time ago now but I bought an OEM Northwood P4 3.0 from OcUK and it was a monster which clocked to 3.9Ghz easy on good air. Shows they're not always terrible.
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Maybe not, but screw paying nearly retail price for barely any warranty. I've never understood the point of oem. If they only come with a third of the warranty knock similar off the price.
 
KungFuSpaghetti said:
Maybe not, but screw paying nearly retail price for barely any warranty. I've never understood the point of oem. If they only come with a third of the warranty knock similar off the price.
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I agree with you totally, the reason I went for that P4 was because it was almost 50% less than the retail part, also I have literally never had a single processor fail on me for any reason.
 
In this case you would be wrong to buy the OEM part for diy just to save 20 pounds. The retail one comes with the cooler as well which perhaps most won't use anyway - i will though for starters and then get me a D15 or something for xmas if I get this and not the 3950x. But a system builder who provides 1 year warranty anyway will save a few pounds here and there. But I like that there is an option at least also this shows that there will be more 3900x's out there and more chance of me getting one before the 4900x gets announced :P
 
Anyone else running 4.4+ all core?

Currently running 4.425 @ 1.326v (1.368v in BIOS, drops under load).

Can't really get much past that without a dramatic vcore increase.
 
andy_mk3 said:
Anyone else running 4.4+ all core?

Currently running 4.425 @ 1.326v (1.368v in BIOS, drops under load).

Can't really get much past that without a dramatic vcore increase.
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I can’t hit 4.4 ghz all core any voltage lower then 1.45v but I can get 3.375 at 1.32v though I haven’t pushed past 4.4ghz all core at all
 
andy_mk3 said:
Anyone else running 4.4+ all core?

Currently running 4.425 @ 1.326v (1.368v in BIOS, drops under load).

Can't really get much past that without a dramatic vcore increase.
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Me, but I only have 6 cores with my 3600. I do it at 1.275v :)
 
I’d have thought 2070/2080 or AMD equivalent would be a good pairing, at the end of the day go with best card you can afford, you can always upgrade later.
 
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