I would like to announce that after a brief period of running Intel only CPU's for the last thirty-two years I have just put up the cash to purchase a Ryzen 5 1600. The operation to introduce the new processor to its equally new sibling parts is scheduled for the forthcoming bank holiday weekend.
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Ryzen 5 1600
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I have a core 2 quad - Q9550 - so I do need an upgrade! I've been holding off for ages hoping AMD would deliver something for me to try because it's time for something new. I am waiting for the parts to arrive and will build the machine over the week-end so I won't know how it performs for a week or so.
That is reassuring because I was having a few concerns around the memory in particular having read the various problems others have been reporting with Ryzen chips and memory in general. I will take your advice and update the BIOS as my first action - assuming I get that far in the first place!
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I too had a 286, 386, 486 and a 486DX-66. However my starting point was an Amstrad 1512 - which came with twin 5 1/4inch floppy drives. Hard drives were still an expensive gleam in IBM's research labs back in 1985!
I have completed the build and it started first time with no problems. The motherboard (X-370 Pro) came with BIOS v5.04 out of the box so I flashed up to the latest as suggested and am now on v6.04. My Corsair Vengeance memory is running at 2100 which is the highest SPD value it supports although it is rated at 3200 if overclocked. So I will leave it there for today as I want to install my programmes then hopefully I wil have time tomorrow (Formula 1 allowing!) to get into the BIOS proper and see how far towards the optimal I can take. However from the various articles I have been reading on the Ryzen memory issues it doesn't seem to affect the fps values being recorded in games that much. Does that seem right to anyone who has already been down this path?
The web site report you quote is a typical example of being careful with reviews and real world performance and balancing a reviewers findings with ones own goals. The test rig pairs a Ryzen 5 1600 cpu with a GTX 1080 which I just can't see happening in the real world as I assume people spending £500 on a graphics card are unlikely to use a £200 processor. A Ryzen 5 class processor is more likely to be paired with a 1060 or 1070 if using an Nvidia GPU or a R480/R580 if staying with AMD. This review (like many others) shows a fall off in the incremental percentage gains above DDR 2666, which although they exist, probably won't make much difference and the gains would likely be less if using a GTX 1060 as I do - does anyone really notice a few frames per second when focused on gaming? It is also based on 1980x1080 monitor which is what the majority of people seem to use just now but my particular system has a 2560x1440 setup which is much more dependent upon the GPU. So I accept that memory speed affects performance - but not necessarily by anything like as much as shown in many of the test rigs used by reviewers and that for people on a budget looking to get best value there is always a sweet spot beyond which gains are still possible but at a price.
Been playing around with the BIOS settings a bit and got memory speed up to 1464MHz (clock doubled to 2928DDR) at stock voltage of 1.2v. I can't get it up to 3200 and assume that is because the memory is at command rate of 1T as reported by CPU-Z and I can't see anywhere in the BIOS to change the command rate. Does anyone know how to change the command rate to Corsair's recommended setting of 2T or is this why others are struggling to get their memory to run at the correct overclocked speeds?