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ryzen price drops?

pete910 said:
Shame about RAM though! Wonder how many would jump but wont due to ram prices
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isnt the ram going to be compatiable pete ? ram prices do seem very high at moment, but personally I think thats due to all the intels at crazy prices etc ??

i paid 179.99 for my 8pack dark pro limited edition 3200 16gb and i think its 229.99 now, so thats like a 25% increase
 
marco.da.man said:
isnt the ram going to be compatiable pete ? ram prices do seem very high at moment, but personally I think thats due to all the intels at crazy prices etc ??

i paid 179.99 for my 8pack dark pro limited edition 3200 16gb and i think its 229.99 now, so thats like a 25% increase
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I mean ram prices in general, I paid £150 for my 16Gb 3200 kit when I bought it, It's £219 now. Kinda mitigates the CPU price drops to me.
 
marco.da.man said:
isnt the ram going to be compatiable pete ? ram prices do seem very high at moment, but personally I think thats due to all the intels at crazy prices etc ??

i paid 179.99 for my 8pack dark pro limited edition 3200 16gb and i think its 229.99 now, so thats like a 25% increase
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Two years ago i paid £90 for 16GB of HyperX Savage Red 2400Mhz DDR3.

The problem is DDR4 memory is now in mobiles, they are eating up the bulk of a very limited supply. Supply and demand and they ain't going to ramp up production because high prices is good for them, with it being in Mobile phones there will always be a huge demand for it, we don't matter.
 
marco.da.man said:
i know gddr5 is designed to work with graphics workloads compared to ddr which is computer workloads cpu, but surely in terms of comparmise its not far off @humbug
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It uses 8GB of GDDR5 for Graphics and System Memory, the G stands for Graphics, its the same GDDR5 you see on this, what the PS4 has is an HSA capable APU, Its AMD's unified memory.

DDR5 is entirety different thing to GDDR5 :)
 
So everything is installed and seems to be operational, no having to open up the thing to check thank god!

Just need to re-activate windows which is always a blooming chore now due to the hardware change.
 
Just went and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t say no to a 1800x at £280 >.<

Rather get a decent priced 1800x now then upgrade to ryzen 2. I don’t expect to see ryzen plus to bring any huge improvements. If it does can always just trade in the 1800x.

Thanks to those that helped me earlier o/
 
Divine Pain said:
Just went and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t say no to a 1800x at £280 >.<

Rather get a decent priced 1800x now then upgrade to ryzen 2. I don’t expect to see ryzen plus to bring any huge improvements. If it does can always just trade in the 1800x.

Thanks to those that helped me earlier o/
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Good decision mate :)

I'm hopeful I won't regret mines, not so far anyways.

Things in general seem a lot snappier than my i7 3770k.
 
So tempted by the 1800X at £288. Have had a 1600 since release which is stuck at 3.7, plan was always to get an 8 core around the release of Zen+. I was either going to get a 1700 or Zen+ if it was a decent improvement but the 1800x at £288 could well tide me over until Zen 2 in 2019.
 
Joeyuk said:
So tempted by the 1800X at £288. Have had a 1600 since release which is stuck at 3.7, plan was always to get an 8 core around the release of Zen+. I was either going to get a 1700 or Zen+ if it was a decent improvement but the 1800x at £288 could well tide me over until Zen 2 in 2019.
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should be able push 3.8/3.9 out the 1600
 
marco.da.man said:
should be able push 3.8/3.9 out the 1600
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I can get 3.8 but anything above that it just doesn't like it and its not worth the hassle to tweak it to try and get more. I'll hold out to April to see what the new chips can do, hearing rumours of 10% increase so hoping to see 4.1+ and I may just bite.
 
Really really tempted with the 1800x now I need to build a new gaming rig..but I’m still put off because of the DDR4 RAM prices, Ryzen or a 2nd hand older i7???
 
i woulda got that 1800x too.. i have had the money sitting for a while now but just cant cause of ram pretty sad actually. bummer.
 
Divine Pain said:
Just went and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t say no to a 1800x at £280 >.<

Rather get a decent priced 1800x now then upgrade to ryzen 2. I don’t expect to see ryzen plus to bring any huge improvements. If it does can always just trade in the 1800x.

Thanks to those that helped me earlier o/
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Yeah it's bonkers performance for the price. 12 months ago it would have cost maybe over £1000 to buy a CPU with this level of performance.

I'm not sure why AMD price dropped Ryzen, but I'm not complaining.
 
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