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Poll: SO RYZEN: WHICH ONE DID YOU BUY OR ARE GONNA BUY?

Which Ryzen did you buy or are planning to buy?

  • 1700

    Votes: 142 41.0%

  • 1700X

    Votes: 92 26.6%

  • 1800X

    Votes: 112 32.4%
  • Total voters
    346
Well did a quick Cinebench R15 on my i7 6700 (non K) and achieved the following:
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So if the benchmarks are true, not missing much in the way of single thread perf, however gaining a fair bit on multi-thread and with the ability for some slight overclocking.
 
I've got some saving to do, but I cant wait to see what other upgrade bundles come available as I will be doing MoBo, CPU and RAM with a new cooler all at the same time.

Probably a 1700 as I'm budget restricted.
 
Nelly said:
Upgrade the graphics card instead for far better performance increase? :confused:
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It's the minimum fps I want to increase and hoping the change from 3770k to 1800x will enhance the minimums. The 980ti is plenty powerful enough for 1440p. I want a newer platform also, my motherboard is 6 years old!
 
mattyc1977 said:
It's the minimum fps I want to increase and hoping the change from 3770k to 1800x will enhance the minimums. The 980ti is plenty powerful enough for 1440p. I want a newer platform also, my motherboard is 6 years old!
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Don't blame you, fingers crossed for you, I'm in the same boat. I used to upgrade my motherboard/cpu every year nearly, but with Intel leaching out expensive miniscule platform releases since sandybridge with no competition I lost interest.
 
Farious said:
Well, preordered as I need to get a mounting kit from Noctua. Went with:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £537.89
(includes shipping: £0.00)



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Based on what we know, anyone see anything daft there?
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If you plan to OC your 1700 to within an inch of its life I'd personally go for an X370 board. If your budget won't stretch drop to 8GB RAM and add a DIMM later, you can replace everything in the life of your platform, but changing the board is a PITA, much easier to add compatible RAM.

Gigabyte AORUS Gaming 5 or MSI Carbon are both within reach if you dropped a DIMM.
 
Farious said:
Well, preordered as I need to get a mounting kit from Noctua. Went with:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £537.89
(includes shipping: £0.00)



​

Based on what we know, anyone see anything daft there?
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I would personally go for the MSI B350M Mortar.
 
ozzyo99 said:
If you plan to OC your 1700
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No, I intend to leave it at stock. I'd go for a 1700X if my budget would also stretch to a X370 but alas the numbers just don't add up.

ozzyo99 said:
If your budget won't stretch drop to 8GB RAM and add a DIMM later, you can replace everything in the life of your platform, but changing the board is a PITA, much easier to add compatible RAM.
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I toyed with doing that so I could get the 1700X, but it would still have to go in a cheapo B350. Benchmarks might persuade me otherwise, but I don't think I can justify it as I imagine XFR won't be as effective on the B350 so I'd just be paying for the boost in stock frequency… more or less.

CEUOTC said:
I would personally go for the MSI B350M Mortar.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
 
I've been following these threads with great interest, especially regarding Intel's reaction to this Ryzen release, 'bout time they had a kick in the backside regarding price and performance over the past few years. I'm looking at upgrading my son's pc as its an old cast off of mine (I know its an Athlon, but I haven't a clue as to which one and its running at stock) so I'll be pricing an upgrade for him as soon as reviews hit the web, but I'll be going about it from a different angle.
I want to see if I can equal the performance of the pc in my sig, maybe improve a little bit if possible, for as "cheap" as possible (after all I'm paying for it), so I'm waiting for the lower tier skus to appear and see how they perform and I'm hoping a B350 matx mobo and maybe 4c/8t or 6c/12t cpu would be fine (seems daft not to get him a multi thread cpu if they're cheap enough, and he does do a bit of encoding iirc), and top that off with 2 x 4gb or 1 x 8gb of cheap DDR4 ram. Obviously it all comes down to price/performance, but its looking good if these new cpus are as good as everyone hopes they will be.
 
Farious said:
No, I intend to leave it at stock. I'd go for a 1700X if my budget would also stretch to a X370 but alas the numbers just don't add up.

I toyed with doing that so I could get the 1700X, but it would still have to go in a cheapo B350. Benchmarks might persuade me otherwise, but I don't think I can justify it as I imagine XFR won't be as effective on the B350 so I'd just be paying for the boost in stock frequency… more or less.
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Not sure I really understand your logic. If you're going for a 1700, personally I see that as MORE reason to choose a better board. There's a good chance, particularly in the early life of Ryzen that you end up with a good chip while they refine their vetting processes - halting production to find good/bad doesn't make sense I don't feel, as they have to get to market before Intel cut their chip prices and begins spending millions on marketing their H2 2017 releases.

Just my humble opinion, but a board (barring a RMA, or technological break-though) if to last me the life of that socket, a CPU, RAM I'll upgrade during that socket given the right price becoming available. For that reason I chose a Gaming 5 and I plan for 1 Ryzen CPU upgrade (1900/2000X) in its lifetime. Until that time, I'm hopeful that the additional £60/70 will get me higher performance on my 1700 chip.

With regards to the 1700 vs 1700X, Gibbo already confirmed XFR is available on all R7 chips and the Scan Pre-bundles have confirmed 4.0GHZ is plausible on 1700 (as has OCuk), but if you intend to run stock then that's water under the bridge.

Either way we all win, so if you really do intend to run stock and you're not overly fussed with the additional capability of the X370, and sweeter audio solutions then the B350 is just fine.
 
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