So what's the verdict so far on the Ryzen Processors?

[AhhBisto]

So I've looked into Ryzen for last few weeks having been massively out of touch for years on CPU technology.

Now I can't really make heads or tails out of the reviews as there has been 2 generations with a 3rd potentially to ship this year.

I understand that they're getting really good multicore scores especially per £, but reliability may be lacking especially in the first gen Ryzen especially with driver support?

Is this just a case of AMD being behind for so long they dont have the manufacturer support that intel has?

 

[AhhBisto]

Thanks for the information guys, it wasn't reliability as such as failure but in terms of in game and in applications. I saw people having issues with support for adobe video editing products and some game titles such as GTA 5 not performing as they should.

Don't get me wrong it defiantly is a fantastic CPU. I know there was some misinformation as some of the reviews and testing was on the 1st gen not the 2nd and overall 2nd gen did fantastic.

 

[AhhBisto]

As is a £50 intel processor that streams and transcodes to multiple hd devices at the same time.

Why put such a chip and board in for a Plex server? Was it just spare? Or do you do other things with it?

I actually used the pc that blew it caps on my fact for plex. Can't say I had any issues with the dual core cpu that was 13 years old. L

He did specifically say it was an UnRAID box, UnRAID users tend to use onboard SATA and HBA's to pack many drives into a single system or expand it via disk shelf/pod set-up (x370+R1700/32GB/H310 HBA + many drives user here), so as well as UnRAID's core functions, Plex will be docker based, likely so will Ombi/Tautulli/Sonarr/Radarr/NZBGet/RuTorrent/rclone etc. plus whatever else is running as a Unraid plugin/VM. I'm a big advocate of an efficient Plex server/client set-up and when it comes to PlexPass users, it's hard to ignore intel's dominance due to iGPU, but it's not always ideal/desirable/possible to make use of hardware transcoding and not everyone pays for PlexPass, so CPU is still the most compatible/forgiving solution.

Op - Please spend 30 mins actually doing what you claim to have done for a few weeks, your post reads like a car crash of poor assumption and lack of basic understanding. 1st gen Ryzen had one slightly obscure but horrible issue in the first few weeks of manufacturing, all affected chips were offered free replacements, other than that and the obligatory new platform/chipset teething issues that were for the most part mitigated and/or fixed some time ago, the platform is generally stable. Before you assume this was an AMD thing, intel have support issues with the 9 series under some OS'. Ryzen is a solid performer in multithreaded workloads and excellent value compared to intel, it's slightly lacking in outright single core performance vs high end intel processors, despite what you'd think, a lot of tasks are still largely dependant on single core performance. Either way without knowing what you actually want to use it for, it's a largely moot point.

Thanks again everyone for the information.

Honestly nothing I was saying was to be bait worthy or to upset anyone. I haven't been interested in the amd platform since the early athlon days. And been out of the game for a couple of years.

Reliablity was defiantly the wrong word to use, so I apologise.

 

[AhhBisto]

Just an update since I have been quite busy, I ended up hopping on the Ryzen bandwagon.

I did go for the 1st gen ryzen 7 1700, it wasn't much cheaper but enough. The extra cores may help me with my video rendering and since I don't play games too often, I could always over clock if needed.

I picked the gigabyte b450m ds3h, even though some people saying having issues with the board and storage devices, it was cheap and had 4 very essential ram slots which even more expensive boards didn't.

Got to say I am very happy so far, I have switched form premier pro and trying Davinci for video projects, but so far everything is running smooth. Memory is clocked at 3000mhz with no stability issues.