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SOME RYZEN 7 1700 OVERCLOCKING!

Gibbo said:
Yes 3000 is the sweet spot!

Above 3000 even in Crosshair is fiddly, 3200 seems max, whereas all the other mainboards are stuck at 2400-2666 so far, though we are yet to try Taichi and Carbon, but the MSI 370 SLI and Asus Prime did not want to go much beyond 2400MHz!

3600MHz is absolute flat out NO on any mainboard at present!
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Thanks Gibbo, seems a good price so will order some in readiness!
 
I bought a cheap 2400 kit off the MM to get me started on Zen. Sounds like that might be just about as good as it goes for many motherboards anyway.

Still haven't decided on what board to go for at the moment. I think, by the looks of it, many people are getting in B350 boards just to get them up and running until the X370's come in stock. I might see about starting with one of those. I decided a couple weeks ago that I'll likely go all-in on this platform for the next 5+ years. So along with that, I also decided a cheap board just now (was initially thinking the X370 Prime, or even a B350 is what I was thinking initially), with a view to upgrading it after Zen+ release, or maybe even later. Then drop in whatever APU looks good a year or so after that. So whatever board I get now only needs to do me a year or so. By then, all these teething issues will hopefully be sorted anyway. I certainly don't want to be dropping £250+ now on a motherboard that might end up lacking in a couple years time, on the same platform.
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

So we test 1700 and 1800X both at 4.0GHz and both performed identically. So chips are indeed identical. :)
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Did they both run at roughly the same temps under load? Would guess they would if they are identical but have seen that the 1800X is possibly a hotter chip.
 
Gibbo said:
Yes 3000 is the sweet spot!

Above 3000 even in Crosshair is fiddly, 3200 seems max, whereas all the other mainboards are stuck at 2400-2666 so far, though we are yet to try Taichi and Carbon, but the MSI 370 SLI and Asus Prime did not want to go much beyond 2400MHz!

3600MHz is absolute flat out NO on any mainboard at present!
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Does that mean that the Gigabyte Gaming boards have a design flaw? Or that they released them with some advertised features not finished and will patch the BIOS later? (GB advertise 3200MHz for the 5 and 3600MHz for the 7, even list RAM at those speeds validated in their qualified vendors list).
 
ubersonic said:
Does that mean that the Gigabyte Gaming boards have a design flaw? Or that they released them with some advertised features not finished and will patch the BIOS later? (GB advertise 3200MHz for the 5 and 3600MHz for the 7, even list RAM at those speeds validated in their qualified vendors list).
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BIOS needs to mature, out the gates Asus Crosshair is best, but we find on Intel platform Asus are always king of memory overclocking generally, particular at product launch. :)
 
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