Hi there
So I grabbed a retail processor to see how well it did compared to the retail sample AMD provided me. The sample was rock stable in everything at 4050MHz, but anything higher could be flaky.
Glad to report the retail CPU was rock stable at 4100MHz even with the memory running as high as 3200MHz.
Sacrificing memory performance could yield 4.25GHz, but we found running the memory at 3000-3200MHz yielded a greater gain than running the CPU at 4.2GHz with RAM at 2400MHz.
As such sweet spot is memory at 3000MHz C16, however getting memory to run at high clocks takes a lot of trial and error and he had good results with enabling DOCP profiles and then clocking down.
Some screenshots of the 1700:
I personally think it is a fantastic achievement from AMD, this 65W 3.0GHz base chip is rock stable at 1100MHz above its rated speed.
The 1700 does have XFR but its boost is limited to stay within the 65W specification, but once you switch to manual overclocking the 1700 is no different to the 1700X or 1800X and can easily run at 1800X speeds when overclocked.
We used the best motherboard, the Crosshair, we will do some testing soon in MSI Carbon and Asrock Taichi to see if those can too achieve good overclocks.
The lower-end boards, well they cost less for a reason, you pay for what you get and its still early days so some good value overclocking mainboards may yet appear for sure.
Once we test a Carbon and Taichi with same CPU we shall feedback. We are still awaiting 1800X delivery to test those!
Also as you might be aware there is a severe motherboard shortage and the CPU's have already oversold and are short from AMD.
I shall add delivery information into this thread over next few days as I know it.
So I grabbed a retail processor to see how well it did compared to the retail sample AMD provided me. The sample was rock stable in everything at 4050MHz, but anything higher could be flaky.
Glad to report the retail CPU was rock stable at 4100MHz even with the memory running as high as 3200MHz.
Sacrificing memory performance could yield 4.25GHz, but we found running the memory at 3000-3200MHz yielded a greater gain than running the CPU at 4.2GHz with RAM at 2400MHz.
As such sweet spot is memory at 3000MHz C16, however getting memory to run at high clocks takes a lot of trial and error and he had good results with enabling DOCP profiles and then clocking down.
Some screenshots of the 1700:
I personally think it is a fantastic achievement from AMD, this 65W 3.0GHz base chip is rock stable at 1100MHz above its rated speed.
The 1700 does have XFR but its boost is limited to stay within the 65W specification, but once you switch to manual overclocking the 1700 is no different to the 1700X or 1800X and can easily run at 1800X speeds when overclocked.
We used the best motherboard, the Crosshair, we will do some testing soon in MSI Carbon and Asrock Taichi to see if those can too achieve good overclocks.
The lower-end boards, well they cost less for a reason, you pay for what you get and its still early days so some good value overclocking mainboards may yet appear for sure.
Once we test a Carbon and Taichi with same CPU we shall feedback. We are still awaiting 1800X delivery to test those!
Also as you might be aware there is a severe motherboard shortage and the CPU's have already oversold and are short from AMD.
I shall add delivery information into this thread over next few days as I know it.
