Zen 2 Owners Thread!

SiDeards73 · 8 Jul 2019 at 07:23

Bought
3800X
Asrock x570 Taichi

Swapping the below from my old rig

2 x 250gb Samsung nvme drives
2 x Samsung 250GB 850SSD's
1000w Superflower Plat PSU
Vega 64 Nitro
Evga CLC 280 AIO
3600 C16 Trident Z RGB
Phanteks P600s Case
Acer 100mhz Freesync 3440x1440p UW 35" Screen.

Moving from the above bits with a CH6 and 1700 @3.8ghz 1.34v

Once the CPU and Mobo turn up i intend to bench my current setup, then replace the 1700 with the 3800x and see how the CH6 treats it and bench again.

Then swap it all over to the 3800x and bench again for a final time.

Wont be reinstalling windows until i feel there is a specific amount of performance loss.

Wanted to start a Zen2 owners thread so new owners can compare and discuss hopefully without the usual bickering between which platform is better. And hopefully help prospective buyers who may be in a similar position in the future.

Feel free to post and discuss your setups old and new.

Apache14 · 8 Jul 2019 at 08:34

I have a 3900x on order to replace my 1700. Full specs will be :

CPU : 3900X
Motherboard : Gigabyte X370 Gaming K5
RAM : TeamGroup DDR-3200 memory (hope XMP speeds will work with the new CPU)
GPU : AMD Vega 64 (stock)

I don't really overclock but this will all eventually be under a custom water cooling loop.

robfosters · 8 Jul 2019 at 08:35

Signing in.

My spec will be:

Ryzen 3900X
Corsair H100i RGB AIO cooler
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra
16GB Hyper X predator 3200
500GB M2 SSD (will be upgraded in due course to 1TB PCI-E 4 SSD)
Gigabyte Vega 64
850w Superflower leadex platinum
Corsair Carbide 275R
Gigabyte Aorus AD27QD 1440p 144Hz monitor

IntrAphasE · 8 Jul 2019 at 08:56

Will be Running All on my custom hardline water loop

Cpu Ryzen 3900X
Motherboard Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB
Graphics Radeon VII
Disc Drive 1 Samsung 960 PRO Polaris 512GB M.2
Disc Drive 2 Seagate 6TB BarraCuda
Disc Drive 3 Samsung 860 1TB
PSU Corsair Professional Series HX 850W '80 Plus Platinum'
Case Lian-Li PC-O11WGX ROG Edition
Monitor Asus XG32VQ ROG STRIX 32" 2560x1440

opethdisciple · 8 Jul 2019 at 09:04

Jeez. 3900x's. You using those for more than just gaming rigs right? I don't think I could justify spending £500 o a cpu for just gaming.

IntrAphasE · 8 Jul 2019 at 09:05

Gaming and video editting for me

Steedie · 8 Jul 2019 at 09:10

Went for a 3900X, 32GB of the 8-Pack 3600 RAM and an Asus ROG X570-F Strix. Now just need the 2080 Super and my upgrade will be complete

DragonQ · 8 Jul 2019 at 09:18

Current Rig:

CPU: Xeon X5675 @ 4.4 GHz
Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P
GPU: Sapphire Vega 56 Pulse @ 1590/950 MHz (975/1025 mV)
RAM: 16 GiB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MT/s
Monitor: Asus MG279Q (1440p144)
OS SSD: Crucial BX100 250 GB
Games SSD: Crucial MX500 2 TB
Case: Dominator CM-690
PSU: CoolerMaster Silent Pro M700

New Rig (reused parts in italics):

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X
Mobo: ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P
GPU: Sapphire Vega 56 Pulse @ 1590/950 MHz (975/1025 mV)
RAM: 32 GiB DDR4 @ 3000-15-15-15-36
Monitor: Asus MG279Q (1440p144)
OS SSD: Samsung 970 EV0 1 TB
Games SSD: Crucial MX500 2 TB
Case: Fractal Meshify C
PSU: CoolerMaster Silent Pro M700

robfosters · 8 Jul 2019 at 09:18

opethdisciple said:
Jeez. 3900x's. You using those for more than just gaming rigs right? I don't think I could justify spending £500 o a cpu for just gaming.

For me it’s gaming and audio production. Plus, you might think £500 is a lot of money, but in the grand scheme of things, particularly compared to intel, it’s great value and is well futureproofed.

willhub · 8 Jul 2019 at 09:19

3700x
Asus B350F Strix
2 x 16GB G-Skill trident RGB 3200
Aorus GTX 1080 Ti

Hoping this last me a good few years if anything a GPU and ram upgrade next year

robbiecfc · 8 Jul 2019 at 10:07

Have put an order in for a 3900X
Full build will be following:

CPU: R9 3900X
GPU: Vega VII
MB: Asus Crosshair VII Hero Wi-Fi
RAM: 2 x 8GB GSkill TridentZ 3200 C14 (but can do 3466C15 or 3600C16)
Primary Drives: Samsung 500GB 970 Evo Plus (1 for Win 10 and 1 for Centos 7)
Backup Drive: (2 x Toshiba X300 4TB in RAID1)
PSU: Seasonic Prime Gold 1000W
Case: Lian-li PC 0-11 Dynamic
Cooling: 2 x XSPC RX360, Aquacomputer Aquaero 6LT, D5 Next, Splitty4, Quadro, EK Velocity & EK Vector VII. Noiseblocker PL2 fans

I'm thinking of swapping out the EK Velocity for an Aquacomputer Cuplex Kyros Vario which may give me a better chance of extracting heat from the Chiplets.

Apache14 · 8 Jul 2019 at 10:15

opethdisciple said:
Jeez. 3900x's. You using those for more than just gaming rigs right? I don't think I could justify spending £500 o a cpu for just gaming.

Less gaming more development rig, extra few seconds here and there when compiling with multiple applications open is night and day. Was looking at a thread ripper build before this

In fact 80%+ of the time in running in Linux or in a Linux VM

Panos · 8 Jul 2019 at 10:48

Ordered a X570 Taichi (couldn't resist it's £242 offer), and a Corsair MP600 1TB pcie-4.0 drive to go with my 3900X and the 5700XT Anniversary edition.

Ram I will use the ancient and trusty, 3 years old Gskil Ripjaws V 3600C16, and that will be the 5th motherboard/CPU combo used. Not bad for a £140 ram bought 3 years ago....

Cooling, for CPU Noctua D15. GPU we shall see.

Jokester · 8 Jul 2019 at 10:50

Rocking the same RAM, once I upgrade it’ll be the oldest part of my rig.

Panos · 8 Jul 2019 at 10:59

Jokester said:
Rocking the same RAM, once I upgrade it’ll be the oldest part of my rig.

I have an even older part. the Superflower 1000W platinum PSU. That was bought with the 295X2 back in 2014 from OCUK

(and came with a big bag of Haribo, which the people at the office enjoyed a lot)

killem · 8 Jul 2019 at 11:08

Have ordered.
New machine will end up with the following when CPU & Mobo arrive.

CPU: R9 3900X
GPU: Vega VII
MB: MSI Prestige X570 Creation
RAM: 2 x 8GB Adata 3600 CL17 RGB
Primary Drive: Samsung 250gb 970 evo plus
Storage Drive: Samsung 500gb 960 ssd
PSU: Seasonic Snow Silent 750W 80 Plus Platinum
Case: Fractal Design R6
Cooling:Fractal Design 360 AIO

Have a home server with 20TB storage so dont need big drives for main machine.

Sin_Chase · 8 Jul 2019 at 11:23

Will be dumping a 3900X into an Auros Master with 2x8GB 3600CL16. Reusing my Auros WaterForce RTX2080, PSU etc.

Will be updating my soft tube custom loop in a 900D to a hardline configuration in the same case.

Also deciding to dump mechanical HDDs completely so saying goodbye to the 4TB RAID-0 stripe. Migrating the current 512 GB OS SSD into bulk storage and a new NVME drive for the OS and games/apps. Anything larger like backups will reside on NAS.

TerrierHTFC · 8 Jul 2019 at 11:29

Gear inbound! As per sig below.

1070ti is going next.

adrichardson81 · 8 Jul 2019 at 12:30

Going from:
1700 @4.0 w/ H115i
Asrock X370 Taichi
16gb 3200 C14 (8pack)
970 Evo Plus 500gb, WD Black G2 500gb, Silicon Power 1tb, bunch of SSDs
GTX 1080 w/ AIO

To:
3800x w/ H115i
MSI x570 Ace
16gb 3200 c14 (potentially @3600 c16)
Same storage setup
GTX 1080 w/ AIO (for now)

I'm considering a 2070s or cheap 2080 next month and will stick with pcie 3.0 m.2s for now.

oweneades · 8 Jul 2019 at 13:13

Moving from:

2700x cooled by Fractal Design Celsius 36 (360mm AIO)
Gigabyte x370 Gaming 3
TG 8Pack DDR4 3200C14
1080Ti

To:

3900x (Same cooler)
Gigabyte x570 Auros Pro
TG 8Pack DDR4 3200C14 @ 3600C14-16
1080Ti or RTX2080 depending on which performs better (My wife will get the other one in her machine*).

Switching mainly as a treat to myself. Hoping the extra IPC and clocks will mean higher minimums in Destiny 2 (1440p 144hz monitor and I don't always see 100% GPU usage indicating a possible CPU bottleneck in certain areas of the game).

I am NOT expecting a night and day difference in game.

Thinking about getting into video work as well as a bit of a hobby so that helps to justify the upgrade to myself...

*Although she is now asking for the 3600 to replace her 2600....