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Zen 2 Owners Thread!

Going to be upgrading the wifes PC currently

Intel i7 6700k
Corsair h150i
32gb Kingston Hyper X rgb 3200mhz cl 16
2x 500 GB Samsung Evo Nvme
2x Samgung Evo 500 GB SSD's
2x WD Black 2TB
Evga RTX 2080 XC gaming
EVGA 1000w g3 (i think)

Upgrading to
AMD 3900x
Asrock Taichi x570

Keeping everything else the same , hopefully i can get some money back by selling the 6700k and mo board
 
Zernath said:
Far from it, but this latest development isn't going to do them any favours, given the number of players likely effected by this issue!
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Is not something that cannot be fixed by the devs & AMD. Similarly to the issue with Nvidia cards and X570 atm. On some custom made (by AIBs) non AMD approved BIOS, Windows raises PCIe errors with NV cards, which affects performance, and boost clocks of the Ryzen CPUs. This doesn't exists with AMD cards, some AMD approved BIOS nor outside X570 platforms. So even here, there is issue either with BIOS which AMD would probably fix swiftly. If it is NV drivers related though, good luck to have this fixed, as it took NV almost 2 years to fix their drivers for Ryzen.
 
Got a 3900x and an Aorus Pro coming tomorrow. Took my 2600k rig apart tonight, which felt a little sad tbh after so many years of solid service. But it's going into the gf's PC so it'll live on :D

Very excited for tomorrow.
 
Well I've just bought a 3800x. £100 more for the 3900x had me thinking but the PC is only for gaming and the 3900x is over kill.

It seems I've fallen in to the trap of upgrading almost every year now. It used to be the case that a cpu would last me 4 years before I upgraded. I guess this is a knock on effect of the new CPU's being compatible with AM4 where previously on Intel the socket was dead. Nothing to upgrade too.
 
My ITX/HTPC will get the upgrade, my main rig is still doing fine.
Going from:
Ryzen 7 1700

Going to:
Ryzen 9 3900X

And it will be paired with:
Noctua NH-D9L CPU cooler
Sharkoon QB One ITX case
ASRockFatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac
16GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR4 3200MHz 2x8GB CL16 (F4-3200C16D-16GTZB)
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GAMING X 6G
PNY 240GB SSD
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM010 1TB 3.5" SATA-600 7200rpm
Enermax Revolution SFX 650watt PSU
Windows 10 64bit Pro

I will sell my R7 1700 and the GTX 1660Ti and get either a RTX 2060 Super/RTX 2070 or a RX 5700XT if manufacturers manage to send out cards with 3rd party cooling solutions soon.

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.
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*cough* Intel Core i9 9900K owners did :)
 
beany_bot said:
It was £600 some places.
You absolutely didn't have to pay £600. Anyone could have had it for less than £500. I bought 2 for £450. While the UK gouging was going on.

Alas it's a moot point.
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good on your for getting 2 a £450 but lots of people did pay £600 for the cpu if there wasn't a demand at that price they would have fallen very quickly down to the £500 they settled on. but the fact is the shop who provides these forums did infact sell at £600 never mind any other place

The point is still stands the cpu has retailed for £600 and lots of people did spend that much to get one
 
TrM said:
good on your for getting 2 a £450 but lots of people did pay £600 for the cpu if there wasn't a demand at that price they would have fallen very quickly down to the £500 they settled on. but the fact is the shop who provides these forums did infact sell at £600 never mind any other place

The point is still stands the cpu has retailed for £600 and lots of people did spend that much to get one
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Maybe so, those people were fools. no one had to pay more than £450, at any time to buy 9900k. If more people refuse to pay rip off uk prices then we wouldn't have rip off uk prices. But while people pay them. We will keep getting then.
 
Got a 3600x arriving who knows when. Am I the only one who went for one of these seeing as I don't need more than six cores?
It'll be going in my B450 tomahawk that I updated the bios in yesterday
 
pieman109 said:
Got a 3600x arriving who knows when. Am I the only one who went for one of these seeing as I don't need more than six cores?
It'll be going in my B450 tomahawk that I updated the bios in yesterday
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I think it will be the most popular gaming chip of the next 2 years.
 
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