Well, replaced my 2700X with a 3800x, the wrong processor I know, but it's fine in everything… a good match with my GTX1080ti at 1440p… and an upgrade path.
Awesome. The 3700X is a workhorse, it tears through my compile tasks at a pace that is just bonkers.
I would like to get one at the office instead of the desktop replacement i7 laptop.
Fitted an R7 2700 in august 18. Fast, as stable as a tripod and easy on the leccy. What more can you want for reasonable money?
Replaced my mum's old Intel i5 750 system with a newer Ryzen 2200G last year, I'm honestly impressed at just how capable it is for a 4/8 part. The only quirk I found was installing the cpu cooler on the AM4 platform is worse than the Intel cpu cooler installation, found it much more fiddly.
Not too bad, but I wish she'd stop leaving the toilet seat down.
i have 3 systems in my house 1600x with gtx 1080. 3700x with a gtx 1080 ti and a 2600x with a rx 580 all running very well and im very happy with all 3 gens that are used daily by my gf,son and me. RYZEN has served me very well and i would recommend to anyone new to pcs to gamers and enthusiast.
Upgraded from Intel pentium g4600 to 2200G.
Great bang for the buck !!
Though I must say that the CPU sticks too much to the paste from the CPU fan - so when trying to unmount the loud CPU fan, I ripped off the CPU at the same time, even releasing the safety CPU pins.
Performance is great, though I need even more GPU power / and a more silent CPU fan.
3600 here, great, even though I'm not a heavy user.
I'm running a 1600X for just under 2 years and no complaints, been looking at the Ryzen 7's as a possible upgrade next year.
Well its a Threadripper 12/24 C I run, or big Ryzen as i call it, and very well i must say.
Only let down so far is that with over 32GB of memory in it, the CPU seem to struggle keeping up with the RAMs default 3600 MHZ speed, so ATM i only run 3450 MHZ on the 48GB of RAM.
I have gotten a couple of “BSOD” but only since i dropped in the 5700XT, so i assume it is to blame for those, the 500 MHZ OC on the CPU seem to be fine and i will not push that further even though i have good temps.
I would even like to update to one of the new models, but thats way outside what my pension allow for, and besides the performance gain are not that spectacular that it is something i must do.
Maybe update to 32/64 C in a few years when they come down in a price range where i can play ball, and still use my current TR4 board.
I like my 3600. Upgraded from a 2600 on a whim and because it was a drop in upgrade for my B450 board. Plays all the games I want with ease and plenty of performance for my occasional video editing. Better handling of higher frequency RAM was a nice bonus.
Not really had any problems with either processor. Getting up and running was painless.ť
Yep just getting Hackintosh stable on my 3700X and then she'll be ready to go under water in the big boy case!.
After an annoying replacement of the faulty 1600 I actually bought, I'm still rocking a 1600x (AMD upgraded my chip and gave me a free Cooler along as an apology for the 2 dead mobos), using it for 3D rendering and some gaming with an RTX 2060. I'm still happy with it but I do plan on replacing it on the next Ryzen iteration just for those faster rendering speeds).
Looking like my next build will be AMD, my last one was an Athlon X2 a long time ago, that was replaced by a Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, then i7 920(?), i7-3770 so we'll see how it goes..
Upgraded from a FX8350 to a r5 1600 and it was night and day difference. I then upgraded to a 3700x (which is totally overkill for my gaming needs) but its just awesome with no overclcking on it until I put it under water soon.
It's fine, wish it clicked higher. Max oc I managed on r5 1600 on Asus prime b350+ was 3.7, 3.8 wouldn't stick even at 1.45v.
Paired it with 3200 corsair ram an it can only manage 2800, eventually. It was a chore just getting that high.
Of course its a massive step up from my fx 6300 but that managed 4.7ghz on an h7 air cooler. If only the ryzens oced like that they'd be beastly.
LOVE IT. I'm not a fan of upgrading the backbone (CPU/mobo/RAM) because that is graphics card levels of money and you don't really notice a real world improvement that a new top of the line card gives. But I put off upgrading for so long, as each new CPU was more disappointing than the last, especially from intel, in terms of both performance AND cost. But then AMD came out of left field with Ryzen and I had hope again. First one was shaky, second one was getting there, but 3rd time was definitely the charm. I moved from a quad core i7 and DDR3 1333 to an octacore with DDR4 3600, and the difference genuinely was like getting a new graphics card for a lot of things.
M.2 I'm meh about, fortunately the cost premium (or lack of one I should say) soaked up a lot of that meh, and I'm sure it'll come into its own as true 4K games become the norm. But the CPU performance, combined with the power usage, and therefore the heat output, has changed a lot for me. My old CPU when under load really pushed my cooler, the noise was really bad for my tinnitus. This new one even under load barely pulls 65w, and because games don't strain it like the old one, my fans keep a lot more quiet.
Now I just need to sort my FE card, as that bugger sounds like the inhuman hybrid of a plane and a hoover.
Pretty happy with my 3600, only had issues flashing the bios. One small regret is getting the Tomahawk mobo instead of the Max version that I didn't realise would be a thing, but it works so no worries unless the bios won't be as forgiving for the 4000 series. Thankfully no headaches since as opposed to my 2500k. I decided the 3600 was the best for price to performance with high performance gaming in mind and allows the ability to upgrade to a better chip at a later date, or splurge on a future platform by not spending too much on the current system now. The first and 2nd gen weren't quite up to my standards, but thankfully AMD have closed the gap further while intel has made little progress…
Admittedly I haven't pushed my system too hard yet, though would like to update my gtx 970.
Zen 3700X (UPG. from 1700) | Hero VI | 4x8GB 4133MHz @3802MHz CL16 1900FLCK 1:1:1
NVMe 1TB Sammie | Runing Vega LiQuiD
Overall experience is great, stable & plenty fast.
Games: (a lot) -> BFV, BF1, Forza H4, The Outer Worlds, The Division2, GhostR. Breakpoint…. and more.
Happy with it.
CCX OC, 4C at 4382MHz 1.375v
Stable at 4.3GHz 1.33v
Can hit 4600MHz but it needs too much V (~1.5v)
Got 3 Ryzens here all holing up well (1700, 2400G and a 3600) … The Intel i3 8350k on the other hand isn't holding up quite so well.
Are you running latest BIOS for your motherboard? It shouldn't give much trouble getting to 2933Mhz and possibly even 3200 when updated. Unless you're on A320. My personal experience is that A320 mobos just don't have stable enough power circuitry to achieve mostly any overclock. I had a 3000Mhz 8GB kit from G.skill on my B350 for an entire year, then upgraded to 16GB 2666Mhz that I could easily overclock to 2933, but the old kit I gave to my brother can't go beyond 2333 on his A320 novo, plus some people I know also can't get memory overclocks on their A320 mobos.
heh - i did a long thread on this. Recently upgraded to X570 and the BIOS is rubbish compared to the X370. The last two won't even boot.
I have now got 2 x 2600 with Asus Prime B450-A's in them with nvme boot drives. Well happy, 6c12t from 65w and easily handle everything I need. Both systems were great prices, just over £110 for the cpu's and £60 for motherboards and for those prices they are great bang for buck
Just to add both are stock and water cooled because they are in my “work” puter and my music puter so need to run quietly and without fuss
Went from an i5-3570k to a 3700x last year, its awesome in every way.
My machine is used for photo/video editing first and gaming second and it has bee a firm investment actually speeding up work flow with things like not needing proxy files for video any more and rendering/outputting is so much faster so don't need to do overnight encodes any more.
Potentially the biggest upgrade power jump I have ever had, this is partly down to delays in upgrading due to ram prices (wanting 64gb, originally wanted a 1800x)to which is seems ram prices dropped as the 3700x came out and the rest is history.
Also feel good getting a X570 board knowing there is a CPU upgrade path and will be for sometime and this board shouldn't hobble a couple of generations at least.
Intel will have to do something amazing to get me back.
Love my R3600. Plenty of space performance in pretty much everything, its great. Recommending to friends and work colleagues, though i wish there were more business desktops (pre-builds, not self builds) with a 3rd gen ryzen in.
Bought the misses a 3200g a few months back, she seems happy
Upgrading to higher version with overclocking is just like adding extra processing without knowing it's actual potential.
Didn't need to as my Phenom11 X 4 965 is still killing everything I do with a PC but I fancied a new toy. lol. I waited out 1st gen expecting teething troubles and when 2nd gen arrived and memory prices became acceptable I thought , sod it , why not? I inndulged a little just for fun but yes , more than happy , smooth and snappy. Everything is great except the dreaded Win10 , I initially put Win7 on this without probs except the onboard Bluetooth will not work without Win10. This I
don't care about as not needed but my printer keeps going offline and back on every few seconds and at one point setting up resolutions it denied me access stating password was wrong ( It wasn't ) Did a third party password removal and bloody thing accepted original password half hour later ???
Win7 is going back on as I'm not
happy with text sharpness on display ( 37" Samsung HD TV ). At present with Win10 and RX570 text seems not as fine as I get with the older Phenom machine with a Radeon 6670 on the same screen. I might try swopping out the RX570 on Win10 to the 6670 (If i can drivers for it) in case the card is the problem although theres plenty of text probs on Goole with Win10 so I've read. BTW transferred printer to the Phenom PC ( Still Win7 ) and no probs. End of the day, Ryzen = A+ from me.
Specs.
Ryzen5 2600 ( mild tweak. 4Ghz @ 1.35v. Idles @ 28 degrees )
MSI Pro Carbon B450 ATX
16 GB Gskill TridentZ RGB Running @ 3200 ( no tweaking )
Sapphire RX570 Nitro 8GB
Arctic Cooling Esports Duo ( Removed 2nd fan and placed it as rear case fan ). Briiliant cooler , clears memory slots too.
Samsung Evoplus NVME 250GB
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB
Gamemax Sapphire T/ Glass case
EVGA 750w Modular PSU
mers
Didn't need to as my Phenom11 X 4 965 is still killing everything I do with a PC but I fancied a new toy. lol. I waited out 1st gen expecting teething troubles and when 2nd gen arrived and memory prices became acceptable I thought , sod it , why not? I inndulged a little just for fun but yes , more than happy , smooth and snappy. Everything is great except the dreaded Win10 , I initially put Win7 on this without probs except the onboard Bluetooth will not work without Win10. This I
don't care about as not needed but my printer keeps going offline and back on every few seconds and at one point setting up resolutions it denied me access stating password was wrong ( It wasn't ) Did a third party password removal and bloody thing accepted original password half hour later ???
Win7 is going back on as I'm not
happy with text sharpness on display ( 37" Samsung HD TV ). At present with Win10 and RX570 text seems not as fine as I get with the older Phenom machine with a Radeon 6670 on the same screen. I might try swopping out the RX570 on Win10 to the 6670 (If i can drivers for it) in case the card is the problem although theres plenty of text probs on Goole with Win10 so I've read. BTW transferred printer to the Phenom PC ( Still Win7 ) and no probs. End of the day, Ryzen = A+ from me.
Specs.
Ryzen5 2600 ( mild tweak. 4Ghz @ 1.35v. Idles @ 28 degrees )
MSI Pro Carbon B450 ATX
16 GB Gskill TridentZ RGB Running @ 3200 ( no tweaking )
Sapphire RX570 Nitro 8GB
Arctic Cooling Esports Duo ( Removed 2nd fan and placed it as rear case fan ). Briiliant cooler , clears memory slots too.
Samsung Evoplus NVME 250GB
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB
Gamemax Sapphire T/ Glass case
EVGA 750w Modular PSU
Bad news buddy - Win 7 not supported on this setup, for example your nvme ssd will be rubbish on Win 7
I also experienced random lockups and other issues when I was dual booting when first transitioning across
Also for the text issues, a tv will never be as sharp as a monitor for starters but check out display scaling un settings. That is usually the culprit
I had a Ryzen 1700x paired with Vega VII. Rock solid. Then upgraded to Ryzen 9 3900x with a Sapphire Radeon 5700 XT Nitro+ (Replacement for Vega VII). Nothing but problems.
Like the previous poster, i put it down to the Radeon 5700XT. the AMD drivers are disgusting right now for the RDNA architecture.
Hard crashes, failed to find D3D hardware errors, soft crashes to desktop. It's in a bad place.
The drivers are about as stable as quick sand right now. Never seen it so bad and i've owned mant AMD / ATI graphics cards to make this judgement.
H'mmm my temps a ryzen hope I'm gonna be OK.
Quick reply to 3Dcandy. Sorry m8. I initially loaded Win 7 on this PC and had no lock ups and no probs with the Nvme , well over the 3000 seq.Read marks. Only hang up I had was the non-working B/Tooth which I don't care about oh , and the printer. I know a monitor is far better than a TV but have no room for a decent size one of each. I just stated that the older card under Win7 is giving me a better screen. No offence m8 but Win7 is going back on , far less hassles.
I've been running a Ryzen 5 2400G for 2 years. It runs everything I throw at it without too much fuss mainly strategy games and so forth. Could be tempted to upgrade to a 4000 series Ryzen later this year or next and sell on the 2400G, but I'm pretty happy with it at the moment so I won't be in a rush to do that.
Running an OC'd Ryzen 1600 and its working great. Although it may have chugged a few times in Battlefield on very high graphics settings with a Vega 64 in 2560x1440. After toning down the graphics a bit, it was fine.
HEXUS
Let's hear some real-world experiences from Ryzen users.
Getting along fine. It's not given me any hassle. It's still in its box mind you…
(Trying to scrape enough money together to get some other parts for the build.)
I'm also still wondering if I made the right call getting the ACE mobo or whether I should get the Aorus master instead. Any feedback from owners of those appreciated.
mers
Quick reply to 3Dcandy. Sorry m8. I initially loaded Win 7 on this PC and had no lock ups and no probs with the Nvme , well over the 3000 seq.Read marks. Only hang up I had was the non-working B/Tooth which I don't care about oh , and the printer. I know a monitor is far better than a TV but have no room for a decent size one of each. I just stated that the older card under Win7 is giving me a better screen. No offence m8 but Win7 is going back on , far less hassles.
And not supported any longer…
Oh well if you must but I think that's a waste of your processor etc. Display scaling is the issue and it's an easy fix.
Also the older card will not have all the settings as the driver does not support them - which is possibly why to you it appears clearer
Still rolling with a 1700X, waiting for 4000 series parts for an upgrade. I can't financiall justify the need yet, it's only been a few years, GPU prices are insane, and it doesn't bottleneck my GTX 1070. Basically, when I get a new GPU, I'll get a new CPU to stay balanced.
And not supported any longer…
Oh well if you must but I think that's a waste of your processor etc. Display scaling is the issue and it's an easy fix.
Also the older card will not have all the settings as the driver does not support them - which is possibly why to you it appears clearer
Not supported anymore , it is by me and controlled by me , not Microsoft. This is used for work and is not a waste of the processor , that statement is stupid , some could argue that gaming is a waste of a processor when you have Xboxes and the like for that. PC's were developed for working but don't take me wrong I argued many years back that if it wasn't for gaming graphics would not have developed to the degree it has anywhere near as fast. Scaling wasn't a problem , just the text definition which a lot of peeps had a problem with. Fortunately Microsoft released an answer to this which improves it a fair bit ( Windows 10 DPI Fix ). Problem was caused apparently by making things compatable with mobiles etc. Anyway , like a lot of peeps out there I'm far happier running Win7 on this than being controlled by Redmond. Thanks for the input and thanks to AMD for a class chip , happy bunny here.
Erm how is that stupid? There are specific things that are simply not supported in Win 7 that are supported by the cpu…
nvme is not natively supported by Win 7, it's hacked via a driver. Even AMD say Win 7 is not supported by Ryzen
People run different OSes to suit their needs, what is stupid to one might not be for another, I used to work in a place where we still had a laptop with Vista 32 bit on it for some old fire panel stuff and an XP machine for access control…
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Trig;4172885']People run different OSes to suit their needs, what is stupid to one might not be for another, I used to work in a place where we still had a laptop with Vista 32 bit on it for some old fire panel stuff and an XP machine for access control…
Whilst I perfectly understand that (I've got a Win 7 x86 machine here for some stuff that is not x64) to buy a new processor and hardware that is not officially supported and missing out on features seems a bit strange, especially when that OS is not getting updates and is end of life. If it was older hardware, then fair enough… nvme is not natively supported on Win 7, the drivers for the AMD chipset are not supported on Win 7 by AMD. Chances are an update soonish will break Win 7 support completely… Ryzens have hardware that is not supported by Win7. Just seems an odd choice. Oh and of course, as nvme is not native to Win 7 it's a right game to even install it on a nvme boot drive unless you install to a sata ssd first then clone/copy it across
3dcandy
Chances are an update soonish will break Win 7 support completely…
There won't be updates, so they can't break. The B450 board I bought recently has Windows 7 drivers on the Asus site. They are old, like a year and a half old, but they exist.
I'm sure that the power management and Windows scheduler aren't up to the same level as Windows 10. But if someone has decided to stay on 7, then Ryzen could well be the best Windows 7 experience they will get. That isn't for me, clearly not for you, but there still seem to be people making the choice.
3dcandy
Whilst I perfectly understand that (I've got a Win 7 x86 machine here for some stuff that is not x64) to buy a new processor and hardware that is not officially supported and missing out on features seems a bit strange, especially when that OS is not getting updates and is end of life. If it was older hardware, then fair enough… nvme is not natively supported on Win 7, the drivers for the AMD chipset are not supported on Win 7 by AMD. Chances are an update soonish will break Win 7 support completely… Ryzens have hardware that is not supported by Win7. Just seems an odd choice. Oh and of course, as nvme is not native to Win 7 it's a right game to even install it on a nvme boot drive unless you install to a sata ssd first then clone/copy it across
win7 can handle nvme. Assuming you got to download the MS KB updates before they conveniently disappeared from the MS website a while back.
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Advantages:
- Price
- Low power consumption in normal mode
- Low temperatures
- Overclocking capabilities
- Performance
Disadvantages: Specifically, this model does not have them.
A comment:
The most versatile, and perhaps the most profitable processor in the Pinnacle Ridge line. Before the rise in processor prices, Intel competed with the Core i7-8700, after - for this money you can buy only the i5-8400 / 8500.
Sorry to be a bore in this. I used the MSI tool to inject USB3 and Nvme drivers into my ISO and had no probs installing onto the Nvme on it's own as upon install I only ever have 1 hard drive attached with a fresh install. I followed this by installing the Samsung Nvme driver after install and relevent MSI drivers. This was all done on Win7 pro 64bit without probs except the mentioned lack of Bluetooth support which is of no concequence to me. I'm not knocking peeps that are happy with Win 10 , personally I don't like it at all but I like my Ryzen. I have friends that won't move from XP , their choice and their PC and won't berate them for that , one mans meat etc, etc. We all have our own opinions and choice ( till the government says otherwise.lol. ) Anyway , good thread.
Built my first PC in a long while in summer 2018 (upgrading from a Core 2 Duo!).
Went (back) to AMD and haven't regretted a thing. Ryzen 7 2700X paired with a Vega 64, crushes pretty much everything thing I throw at it. The only thing that makes me envious of Intel is the clock speeds… will see what the 4000 series brings later this year, and might consider upgrading later down the line when the prices drop.
Also spec'ing up a rig for the GF at the mo and will be going for the Ryzen 5 3600 :)
My old Threadripper 1920X is going fine. Running @ 3.8G using 1.25V.
Upgraded from a first generation Intel i7 970 6 core processor on X58 Rampage II motherboard running Windows 7 with 12GB DDR3 RAM to…
Ryzen R9 3900X | ROG Crosshair Hero VIII X570 | Gigabyte GTX 1070 XTreme Gaming | 32GB TeamGroup DDR4 | Windows 10
It's faster.
i'm using an R5 1600 with Gigabyte's X370 Gaming K5 board and it's been great so far. it was amazing value at the time. the only issues i've had were, of course, with memory support, which was a rather notorious problem early on. it got improved with BIOS updates, but i still can't run my 4 sticks of “Ryzen optimized” Vengeance RGB according to their XMP profile without system instability
ik9000
win7 can handle nvme. Assuming you got to download the MS KB updates before they conveniently disappeared from the MS website a while back.
I know it can, but not natively… which is my point. I'm not knocking people who do it but AMD has said it's not guaranteed to work. If it does, then lucky you… if it doesn't well that's the rub. Yup B450 boards seem to work ok most of the time, my Asus b450 doesn't run that well though - it's a drivers issue there just isn't some of the drivers available any more for Win 7 for my board. I guess if I could be bothered to hunt them down I could…but I don't see the point. I have an older system for the very few bits I need - specifically a Creamware Noah EX synth that needs X86 for a few important things
ik9000
HEXUS
Let's hear some real-world experiences from Ryzen users.
Getting along fine. It's not given me any hassle. It's still in its box mind you…
(Trying to scrape enough money together to get some other parts for the build.)
I'm also still wondering if I made the right call getting the ACE mobo or whether I should get the Aorus master instead. Any feedback from owners of those appreciated.
I have an Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming K5 , no complaints runs fine but I don't do any overclocking so cannot give you any info on that. Is there anything specific you wanted to know?
I did a Ryzen 5 2400G build for a secondary system for my electronics workbench. It does ham radio stuff there, plus general stuff like web browsing and some light gaming. I have had no problems with it and it lives up to expectations, including excellent graphics for an integrated GPU.
Built myself a new PC back in September, going from Nvidia and Intel to full AMD. My Ryzen 3600X and 5700XT play everything I need at High or Ultra-High in 1080p. Though I admit AMD GPU drivers have been a bit funky, but not during gaming.
What real world stuff are you after then? I have had zero issues with my 2 x Ryzen systems. They both don't overclock very well but they were not bought for that. Both are water cooled under Corsair AIO systems so run nice and quiet as both are in my studio (photography/video and music) Both run Win 10 x64 and both have 16 gig + of ram with nvme boot drives.
Last year my old Core2Duo E8400 config bought in 2008. died. (Motherboard)
This year I have bought a 3700X with ASRock X570 Pro 4, 16GB 3200MHz Kingston, 512GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME SSD, Cooler Master case, and added VGA from the old config, an Asus 1030GT (unfortunately no time for gaming). Oh and a new 4K 27" Philips monitor.
The difference? 12 years. Performance… like switching from Ford T-Modell to a Tesla. :)
in September I upgraded most of my PC with Ryzen 7 3700X and a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super (also Windows 10, RAM and boot drive), and no problems - everything so much faster than my previous 5 year old set-up and no problems
lon3wolf2002
I have an Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming K5 , no complaints runs fine but I don't do any overclocking so cannot give you any info on that. Is there anything specific you wanted to know?
Thanks, I was referring to the x570 version specifically.
ik9000
Getting along fine. It's not given me any hassle. It's still in its box mind you…
(Trying to scrape enough money together to get some other parts for the build.)
I'm also still wondering if I made the right call getting the ACE mobo or whether I should get the Aorus master instead. Any feedback from owners of those appreciated.
Dont have the Aorus Master but the X570 Aorus Pro. Initially it was wildly unstable but after updating to the latest bios & plugging in a more modern PSU it's now rock solid stable, haven't tried overclocking, as that' not really my bag anymore. Have to say I love Gigabyte motherboards and have used them for a long while now so I may be slightly biased.
I've been quite happy with my 1600X for … wow, it's almost three years now. Not bad. Had some stability issues, but I'm pegging most of those on my very early motherboard from a C-level OEM (Biostar X370GTN - only ITX board available at the time). Planning to upgrade to something along the lines of a 3900X later this year though, but only because of opportunity. I kept my previous CPU for over 8 years, and was originally planning to get at least 5 out of this - which it would no doubt be able to deliver - but I have a relatively short-term opportunity to get the upgrade funded through work, and I'm thinking a 3900X would likely then tide me over for the majority of the coming decade. The 1600X will likely then be shuffled over to NAS/file server/transcoding duties, as it's still an excellent CPU, and with some undervolting and possibly underclocking it should be perfect for that kind of work. I'll also be building an APU-based HTPC some time this year once the new 4000-series APUs hit desktop platforms.
While Intel does have some decently competitive parts in certain market segments, I see no reason to buy Intel for anything at this time (save high performance laptops until the new APUs start hitting store shelves). Intel being a generally unsympathetic company just adds to that. Not that there are “good” corporations out there in general, but Intel does rank quite high on my tech industry poo-poo list.
People seem to be skimming over the early ryzen memory issues , v bad. ALso many seem to think that the upgrade path for the am4 socket is long.. nope, one more gen and then new socket. If you're already on a 8c/16t part there's not much value to be had going 10c/20t with a small frequncy increase. Amd's low power CPU's are MIA 35w (or lower). I dont own any amd cpu, ATM , .
Parade Rainer.
I'm on an i7-3770 so this will be an upgrade to me, although I'm not planning on buying a board for a month yet, chances are we won't see AM4+ by then though..
My 3950X system has only been built for less than 24 hours at this point, so it's hard to say at this stage.
At the very least, it definitely feels much snappier. :P
Would love to see Adobe (amongst others) pull their
fist out and write code that's fully compatible with
all of the Ryzen series, inc APU's, now that there
are plenty of cores & threads to play around with.
persimmon
People seem to be skimming over the early ryzen memory issues , v bad. ALso many seem to think that the upgrade path for the am4 socket is long.. nope, one more gen and then new socket. If you're already on a 8c/16t part there's not much value to be had going 10c/20t with a small frequncy increase. Amd's low power CPU's are MIA 35w (or lower). I dont own any amd cpu, ATM , .
Parade Rainer.
That's one more upgrade option than I got with my s1156 Intel system, and others since then. And that had been an Intel decision. People have repeatedly shown that it was possible for all the 115x variants to use the same sockets if Intel had wanted to. So I'm happy with one more refresh.
persimmon
People seem to be skimming over the early ryzen memory issues , v bad. ALso many seem to think that the upgrade path for the am4 socket is long.. nope, one more gen and then new socket. If you're already on a 8c/16t part there's not much value to be had going 10c/20t with a small frequncy increase. Amd's low power CPU's are MIA 35w (or lower). I dont own any amd cpu, ATM , .
Parade Rainer.
AM4 will have lasted 4 years by then - I think that's pretty much a decent run. Memory issues, yes but pretty quickly sorted and now the platform is pretty mature to be fair. I don't get your comparison with 10c 20t processors. Win 10 now has very few issues with extra cores so if the frequency is similar you WILL see the difference. The issue is more to do with what you use your system for - games probably won't see any great improvement but a great deal of other software will. I still have a greater performance increase from changing to a decent nvme ssd for boot and swap file useage than a quicker cpu and with gen4 ssd's available now I reckon that's a bigger game changer for many coming from slightly older systems.
3dcandy
AM4 will have lasted 4 years by then - I think that's pretty much a decent run.
If that turns out to be the lifespan of DDR4 on one socket, then I would say very well done AMD.
This is supposed to be the year that DDR5 kicks in, and more bandwidth is handy to feed all those cores.
Upgraded fron an i7 4790K to a Ryzen 1700X OC'd to 4Ghz - The day it got released. Rock solid once paired with right memory. No issues at all
Upgraded from 1700X to 3900X - Pulling my hair out with instability issues - Not CPU fault.
The 5700XT is the root of all issues.
Black screen of deaths. Cold boot issues. Games not loading. Games crashing with D3D errors. Cant play games whilst Chrome, Discord or anything else that uses GPU acceleration is on in parallel (Even when hardware acceleration is disabled, lottery for it working). Mostly affects games that uses Unreal engine like Mechwarriors 5 Mercenaries & Borderlands 3.
I have got to the point where if i want to play a certain game, i have to select a certain driver which gives me least issues with that game resulting in compromises like:
Install driver version X for game Y but HDMI audio will randomly cut out
Install driver version A for game B but disable all advanced features in graphics driver settings resulting in crashes to desktop (Instead of hard crashes requiring PC reset)
In between each driver install i HAVE to run DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) or else it doesn't work.
The 5700XT was a warranty replacement for my Vega VII which was solid until the displayport went funky.
So in summary:
AMD Processors = Awesome
AMD Graphics = Never seen it so bad ever
Hi… this is allegedly the pricing for the R7 SKUs which are going to be released first, if it's accurate, it's going to really kick Intel in the nuts because the 1700x looks to really be able to beat the current i7 Kaby Lake parts when it comes to multi-threaded programs. Remember, for a quad core Intel chip at $340-350, you can double the cores and threads for $40-50 more. While these cores might be a bit slower than the Intel cores, overall, the 8c/16t 1700x should handily smack the quad core i7 around.
CesarHinde
Hi… this is allegedly the pricing for the R7 SKUs which are going to be released first, if it's accurate, it's going to really kick Intel in the nuts because the 1700x looks to really be able to beat the current i7 Kaby Lake parts when it comes to multi-threaded programs. Remember, for a quad core Intel chip at $340-350, you can double the cores and threads for $40-50 more. While these cores might be a bit slower than the Intel cores, overall, the 8c/16t 1700x should handily smack the quad core i7 around.
Welcome back to 2018!
I do believe that there might just be an auto-bot generated post given it's bizarre timeline etc. Duly reported. Man I wish I was a mod sometimes.