QOTW: How are you getting on with your AMD Ryzen processor?

[jamz4]

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.

[Tunnah]

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.

[FRISH]

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.

[loccothan]

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)

[spolsh]

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.

[meuvoy]

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.

[Phage]

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.

[3dcandy]

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

[Percy1983]

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.

[OldManInABoat]

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.

[rabidmunkee]

Bought the misses a 3200g a few months back, she seems happy

[mrwhoisthebo88]

Upgrading to higher version with overclocking is just like adding extra processing without knowing it's actual potential.

[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

[3dcandy]

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

[nazhuggybear]

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.

[nar53]

H'mmm my temps a ryzen hope I'm gonna be OK.