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

[geogan]

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.

[valfaun]

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

[3dcandy]

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

[lon3wolf2002]

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?

[Shirley Dulcey]

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.

[Huizel]

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.

[3dcandy]

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.

[IVLCGJC]

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.

[Steve587]

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

[ik9000]

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.

[jimborae]

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.

[Valantar]

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.

[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.

[[GSV]Trig]

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..

[Output]

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.

[albert89]

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.