Refresh of a Refresh to a Ryzen build

[robbiec]

So last year I started out with the following:
Case = 8yr old Lian-Li A70
Psu = be-quiet 650W Dark Power P8 (2011?)
Asus Sabertooth FX990 r2.0
CPU = FX8320E
EK Supremacy top
GPU = AMD R9 290
EK R9 290X DIRECTCU II top
RAM = GSkill TridentX F3 16Gb 1600 CL7
RAID IBM M5016
4 x Samsung 840 Evo 120GB in RAID 0

Dual DDC 18W under EK Dual DDC V2 with EK 250 Res V2
XSPX RX 360 & 240 radiators
11 x Noiseblocker PL2 fans

then in November I had an upgrade fit so

Ditched the following:
Asus Sabertooth FX990 r2.0
IBM M5016 RAID
4 x Samsung 840 Evo 120GB in RAID 0
4 x Samsung 1TB F3 in RAID 10

and replaced with
Asus Sabertooth FX990 r3.0
Samsung 950 PRO 500GB NVMe M.2 drive
2 x Toshiba X300 4TB in RAID1

All in all snappier booting (no RAID initialisation) and I got to turn off some RGB lights

Now I am thinking that it is time to retire the AM3+ platform to a media server role and bring in some new bits
Phanteks Enthoo Primo
Asus Crosshair XI Hero
R7 Ryzen 1700+
G Skill TridentZ DDR4 3200 C14
Keep the RADs but change the pumps to a D5 PWM hanging off the motherboard
and wait for a Vega card to be released to replace the R9

[EndlessWaves]

Now I am thinking that it is time to retire the AM3+ platform to a media server role and bring in some new bits

Where is your current system struggling?

[robbiec]

For some reason it struggles massively in synthetic benchmarks..