AMD RYZEN Builders Thread

[bfun_x1]

I've decided to replace my 10 year old PC Power and Cooling PSU. It's a bit loud and I'm tired of hiding all the extra cables.

 

[ScottAD]

Now you guys have me getting paranoid about my 10 year old Enermax Infinity.

To Infinity and Beyond!

 

[.vodka]

Now you guys have me getting paranoid about my 10 year old Enermax Infinity.

I intend for my 8 year old PC P&C Silencer 750w to power another rig at some point, and now it's on its second one. Third time's the charm!

Hope it doesn't hear me, get reminded of its age and go boom in a month or so...

 

[Mockingbird]

Now you guys have me getting paranoid about my 10 year old Enermax Infinity.

I have a 12-years old Thermaltake Toughpower Cable Management 750W (built by CWT) in another computer!

 

[AtenRa]

There are a lot of factors in OC, ambient temp, case air flow, silicon lottery. Tom's has several reporting 3.8 on air and some even 4.1

Thanks

I posted earlier, 3.9GHz with the stock Wraith Spire cooler. I'm switching it over to liquid cooling this week, though, as the AM4 bracket for the Arctic Liquid Freezer 360 came in.

Thanks

[H] did a review. It's only O/O v O/C. No stock figures

https://www.hardocp.com/article/2017/04/11/amd_ryzen_5_1600_1400_cpu_review

Thanks

 

[majord]

8150/9370.9590 owners hold on those AIO's .. if you can stand the giant glowing FX

using NZXT bracket

 

[HumblePie]

So tax return came in. Time to order the rest of the parts I need to put this Ryzen system together

Just ordered the case. Need to decide on psu and hard drive and cooling solution. I have an extra corsair h100i v2, but not sure I want to use that or not. Even if I do, I have to order the AM4 bracket still.

 

[guachi]

One positive of the low OC threshold of the R7 is that you can use even a mediocre cooler and you won't be far off from what you could get with expensive cooling.

I'm using my old and mediocre Hyper 212+ (which probably isn't much better than the stock cooler) on a 1700 and it does 3.8 GHz just fine. I set it at 3.7 for regular use, however, as I can run it easily at 1.25v and probably lower if I tried.

In other words, basically any cooling solution will work. Since I don't have a clear-sided case (and have no desire to ever have one) using an AIO for a cleaner looking case, and they do look better, isn't needed.

 

[Magic Hate Ball]

Corsair TX650W built by Seasonic

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article813-page1.html

10 years later and it's still working.

Yeah, I sold that to my friend as part of my old i7-875K rig. Running solidly since I bought it in 2010 I think it was.

 

[Markfw]

I have one or two power supplies that are on 16 years, and still going. One is on a socket 775 Xeon quad core. Seasonic and Corsair.

 

[Crumpet]

So tax return came in. Time to order the rest of the parts I need to put this Ryzen system together

Just ordered the case. Need to decide on psu and hard drive and cooling solution. I have an extra corsair h100i v2, but not sure I want to use that or not. Even if I do, I have to order the AM4 bracket still.

 

[bfun_x1]

Anyone with a R5 1600 here ?? Or any review links ?? I would like to see what OC we can get on the R5 1600 (non X) with default cooler.

3.85 at 30 idle and 70 in prime95. 3.9 jumps about 10 to 15 degrees for both. 4.0 is a meltdown.

 

[IEC]

Just purchased a R5 1600 at $199.

I am tempted to also pick up a 1600X for $219, now that I see that deal on eBay...

 

[guskline]

IEC, I just built my daughter a 1600x rig last week and it's smooth and sweet. Used the Asus Prime B350 Plus mb with the 1600x. Had a Corsair H110i GT AIO cooler (really overkill but available) housed in a Fractal Define S Windowless case. Used the Gskill DDR4-3200 TridentZ ram CL16 (16g 2x8) so right now OC'd to 2400. Used a 240g Crucial ssd for the OS and coupled it with a new WD Blue 7200 1TB drive. For graphics saved some $$$ and used an EVGA GTX1050ti sc. Nice card. For the PSU I used an EVGA 550 Gold SuperNova that came at a combo price with the 1600x. Used Win10-64 Pro updated to Content Creation. SWEET machine.

 

[IEC]

IEC, I just built my daughter a 1600x rig last week and it's smooth and sweet. Used the Asus Prime B350 Plus mb with the 1600x. Had a Corsair H110i GT AIO cooler (really overkill but available) housed in a Fractal Define S Windowless case. Used the Gskill DDR4-3200 TridentZ ram CL16 (16g 2x8) so right now OC'd to 2400. Used a 240g Crucial ssd for the OS and coupled it with a new WD Blue 7200 1TB drive. For graphics saved some $$$ and used an EVGA GTX1050ti sc. Nice card. For the PSU I used an EVGA 550 Gold SuperNova that came at a combo price with the 1600x. Used Win10-64 Pro updated to Content Creation. SWEET machine.

Definitely agree! I am starting to get build requests left and right from friends and family so my stockpile of RAM and video cards will likely be depleted throughout the summer. Now if only I had stockpiled more SSDs before the prices went up...

 

[w3rd]

i use windows to run off the SSDs as its still my primary OS



Jesus! because i can. its a legit method that ryzen is yet to support. its not supposed to be a headache. it has never been since i started using them in 2013. RAID is a very simple thing to implement. just as simple as dynamic disks in windows and what Justinbaileyman said about ubuntu.

o. and I gain SPEEDDDDDD! 1.1 Gb/s! without investing the 85 quid (which tops out at 85 mbps)! or 125 quid on a nvme. "poor use of system resource" only in your mind

You are fooling yourself.
Your raid array does not do anything for you. And a NVMe will tear your two 90gb drives up.

I understand you are trying to keep your old drives alive, but YOU insistence on using raid when there is no need, is something you need to reinvest in. Because, you are in fact using raid0 to make a larger volume, instead of upgrading to one.

 

[ScottAD]

So tax return came in. Time to order the rest of the parts I need to put this Ryzen system together

Just ordered the case. Need to decide on psu and hard drive and cooling solution. I have an extra corsair h100i v2, but not sure I want to use that or not. Even if I do, I have to order the AM4 bracket still.

NVME or bust for OS drive at least. MyDigitalSSD has a great pricepoint

 

[Ajay]

Definitely agree! I am starting to get build requests left and right from friends and family so my stockpile of RAM and video cards will likely be depleted throughout the summer. Now if only I had stockpiled more SSDs before the prices went up...

Yeah, I was shocked when I looked a couple of weeks ago, especially for M.2 NVMe storage. Supposedly more NAND production is coming online in 2H2017.

 

[Agent-47]

You are fooling yourself.
Your raid array does not do anything for you. And a NVMe will tear your two 90gb drives up.

I understand you are trying to keep your old drives alive, but YOU insistence on using raid when there is no need, is something you need to reinvest in. Because, you are in fact using raid0 to make a larger volume, instead of upgrading to one.

RAID is a widely accepted feature for a variety of reasons. my needs (larger disk space) are covered under RAID0 and RAID10. I chose RAID0 as it has the advantage of speed as well. it does not cost anything extra.

you keep saying that but why? just because it's not working as it should on a new platform and i have to do a workaround (i.e. which is just a bios setting!) to get it to work? by your logic should we dump ryzen build for an intel one just because of issues with RAM support?

EDIT: from the money point of view: "a NVMe" will cost 125 pounds. the RAID setup does not cost me a dime. for me, 125 quid for some added performance is not worth considering I am not after faster driver here. but as a bonus, I am getting more performance compared to a single SSD which cost 85 quid for free. there is no reason to be wasteful, just because you have a fat wallet. resource management is the key.

if you cannot elaborate why i am "fooling myself" please don't spam the thread

 

[Malogeek]

Throwing money at a problem is always a solution but doesn't address the problem in the first place. It's a rather frustrating response since in most cases if money wasn't an issue the question would never have been posted.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Odd question here, but does Intel Optane work with the Ryzen cpu's and motherboards? Or is this Intel only stuff?

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Odd question here, but does Intel Optane work with the Ryzen cpu's and motherboards? Or is this Intel only stuff?

Short answer: Yup. Intel only, and only for 200-series chipsets with KBL Core ix CPUs. Pentiums and Celerons need not apply.

 

[Despoiler]

Optane is a joke. Just get a NVMe drive. I'm really impressed with my Patriot Hellfire 480GB. 2700/1300 MB/s. SMOKIN!

 

[Qwertilot]

Although Micron did co develop it and will be doing stuff based on the same underlying technology in time. Checking a report that won't be directly for consumers originally, but you imagine that'll happen at some point, especially if Intel try to keep it fully exclusive.

 

[bfun_x1]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but I noticed that Asrock put out a new BIOS this morning. Version 2.30, 2.50 and 2.20.

http://www.asrock.com/support/download.asp?cat=BIOS