Built my budget ryzen (1440P resolution) rig for my main desktop / workstation. Moved the 4790K to the HTPC VR rig. I don't really care much about overclocking and want a stable rig.
Boo for Coolermaster though, they say the Hyper T4 is compatible out of the box with the AM4, well - it does snap in but the orientation of the HSF goes towards the memory chips (can only clock it that way) - vertical instead of horizontal.
Parts List
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 - BIOS
F6d
Ryzen 1700x
Corsair H110i (AIO cooler - this one fits out of the box with AM4)
Corsair C70 Vengeance Case
Corsair RM650i (replaced the TX650w Power Supply in this pic)
GeForce GTX1070 FE
Patriot 32GB Dual Channel Kit ( 2x16 GB DDR4 - PC4-22400 - #PVE432G280C6KGY)
Notes
- I settled on the Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 as the price is great, it has a Realtek ALC1220 Codec (and still has Optical Out in the I/O header - most boards got rid of them) and doesn't have useless legacy stuff like PCI slots. It also has USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports on the back (lot of the budget boards only have Gen 1). I wish the boards would get rid of the PS2 keyboard / mouse port also and use the space saved for another USB port on the back instead of a header on the board (there are three internal headers, one USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0)
- Purchased the Patriot Ram as it's supposed to go up to 2800 MHZ (still 1.2 volts). The 16GB sticks are dual rank which aren't ideal. I'm expecting at most, 2400 MHZ (AMD says Ryzen officially supports 2400 MHZ on Dual Channel Mode - 2 Dual Rank DIMMS).
Current Problems
Per AMD, the Ryzen memory controller is rated to run 2 - Dual Rank memory chips up to 2400 MHZ - the XMP profile on the board don't work properly but putting in manual timings worked along with bumping the voltage up a bit (from 1.2 to 1.33 volts). Got the memory to 2666 MHZ by doing the following.
1) Enabled XMP
2) Set Memory Multiplier to 26
3) Changed Timing on Memory Channel A to "15-17-17-34"
4) Changed Memory Voltage from 1.2v to 1.33 volts
5) Disabled XMP
6) Saved Settings
7) Restarted
As for the built in Realtek Gigabit LAN controller, able to get it to peak at 112 Megabytes / Second
( enabled 4K jumbo packets on both the NIC and the NAS )