Well, I set up the rig on saturday, only to find out that my video card was dead. Only got it replaced today with a temporary 770GTX.
Other than the ludicrous post-time of the mobo, it works very well. Memory OC was tons easier than I was afraid of. Got 2933 MHz with the ancient bios, as soon as I enabled the XMP profile. Once I updated to AGESA 1.0.0.6 the XMP profile 2 just worked and gave me the rated 3200 MHz on auto! (didn't even try profile 1, no need )
On the CPU side, I played around but finally settled on
3800 MHz with everything on auto (with cool-and-quite enabled), as this is the most hassle-free and works well on pretty much stock voltage.
Withe the new BIOS it goes as low as 0.680v on idle. Normal benchmarks get it to
1.360v while Prime95 (large FFT torture test) goes up to 1.376v. The temps are ~65°C on full load in bencmarks (unless running a power-virus like Prime small FFT test, where it can go over 80°) In gaming workloads (Witcher III so far), they are about ~45°C.
I might manage to undervolt it a bit better manually, but already this seems quite ok for a 1700X, right?
I'm very very impressed with the CPU so far! Though the ecosystem itself is still a bit rough ... for instance, a buddy of mine got his Tomahawk and 1700X at the same time as i did and bricked his mobo just by updating the BIOS from windows (yes, it might be stupid in hindsight, but it has always worked in my experience). Luckily I learned from his mistakes and updated successfully with a pen-drive
Some quick benchmarks:
Out of the box (3.4ghz, mem @ 2133mhz, etc ...)
- Blender (RYZEN workflow): 0:28:24
- Cinebench: 1439
- Cpu-z (ST): 375
- Cpu-z (MT): 4191
After minor tweaking (3.8Ghz, mem @ 3200mhz):
- Blender (RYZEN workflow): 0:24:45
- Cinebench: 1621 (average with BG stuff running, best run 1695)
- Cpu-z (ST): 439
- Cpu-z (MT): 4742
- AIDA64 trial: mem-read 47.1 GB/s, latency 77.9ns
Here is the
CPU-Z validation link
AIDA64 trial
screenshot (not sure why it claims it.s 1.0.0.4a)
Now I only wish I had a decent Video Card (and curse all the miners!)