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Everything is perfect with Ryzen 3000 CPUs. Peace out. This topic might be safely deleted.
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Well, I guess I am a beta tester, but so far the only issues I have are very minor
If you are shocked — please take a breath and keep in mind that thousands and thousands of CPUs are sold, and that this is looking to be the biggest launch for AMD, in sales numbers, for quite some time, if not ever. So there is bound to be more activity in the community, and hence much more discussion, even about a single issue.
The idle power problem (aggressive boosting behaviour) is such an issue, and hopefully it will be sorted out shortly. As far as I know,. AMD support is aware and acting, and there is already a viable workaround.
Overall, I think AMD will have more satisfied customers than ever in its history. But if you are wary of running into technical issues, then it may be wise to wait a couple of weeks until the dust settles and pressing issues are fixed.
Intel Sandy Bridge was wildly successful and prompted a huge number of purchases, yet I don't remember any issues with this CPU family or any other Intel CPU family for that matter (though to be honest I haven't followed them closely). Everything just worked out of the box.
One particular concern is that in order to make a Ryzen 3000 CPU work correctly you even have to install a particular Windows power saving plan which sounds really odd. What about other OSes which are not officially supported by AMD? E.g. many flavours of BSD or even older versions of Linux, e.g. RHEL or Ubuntu LTS.
X99...
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a consumer platform for the masses.
Well, check the thread "what controls turbp in Xeons" (or whatever the title) There are a LOT of people using x99I'm pretty sure it wasn't a consumer platform for the masses.
Nowhere in your OP or in subsequent posts did you state that as a precondition.
Wait three months and take another look. Being an early adopter means accepting some risk that there will be problems (the right ram, with the right board, with the right bios, etc.). Seems a bit like the x570 motherboards out there are really version 0.9 instead of 1.0. How much to you want a new system?The only condition is that I don't want to buy a new platform with certain serious issues which have been overlooked by reviewers (I don't blame them since they had little time and also they are not home users, so probably they were not concerned). Also, I've been assembling PCs for over twenty years now and I don't remember having any similar issues whatsoever. I might have been lucky ;-)
Anyways, the issue is when and if I can buy a new Ryzen system and not having to worry about anything.
Intel Sandy Bridge was wildly successful and prompted a huge number of purchases, yet I don't remember any issues with this CPU family or any other Intel CPU family for that matter (though to be honest I haven't followed them closely). Everything just worked out of the box.
One particular concern is that in order to make a Ryzen 3000 CPU work correctly you even have to install a particular Windows power saving plan which sounds really odd. What about other OSes which are not officially supported by AMD? E.g. many flavours of BSD or even older versions of Linux, e.g. RHEL or Ubuntu LTS.
Oh there was certainly a pretty big problem with the Sandy Bridge launch. The big SATA controller fiasco. It happens to everyone. I think AMD is doing pretty well with this launch and honestly the extended socket compatibility is kinda hurting them. It certainly has its pros and cons but Intel has a lot less launch problems because they simply don't care about supporting newer CPUs on older platforms -- not to say that having backwards compatibility with sockets is a bad thing but it certainly makes things a LOT more difficult. I mean honestly CPU's running a bit warm at idle is a minor issue, it doesn't actually affect anything, and doesn't even seem to be happening to everyone.
Wait three months and take another look. Being an early adopter means accepting some risk that there will be problems (the right ram, with the right board, with the right bios, etc.). Seems a bit like the x570 motherboards out there are really version 0.9 instead of 1.0. How much to you want a new system?
"A bit warm" sounds like an understatement. I have yet to see a single person whose Ryzen 3000 CPU runs below 45C at idle with an air cooler. Most modern consumer Intel CPUs run slightly above the room temperature under the same cooling. Also motherboards based on the X570 chipset are not immune to any of the known issues, so the compatibility angle doesn't work in this case. The whole platform feels rushed and incomplete at the moment (two weeks after it was released).
I'm perfectly aware of the SATA controller fiasco which cost Intel a billion dollars (my etailer swapped my motherboard for free) but it was an isolated issue and it had nothing to do with Intel CPUs.
"A bit warm" sounds like an understatement. I have yet to see a single person whose Ryzen 3000 CPU runs below 45C at idle with an air cooler. Most modern consumer Intel CPUs run slightly above the room temperature under the same cooling.
Also, I've been assembling PCs for over twenty years now and I don't remember having any similar issues whatsoever. I might have been lucky ;-)
Mine idles at ~35C.I have yet to see a single person whose Ryzen 3000 CPU runs below 45C at idle with an air cooler.
Mine idles at ~35C.
Everything just worked out of the box.
"A bit warm" sounds like an understatement. I have yet to see a single person whose Ryzen 3000 CPU runs below 45C at idle with an air cooler.
HOW????My new 3600 idles at 35-38C.
HOW????
What AGESA are you running and what board? My idle has not been below 56C at stock CPU settings. Although, with the fixed manual OC, and not crunching, I've been as low as 40-44C at idle. But not with stock CPU settings, which punches up the clock to 4.2Ghz and 1.45V+ at idle.
HOW????
What AGESA are you running and what board?
My idle has not been below 56C at stock CPU settings. Although, with the fixed manual OC, and not crunching, I've been as low as 40-44C at idle. But not with stock CPU settings, which punches up the clock to 4.2Ghz and 1.45V+ at idle.