Discussion Zen 5 Builders thread

[In2Photos]

Wasn't there a lot of discussion when the 9950/9900 CPUs were released about using a fresh Windows build due to the scheduler not being set up during installation on other CPUs?

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Wasn't there a lot of discussion when the 9950/9900 CPUs were released about using a fresh Windows build due to the scheduler not being set up during installation on other CPUs?

Yeah, even uninstalling and clean installing the chipset drivers may not help. IIRC the only way to guarantee it works correctly is a clean install with the target CPU present and installing the correct chipset drivers.

 

[mmaenpaa]

Has anyone here been able to go from AM4 to AM5 without having to reinstall Windows 10? I am wondering what the experience was like. I would prefer to stay on Windows 10 and not have to reinstall.

I just did a upgrade (for customer) from Intel i7-4770K to 9800X3D 😁

We chose upgrade as customer had some old Adobe versions which are hard (or impossible) to install to new W11 installations. I cloned old SSD to new NVME. After that it required mbr2gpt tool as old installation was not UEFI. When new machine booted to desktop I uninstalled all Intel drivers/tools and some other unnecessary stuff. Update AMD drivers & other updates. After a while upgrade to Windows 11 Pro.

Now new machine is in use (photographer), maybe a bit faster than the old one 😅

Upgrade history on customer PC:

Intel i7-4770K: W8 --> W8.1 --> W10
Ryzen 9800X3D: W10 --> W11

In my experience if PC has W10 as OS, hardware can be upgraded/swapped almost to anything. That said clean install is always the surest way to get rid of unnecessary old stuff.

 

[lightmanek]

did it require you to uninstall anything or windows just rebooted a couple times due to new hardware then was fine?

Just did a pass of (Detecting new hardware), rebooted and booted as normal. Obviously, if you have BitLocker, you have to re-enter long key to unlock your drive as well.

 

[lightmanek]

Wasn't there a lot of discussion when the 9950/9900 CPUs were released about using a fresh Windows build due to the scheduler not being set up during installation on other CPUs?

That is more relevant to gaming I think as it mainly relates to core parking, but my system parks cores correctly. I will one day find time to do full reinstall, but it takes more than a day for me to install all the crap I run on my PC, so not really feeling ecstatic to do it any time soon

 

[Seba]

Now new machine is in use (photographer), maybe a bit faster than the old one

Why 9800X3D in this case?

 

[mmaenpaa]

Why 9800X3D in this case?

Frankly in this case I only relied on pugetbench review. It was faster than 9950X (in Lightroom) and I did not want 285K (possible) problems with hybrid approach. Customer main (>90%) use is Lightroom classic and old one at that (Lightroom 5.x). Easier with equally strong cores and extra cache never hurts in anything I believe 😁

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Content Creation Review

We examine the performance of AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D in content creation applications.

www.pugetsystems.com

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I just popped in my 9800X3D, flashback updated to the latest bios with 1.2.0.2a and I noticed that curve shaper is absent. Are they just taking longer to roll this out, like when curve optimizer first was released with Zen 3? We had to wait a while after release before it was added through agesa updates.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I just popped in my 9800X3D, flashback updated to the latest bios with 1.2.0.2a and I noticed that curve shaper is absent.

Slap the mobo left and right. Maybe then it will realize that the CPU has been changed!

But seriously, congrats!

 

[DaaQ]

Count me in. Be 2 weeks before m.2 drive. Cat got sick and has to stay under observation for a couple days 😔

Sorry for crappy pic. It wouldn't insert other.

 

[Saylick]

Count me in. Be 2 weeks before m.2 drive. Cat got sick and has to stay under observation for a couple days 😔

Sorry for crappy pic. It wouldn't insert other.
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If I squint hard enough, I could just make out that it's a 9800X3D. Got too excited when you were taking the picture?

 

[DaaQ]

If I squint hard enough, I could just make out that it's a 9800X3D. Got too excited when you were taking the picture?

First was too large to add, second blurred out the serial and cropped.