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Hello, this is the AMD Ryzen discussion thread. Please keep things on point and civil! -Staff
Despite generally glowing reviews, not everyone is happy with Ryzen. Hal B. wrote this review on Newegg's 1700X page;
Another Bulldozer flop.
Pros: What pros? If I could return it for a refund would have been a pro.
Cons: Horrible overclocking ability, 95w TDP is idle not load. Only supports low speed DDR 4 ram and only two of the four slots on all motherboards are working. I could go on and on how bad this cpu really is but that would take more than 5000 letters.
Other Thoughts: AMD had 5 years to get this right and they blew it. Why have such a high end cpu only support dual channel and not even fully support all of the memory slots. The motherboard manufacturers all got the same data from AMD.
I doubt this is going to get resolved and we are stuck with bad cpu's that we cannot return for a refund.
Developers are not going to go out of their way to take the extra expense to write code to support this CPU. A few that AMD pays to do it maybe. I had to buy another motherboard from a local store so I had one ready to test since the one I ordered from Newegg won't be here until March 6th or 7th. Updated the latest bios and still only 2 memory slots are working correctly. I should have known better due to AMD's reputation "The Yugo of computer platforms". This cpu line should have been the iteration of Piledriver and code named Pileofcrap. At least I can make a file server out of it since I can't return it. Does not even deserve one egg to be honest but I can't post without an egg, so AMD gets one undeserved egg.
If this is real, Ryzen is looking more like the typical AMD CPU release; (disappointing). Perhaps this is a rare problem, but others have mentioned RAM problems (systems will only POST at low frequencies/loose timings). Also, overclocking on Ryzen seems to be limited to 4.1-4.2 (air/water) and requires high Vcore for even that.
I'm sure these will be useful to content creators, video editors, etc, who need many threads, but gamers/overclockers/enthusiasts will do better to stay with Intel...
Despite generally glowing reviews, not everyone is happy with Ryzen. Hal B. wrote this review on Newegg's 1700X page;
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Pros: What pros? If I could return it for a refund would have been a pro.
Cons: Horrible overclocking ability, 95w TDP is idle not load. Only supports low speed DDR 4 ram and only two of the four slots on all motherboards are working. I could go on and on how bad this cpu really is but that would take more than 5000 letters.
Other Thoughts: AMD had 5 years to get this right and they blew it. Why have such a high end cpu only support dual channel and not even fully support all of the memory slots. The motherboard manufacturers all got the same data from AMD.
I doubt this is going to get resolved and we are stuck with bad cpu's that we cannot return for a refund.
Developers are not going to go out of their way to take the extra expense to write code to support this CPU. A few that AMD pays to do it maybe. I had to buy another motherboard from a local store so I had one ready to test since the one I ordered from Newegg won't be here until March 6th or 7th. Updated the latest bios and still only 2 memory slots are working correctly. I should have known better due to AMD's reputation "The Yugo of computer platforms". This cpu line should have been the iteration of Piledriver and code named Pileofcrap. At least I can make a file server out of it since I can't return it. Does not even deserve one egg to be honest but I can't post without an egg, so AMD gets one undeserved egg.
If this is real, Ryzen is looking more like the typical AMD CPU release; (disappointing). Perhaps this is a rare problem, but others have mentioned RAM problems (systems will only POST at low frequencies/loose timings). Also, overclocking on Ryzen seems to be limited to 4.1-4.2 (air/water) and requires high Vcore for even that.
I'm sure these will be useful to content creators, video editors, etc, who need many threads, but gamers/overclockers/enthusiasts will do better to stay with Intel...
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