hardcastlemccormick
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Same here, I keep a GT 730 on hand for older computers that don't have HDMI.
AMD Ryzen CPUs will launch by March 3
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Same here, I keep a GT 730 on hand for older computers that don't have HDMI.
Aztechnology
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U.S pre-ordered are up?
I'm going to wait anyway to see some more extensive testing done to see how much the binned status actually matters. But just curious.
If you're aiming that low, at least install a card that supports h.265.
Ha, I have that very same card for those purposes. I treat it pretty badly though, I keep it in a box of junk.
papersleeves
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glimmerman
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Does anyone know why these new x370 boards only seem to support a max of 64G ram? 4 DDR slots instead of 8 on the intel boards (which support 128Gb)?
64 is enough for now, but in the future when I increase the VM workload on my machine I'll need more RAM...
64 is enough for now, but in the future when I increase the VM workload on my machine I'll need more RAM...
opticalmace
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Just did the same! *high five*
I've been looking at this kit, but not sure about RAM... Should I go for higher frequency?
Also not sure about motherboard, the choices they have are the MSI and the ASUS but not sure which brand to go for.
Any got recommendation for brand/frequence and latency to go for?
Also not sure about motherboard, the choices they have are the MSI and the ASUS but not sure which brand to go for.
Any got recommendation for brand/frequence and latency to go for?
Terbinator
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Well 8 DIMMs would be for quad-channel, AFAIK. R7 only support dual-channel.
Mr_Antimatter
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Keeping a very close watch here. I'm a midrange gamer, so I'm dying to see where this all lay on the price to performance charts.
Good video....good stuff!
TC McQueen
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IIRC, Ryzen only supports dual channel RAM, so it's limited in terms of RAM.
Your RAM should be at least 2666 MHz, 1.2v, and the lowest latency you can get. The Ripjaws V line of DDR4 is pretty good, but it gets pricey above 2666Mhz due to the RAM shortage.
Also, that kit has a shit cooler. Get a Cryorig H7, at the very least.
Not sure what you want, but Amazon put boards up too.. and Microcenter. ( if you are even in the US)
Thanks for the recommendations. I know about the cooler, will use it until i get the new brackets for my noctua that's part of the free upgrade they offer.
glimmerman
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TC McQueen
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I dunno if the H7 ships with AM4 brackets, so I'm not sure the cooler in that kit would either.
Well crap...I pre-ordered the 1700. I have a week to think about it.
Edit* Where can I pre-order the $80-$90 boards at? I want a Micro ATX board.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Austin Evans trying Ryzen at AMD
PS: Linus makes an appearance mid video.
PPS: Austin accidentally tries to leak GPU info. LoL
PS: Linus makes an appearance mid video.
PPS: Austin accidentally tries to leak GPU info. LoL
Captain Chaos
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Wow, big things in the CPU game about to go down, cant wait to get my hands on this Ryzen 7 1800X. Whats tantalising is that they named this top of the range Ryzen CPU with a 7 prefix, which tells you a 9 series is in the pipeline.
Found them
Does Newegg charge up front for pre-orders? I buy a ton from them, but I've honestly never preordered on Newegg since their site opened..lol.
Dictator93
Member
I cannot wait to see the performance of that "TOTALLY NORMAL GPU".
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
That umm I should probably go as I'm not sure I should be looking at this moment lol
Nostremitus
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Found them
Does Newegg charge up front for pre-orders? I buy a ton from them, but I've honestly never preordered on Newegg since their site opened..lol.
"You will not be charged until your order is filled."
From my confirmation email...
Captain Chaos
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It was a good video, those dubbed parts were telling.
I think it was a touch mean to interrupt Linus in mid flow recording a segment, but he took it well and I note that Linus included the moment on his channel, so whatevs.
AMD is showing some real promise under Lisa Su, she is doing a great job.
Souldestroyer Reborn
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They obviously feel confident enough in their product to go toe to toe with them.
Found this table while seeing if my H80i had some brackets i could acquire.
I'm looking at F4-2800C16D-16GRR ripjaws think this will do? CL16 but at 2800Mhz.
Wolf Akela
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Could also be just for marketing reasons. Won't be the first time they did it. AthlonXP was named to match Intel GHz because less technical-literate people thought 1.7GHz P4s spanked 1.4 GHz AthlonXP 1700+s because it has more GHz.
No, they are trying to match BMWs original naming scheme, like Intel did.
Eh, it is no secret that they were showing that engineering sample of Vega. There are photos of it everywhere.
RenegadeXV8
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Well you can always preorder to be safe, they won't charge you until it actually ships and you can cancel anytime.
This is a sweet ass Ryzen system on Amazon.
I would be more worried about DDR4 prices
Many will probably upgrade from DDR3 platforms
I knew it would run way too hot, AMD fucked up once again.
Dictator93
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Are real-world performance stats coming before launch?
Yeah I'm probably gonna go ahead and buy some RAM. Crazy how far prices have risen in just the last year
edit: wait, dumb question but i'm guessing any ddr4 ram will work with Ryzen?
TC McQueen
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Yeah, I would jump on that sooner rather than later.
MasterMenace
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When do the new AMD GPUs come out? (asking for a friend who is building a PC this year, preferably full AMD)
Some AAA games benefit from having more than 4 cores, not all of them.
There are many more which are still very reliant on per-core performance: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=230046573&postcount=240
Nearly anything older than a year or so does not scale well above four cores at all.
Looking ahead, having more than four cores is certainly the way things are going.
I'm definitely going to want 6-8 cores a year or two from now, and some of the applications/games I use today would benefit from it.
The question is whether it's worth buying an 8-core CPU now and potentially sacrificing performance in many games, or going with a fast hyperthreaded quad-core and waiting a year or two for it to become the majority of games which start to take advantage of more than four cores.
Based on the Cinebench scores, the 1800X at 4.1GHz (162cb) would still be about 10% faster per-core than my current 2500K at 4.5GHz (148cb). But a 7700K at 5GHz is about 45% faster per-core. (215cb)
That's not insignificant when only some games/applications can make use of >4 cores - especially when you factor in Ryzen's half-rate AVX2 performance, since many of the applications using >4 cores also benefit from AVX.
That's why we need benchmarks from sites like DigitalFoundry/GameGPU/Techspot and others that know how to set up a proper CPU test for games.
I certainly hope Ryzen does well, because who doesn't want to be paying half as much for the same level of performance?
But having all that multithreaded performance doesn't mean anything if the software you run can't take advantage of it.
Unfortunately the main games I actually care about CPU performance in right now are HITMAN and Dishonored 2, and I don't see them showing up on many benchmarks these days.
I just want to know what I have to buy to run those games smoothly.
Around may last time I read about it.
RenegadeXV8
Banned
No amount of CPU power in the world is going to help you with Dishonored 2, unfortunately. Engine is still busted on PC.