Revenant_Knight
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Gamer's Nexus just benchmarked the R5-1600 AF. It's basically an R5-2600 for $85. Quite possibly the best CPU bargain I've ever seen.
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Since it is a Zen+ CPU, is it compatible with X570 boards? For some reason, despite hearing 1.0.0.4B was bringing Ryzen 1000 support to X570 boards, the CPU support list on my X570 TUF doesn't list it.
I'll tell you a secret. Zen 1 CPUs are compatible with X570
i just bought an x570, think it'll work? or bios mods?
I just skip the the benches. I have NEVER seen someone say so much, talk so much, have so much to say about absolutely nothing than Steve. I used to like the channel but its just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk ... 30 mins later more talking, skip some more minutes, finally slides and conclusion.
i just bought an x570, think it'll work? or bios mods?
Why wouldn't it work?
And why buy x570 for zen1/1+?
Funny, that's why I stopped watching the earlier established infotainers and started watching GN. GN is at least informative rather than an infomercial.
Wendell has his points but he sounds like he hasn't had a Dev job in a long time. Many of his points come from a beige pants in seat cube farm type of mindset.
Seriously, why would you buy an x570 board for anything but 3xxx? Go read the cpu support notes of the board you bought. I'm still using garbo tier b450 boards and don't have problems pushing max all core clocks.
Funny, that's why I stopped watching the earlier established infotainers and started watching GN. GN is at least informative rather than an infomercial.
Wendell has his points but he sounds like he hasn't had a Dev job in a long time. Many of his points come from a beige pants in seat cube farm type of mindset.
Seriously, why would you buy an x570 board for anything but 3xxx? Go read the cpu support notes of the board you bought. I'm still using garbo tier b450 boards and don't have problems pushing max all core clocks.
it was on sale form $160 to $117 and it has some decent VRMs on it. i happen to already have some spare RAM, i was thinking a cheap place holder CPU that can be used in another build later but, also to boot test and install OS on one my main rigs now to verify mobos works, at least until a ryzen 3 8 core goes on sale
it was on sale form $160 to $117 and it has some decent VRMs on it. i happen to already have some spare RAM, i was thinking a cheap place holder CPU that can be used in another build later but, also to boot test and install OS on one my main rigs now to verify mobos works, at least until a ryzen 3 8 core goes on sale
I just skip the the benches. I have NEVER seen someone say so much, talk so much, have so much to say about absolutely nothing than Steve. I used to like the channel but its just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk ... 30 mins later more talking, skip some more minutes, finally slides and conclusion.
If you think he's saying nothing then you obviously aren't paying attention. He talks, a lot, but it's all detail and information. If you don't like listening to him talk, there are article versions of most of their videos. Read those. It's ridiculous to bitch about a hardware reviewer actually doing something more than regurgitating tech specs and throwing benchmarks at the screen with no context.
Eh, I've always found watching videos bothersome. Give me a nice writeup that I can quickly jump from point to point any day.No he doesnt review an item or a specific. He rants on and on about this and that and most of it is not even related. Truth be told I am not even going to blame him., Youtube has recently changed the requirements of content providers. In order to be monetized you need to have enough content length to justify X amount of ads to be played in your video.
All of the hardware reviewers went from Straight to the Point to having to meet this ridiculous criteria. But it doesnt nullify my right to complain at how stupid it (algorithm) has gotten and how long and arduous these videos are. The old Gamers Nexus was spot on. They said what mattered and moved on.
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Also who is this content for anymore? Beginners? Advanced? Steve and crew will go from saying...
On LN2 @ X volts we hit Y using LLC % Q etc.... to all of the sudden, "To apply thermal paste, you need to squeeze the tube" or "this is a screwdriver and you use it to screw in these screws right here" back to another video sharing a dissertation about quantum computing and its advanced Artificial intelligence hashing out proofs of boolean Pythagorean triples theorem back to "This is a gpu, and you install it in this here slot".
Needless to say I still stay sub'd but I just skip all the talk unless it interest me. But its not catchy content anymore like it used to be.
Eh, I've always found watching videos bothersome. Give me a nice writeup that I can quickly jump from point to point any day.
And I think the reason for all of the talking is because of previous video comments where people ask questions or make incorrect/stupid comments based on what Steve says (or didn't say) in the video, so he feels that in his videos he HAS to talk a lot in order to quell the stupid comments that would result if he didn't. For those of us that aren't trolls or uninformed (or just stupid), it comes across as excessive.If you think he's saying nothing then you obviously aren't paying attention. He talks, a lot, but it's all detail and information.
There is an article for this review: https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3547-amd-r5-1600-af-cpu-review-best-cpu-under-100I just skip the the benches. I have NEVER seen someone say so much, talk so much, have so much to say about absolutely nothing than Steve. I used to like the channel but its just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk ... 30 mins later more talking, skip some more minutes, finally slides and conclusion.
Yes I absolutely agree! It's not as lucrative I suppose but far less actual work to write up and edit an article than having to do all that post pro work on videos.
If my memory serves me right, I think Steve has mentioned in the past that they don't really make much money on the articles they do. It might be less work to write it up (though all the benchmarking, graph creation, etc work has to be done regardless) there isn't exactly a big market for people writing article anymore. Much less the in-depth stuff GN has grown to do over the years.
I bit on one of these today and the one I got was made in 2018. That is really interesting. AMD has been sitting on these for a long time. I wonder why they would do that unless they were waiting for something better (ryzen 3000 ) to make these seem like less of a bargain. For 165 I got the cpu a mobo and 16gb of ddr4 ram for a friend. That is a huge amount of performance for the dollar!
Things I know is no boost on B350 as gen 1 boards lacked this .. but it makes up in memory speed as it seems very happy at 3330Mhz CL 18 1 to 1 in XMP profile 1
I been running a Ryzen 3600 on the board I dropped it in and on desktop is see no different in normal stuff I do and would buy more for friend builds at $85
I love my World of Tanks ..
I will post my results as soon as I get my mobo tomorrow. 3300Mhz seems like a pretty good
Improvement over most 1 series, my 1700 struggled to do anything over 2700mhz.
I picked up the 1600 af to replace my 1600. I hope it can hit 4.1 4.2 at decent volts. My current 1600 is running 3.8 at 1.35 volts so it should be a nice upgrade.
I just skip the the benches. I have NEVER seen someone say so much, talk so much, have so much to say about absolutely nothing than Steve. I used to like the channel but its just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk ... 30 mins later more talking, skip some more minutes, finally slides and conclusion.
After playing around with mine I was able to hit 4.0ghz on 1.3v at 63-65c under stock cooler, and able to run my original ryzen memory that would never run over 2700 mhz at 3000mhz with no issue. Id say this is the best bang for the buck out there. This also put to rest a lot of the stuff I've seen that says you cant overclock with the stock cooler and the 60 dollar asrock b450 motherboard. Super impressed on this impulse buy.
There was a post on Reddit. Guys 1600 was actually an 8 core 16thread. Pretty cool.