LinusTechTips Ryzen 1800X Review

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I'm not subbed for a while (can't stand the new guy he hired), but a great review nonetheless.
 
ZERO OVERCLOCKING HEADROOM on 1700x / 1800x.

4.1ghz is like the max versus Intel's 4.4 to 4.5ghz. Ryzen is a beginner noob chip for users that just slap a stock cooler on and call it a day. Get this ryzen garbage out of here. Waiting for Skylake X.
 
Nirad9er said:
ZERO OVERCLOCKING HEADROOM on 1700x / 1800x.

4.1ghz is like the max versus Intel's 4.4 to 4.5ghz. Ryzen is a beginner noob chip for users that just slap a stock cooler on and call it a day. Get this ryzen garbage out of here. Waiting for Skylake X.
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4.3GHz is generally all you get out of the Broadwell-E chips in my experience. However, Haswell-E can easily hit 4.4GHz to 4.5GHz on a good CPU which isn't uncommon. Given the pathetic IPC improvement in Broadwell-E over Haswell-E, I think the older Haswell-E CPUs are generally the better buy as they clock higher.
 
Nirad9er said:
ZERO OVERCLOCKING HEADROOM on 1700x / 1800x.

4.1ghz is like the max versus Intel's 4.4 to 4.5ghz. Ryzen is a beginner noob chip for users that just slap a stock cooler on and call it a day. Get this ryzen garbage out of here. Waiting for Skylake X.
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Interesting they weren't able to get the memory over 2666MHz no matter what they did. Most reviews seem to be showing memory speeds capable of going quite a bit higher.
 
SilverSliver said:
Overall consensus is what we thought. Single core it's okay, multi-thread it stomps face for the price.
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And I think overall "conspiracy theory" was that AMD was hiding benchmarks because it was going to get stomped in gaming performance which is turning out to be true. $500 1800x can't compete with a $300 7700K. Not good. I'm due for an upgrade and was really hoping 1800x would bring the heat. If I lived inside cinebench it's probably a great upgrade but as a gamer it's a serious letdown.
 
As a gamer and as a working professional and as an overall computer geek that does more than JUST GAMES at 1080 and runs numbers all day for epeen.. I don't think it's a letdown.
 
Nirad9er said:
Nope, just hugely disappointed. Not getting a chip and leave stock with all my water cooling gear. People at [H] overclock. 4.1ghz is a stock 1800x and falls way short of Intel's chips.
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So? Do the smart thing, get your OC rocks off with a R7-1700 non-X ;)
 
The smart dollar had to go for a 7700 in my case. Though if newegg had fulfilled my order for the 1800+ before I read reviews I WOULD NOT have been disappointed. But when for a few bucks less I could get better performance for my primary use... I couldn't go Ryzen THIS TIME. I hope in the next few generations AMD can overtake Intel.
 
I wish I had a ryzen in my workstation at work, but at home it is mostly gaming at 1080p. I really want to go AMD on my next build. Not being able to run the memory at full advertised speed and lack of core clock seems to really kill the performance of this chip. really hurts this chip.
 
Nirad9er said:
Nope, just hugely disappointed. Not getting a chip and leave stock with all my water cooling gear. People at [H] overclock. 4.1ghz is a stock 1800x and falls way short of Intel's chips.
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I don't OC my i7, heat in a laptop is baaad. I5 is oc'ed because i5 is a trash cpu with 4 threads.

This now enables me to get rid of this craptastic i7 that can't multi task for crap if you don't have it at 4.5Ghz as you pointed out.
1700 may be promising when shrunk to mobile judging by how well the multithreaded test were
 
Ryzen is enticing but just doesn't quite cut it for me. Then again I'm on a 5820K at 4.4 GHz so that may be why it's less appealing right now. I'll wait on version 2 of Ryzen and see if AMD can bump the frequency of these things up a few notches + iron out the gaming performance (not that 1080p matters to me). Additionally, I'd like quad channel memory support and more PCI lanes before I consider purchasing an AMD CPU. Overall though, for anyone that is a 1440p+ gamer that likes doing media work on the side, this thing is a far better value than anything Intel has to offer right now.

People that trash Ryzen are most likely Intel fanboys and/or marketing agents tbh.
 
I dont know what to do, last weekend i didnt want to wait -- went to microcenter bought a I7-5820k with a gigabyte X99-ud4 from microcenter for $400 out the door -- couldnt get it to post, i am returning it and may get a ryzen 1700 -- but my brain is telling me to get an i7-6700k for $259...

Today my asrock x99 extreme4 showed up so i verified the 5820k is working, but the asrock is being paired with my xeon. You know what burns me the most about ryzen is not the benchmarks, its the bios, memory, and motherboards. the X99 is mature, you get all the bells and whistles including quad channel ddr. Then if you talk upgrade path you can even drop in 18 core xeons...
 
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