Upgrading to Ryzen, what is your old/soon to be replaced system

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I just got my fist package from newegg containing the M.2 Drive and the PSU today and the rest should be here next week. Anyway I was curious in they system you guys are upgrading from as each user will have a different performance increase experience.

My current system specs are:
i7 2600K @ 4.2GHz 1.25vcore HT off
16GB DDR3 @ 800MHz 10-10-10-30
ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe
GTX ASUS ROG Srtix 1070 8GB OC (this will be going in to the Ryzen build)
60GB Corsair SSD
120GB intel SSD with windows 10 pro
256GB AMD SSD drive (will be going in to the Ryzen build)
three 2 TB 7500 RPM drives (will be going in to the Ryzen build)
Blue Ray Drive (might be going in to the Ryzen build still have not made up my mind on that)
Antec 1200 watt gold 80 plus PSU (I had three 6950's running in crossfire for the longest time and that needed the watts)


I think i will see a reasonable boost in performance in certain games like city skylines witch currently runs my CPU to 99% at all times even with small cities

I can't wait to read what others are upgrading from
thanks for reading
 
Still trying to decide whether to replace my 4770k system.

4770k
z87 Mobo
280x in Crossfire
512gb M500
2x8gb Crucial Ballistix Sport
 
i5-2500k @ 4.2, Scythe Kama, ASUS Maximus V Gene, 16gb ddr3-1600c9, 256gb Crucial m4, Lian Li PC-V354B on their way out ...
Ryzen 1700, Noctua D15S, ASUS Prime X370-Pro, 32gb ddr4-3200c15, 512gb Samsung 960 Evo, Corsair Carbide 400Q on their way in.
Seasonic X750 Gold, ASUS PCE-AC66, XFX R7-280X 3GB moving from the old rig to the new one. Probably will eventually upgrade the wireless and video cards, but they're fine for now.

Going from nothing fancy to nothing fancy, but 6 years newer.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
phenom II x4 940 with either the 1500 or 1600
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Similar here, going from:

Phenom II x4 920 @ 3.4GHz
K9A2 Platinum
8GB DDR2 @ 972MHz
HD7950 @ 1150MHz/1450MHz
60GB OCZ Vertex 2 (OS)
1TB Caviar Black (games)

To most likely (but not set in stone):

Ryzen 1600x or 1500x depending on pricing
Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming 5
16GB DDR4
8GB RX480
250GB 960 Evo M.2 (OS)
2x2TB Caviar Black in RAID0 (games)

NZXT Switch 810, Corsair HX1000, 2TB Barracuda for media, Bluray drive, and watercooling gear all being reused. Old parts will be going in a new case with a Hyper 212, and will become my new desktop at work (except I'll redeploy my old HD6870 since this 7950 has issues).

Should be a pretty noticeable upgrade, I'm hoping!
 
I am upgrading from an i7-870 that is running at stock speeds because it has become completely unstable at over clock. The computer actually fails to post sometimes...


Asus Prime x370
Ryzen 1700x
CoolerMaster AIO 240
16GB DDR4 PC3200
850 m.2 256GB
Master Pro 5 case
Evga evo 750W
Reuse 1060GTX, SSDS, HDD, DVD

Sure it may not be the absolutely fastest at gaming. However I am willing to put in on AMDs bet on the multi-core long game. I am expecting good things!
 
Hopefully going to be able to wait for my tax refund comes in before building (let's be honest, mobos aren't going to be in stock before then anyways); however my current machine started having some boot issues and I cba to put much effort in to fix a 7 year old platform (i.e. if it's a hw problem, not bothering). Might back off the clocks a bit since it's quite possible/likely that it's not holding up anymore.

Xeon L5640 @3.84 GHz + Corsair H60
Asrock X58 Extreme
12 GB DDR3
Galaxy GTX 660Ti
160 GB Intel 320 series plus various storage drives the oldest of which is a Samsung F4EG
Creative X-Fi Titanium HD (headphone jack on integrated broke)
CM HAF912
Displays: Dell U2211 and U2212H

Current plan
Ryzen 1700
Undecided cooler, likely to be between a noctua tower, scythe fuma (if mounting kit available), or Arctic 240 AIO.
Asrock X370 Killer
32 GB DDR4
500 GB 960 Evo M.2 keeping storage drives for replacement in the near future.
Fractal Design Define R5
Likely keeping 660Ti in the short term while seeing how Vega turns out and debating future monitor upgrades (Gsync vs Freesync/VESA adaptive sync)
 
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I've got my Ryzen build running, but it still needs a few upgrades. Originally got RX 480 CF (as I was waiting for Vega) but the performance is bringing down the whole system. Ended up getting happy with the credit card and got two 1080Tis. That should fix that problem. Also need the upcoming Flare X RAM chips so I can get to 3200 speed.

In terms of the displaced rig, this was an ancient Core2Duo E8400 (was a nice chip in it's day) with GTX 470 SLI. You know it's getting old when the model of the GPU matches a new number from the other company. I have not used this rig in years, but it was just sitting there and I might as well use the space.
 
I'm replacing my Phenom II X6 1050T with a Ryzen 1700X. Wasn't really "waiting" for a new AMD chip per say, but recently in the past year or so, I've just been too CPU limited by games and it was time to upgrade. THe fact that Ryzen is good in a lot of applications doesn't help matters.

Full build, putting together tomorrow morning:
Ryzen 1700X
MSI X370 Carbon
16 GB Corsair DDR4
120 GB Corsair M2
550 GB Crucial SSD

Carrying over my R9 290 and NZXT 650 watt Power Supply from my old system.
 
Curtis Kato said:
I just got my fist package from newegg containing the M.2 Drive and the PSU today and the rest should be here next week. Anyway I was curious in they system you guys are upgrading from as each user will have a different performance increase experience.

My current system specs are:
i7 2600K @ 4.2GHz 1.25vcore HT off
16GB DDR3 @ 800MHz 10-10-10-30
ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe
GTX ASUS ROG Srtix 1070 8GB OC (this will be going in to the Ryzen build)
60GB Corsair SSD
120GB intel SSD with windows 10 pro
256GB AMD SSD drive (will be going in to the Ryzen build)
three 2 TB 7500 RPM drives (will be going in to the Ryzen build)
Blue Ray Drive (might be going in to the Ryzen build still have not made up my mind on that)
Antec 1200 watt gold 80 plus PSU (I had three 6950's running in crossfire for the longest time and that needed the watts)


I think i will see a reasonable boost in performance in certain games like city skylines witch currently runs my CPU to 99% at all times even with small cities

I can't wait to read what others are upgrading from
thanks for reading
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I did't think of it when making this thread but i should have too listed my new system specs:

G.Skill Ripjaws V series 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz 14-14-14-34
R7 1700
Gigabyte GA-AX370-GAMING
CoolerMaster MasterLiquid 120 AIO cooler (i was the only AM4 ready cooler i could get right now)
Gelid GC-Extream Thermal Compound
Corsaor M.2 2280 480GB PCI-Express 3.0 4x
intel 540s 1TB SSD
Corsair RM750x PSU 750Watts
Thermaltake View 31 Dual Tempered Glass ATX case
Windows 10 Pro OEM

Asus Strix 1070 8GB OC and 3x 2TB HDD 7200Rpm are comming from my old PC to this one
 
I'll be replacing this system with a Ryzen 1700 setup:

Xeon E5-2670
Rampage IV Black Edition
16 GB (4x4 GB) Samsung WonderRAM @ 2133 CAS 9
R9 290X


Once i get my new rig, it'll look like this:

Ryzen R7 1700
Crosshair VI Hero OR GA-AX370-Gaming K7
32 GB (2x16 GB) G.Skill TridentZ @ 3200
R9 Nano
 
Replacing this rig:

i7-2600k (no overclock - system is twitchy these days, OC would be bad idea. There was a time it did ~4GHz, but that was years ago)
Cheapass air cooler
Asus P8Z68 Pro mobo that's on its way out
16GB DDR3 1333 (used to be 24GB, but 8GB died on me)
Radeon 7970
960 GB PNY 1311 SSD (probably the slowest SSD ever invented, but at least it's big)
A misc. pile of HDDs of varying sizes, some internal, some external. Roughly ~16TB worth of them.
Some generic POS 750 watt PSU that's also on its way out.

I built this sh*t 6 years ago, with the exception of replacing the boot SSD a year ago, and the Radeon replacing a Geforce 560 3 years ago or so.

This old box will be repurposed into a NAS for the old data - if it fails, I've a box of obsolete CPUs and Mobos I can raid to keep a NAS rig around.

Replacing with:

Ryzen 1700X
Asus X370 Prime mobo
Noctua 12S cooler
32GB DDR4 2666 (RAM can do 3000, but the QVL list says it tops out at 2666 for now - guess we'll see)
Geforce 1080 Ti
1TB Plextor nvme boot drive
4TB Seagate Barracuda data drive
Corsair RMX850 PSU

Besides having a box that isn't skirting the edge of death, I expect it will be massively faster in gaming (due primarily to the Geforce 1080 Ti), and massively faster in my graphics/encoding/dev work due to the new Ryzen CPU and additional RAM. Hopefully a much faster nvme SSD will make a different in overall feel, as well. Keeping the old rig as an array of drives on the network will mean I can avoid porting the old sh*t into the new box. If it still dies, in such an undemanding role, I can raid the Box of Parts for whatever. I want a clean build with minimal clutter and bullsh*t.
 
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ASUS Sabertooth 990fx Rev1 with FX 9590 (RyZen blows away this processor)
Pretty much kept everything else minus one 128gb SSD with Win 10 for the FX 9590 motherboard, CPU and ram.
 
i upgraded from dual nehalem l5530 2.4ghz HP ML350 with rx 480 and quite impressed with ryzen so far. Been busy with life stuff so i havent had the time to really do much of any tweaking, benchmarking or gaming with ryzen. Its actually just mining zcash...
 
Replaced a PhenomII X4 955BE, DFI LanParty Jr, 12GB corsair ddr3 (can't remember the speed), GTX480.

With a Ryzen 1700, Asus Prime B350M-A, 16GB corsair lpx 3000 ddr4, 1060GTX 6GB.

I actually got the vid card about 3 months prior along with an oculus cv1 and then was starting to run into cpu limitations, especially in VR. Not enough to make it a bad experience but enough to know it was time to upgrade, so with Ryzen on the horizon I decided to wait and see and am glad I did.
 
Asus P6T deluxe LGA 1366 X58 ATX. I7 920.
Corsair XMS 3 6BG (3 X 2GB) DDR3 1600 PC12800 triple channel kit Model TR3x6g1600c9 9-9-9-24 CAS 9.
Crossover 2795 QHD 2560x1440 IPS monitor.
Evga gtx 970 ftw + ACX 2.0+
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO cpu cooler.
Windows 10
 
I'm considering a R7 1700 build. I have a 2600k at about 4.4GHz.

You guys that are upgrading from a 2500/2600k could you tell me if if and how much of a difference you're seeing in comparison your previous system. Interested to see how game performance is improved. I'm just wondering how much improvement could realistically expect.
 
I'm going from an i7 4930k to a Ryzen 1700x. My ASUS X79 Deluxe motherboard is dying.

Whenever Amazon delivers my motherboard 'preorder' I'll finally be able to put the damn thing together.
 
qbanb8582 said:
I'm considering a R7 1700 build. I have a 2600k at about 4.4GHz.

You guys that are upgrading from a 2500/2600k could you tell me if if and how much of a difference you're seeing in comparison your previous system. Interested to see how game performance is improved. I'm just wondering how much improvement could realistically expect.
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I'll let you know when all the parts come in on Wednesday. But from the benchmarks, you will see gaming improvement relative to Sandy Bridge, but it won't be anything particularly impressive (remember, Ryzen loses to the 7600k and 7700k in that). The big gains to be had over Sandy Bridge will be in pretty much everything else. In anything well-threaded, Ryzen will stomp it. It's not even fair. And I imagine in just general computing feel, you will notice an improvement as well.
 
Replacing my Haswell in sig with Ryzen 1700. Probably will be slower in games based on current benchmarks, but a) I wanted a new toy and b) having multithreaded performance for data analysis work will minimize my use of the 4960x or x5660.

Still keeping the Haswell system a backup gaming rig, while gifting the x5660 to my nephew.
 
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