Ryzen price drop at Microcenter!

mothman said:

Unless i'm missing something the price on the 1700x went back up to $399 very quickly.

http://www.microcenter.com/product/476004/Ryzen_7_1700X_34_GHz_8_Core_AM4_Boxed_Processor

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Was still $349 as of yesterday at the Fairfax, VA location. Went with my brother and he picked up a 1700 though (he doesn't care to overclock and planned to use the stock Wraith cooler).

I had to go double-check at home because I couldn't remember if it was supposed to actually retail at $400 or not.

The $349 price is in an email promo and still good for awhile, the rest of the month at least. If you live anywhere near them it behooves you to create an account to get their notices and physical mailers, free thumbdrives and shit all the time. (although if you lack self control maybe not such a good idea...)

Their website is almost always the highest price, a lot of discounts are listed in store only, there are usually some that even the flyer does not mention.

tangoseal said:

Mine is at 3.7 ghz and memory is pushing 3100mhz speed.

THe machine is incredibly fast. I get over 100FPS in every title I throw at it and Oculus Rift is smooth as butter in every title I play.

Video transcoding is especially fast. Where as handbrake used to take me an hour to do one type of 4k compression against my DJI drone videos on my 3930K at 4.6 ghz, on the Zen 1700X @ 3.7ghz it is taking like 10-15 minutes. I would say it is absolutely faster in everything I can throw at it.

i just hope that Asus further solidifies the Bios so I can overclock my DDR4-3200 to 3200 speed like it is rated, not for anything more at this point that principle. I also really want to get my processor to around 4.1-4.2 ghz clock speed just for benching. It is so fast however I find myself wanting to just run it at stock clocks as it makes no discernable difference to me.

I love this chip so much in fact that if Zen Pro is 10-15% faster I will jump ship to that platform and just sell this one.

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What type of encode are you doing? You're saying the ryzen is 4-6 times faster than a 3930k @ 4.6ghz? As someone who just sold a machine with the xeon equivalent, I'm intrigued.

mnewxcv said:

What type of encode are you doing? You're saying the ryzen is 4-6 times faster than a 3930k @ 4.6ghz? As someone who just sold a machine with the xeon equivalent, I'm intrigued.

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Various kinds. Mostly downscaling the videos from 4K in H265 to 1080p but retaining as much quality as I can possibly retain.

It is definitely faster. Whilst I could clock the 3930K significantly higher the multi-threaded performance of the Zen is substantially more power. I am only offering you a quantatative assessment. Certainly not qualitattive as I do not have the resource or time to run the gamut of actual scientific methods necessary to ascertain the true multiplier in overall performance over the Intel part.

Remember that my 3930K is almost 6 years old. 6 years ago tech and the zen is much newer in tech and thus speed overall. Core for core I can't tell a difference single threaded with my senses if that is anything to you but multithreaded is unbelievably faster to me.

Some of my Intel Handbrake jobs took 2-3 hours where as the Zen takes me about an hour to complete those same encoding methods. I am talking about converting 4-10GB worth of video chunked together in post pro and then finialized and compressed down with as lossless as possible while downscaling resolution. It takes A LOT of resources to do that.

I didn't mention that I am overclocked as well ... to a modest 3.7ghz but my ram is running at a sweet 3021mhz so its flying.