AMD Ryzen 7 CPU Price Cuts

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Love seeing the price cuts.

Wonder if it is going to trickle down the Ryzen 5 series at some point?
 
Anyone hear any updates on esxi support for Ryzen? I know it wasn't working just after the release and I haven't seen anything since.
 
jaericho said:
Anyone hear any updates on esxi support for Ryzen? I know it wasn't working just after the release and I haven't seen anything since.
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Disabling SMT for now will get you past the pink screen on install but the realtek NIC drivers aren't on the esxi 6.5 iso by default. So my endeavor with esxi on ryzen ended there. Xenserver and promox both installed just fine. There are ways to get those nic drivers on the esxi iso media but it seemed like a lot of effort. Haven't heard anything but I'd suspect once threadripper or epyc are officially released VMware will have to officially fix the issue and add support for SMT.

Long story short disabling SMT :( I know, terrible, shh, and having a supported addin NIC with something like an Intel chip set might be a crappy workaround for now.
 
Price drops haven't hit Canada yet. Here's hoping they extend to the Ryzen 5 and come to my native soil.
 
Deezus3810 said:
Haven't heard anything but I'd suspect once threadripper or epyc are officially released VMware will have to officially fix the issue and add support for SMT.
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Yeah that's what I'm hoping for. I don't want to convert all my VMs to something else so it's back to waiting.
 
And soon Intel will drop their prices. Then AMD, then Intel, and then we'll have sane prices for CPUs again.

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I don't expect Intel to drop prices on their mainstream CPUs at all. However we are 2 months away from 6C / 12T mainstream i7s that will be the same price as current 4C/ 8T mainstream i7s.
 
Yea, I have my eye on the Ryzen 1700 but funds are short.
My amazon wish list has that, 16 gig ddr4 and a asus motherboard.
But My house roof is been attacked by age and the sun. I now have zero life in it so to reboot my roof I am using Lockhart roofers to add life into my place.
PC upgrade will have to wait.
UGH, Life !
 
p05ta1 said:
Yea, I have my eye on the Ryzen 1700 but funds are short.
My amazon wish list has that, 16 gig ddr4 and a asus motherboard.
But My house roof is been attacked by age and the sun. I now have zero life in it so to reboot my roof I am using Lockhart roofers to add life into my place.
PC upgrade will have to wait.
UGH, Life !
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Hail ruined my budget. Roof, cars, gutters, siding... Oh those deductibles.
 
Deezus3810 said:
Disabling SMT for now will get you past the pink screen on install but the realtek NIC drivers aren't on the esxi 6.5 iso by default. So my endeavor with esxi on ryzen ended there. Xenserver and promox both installed just fine. There are ways to get those nic drivers on the esxi iso media but it seemed like a lot of effort. Haven't heard anything but I'd suspect once threadripper or epyc are officially released VMware will have to officially fix the issue and add support for SMT.

Long story short disabling SMT :( I know, terrible, shh, and having a supported addin NIC with something like an Intel chip set might be a crappy workaround for now.
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Using Intel NICs is always the easy solution re: ESXi. You can get 2 and 4 port Intel gig pci-e cards dirt cheap on ebay, server pulls. I have 2 x 2 port cards in my FX8320e ESXi nested box (crappy Asrock 970 mobo). You can score 32gb of used DDR3 on ebay for like a hundy.

Actually having said that, the FX are going for fire sale prices. Microcenter right now has 8320e's + a crappy Asus mATX mobo for a hundy. Makes for really cheap VM workstations. No good for gaming, but productivity wise the FX aren't the worst.

Anyway I know this is a Ryzen thread, so forget all that and get the Ryzen 1700 + mobo bundle at MC for $338 and up. A 1600 + mobo is $250. I'd honestly like to see what a 1600 can do vs a 83xx or 6700/7700
 
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I picked up the R7 1700 this week from Fry's for 279.99 with their promo codes. Prices are definitely coming down and it's a matter of time before Intel has to respond to the shift in prices.
 
32degrees said:
I picked up the R7 1700 this week from Fry's for 279.99 with their promo codes. Prices are definitely coming down and it's a matter of time before Intel has to respond to the shift in prices.
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Good deal. Which motherboard did you go with
 
Microcenter sells the 1700x for $350 and discount Ryzen motherboard by $100 when you bundle them. Great deal and f you live near one.
 
Awesome that we can get such a great cpu for that price, but also pisses me off as this exposes the abuses we were subjected by intel.

I know, i know, no competition and crap, but still im pissed.

And for that, i will give my money to amd, fuck intel!

But before that, i need a decent matx mobo, which amd seems to lack and need to fix asap.
 
Problem with AMD's price cuts is that not it's not universal on this side of the world.

Initially I thought it was vendor's reluctance to slash prices due to the fact that they might already have purchased the stock, rather than selling the stock on behalf of AMD. When 290x and especially 295x cut their price cut significantly a few weeks after Maxwell release, I didn't see that price cut until a few weeks before 300 series.

When nVidia slashed their 1070 and 1080 prices to make way for 1080ti, so did our vendors, and they happened immediately. So I am thinking it's AMD's doing here.
 
AMD might be trying to free up some price room so they can have a 10 core/20 thread Threadripper at a somewhat reasonable $550. I'd pick up a Threadripper over an 1800x for another $100.
 
Rauelius said:
AMD might be trying to free up some price room so they can have a 10 core/20 thread Threadripper at a somewhat reasonable $550. I'd pick up a Threadripper over an 1800x for another $100.
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I agree with you, but don't forget the platform costs as well. More expensive motherboards and more expensive quad channel ram could bring the cost of those 2 cores up from 100 bucks to 300 bucks pretty quick. I think to justify the platform I'd want to be buying in at a little higher end.

Really depends on motherboard manufacturers and memory costs I suppose.
 
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