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Hey guys, I have an AMD Ryzen 1700 CPU for sale that is basically new (it was used for one week and switched out for a 1700X). Comes in retail box with the wraith spire cooler. Asking $270 shipped. I can take paypal or bitcoin. My heatware is zombielando. Just PM me or reply here if you're...

I am not much for putting marketing in the news and agreeing with it. And quite frankly, AMD's marketing is usually not done very well, but today it sent over something that rang true with me. We have spent an incredible about of time reviewing AMD's Ryzen processors in the last couple of...

Hello all, I'm going to be getting a Ryzen 1500X soon and I'd like to venture into overclocking for the first time and would be aiming to hit 3.9/4.0 providing I get a good chip. I need a replacement for my 212 and would like to stick with air if possible. My question is, which would provide...

Today is the day that AMD will report their first quarter 2017 financial results. I'm hoping to hear some numbers detailing AMD Ryzen sales and the health of the video card division. The AMD Investor Relations portal is here. There you will find more information on the Q1 2017 AMD Earnings...

Hear from id Software’s CTO, Robert Duffy, on how DOOM® runs on AMD Ryzen and what their plans and expectations are for the new CPU. The current idTech 6 works very well at taking advantage of multiple threads already, but Duffy did mention that their new engine, presumably idTech 7 would be...

Hey AMD MoBos! We over in the SFF section need help from an AM4 motherboard owner to measure the distance between the IHS surface on Ryzen CPU to the motherboard PCB. Link to OP: LP/SFF Cooler mounting adaptors for AM4 For the LGA 115x socket the "Integrated Stackup Height" (mm) From Top of...

Hi all, As I am considering buying a Shield TV for my Samsung KS8000, I was wondering if a HTPC wouldn't be a better/more future proof option. My budget would be around 500 EUR. As I already own a copy of Windows 10 and PowerDVD 17, I was wondering what would be the most optimum setup I could...

"Gnarly" Nathan Kirsch looks to have gotten his hand on a premiere example of a Ryzen 5 1500X processor. Or maybe not, maybe all those CPUs will all do 4.2GHz on the right motherboard? What is surely impressive is that he notes 100% system stability. I am not sure exactly if he did any stress...

I will be building a Ryzen PC soonish, maybe this weekend. Using the NZXT Kraken X61. Should I set the rad in push-pull? If so, should I mount the push fans beneath the front IO panel? There are only two vents on the front panel at the top and the bottom. I would hate to waste fans that provide...

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 & 1400 CPU Review - AMD has been on a tear with its new Ryzen 7 CPUs over the past few weeks and now it is time for the Ryzen 5 processor family performance to be explored. We are giving away the AMD Reviewer's Kit with a 1600X and 1500X, instead we bought 1600 and 1400...

Our WINNER is sadsteve from Southern California! He was our first randomly name and responded in 24 hours! The kit is shipping out to him today. AMD Ryzen 5 Reviewer's Kit Giveaway AMD sent HardOCP a kit to review the new Ryzen 5 CPUs, but since we bought our own to review (Overclocking...

The ServerTheHome guys got ESXi 6.5 to install on a Ryzen CPU without a Pink Screen of Death: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-working-with-vmware-esxi-6-5/ Unfortunately they had to disable SMT to get it to work, which according to STH translates to a 30%+ performance loss. STH...

We went out and bought four new Ryzen 5 CPUs last week and have been pounding on those to find out what kind of overclocking headroom we should expect. Buy your own Ryzen 5 CPUs at this link. All the Ryzen 5 specs and slides from AMD are here.

This is a Spanish language review of the new AMD Ryzen 5 1400 processor to be launched next Tuesday. Seems that these are still being sold well before launch worldwide. You can still hit up this HardForum thread and buy your own. There are some folks in that thread already posting some of...

Naughty Nathan Kirsch over at Legit Reviews has a great writeup posted on AMD's latest attempt to get Ryzen working better for all of us running its news CPUs. As you might know, Windows has built in power plans, and these do a bit more than you might think when it comes to how your PC works...

There will be a late night or two around the [H] test bench this week as we have hands on with retail purchased Ryzen 5 CPUs. The Ryzen 1600 CPUs showed up today, we expect the Ryzen 1400 CPUs to show up in a day or two. We will be showing you overclocking results, but will be holding off on...

RMA-ing the RAM; it BSOD in any slot at stock speeds. It's either the RAM or the motherboard (or possibly both). I'm sure these are a dime-a-dozen, but I'll try to explain. So my attempted overclocks weren't stable--that's fine. Nothing's guaranteed beyond stock clocks, after all. What's...

Your computer doesn't meet Rift's minimum requirements blah blah ... Is there any fix for Ryzen on the horizon? I mean c'mon facebook really? Anyone heard anything? Its very annoying seeing this junk in the top of my apps in the rift house. My system is a VR monster, 980ti DDR4-3200 all...

Those of you out there running Ryzen systems concerned about the FMA3 bug which can result in a hard locked system should start keeping your eyes open for new BIOS updates. According to AMD's blog, BIOS updates containing the new AGESA code, v. 1.0.0.4, will start hitting the public in early...

If you would like to see a bit of detail of how wafer handling works at GlobalFoundries, we did some cover back in 2011 while they were doing material transport testing. And if that interests you, we spent a full day in the GloFlo production facility itself while it was being built. Just...

AMD Ryzen Oxide Game Engine Optimized Code Tested - There has been a lot of talk about how AMD's new Ryzen processors have pulled up somewhat short at low resolution gaming. AMD explained that code optimizations from game developers are needed to address this issue, and today is the day that...

Any active users of such combination? I'd like to hear your opinions about this config..

Two More Retail Ryzen 7 1700 Overclock Tested - Last week we headed out and purchased two retail Ryzen 7 1700 CPUs to see what 1700 processors purchased would attain in terms of overclocking. After that we went out and purchased two more retail 1700 CPUs to see what those would do...

First and foremost, I did not know that FLIR had a camera (FLIR ONE Thermal Imager for Android) for $205 nowadays to do thermal imaging. The last time I looked, the things were several thousand dollars, so thanks to "Nerdy" Nathan Kirsh of Legit Reviews for the heads up on that! On to the...

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Retail CPU Overclocking X 2 - We have seen what the Ryzen 7 1700 sampled to us by AMD would do when it comes to overclocking, but what happens when you purchase a 1700 CPU? We went out and purchased one online and one locally and put these to test to find out their...

For sale: Ryzen 1700 with Wraith Spire LED Cooler - Full Retail packaging. Verified to run 3.85GHz / 2933MHz in my test system with Noctua CPU Cooler [NH-U12S] with "Industrial" 2000RPM Noctua fan. Shipped Cont USA - SOLD. Verified with 1.4v vCore, 1.2v SOC voltage, 1.4v DRAM voltage. I...

While Ryzen certainly is a very tempting platform for virtualization on the cheap, we have reported before that it may not be quite there yet. ServeTheHome has had some further relevant issues with their Ryzen system on the B350 platform with certain configurations resulting in an ADM-Vi error...

I am getting back information this morning from motherboard builders that new AMD AGESA microcode has been released and we are now seeing UEFI/BIOS files appearing on manufacturers' websites. So if you are a Ryzen owner, I would highly suggest checking for new UEFI today and getting that flashed...

I am getting back information this morning from motherboard builders that new AMD AGESA microcode has been released and we are now seeing UEFI/BIOS files appearing on manufacturers' websites. So if you are a Ryzen owner, I would highly suggest checking for new UEFI today and getting that flashed...

AMD rumoured to be creating consumer oriented 16 Core/32 Thread Ryzen CPU Quote from Overclocker AMD has a new HEDT platform coming out in a couple of months. You’ll see more of it at Computex I believe. It’s a 16 core /32 Thread, quad channel behemoth. And it is insanely quick in the tests...

New system build about to happen. This one is kind of special: first AMD build since my 1400MHz Thunderbird build in 1999, so we're splurging [yes, 1800X is a waste of money] due to nostalgia. Specs: Ryzen 1800X (OCed to whatever I can get long-term stable @ ~1.35) on water 32GB Trident Z RGB...

Ooops... Looks like someone over at Guru3D pulled a stupid and announced something they shouldn't have a little early. The story has been taken down now, but not before LegitReviews took it and ran with it. It looks like Ryzen 5, 6 core, 12 thread and 4 core, 8 thread CPU's are coming on...

Robert Hallock, Technology Evangelist at AMD, has made a blog post over on the AMD Community page entitled, "AMD Ryzen™ Community Update." First and foremost, AMD puts the "Windows Scheduler argument" to bed. We have investigated reports alleging incorrect thread scheduling on the AMD Ryzen™...

Nuggety Nathan Kirsch of Legit Reviews fame has put Ryzen up against Kaby Lake in four benchmarks that are specific to gaming with the brand new GTX 1080 Ti. (See the full HardOCP review of the 1080 Ti here.) He comes to an opinion that will not be popular with some of the fanoby crowd. The...

Planning to do a Ryzen build down the line for video editing, rendering and such. Was wondering what are some good compatible air coolers that will handle an Ryzen overclocked to 4ghz. Also can the cheaper 1700 hit 4ghz easily or is that only achievable for the more expensive 1700X & 1800X?

So we have seen all sorts of theories batted around here for days now about why the AMD Ryzen CPUs show poor gaming performance at 1080p resolutions and below. One of the reasons that has been rumored heavily has been put to the fault of the Windows Scheduler. PCPer has a full look, with tons...

Ok, so here is my situation. I jumped on a deal for an RX 480 4GB that was 145AR and came with Doom that I plan to sell for another 15-20$, meaning I got an RX 480 dirt cheap. It just so happened the Rift dropped $200 a day later. I ordered the RIft and LOVE IT, as do my kids. After doing...

I'm not sure if someone has posted this already, but @Linus Tech Tips , they are talking about a very interesting "bug" during AMD's RYZEN benchmarks. Check at 33:15 at Linus video :

Have you been looking to set up a sweet new Ryzen system, only to be foiled by not being able to find a motherboard? Well, you are not alone. Legit Reviews has been looking into just why we have seen such a shortage of compatible AM4 boards. Of course, it depends on who you ask. AMD...