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lol They're the 3200MHz at least, and if they even do 1/2 of what Pieter's linked article RAM achieved (4133), I should get a decent overclock out of them heh I was kinda banking on them coming with one so that I'd be able to run it right away. Now I have to scramble to find an adapter for one of the heatsinks I have, which I suspect due to age none will have <_> (though I'm really hoping they ship early so we can HAVE them by the 2nd...)Well I saw the good stuff sold out on NewEgg, and so I just said screw it and didn't waffle while on Amazon; bought the 1700X and the MSI Titanium.
Unfortunately the TridentZ DDR4 I wanted to get, the White on Gray color, was not the Samsung chips that have straight timings (ie 16-16-16), and were I assume Micron (16-18-18). So after painfully looking for even Black of Gray or White on Black with no luck or $150-60 prices, I went with Gold on Black for $119 ($130 after tax). Oh well
However, the biggest nag besides the combined $90 in tax (man I miss not being taxed from online purchases) is the fact there wasn't a with-heatsink model
Still 10 days away till they ship! Anyone else excited??
*high five* on AMD being back. While on [H] it's not so much the case, but I know a lot of other non-enthusiast places/people have only been in the game long enough to see AMD always being second string to Intel, which wasn't always the case. Athlon 64 was king. The Athlon XP before that, and the Athlon (Classic) before that!
Personally I have to commend AMD on a decent job with Ryzen launch... except for one glaring issue.... and it's cooler availability/support *shakes head*. It's like the cooler manufacturers didn't get the memo... Unless it was that the AM4 mounting holes weren't 100% set in stone util recently (like within a month). But in all honesty, it seems like a total undersight by AMD no matter how you slice it. They (cooler makers) could've at least gone the route of Corsair with their stock-bracket retention system on their AOI water coolers. Funnily enough the only adapter kits that you CAN get and have on hand when Ryzen arrives, seems to be either Noctua or Cryorig (SP?) made. One being a big name, one not-so-much. Thermalright and EVGA have announced ones, but I can't find them yet (I'm interested in the EVGA one since it is the round-gear style pump like my Tt Water2.0 Pro and am hoping it'll work on it). Corsair has announced too but similarly their kits are who-knows-where, but that's not surprising since they have models on the market with support... so they just want to move units to make money, versus send out free adapters. :\
Gigabyte seems to be using fewer phases than most on the X370 boards but more than most on the 350s.
Either something's wrong with my Chrome, or there isn't anything TO see...?
Up to 3200 is listed but then again my current FM2+ boards wont go anywhere near what it "supports"
I know it doesn't help people who already have coolers that they'd like to use, but there are one or two coolers that have been on newegg for at least a week now (one cooler and one adapter bracket, iirc).
Right, well this won't be a replacement for my sig rig (which is already beefy and not need for replacement). This will be an extra computer that will take the place of a super old Core2Duo machine I have sitting and never use. The reason for getting the 480's rather than something better from Nvidia (or splitting my 1080s) is that I do hobby game development and AMD cards have better architecture for DirectX12 and Vulkan and I'd like to start testing in preparation for Vega. Not too concerned about the cost, as I can likely sell the 480s in a few months with minimal loss.
Yeah, this is probably the only thing that looks like a botch in an otherwise perfect pre-launch. Sites like Newegg didn't even have AM4 compatibility as a search option. I had to crawl various forum threads and random blog posts to find what was compatible. Even then, the choices were slim. Most companies pledged to have adapter brackets available but you had to email them with proof of purchase and then wait however long it takes to ship. It would have been better if cooler companies just released the adapters for sale (even for $5 or whatever) immediately, which I would have preferred to having to email and wait. Or re-launched updated coolers specifically for AM4, but I'm sure that's coming. Luckily a bunch of the Corsair AIOs already had AM4 compatibility so I went with them.
Granted, there are some out there that do already work, and some with adapters already available. I guess I just expected a bit more from such a large launch. Like, I've never seen so many different motherboards available for AMD at a launch like there is here, so I sort of assumed that cooling makers would've been all over this with everything ready as well. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the "AM4" that launched last fall in systems with Carrizo chips was the same bracketry as we're dealing with now, so I find there's really no excuse.
I just dropped too much coin already to be able to handle another $70 on an AIO that won't perform much better than what I already have which itself has barely any usage! heh (Right Kyle....... Kyle? lol)