Moved to the Taichi and 2700x a few days ago, this is just some initial thoughts and a Cinebench + Passmark comparison against a 5.3ghz 7600k and 5ghz 7700k.
2700x
NH-D15
Asrock x470 Taichi
EVGA 1070
16gb(2x8Gb) GSkill Flare X
Initial testing and completed build
Thoughts after a couple days of use
Motherboard
- (This may be more of an application issue) Every application seems to read a different sensor so I never know what the actual core temperature is and it boils down to "Nothing is reading above 65C so whatever"
- Booting takes 10-15 seconds longer than my previous 7700k build. Which I expected and isn't good or bad imho.
- A pleasant surprise after my previous experience with gen 1 Ryzen, I enabled XMP and had fully stable 16gb 3200mhz with no additional tweaking(14-14-14-34-48). So props to AMD(and Asrock) for the improvement on that front
- BIOS LED controls don't seem to do anything
- Come on Asrock, why do you have the "Asrock App Shop" that just downloads other programs and not even the ones people want? There also seems to be 2 entirely different programs for controlling the on-board LEDS depending on platform that you can only get from the downloads section of the motherboard page. Also why are the tuning and RGB programs not in a single package?
CPU
- All-core turbo to 4ghz(ends up being 4.025ghz) gets a thumbs up from me
- I'm yet to do any heavy duty testing but it handles the games and common applications I've thrown at it well
General Use
- I have to wait while saving a photo from photoshop without compression which is a bit odd
- While I've seen that frame times in games are overall better than the intel counterpart, the periodic frame time spikes are incredibly noticeable
- A minor quirk that's neither here nor there; When scrolling through folders with many music/video/photo files, thumbnails are slow to appear
Overall, a solid combo. Comparisons in replies
