3.9Ghz on my 1700 (on a Taichi) at 1.35v with BCLK untouched, all very stable, had it running for hours on Aida64 stability test and no BSODS yet 
Nice! What kind of cooling?
Ryzen 3 is upon us.
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Not hugely impressed tbh… Yeah it rekts the i3 but the Pentium still seems a better value at least for gaming.
However with Intel possibly getting rid of it leaving only the i3… It becomes more relevant. But yeah if the i3 was worthless before it’s even more worthless now…
Prob still better getting a 1400.
Also these low end CPUs are hamstrung by lack of an iGPU
RR needs to hurry the fuck up
EDIT: Just read Tom’s HW rather than TPU. They tested at 1080p rather than 720. Makes it look a lot better and is prob more realistic.
Ryzen 3 budget king. i3 is now even more worthless and the Pentium really is struggling.
Cooler is Noctua NH-D15 se-am4, stays under 70deg C (delta 45 over ambient) memory is 3200 Gskill Flare @ 3200 XMP 1 profile
Neat!
I’m guessing here, two sticks, 16GB?
I have to run my ripjaws V a little slower because I have 4x8GB. Still have to memtest the shit out of it.
I was actually thinking about going down to 16GB and try to run at 3200. But I think the performance difference would hardly be worth it.
Correct, 2x8GB. I run Win10 and Sony Vegas, the 16GB lets me edit and encode 800GB of raw video without running short. Transcoding a one hour game stream takes me 60mins, used to take 2hrs on my old 3930K rig with 64GB of ram.
I think this one is new:
I am just wondering if my 700 W gold will handle this. Well i have a 850W bronze laying around… somewhere.
EDIT: lel the X399 Gaming Pro is not new it’s in the link that @anon85933304 posted. But the AM4 motherboards are new. Interesting design.
always knew the g4560 would be its target to beat but I think the ryzen gives you the better upgrade path.
4Ghz seems to be gettable for most chips at 1.425v, the max 24/7 voltage that AMD recommends, or a bit less.
@anon85933304, It does automatically drop to PCIe 2.0 but you can manually reset PCIe back to ver 3.0 with the higher bclk settings if you want. Your GPU and any NVME you have may not like it though.
Having said that, I can still do a 21300 graphics score in firestrike with a GTX 1070, PCIe 2.0 and BCLK of 105.7mhz so you dont actully loose much, if any graphics performance.
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I would not recommend running above 1.375 for a system that is supposed to last multiple years, even when temps are in check.
Doable? Yes, on most chips. A good idea? … hmmmm 
I guess if you want to cheap out and buy a b350 or a really cheapy x370, you are probably right. A board with a decent VRM and some fans in the case and you should be fine.
Those features should be prerequisites if you are planning on overclocking anyway.
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I am not talking about the board but about degrading the chip.
I’d like to see a reference to 1.425v for 24/7 operation from AMD, do you have one handy?
How to install a Threadripper into a MSI mobo. By MSI.
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how long do you plan on having the PC before you upgrade it? 5 years is a very long time to hang on to a CPU, while over 1.4v might degrade the cpu a bit over time yje life of the chip is still likely to exceed the 5 year mark
the 1.425v comes straight from Robert Hallock at AMD
the specific reference to CPU voltage is at 12:21 but the entire video is really quite informative. the only thing missing is reference to Agesa 1006 and memory timings
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oh…!
your screw driver is so hard.
my thermal grease is so wet
Before Zen was released I remember there was a guy on this forum who said he will eat his own shoe if Ryzen will rival the performance of the 8 core intel chip. I’m still waiting for the video of him eating the shoe.
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It was but it isn’t anymore. Look at CPUs from 2012, that is Ivy bridge. Not a lot you can do with current gen quadcores that wouldn’t work with those ancient chips. And if I can still use my 1700 in 5 years, I will. Not for my main rig, but it will be used. I am currently running a dual 2670 system and I plan on doing so for a long time.
And taking the gamble of degrading a 360,- Euro part? What for? 100MHz? No! That is stupid. Don’t talk people into being stupid.
Yeah and I can surely count on AMD to fix me up with a new chip in three years, right? Oh wait, no I can’t because legally it doesn’t matter what marketing Bob says. Also he doesn’t say anything about 24/7 usage. He says “try not to go higher than 1.425V.” To me that means “ever”. And then he says “you are risking the long term lifetime of your processor by going higher”. … And that sounds redundant. 
Look, if you are using your CPU “just for gaming” it might be fine and if you already plan on tossing it in a few years then whatever. I might do that with a cheap quadcore myself but it isn’t a nice thing to recommend potentially damaging settings. Don’t be that guy.
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