TR retail packaging. Lisa for scale
Put a button on one of the lower corners, some kind of antenna on the top and you have a CRT-TV mockup.
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The blue man group collectively just browned their trousers 
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Looks really nice.
So, I got a little bit more testing in, still just using the classroom blender demo file. I tried 3.9GHz and at 1.25V it crashed instantly. I gave it a bunch more power to play with and after dialing it down step by step it turns out 1.325 crashed half way in while the next step 1.33125 made it through. I feel that is still fairly good and just to give it a bit of headroom I settled now for 1.35V @3.9GHz. 4.0GHz is not gonna happen on this chip. Not even on 1.4V and I am not even gonna try any further.
I would like to know if that is somewhat similar to what you all have experienced so far because to me it looks like there isn't much "lottery" in ZEN silicon. Anyone got a 4.1GHz unicorn? Or a 3.8GHz potato?
Just glancing through the overclocking stuff on other forums one guy got to 4 with 1.408v
Mostly I was investigating BCLK oc'ing on ryzen and it seems at 6% the pcie drops from level 3 to 2. Which is a shame since the turbo has a really nice swing of .7ghz
Something isn't stable yet. Have to do more testing. It might be a balancing act between the memory which is at 2933 on four sticks and the CPU at 3.9GHz. I probably have to dial back at least one of the two. I mean, I'm not on a high-end board and I am on air cooling, so realistically I can't complain.
24 hours from now Ryzen 3 will start shipping and all they hype is for threadripper
Don't know if that is good or bad
4 ghz 1.36v-1.37v (depending on vdroop) with 1800X on air for me.
Ill probably try to get the Crosshair VI extreme for it as I'm going to be building a custom water build soonish so will see what it can do.
I've been testing more precise settings for my R7-1700 lately after finally getting the RAM stable at its rated speed. Focused on finding a decent clock while keeping the power demand/noise low, I ended up settling for 3.8 GHz. Going up to the ca 1.4 V required for stability at 3.9 GHz didn't feel worth it, for a mere 2.6 % boost.
Load testing with Prime 95(In Place FFT for max power draw) I ended up at either a plain 1.30 V core, or a combined setting of 1.25 V togehter with a core LLC at 3. Both settings give a peak recorded core voltage of 1.384 V over the course of a 30 min test. (It was more common to see the voltage linger around 1.30 V.)
Out of curiosity I got 3.7 GHz stable with a plain 1.225 V core. A level of performance/power perhaps fitting a smaller system that doesn't have a cooler like this Noctua NH-D15S that I'm using.
I started out my testing using voltage offset values instead of set values, but that proved to be more temperamental stability-wise and I don't feel like taking it up again. Aside from wishing for a motherboard with P-state support I'm pretty much finished testing this setup.
That sounds familiar to what I am experiencing. What is your memory running at?
Here is a funny thing: My memory controller likes 1V SOC. It does not like less, it does not really care about more. My memory seems to run stable at 2933MHz at 1.0V SOC only. It actually crashes at higher SOC voltage.
For the chip, depending on what the load is it might be perfectly fine at 3.9GHz or not. And it looks like voltage needs to spike massively to even get there. So 3.8 is gonna be my speed as well. That is what I set it to in the first place and I have nothing to complain about, it runs great. I mean, we already are beating a stock 1800X in multicore stuff, so…
The best solution to get my four sticks of 2666 RAM stable proved to be nudging up their voltage from 1.20 to 1.30 V. In the newer firmwares for my Asus Prime X370 the default SoC voltage has gone up from 0.90 to 0.95 and that’s doing fine here now.
Yeah, I just dialed in 1.35V on the memory and that does help a lot. I am also on four sticks.
ryen 3 1300x now on newegg $129
also ryzen 3 1200 $109
should be 4 cores 4 threads. newegg specs show 4 cores 8 threads
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.