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I recall quite a few speed increases along the way with Socket 1151... It used to be a golden pairing to run DDR4-3600+ and now DDR4-3866 is a set-and-forget.
BIOS maturity goes a long way for DRAM capabilities and compatibility.
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FEATURED AMD ZEN Discussion (Previous Rumor Thread)
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I recall quite a few speed increases along the way with Socket 1151... It used to be a golden pairing to run DDR4-3600+ and now DDR4-3866 is a set-and-forget.
BIOS maturity goes a long way for DRAM capabilities and compatibility.
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What's this I'm reading about some boards not posting above 2666?
Is this one board in particular or just one?
I'm late to the party..... Sorry guys
Is this one board in particular or just one?
I'm late to the party..... Sorry guys
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I think higher tier boards/chipsets are posting the highest DRAM speeds? At least hitting those speeds with less effort. Pretty much standard operating procedure. Speed costs money-how fast do you want to go? I always love it when I can slip a car analogy into the conversation. 
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Don't have link but apparently the ram interface isn't very well optimised yet, and is expected to be improve with future bios updates. There are various speed recommendations depending on how many modules and what rank they are. Reports are the highest end Crosshair and the Gigabyte equivalent one are hitting the higher speeds (3200), whereas lower ones may not. Hope in not much more than a couple hours I can try for myself...
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odd question: Anyone try OCing on the Wraith Spire cooler? Just interested in the results. If I go Ryzen (and am leaning that way) I need a new block and that wouldn't fit the budget for now.
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Just copying these results from Hardware forum since it feels more appropriate here now that this is no longer the Zen BS thread and is now focused on reality. My setup is:
I did some quick experimentation this morning and it topped off at 3.9 GHz with 1.4V core voltage. It boots into Windows 10 at 4 GHz with a 1.425V core voltage but crashes under load. RAM OC is minimal with the the A-XMP setting failing at 2933 even though the memory is recognized and the timings and VDIMM are set correctly. I got the RAM to run at DDR4-2400 for the tests below. Temps are not really bad, going in the 60C to 65C range OC'd to 3.9 GHz. It does go over 70C after some time running Prime95 though, but I won't be doing that ever so ............ don't care.
- Ryzen 7 1700 @ 3.9 GHz w/ Cooler Master Hyper T4 - Core Voltage set at 1.4V
- MSI B350 Tomahawk
- G.Skill 2 x 8 GB DDR4-3000 Aegis
I did some quick experimentation this morning and it topped off at 3.9 GHz with 1.4V core voltage. It boots into Windows 10 at 4 GHz with a 1.425V core voltage but crashes under load. RAM OC is minimal with the the A-XMP setting failing at 2933 even though the memory is recognized and the timings and VDIMM are set correctly. I got the RAM to run at DDR4-2400 for the tests below. Temps are not really bad, going in the 60C to 65C range OC'd to 3.9 GHz. It does go over 70C after some time running Prime95 though, but I won't be doing that ever so ............ don't care.
Q2 the i7 7700k will still be around to beat Ryzen 4c 8t, Q2 Ryzen is the same architecture.
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I'll try the Spire initially since it comes bundled with the 1700. Got something better to try later as needed. Build time starts... now!
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Let me know how it goes, I'm looking at possibly running the spire initially as well.
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If only Vega were out, I could order it at the same time as Zen...
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I see the Win10 desktop on the test system, but I'm stuffing my face at the moment before next phase. Bios CPU voltages confused me. One part with an offset was showing around 1.18, and nearly 1.3v in the monitor. Temps reported in bios were around 40C, not great for idle...
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Right now, set at 3.9 GHz but idling at 1.55 GHz, my temp is at 33C with my Hyper T4.
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Just an FYI for anyone interested, the Asus Crosshair VI Hero has both AM3 and AM4 mounting holes. So older blocks will fit on it.
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I wasn't planning on getting the CH VI, but hadn't really thought about the other Mobo + block cost vs CHVI Mobo. I'll have to look into that.
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Has there been any speculation on Ryzen multi-processor compatibility? I know they advertise it as scalable, but does that mean scalable to multi-proc boards or scalable like they can keep adding cores/modules to a certain extent with no issue? Im leaning towards the second option considering Naples is supposed to be 32 core.
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In the AMA on reddit yesterday someone from AMD said there is no mutli socket compatibility.
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The BIOS or UEFI firmware that enables power management is rare. Expecting your CPU to run off wildly doing nothing at all is normal.
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Was that asked for Ryzen or for the Zen uarch? Because there's a distinct difference there.
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