AMD ryzen

Wozza63

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I like the Z270E, it's nice, OCs well, has all the trimmings, it's just too expensive.
That sounds like an R5 now, and an R7 in a few years when they've beefed up further. R5 vs i7s aside, the R5 should be a big upgrade off the FX series and I imagine you stand a better chance of getting upgrades in the same socket with Ryzen, though to my great surprise I hear Cannon Lake may also use 1151. https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel-cannonlake-10nm

That's what I was thinking yeah. Probably a R7 2800 or something along those lines. Depends if the generation after that will be supported on the same board.
 

Oussebon

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Just for anyone who missed it (I did until someone posted a spec up with it) PC Specialist are now selling Ryzen builds with 16gb 2666MHz and 16gb 3000MHz DDR4 available.

There's also the A320M-K on offer in the configurator. https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/PRIME-A320M-K/
Not an ideal pairing for R5/R7 builds but will be a nice match for budget systems with R3 or the APUs and shave a bit more off the price tag.
 

Oussebon

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32gb 3000MHz RAM available now, which is cool.

Watching the AMD Computex stream. There's a Ryzen laptop just been shown off, powered by dubstep apparently. But also sporting Ryzen CPU, RX 500 graphics, freesync screen.

It's not a Clevo, it's the one we saw teased before, but I'm sure Clevo will follow suit asap.

https://videocardz.com/70071/amd-radeon-rx-vega-launches-at-siggraph-late-july

Vega seems to be late, or at least non-frontier Vega is.

https://youtu.be/WK9z6NO1qyU?t=3179 Odd that two Vegas are (having to be?) used for Prey at 4k.
 
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It seems they pulled the 3000MHz RAM from the options. It's probably due to compatibility issues, which is a shame because new BIOSes with AGESA 1.0.0.6 are right around the corner.

The upcoming BIOS is reported to make 3200MHz possible for all configurations of CPU/memory. 3000MHz should be a non-issue, even considering the tight tolerances required for a system builder.

Also, seems that the price of the 1700 has gone down by around £10, and the 1700X has also decreased, not sure exactly how much. This seems in line with the price cuts TPU wrote on yesterday.
 
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Oussebon

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Let's hope, about the RAM.

I hadn't noticed the R7s on PCS had come down in price though I don't have a handle on the specific prices of any CPU on this website since they all vary quite a bit all the time.

I hadn't heard about the AMD Ryzen price cut and finally bothered to look into it. TPU clarify:
Update 03/06: AMD reached out to us and commented that this is not an official price-change. It could be implemented by local retailers or distributors.
https://www.techpowerup.com/233966/amd-trims-prices-of-the-ryzen-7-1700-and-1700x

Seems what happened is that Newegg cut its prices, which some websites reported on. Other websites picked up on that and it got morphed into a general Ryzen price cut in the reporting. Even though it seemed to be principally Newegg.
 

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
AMD Ryzen vs 7700k for streaming:

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Pour rappel, nous avons utilisé pour ce faire OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), et avons paramétré notre flux sur des paramètres relativement lourds : résolution 720p, encodage x264, birate max = "4000", preset d'encodage = "Slow".
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/dossier/62...d-signe-son-retour-avec-un-grand-r/622017.htm
Yellow = regular frame drops and loss of quality. Red = more than 50% frames lost / the stream cut out.

Just posting as I seem to remember a conversation where someone (Wozza iirc) said Ryzen soundly beat the 7700k in streaming, and I said I'd be interested to see some benches. While looking for something else today I came across the above. I haven't really spent any time looking for benches of that, and these happen to be the first I've seen in a written article. :)

Not a surprise to anyone I should think but it's always nice to know there's an article out there one can refer to.
 
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