ve this paired this with an MSI Tomahawk B350 MB and also don't forget to download and take advantage of AMD's free software AMD Ryzen Master. This will give you useful information and allow you to overclock directly from the desktop.

I replaced an Intel i5 4690K overclocked to 4.4GHz with this Ryzen 7 1700 and what a difference in day to day tasks. I've been loyal to the Intel brand for decades but AMD got it right for the price!!
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Edit: 3/24/2017
It's now been a few weeks with this new Ryzen and everything is running great. I have been able to overclock this to 4GHz with only 1.385v and she screams in every benchmark. My bracket finally came in for my Cool Master Hypo EVO 212 and temps idle around the mid 40* and hit about 67* full load overclocked @ 4GHz.

As far as gaming is concerned my i5 4690K was giving me a few more FPS but once I overclocked this 1700 it's now on par without the need to disable SMT. I recently switched my power profile back to balanced from performance for obvious reasons and see no downgrade in performance from doing so.

You are definitely getting your bang for buck with Ryzen.
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Edit: 5/5/2017
Now that AMD have released new chipset drivers and the new ryzen balanced power plan this is absolutely the best running computer I've ever built. I nick named this thing the Terminator because no matter what you throw at this thing it just keeps coming!!

现在新的RyZun已经用了几个星期了，运行的很顺利。只需要185伏，我就能够超频到4千兆赫，，它会在每一个基准中发出声音。我的托架终于到了，可以给我的Cool Master Hypo EVO 212用了，并且临时闲置大约在40的中间，并且达到大约67满负荷超频4GHz。就游戏而言，我的i5 4690K给了我更多的FPS，但是，一旦我超频1700，它会维持正常水平，不需要禁用SMT。我最近把我的电源配置文件从性能切换回平衡，原因显而易见，这样做不会降低性能。你肯定是在和Ryzen吵架。

现在AMD已经发布了新的芯片组驱动程序和新的ryzen平衡电源计划，这绝对是我所构建的最好的运行计算机。我把这个名字命名为“终结者”，因为无论你扔什么东西进去，它都会一直来！！

s open, copying files in the background, while playing Team Fortress 2 this CPU will probably get to ~45% usage with zero significant lag.

I came from an i5 and was unable to play 4K Youtube videos without my PC having serious issues. One of the first things I did was open three at once with zero performance issues. So far, the only time I've been able to get my CPU usage above 50% is when I have benchmarked encryption speeds.

My only complaint would be the stock cooler because I kept having temperature issues. I guess this is an aberration, because many people have stated that the stock cooler is more than enough. Now I'm using the Noctua NH-D14 (My case cannot fit the D15), which completely ameliorated any temperature issues I was having. Shoutout to Noctua support for being awesome.

Overall I'm blown away by this CPU. It is incredible to not have a CPU that will bottleneck no matter what I throw at it. Get this over the 1700x or the 1800x, this is going to be the best bang for your buck.

hey did try to help but never replaced or refunded me either. It ran nuclear hot and eventually after two motherboards and three psu's it fried. I was only 17 and had saved up for over a year for this chip. Any other build to that point for me was cheaper than just that cpu. Never touched another AMD chip until now. Since switching to Intel I have had no issues at all, they run cool and efficient. Here's where the problem lies. Kaby lake is good but mediocre. Either skylake shouldn't have been released or it should have come with the Z270 features on it already. When I came into some scratch, I waited (not my strong suit). I wanted to believe AMD could once again topple a colossus. They have. Intel isn't going anywhere and nor should they, but it has made them sweat a little and I'm grinning the whole time. Both are amazing and loved by me, the left side of my brain loves the low tdp and numerous efficiencies. The right side of my brain loves that AMD has created a piece of sophisticated art while yelling out the window at the top of their lungs and never letting off the breaks. We need Intel's responsible conservative nature, but we also need AMD's belt fed .50BMG levels of insanity. It's not always smart to fix a problem with a sledgehammer but sometimes you actually do need one. This thing is cheap for what you're getting and only 65w tdp with eight cores and sixteen threads...It's insanity incarnate. I have it overclocked to 3.7 on the stock wraith cooler running idles at 38c and 1.185 volts. RAM is set to 2667MHz, but will soon be able to get 3200 as patches arrive. Unless you are an extreme enthusiast, just get this, so many bases are covered from heavy workloads and rendering to gaming and graphic design. There is some minor teething but most are already being fixed as I write this, it's new, there will be some tweaking required but nothing difficult. Check out level 1 tech's review as I feel they did a much better job of explaining the architecture and expectations of the new design. Ryzen is a sign of renewed competition which breeds smarter design. Thank you AMD for never giving up and showing us that underdogs can once again rise like a phoenix.