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Ryzen 3 looking good with RAM @ 2933MHz on B350:


It seems it is already possible to run RAM at 3200MHz sometimes.
 
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I just did an AM4 feature check and the Crosshairs are the best if you're never going to use an APU, and the Strix X370-F is the one to get if you want to leave the door open for that.

I find nothing cheaper is acceptable in terms of connectivity.

Requirements applied:

USB-C 3.1
USB 3.1 header
M.2 3.0 x4
S/PDIF

Only 4 boards found.

Adding TPM header changes nothing.
 
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I calculated a decent Ryzen 1200 system at around $650:

- B350 motherboard with S/PDIF
- 2x 4GiB 3000MHz CL16 RAM
- 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD
- 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM PMR SSHD
- RX 560 4GiB
- 80+ Bronze PSU
 
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Anti-competitive, anti-consumer, anti-technology....

How amusing, since that's exactly Apple's playbook!
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59$?

Manufacturing cost including packaging, shipping is 15$, for AMD. Not bad margin.
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You still don't factor in the huge R&D costs.... Manufacturing cost is only one component of the actual cost of a semiconductor product - and often a minor component of the cost.

Why?
 
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According to userbenchmark, Ryzen 1600 is now the most common AMD CPU (4th overall).

FX-8350 follows, dropping from 3rd to 5th.

FX-6300 and Ryzen 1700 come after that, in the 7th (from 6th) and 9th place respectively.

The 1300X is #1 in their dubious value ranking.
 
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I calculated a decent A12-9800 system at around $440:

- B350 motherboard with S/PDIF
- 2x 4GiB 3000MHz CL16 RAM (slower not worth it)
- 128GB 2.5" MLC SATA SSD
- 1TB 7200RPM PMR hard drive
- 80+ Bronze PSU
 
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I calculated a minimal decent AM4 system at around $310:

- A6-9500 dual core APU
- A320 motherboard with USB-C 3.0
- 2x 4GiB 2133MHz RAM
- 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM PMR SSHD (plain hard drives too slow)
- 80+ Bronze PSU
 
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Maybe Bristol Ridge has not shown up in the shops yet waiting for BIOS updates (eg: unlocking).
 
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I calculated an "iGPU sucks" entry AM4 system at around $430 (but you will have to wait until September):

- Athlon X4 950 CPU
- B350 motherboard with S/PDIF
- 2x 4GiB 3000MHz CL16 RAM (slower not worth it)
- 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM PMR SSHD (plain hard drives too slow)
- RX 460 2GiB
- 80+ Bronze PSU
 
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I would like to know if there are any significant production gains by disabling SMT in Ryzen 3 or is it just crippling for the sake of segmentation.
 
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Surprise!


But maybe this board does not allow memory overclocking even unofficially.

I wonder if RAM could be overclocked to more than the current 26xx MHz eventually on some motherboard.
 
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Not bad for high density libraries (remember APUs have no L3):


I don't know if this test takes advantage of L3 cache, and also take into account that Blender tries to use AVX2.
 
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The 1900X has the same amount of L3 cache as Ryzen 7, half of the other Threadripper's.

Is it 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 or 4 + 0 + 4 +0 ?
 
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Different configurations tested (plus Broadwell-E).

If you don't care about game benchmarks, there's some interesting cache comparisons in the second half.

 
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This video shows you many things you can do wrongly when installing Threadripper:

 
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This video shows you many things you can do wrongly when installing Threadripper:
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So far I have seen that biggest problem they have had with opening the Threadripper box...
 
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