AMD Discussion

[cube]

The cooler basically turned my Phenom II system into a new computer.

 

[cube]

Given the current price of components, I think I will dust off a Phenom X3, CPU cooler, DDR2, GT 720, SSHD, 2TB hard drive, and DVD burner and build a new computer with it.

That should be twice as fast as our Bay Trail AiO.

 

[fat jez]

Yeah, both DDR4 RAM and graphics cards are going for silly prices at the moment

 

[cube]

DDR3 and flash demand has been high, too.

Plus, CPUs will be bugged for quite a while.

 

[cube]

I bought a new AM2+ motherboard and the Phenom X3/4GiB/SSHD PC feels better than I thought.

So back to hoping for a 22FDX FX to just swap the X6 next year.

The AM2+/AM3/AM3+ zone rules.

 

[macgeek18]

Over the last year I have been working for my IT lead in his personal IT consulting firm. I talked him into buying this AMD Ryzen Desktop for a new computer and he surprised me last week by buying one for me! So excited to have a new Ryzen machine again. It's a prebuild but it's spec'd extremely well!

https://www.costco.com/Dell-Inspiro...00X---8GB-AMD-Graphics.product.100380469.html

 

[cube]

I am happy that the AM2+ motherboard allowed me to reuse an IDE DVD burner from 2004.

 

[cube]

Haha. I was just told the Phenom X3 machine feels "lightning fast" (compared to the Bay Trail AiO).

The X3 has 4GiB dual channel 1066MHz DDR2, SATA 1.5Gbps and a second gen Momentus XT SSHD (7200RPM).

The AiO has 8GiB single channel 1333MHz DDR3, SATA 3Gbps and a third gen Laptop SSHD (5400RPM).

 

[cube]

The AM2+ is my first Gigabyte motherboard. I had MSI, ASUS, and ASRock before (I think they all failed, but the last one was repaired).

 

[macgeek18]

Ryzen is amazing.

 

[cube]

I see only lower end AM4 motherboards that have at least one PCI slot (some also with poor placement).

And none of them which have more than one M.2 slot.

Very bad in those: none with more than one 3.0 slot, none supports DDR4-3600, none with USB 3.1 header.

No such X370 boards that have both USB-C and TPM header.

 

[cube]

The new Ryzen+Vega APUs launching today are the two top sellers at amazon.com .

 

[cube]

I'm not liking these SATA ports on the edge of E-ATX motherboards. It means they would not fit in a Corsair Carbide 500R, for example.

 

[cube]

amazon.com has run out of Raven.

 

[cube]

 

[cube]

I hope Zen+ will bring more PCIe lanes with the new chipsets.

 

[cube]

Motherboards need SATA Express to connect front panel modules.

 

[cube]

Where is the MSI MS-4199?

 

[cube]

So, motherboards should really have at least 2 M.2 slots.

And no TPM header on Fatal1ty X399, really?

 

[Michael Scrip]

So, motherboards should really have at least 2 M.2 slots.

Many of them do have two M.2 slots.

Even on tiny Mini-ITX boards!

 

[cube]

Many of them do have two M.2 slots.

Even on tiny Mini-ITX boards!

Yes, but some interesting motherboards only have one.

And Mini-ITX boards with 2 M.2 slots should have at least one on the front side.

 

[cube]

And I would prefer a Mini-ITX board with 4 SO-DIMM slots rather than just 2 DIMMs.

 

[cube]

What about a TR4+ "APU" with HBM2?

 

[cube]

It should be possible to just call it TR4 without confusion.

 

[cube]

Doesn't AMD have enough bad Ravens to make some triple cores?