So all the up and down reporting/testing, shows (imo) that its early days right now. I've just had a look at the bios updates for the Asus PRIME X370-PRO and its had 3 updates already (tho the first release was in January - guess thats due to the lead time) - So yes really early days. On a slightly related note, I wish the bios update readme was better than one line, sigh.
Seems pretty standard across the range of AM4 boards atm, the Taichi I ordered which won't even be in stock anywhere until a promised date next week is on the 3rd bios version already too. So yep, early days indeed.
Has anyone here gotten their Ryzen kit yet? It's not surprising that we have to wait for it, even the initial performance looks like great value for the cash you pay. Hopefully the next GPUs from AMD can bring something to the table too.
I preordered with Amazon UK but they didn't have the stock in the end, so I ordered with Novatech and received the kit Thursday 3rd. Motherboards do seem harder to get though, although luckily I was always looking at a mATX B350 board and the Asus Prime B350M-A was in stock from day one so I didn't have any issues there either. There definitely is a fair amount of stock shortages though. Scan barely seem to have Ryzen (CPUs or motherboards) in stock, OCUK and Amazon are seem to be getting some stock in but selling out fairly quickly.
if what they have said on OCUK is true they have shifted a lot of ryzen kit but demand is outstripping supply , and they were well supplied
AMD will not anounce numbers they already said as much, This is not apple selling 10million units in a few days after all. A tonne to OCUK is what 1k cpus mobos? does not mean the same to AMD, If scan and OCUK and CLL have shipped 1k each thats only 3k total for example. Look at the supply issues of the 1080 and 1070. If the figures OCUK supplied where accurate they had a queue of 1k for the EVGA cards.
A slightly worrying Reddit thread about a bunch of people's Asus Crosshair VI Hero mobos getting bricked Probably best to avoid (Asus) BIOS updates for the next month or so.. even though it looks like the CH6 is the main culprit.
I'm erring towards the Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming K7, it's dual BIOS - I'd already ruled out the CF6 and the X370 Taichi isn't a dual; not sure how the MSI's fare in that department, I've not looked.
Unless I'm missing something, the entire point of that Reddit story is that the user did not attempt to flash the BIOS, the board spontaneously decided to do so itself and bricked itself.
Some of the Asus boards have CrashFree or (the even better) Flashback, so corrupted bioses are recoverable. I have Flashback on an old X79 board, you can even flash with no processor fitted.
Asus software installs something called EZflash. If you leave it enabled and press yes it will update the bios. Thats all he probably did here. Guess Asus never finished QA testing in time for AMDs launch program. Main issue I assume is the bios is a pre launch bios on most mobos, Till its updated. I read on reddit that the boards are not even letting people do 4.1ghz on the 1800x in certain cases. (mostly MSI boards) If you set the settings it refuses to boot.
i found this video interesting regarding ryzen gaming performance, sure its not as fast as a 5ghz 7700k but its no lemon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-mMBbWHrwM
I think were seeing it's no lemon across the board to be fair, I just think members of the Evangelical Church of Intel are having a hard time accepting that AMD have created what they perceive to be a miracle
Yeah it's funny. Even the most die hard Intel fans were saying how badly Intel have treated them until lately. Now it's back to bashing AMD. Probably because they know AMD have probably saved their arse, and given them the means to continue slagging them off. This video is worth a watch too.
A £500 CPU that's outperformed in games by a £330 I7 CPU (or even a £220 I5 CPU). That's a very special kind of miracle.
Why are people still harping on about this? I watched Jay and his point is extremely valid. The 7700K beats a 6900K ($1000) in gaming, and they don't get any flack for that. What gives? This CPU isn't exactly bad at gaming... it's just not as good at 1080P. I'm getting so bored of seeing people saying that it sucks.
Intel didn't market their 6900k towards gamers like AMD have done with Ryzen. I'm getting so bored of pointing out the obvious.