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The AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Unboxing and installation, + AMD Wraith Spire cooler

April 21, 2018 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone,

In this post, I’ll like to show you the pictures and videos of my shiny new AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU which I received yesterday:

The AMD Ryzen 7 2700X is the newest CPU in the AMD Ryzen family, along with the 2600, 2600X and 2700. This particular CPU has a base speed of 3.7Ghz and can boost up to 4.3Ghz. It also comes with the new AMD Wraith Prism cooler, which you can see at the final parts of this post.

The box:

Here are the pictures of the box:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X - 2 — *Here, we can see the CPU*

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X - 3 — *Here, we can see the CPU*

Unboxing:

This is the unboxing video I made of this CPU. Hope you like it!

CPU Installed:

I’m using my current ASUS B350M-A to use this CPU. Before installing it, I updated the BIOS to version 4008. Then, I swapped the old CPU with the new one:

I then placed the included AMD Wraith Spire cooler:

It looks really awesome when we turn it on!

Watch the RGB lighting in action!

Performance:

I’m really impressed. Running BOINC in this is really fast. The CPU runs at 4.00Ghz most of the time. I haven’t seen it go up but neither down. It is running at 3.95-4.00Ghz:

The project ODLK1 takes about 20 minutes or less to crunch a workunit per thread. This is an improvement from some 30 to 40 minutes it took with the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 stock speed CPU:

Video editing is also fast with this new CPU:

Please note that I’m running this CPU as is and I don’t plan on overclocking it. I’m very satisfied with it and hope it works excellent for me in all my daily tasks!

That’s all for this post and I hope you enjoyed it!

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X shipped!

April 19, 2018 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone,

This is another Status Update regarding my soon-to-arrive AMD Ryzen 7 2700X processor.

It has been shipped yesterday night, and it is expected to arrive tomorrow 😁

I can’t wait to install this CPU. Today afternoon, I will apply the newest BIOS to the motherboard to have it ready for the brand-new CPU.

Stay tuned for more about this new CPU, unboxing, and installation!

AMD Ryzen 2700X is coming!

April 17, 2018 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone,

I have preordered the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU to upgrade my AMD 1700 build. This will provide me a better performance increase as I’m running the CPU at stock speeds, up to 3.20Ghz.

The AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU runs at 3.7Ghz base speeds with Precision Boost going up to 4.3Ghz. It is a very nice speed boost compared to my 1700 CPU and considering I was overclocking it to 3.6Ghz, but I had to reverse it because of stability issues.

As far as the motherboard, new X370 boards are expensive, at $200+, so I’ll keep using my B350M which cost only $70 dollars when it was released. If new B450 boards are released, then I may consider upgrading it. The benefit of getting a new one is that I will then be able to run 2 AMD Ryzen machines for a total of up to 16 Zen cores and 32 total threads.

Now, I don’t expect to receive this on Friday, but who knows! Last year this was a total pain. First, I received my AMD 1700 CPU and some weeks later I received the motherboard. I hope this time the CPU actually gets released the 19 and Amazon has enough stock to ship it to me.

I’ll keep you all updated!

What was making my AMD Ryzen CPU temperature high?

March 27, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

The real issue was not the cooling, but the vcore applied to the CPU,

In the past, the BIOS was set to Auto vcore, and it was applying 1.36V of vcore, which was making the CPU temperature skyrocket to the 80C almost 90C:

Now, In the BIOS, I set the vcore voltaje via offset, meaning that the BIOS applies the CPU stock voltage of 1.18V plus or minus a value I add to it. In my case, I applied a +0.02 offset, and now my CPU is running stable at 3.6Ghz (same x36 multiplier) with a vcore of 1.21V. It now works between 1.19v and 1.21v where before it was using 1.35v to 1.37v. The temperature went down significantly!

Now I’m happy 😀

Keep in mind these temps are with the CPUs and GPU running at 100%, using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software.

Hardware Upgrades! 120mm x 38mm noisy fan and ATI Radeon HD 2400 GPU

March 26, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone,

Today, I performed some hardware upgrades to my computers.

First, on my Ryzen PC, which was getting temperatures of 84C all the way to 89C, I replaced the front 120mm fan, which was an Arctic F12, with a 120mm x 38mm high airflow but very noisy fan I took out from a Dell PC. This fan was placed on the CPU heatsink, so I tough on using it on my new Ryzen CPU as it could definitely lower the temps, and it did! My PC is now running between 78C to 84C on a tropical sunny day, so when it is cold or the air conditioner is turned on, these temps will definitely go down. Also, remember these temperatures are with both the CPU and GPU running the Distributed Computing software called BOINC, which uses the CPU and GPU to its maximum potential. Also, the CPU is overclocked to 3.6Ghz on all cores:

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 1

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 2

Another change I did was to setup the back fan as intake. This is because the front fan is so powerful that it wasn’t working as expected as exhaust. It was taking very little air out of the case and before it took out more air, so setting it as intake definitely helps here:

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 3

These are the new temperatures:

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 4

Lastly, I changed the 80mm fan I was using in the side window with the Arctic F12 I took out from the front 120mm slot. This one is also set as Intake. This way, the air blows directly to the AMD Wraith Spire cooler and also helps cool a little more the motherboard:

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 5

Going forward, on my PC running an Intel i7-3610QM in the Mini-ITX motherboard, I added ATI Radeon HD 2400 GPU from the same Dell system. The reason why I added this GPU was that this system was the one that had the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060, which I’m now using in the AMD Ryzen PC. Because of this, the Intel PC has been running with the Intel HD Graphics, and since the PCI Express slot was empty, I added this GPU to it. Now it is working with both GPUs and running [email protected] on the Intel GPU while running Moo! Wrapper on the ATI GPU:

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 6

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 7

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 8

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 9

Hardware Upgrades - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 build - 10

So that’s all I’ve done with the PCs for today. Hope you enjoyed seeing all these images!!

AMD Ryzen 7 and Nero Video 2017. A Look at Performace

March 25, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone,

Today, I’m sharing my experience with Nero Video 2017 on my AMD Ryzen 7 PC.

So far, I’m not pleased with the performance Nero Video is having on this PC. The issue seems to be that the software is coded to use just a few cores or threads instead of using every core and thread of the CPU. I can get to this conclusion as on my Intel i7 PC, it manages to use like 80% of the CPU. Here on Ryzen, it is using between 30 to 40% for an MPEG-4 Blu-Ray encoding. This is a CPU encoding process, so the GPU isn’t being used except when it renders the menus. It seems Menu generation is OpenCL accelerated.

Here, I’m encoding some videos from a robotics event from 2015 I recorded (here is the playlist), being converted to Blu-Ray files using the MPEG4 codec:

Now, take a look at the Task Manager:

Let’s take a look at the processes view:

So yeah… The Nero Video software needs serious optimizations for the AMD Ryzen chips. At this stage, it takes the same amount of time to do the render on my Intel i7-3610QM PC which is a CPU from 2012… We are now in 2017… I really hope Nero fixes it so it can use the full potential of this PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 overclocked to 3.6Ghz

March 24, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 1 comment

Hi everyone,

Yesterday night, I was playing with the motherboard BIOS and overclocked my CPU to 3.6Ghz, using a multiplier of x36. Voltage is set to Auto and it is currently using 1.36v, although CPU-Z reports weird readings of 1.94 and 2.000V, which are incorrect readings.

Here is a benchmark from Cinebench and CPU-Z. Below you can see my current system specs:

Cinebench:

CPU-Z Bench:

CPU-Z System Information:

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 3.6Ghz CPU-Z CPU Information 1

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 3.6Ghz CPU-Z CPU Information 2

HWiNFO:

About the temperatures, I’m using the Stock Cooler and running BOINC which uses all cores and threads and also the GPU to 100%. That’s why HWiNFO reports 100% load on every core and thread:

The system is running stable. No crashes, no shut downs. It is perfectly stable!

More system info can be found here: http://valid.x86.fr/ur5kjl

What about you? Have you overclocked your CPU?

distributed.net benchmark on AMD Ryzen 7 1700 at 3.30Ghz

March 21, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 0 Comment

Hi everyone,

Today, I ran a benchmark for the distributed.net client on my new AMD Ryzen 7 1700 running at 3.30Ghz. The PC has a 16GB Crucial Ballistix 2400Mhz RAM module.

distributed.net benchmark on AMD Ryzen 7 1700 at 3.30Ghz

Computer details:

See my Ryzen PC build here!

My new computer, with AMD Ryzen 7 1700

March 20, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 1 comment

Hi everyone,

Today has been a special day for me as I finally received my ASUS PRIME B350M motherboard. The CPU I got is the AMD Ryzen 7 1700.

Let’s take a look at the motherboard:

The motherboard came in this box:

Let’s see some more images:

When I opened the box, there was the motherboard:

When I took the motherboard out, we can see it came with 2 SATA cable, the M.2 screw, the backplate, the instruction manual and a driver CD (but I downloaded the drivers from the ASUS website):

Finally, here we can see the motherboard out of the Anti Static Bag:

The CPU

Opening the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 box, we find this:

Opening the AMD Wraith Spire cooler box:

We can see that the cooler came with preapplied thermal paste:

I forgot to take pictures of the motherboard with the CPU and fan installed, but you’ll see the full build below XD.

The RAM

The RAM I’m using is a 16GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 2400Mhz:

The GPU:

I’m using and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 3GB. This one:

The fans:

The fans are an Arctic F8, Arctic F12 and the stock cooler

The Power Supply:

The PSU is an EVGA 600W.

The Optical Units:

The optical units are both Lite-On. A Lite-On iHAS524 with SmartErase and LabelTag, and an iHBS112 which is a Blu-Ray drive.

The Hard Disk:

I’m currently using a Western Digital 1TB hard disk drive. I will later upgrade to a Solid State disk.

This is how the front of the PC looks:

The cable you see there is the power cable. I had to take out the front panel because the fan could not get enough air. Without the front panel, there is more airflow.

The built PC:

This is the final result:

Configuration:

I chose the ASUS High Performance profile in the BIOS. This boosted the CPU from the stock 3.00Ghz to 3.30Ghz.

Benchmark:

Here is a multi-threaded benchmark:

Running BOINC:

BOINC is a software used to participate in Distributed Computing projects and it a perfect software to put the CPU into stress, as it will utilize 100% of the CPU if set to use 100% of the system resources.

Here you can see BOINC using the 16 CPU threads:

Here you can see the Task Manager showing 100% of CPU usage:

And finally, here is the temperature:

AMD Ryzen Master with the AMD Ryzen 7 1700

I’ll do some rendering tests later by using CyberLink PowerDirector and Nero Video, which are the softwares I use to produce videos.

I hope you enjoyed reading and watching the images in this article! Let me know if you own a Ryzen CPU, what motherboard you have and if it works great for you 🙂

Images from the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU Box

March 18, 2017 Moisés Cardona Comments 1 comment

Hi everyone,

In this post, I will be sharing some photos I took from the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Box. I still haven’t unboxed it as I’m still waiting for the motherboard which should be delivered to me on Monday.

Below are the photos:

To see more case photos, click here.

Do you have a Ryzen 7 CPU or are you waiting for the Ryzen 5 series? Let me know in the comments.