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October 13, 2019 at 3:04 pm #37390
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Seee the screen shot. This is the latest Bios support for B450 chipset. Peeps have been complaining that their Ryzen 3 3600 CPU’s have not been hitting the advertised speed of 4.2 GHz.

This latest Bios: ABBA 1.0.0.3 Adresses that and also introduces dynamic clock. All other Bios previous just ran the 3600 @ an all core underclock of 4.1GHz.

So, happy for the mo. Next month, Novemebr, AMD will relese a close to final Bios build for B450 etc with over 100 fixes in it? Mostly to do with the new CPU being relesed in November.

Ah, sadley you cannot see the results of the test. So, all core: Ryzen 1 1700X=3455, Ryzen 3 3600 at 4.1 old bios 3445 and new dynamic clock bios hitting advertised speed of 4.2GHz 3535.
November 9, 2019 at 3:25 pm #38143
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So, A New Bios has been released 1004B. Its to accomadate the new thread rippers due for realese real soon and has been improved over previous bios.

So far I have not managed to get any xtra performance out of my 3600 but boot times to the dask top are almost instant.

I messed around with some of the new features in the bios and found that I had underclocked the chip to 547Mhz on all cores.

Man It was like I had swopped in an old penty 4 willamette. Ah new features in PBO.
November 10, 2019 at 9:54 am #38146
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I’m avoiding the 3xxx series for a while, the main reason being I can get cracking 2XXX chips at great prices but the BIOS is absolutely a concern.

CCL have their Kallis Ryzen 7X AMD Motherboard Bundle for £329: Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz / 16GB / HyperX DDR4 / Gigabyte B450 Gaming X / 3 Years Warranty

I did some stress testing on the recent Ryzen 5 2600 build for an artist. The Wraith cooler has no issues with 100% load on all cores until the cows came home so I’m hoping it will cope with some modest overclocking of the 2700.
November 10, 2019 at 1:49 pm #38153
keith with the teef
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You Know. I am really looking forward to the new 3000G Athlon. Yep, the new £50 soc. Apparently this one is unlocked by default. No cracked bios required. 🙂
November 10, 2019 at 3:28 pm #38156
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Yes I was just reading about it.
November 11, 2019 at 6:28 pm #38172
Dave Rice
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Just about to order one of those Kallis Bundles plus an MSI Radeon RX 580 ARMOR 8GB for my mates son’s Christmas pressie (lucky bugger).

It’s going to have a fast NVMe SSD plus a larger spinner for the Steam library so I’m going to try StoreMI for the first time.
November 11, 2019 at 10:23 pm #38176
keith with the teef
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Not tried store MI. For sure if you can speed up anything slow in a pc its gonna help especially with games with all that fetching they have to do. Nice GFX card and bundle The 8GB frame buffer will see him right. 🙂

Good build.
November 11, 2019 at 11:00 pm #38178
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It will push the most used file blocks onto the SSD and with 256GB to play with (the maximum it supports) it shouldn’t have any issues keeping things current. So whatever game becomes his flavour of the month will quickly get itself on the fast load list. It’s not a caching product, it manipulates drive mapping, so it doesn’t have to keep tables of things going.

The only thing I’m “worried” about is backup. Reading the notes it’s as clear as mud with regards a whole system restore. I’ll probably get him a Microsoft or Google Account and use cloud folder synchronizing to keep his personal files safe. Steam libraries are easily rebuilt, especially as they have 200 Mbps BB from Virgin. Installing the base W10 from scratch on these NVMe machines is a matter of minutes.
November 12, 2019 at 7:50 am #38179
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Although I think Outer Worlds is reasonably well optimised, it was the GPU and 3D renderer that maxed out the first. The Ryzen CPU was still pootling along on 16GB of ram despite having a vm in the background (thanks to all those cores me thinks)
November 12, 2019 at 9:12 am #38182
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There’s way too many cores and I wouldn’t normally choose a Ryzen 7, however when that sort of bundle is dangled in front of you!

His Dad is a very keen amateur photographer so if he gets the bug, especially these days if it’s video related, it could turn out to be a good buy. The brief was a certain level of gaming with as much future proofing as practical without breaking the bank and I think it does that.
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