Meh, it turns out the cause of the fires on the ACX cards were due to a bad batch of caps.
LOL.... but I need to fill the empty space in my case.
You're at the top right now.
The R7's are awesome for their price/performance in multithreaded stuff but the R5's are going to be the true test. Priced to compete with i5's while offering the same or 50% more cores and also multithreading. I'm just afraid they're going to hit a clock speed wall pretty hard like the R7's did. Since i5's are usually gaming focused they likely will still win in this department.Let's disregard the fact that my computer almost destroyed itself. If you're not first, you're last.
That being said I've previously been an AMD fan and this was my first Intel build. New respect for Intel tbh... Ryzen seems to be doing VERY well from what AMD has promised, and I really wanna see these Ryzen R5's hit the market for some real Core i5 competition...
I miss my 4.6GHz sometimes... I love this new CPU but I can't say I'm not a little disappointed in overclocking potential. If Kaby Lake is hitting 5.0GHz pretty regularly CannonLake is gonna be crazy.
In theory the more expensive chips should clock better from binning. The 1700X and 1800X are 95w TDP and the 1700 is 65w. From what I've seen and the general consensus is that all 3 can usually hit 4.0 without much trouble. The 1800x in particular can clock 1-200MHz higher than the other 2 but you're basically just paying for better odds in the silicon lottery. Pretty much all 3 are guaranteed to hit 3.8GHz minimum and the 1800X usually can do 4.1 or so. This is the exact reason I didn't wait for R5 as it seemed pointless to sacrifice cores with no major uptick in clock speed.
Dear God I hope so. CPU-Z still tells me I'm at .6ish for my VCore, think it's reading half it's actual value. HWMonitor reports the same.
It might explain his 50-60C idle though lol
Yeah I saw that right after but figured I'd fix it next update.Looks like there is a typo in the leaderboards. It says I have an i6
