3700X is installed. Haven't put it thru too many paces as haven't had time to install programs, outside of a few gaming benchmarks. On these it does fairly well. could probably play any game at ultra settings at 60+ fps 1440p. Curious about latency for audio but haven't tested. For copy/paste/ installing programs it's no different than any other CPU. Haven't tested it on video rendering yet...but sure it will would do well. It stays very cool under load, even on my air-cooled rig. It's probably overkill and the 3600 is probably just as good, but cheaper. (Still running MSI beta bios)
It's very rare that cpu's are bad right out of the box, I once had a bad fan on an AMD chip so I wrote AMD about getting an RMA on the fan and they sent me a brand new cpu with a heatsink and fan.
What happened? BSODs (or GSODs) in your face at stock clocks? Or other error(s) at stock clocks? Or just keeps crashing at stock clocks?
Green screens, freezing, problem was there from day one but deteriorated as time went on, constant freezing in the end. Green screens probably a driver issue came and went with Windows and driver updates. I stripped the machine down and re assembled, tried different hdds, temp was under 30 degrees for RAM and CPU, nothing appeared untoward with any of the freebie system monitoring tools. Nothing seemed to register the freezing, as if it wasn't happening. Problem present as soon as Windows setup completed. My guess is the graphics side of the chip is duff, the basic graphics in setup was not triggering the problem. The PC seemed to run Linux OK, again less demand on the graphics side.
They were rock solid budget alternative to Intel, but are they peddling rubbish and living off their past reputation? Search Ryzen issues and just look at the number of negative posts, the problem is huge.
oh yeah @Kim100, i seen many posts like that. Funny but Ryzen was supposed to be the great white hope, so great it made me swap to intel which is running windows 7 where amd forced us onto 10. You were unlucky in having a bad chip but even so you are right where i couldnt afford to be, intel was the lesser of 2 evils for me but it turned out to be a good choice as im running the igpu with a biostar driver. I thank my lucky stars and the guy who pointed , @CEW i think it was
W7 aero used to crash and revert to 7 basic theme on my A8 7600, cant remember if my 7890K did the same.
that's right bro, well in another hand I always make use of Intel cpu's until 2017 if I'm not wrong I buy on AMD A10 7800 running in this moment I never have some issue; although this cpu is blocked but same so I like very much never had any bsod, gsod or some specie of problem; once I try use one application from Gigabyte (manufacturer of my mobo F2A88XM-D3HP for try "overclock" but bah!! don't works correctly then I'm thinking in buy another one A10 7870 unblocked to see what happens...
Try to get a Godavari revision apu @Tiger1, small gains over Kaveri but it all helps. FM2+ stuff is getting very hard to find now. 7 Aero doesnt crash on UHD 610 or 630, smooth as silk so far Check prices on Bristol Ridge apus on AM4, they are Carrizo based.
The A320xxxx boards are horrible with the Raven Ridge Ryzen cpu. Make sure your not using a cheapo board with this chip. Most of the complaints I see involve this board with the Raven Ridge (2200G, 2400G and 3200G and 3400G) chips
Reseat the video card (if not using the IGP) and reseat the RAM! For crashes with no error messages, I would reseat all cards, the ATA connectors, if using SATA, and the power connectors!
Well, that was the minimum I would have done, but if you went farther and redid the motherboard mounting and CPU mounting, then I guess what you did was better off, I apologize.
If its a self build then disassembling then reassembling making sure everythings tight, cpu cooler paste is even etc, isnt a bad idea. If its an off the shelf item then kim100 may kill the warranty by doing so.
I did all but remove the processor, as the temp readings were OK I left well alone. I liaised with the warranty repair company [Mendit] and asked their advice before touching it, I was mindful of possible warranty issues. I considered building this PC myself but the difference between buying the parts myself and a PC off the shelf was about £25, savings used to be huge building your own, not anymore [buying online anyway]. I should have gone A10/12 tried and tested. As I don't play games I doubt I would have noticed much difference in performance.