Great price for an excellent CPU - the pick of the 8 core CPU line up.

Got mine running at 3.95ghz OC with 3300mhz RAM, runs everything very nicely indeed and has reduced my video editing times massively from my 4770k.

With the BIOS, AGESA microcode updates and Windows patches (Creators update can be downloaded now, google) there's a massive performance boost from the launch. They have also discovered they run better (in DX12) on AMD GPU than Nvidia because of Nvidia's POS DX12 implementation.

It's £299 everywhere! In fact you can find one for £2 less elsewhere. :wink:

Where? Most of bigger retailers are above £300

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/amd-ryzen-7-1700-8-core-am4-desktop-processor-yd1700bbaebox/version.asp?tduid=3391595496f4c49f24c60f6f9caaf356
Laptopsdirect £295

Great price for an excellent CPU - the pick of the 8 core CPU line up.

Got mine running at 3.95ghz OC with 3300mhz RAM, runs everything very nicely indeed and has reduced my video editing times massively from my 4770k.

With the BIOS, AGESA microcode updates and Windows patches (Creators update can be downloaded now, google) there's a massive performance boost from the launch. They have also discovered they run better (in DX12) on AMD GPU than Nvidia because of Nvidia's POS DX12 implementation.

£299.92 delivered (unless you use the Which Trial, which makes it a nice deal @ £280ish)

https://www.amazon.fr/AMD-Ryzen-1700X-Processeur-Socket/dp/B06X3W9NGG/
almost the same price delivered for the 1700X.

at stock 65w tdp - its actually completely nuts....

Intel has no answer for ryzen or ryzen threadripper :smile: (yes the 12c/24t and 16c/32t chips exist) ..

Ignoring for a minute that horrendous, technically illiterate summary of why Nvidia GPUs don't get the same boost from DX12 as AMD GPUs (it's like the ghost of Ferrari100 has returned!), would you mind linking your source(s) for Ryzen doing better with AMD GPUs across all DX12 games? I've only seen it so far on Rise of the Tomb Raider in DX12 mode. Indeed, breaking down the numbers from the MindBlank Tech source I saw showed less than a 5% difference in every other title, including games like Deus Ex: MD, which fairly clearly demonstrated that it's a RotTR-specific issue, not a Nvidia/DX12/Ryzen issue, based on the fact (sorry to use those pesky things again!) that it only happens in one game. So I'm assuming that your source(s) must be different..?