Reporting my one week with R7 1700X
- Mindblowing upgrade from my old Gen 3 i5 with 8GB DDR3 1600.
- Assigning 8 cores core to the Ubuntu 64 machine in Oracle Virtual Box make the VM faster than native Ubuntu with my old i5
. Although now I have 960 Evo SSD compared to my earlier SATA HDD.
- Everything is very stable, default clocks but RAM at 3200 MHz. sticking to BIOS 0503 for ASUS B350 Prime Plus.
I have new experiences
I installed a second SATA HDD and started running Ubuntu 64 natively and discovered some terrible bugs with the Software I am developing.
My program is spending most of the time blocking itself when I have many cores. The threads are busy waiting to get a lock on a shared HW and blocking each other most of the time resulting in throughput regression
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I played some Tropico 5 but I was more interested in watching my Task Manager than playing the game.
Sadly I have not been able to refrain from spending on bits and pieces to go with the build.
I like the LED on the B350 Prime Plus and the LED Fan on the Case. So I was checking out lots of stuffs on Youtube and end up buying the Logitech G910 and G502 RGB Mouse and Keyboard.
Then I went and got Corsair Dual 140 MM Red LED Fans.
Then I got Hard swap red color fans for the RX 480 GTR.
I have Trident Z RGB 3200 CL14 in my Amazon basket to go along with my plain Trident Z I hope they will be compatible together.
I want to order some cable mod kits.
Now I want a wraith Max RGB cooler and AMD is not selling
I made a mistake of buying the Case with Window and now I am losing money.
But it is fun to work, I just want to keep writing code. I like my RGB Mechanical keyboard and my 16 cores
My advice to any programmer working with lots of code, a fast SSD will index tens of thousands of source files including the Linux includes in a snap. For people frequently switching between branches in eclipse it is a breeze. instant index rebuild. I am very happy with the 960 Evo. I am just watching my TBW though.
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