Burpo
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Dear God, those drives cost more than my entire build.
I didn't really want to spend that much on the Samsung, but it's the only 2TB NVMe drive available, and this is the first time in over 5 years that I've been able to really upgrade the CPU (please don't make me wait that long again, AMD), so my upgradeitis was itching badly.I do kind of love how one of your SSDs alone costs roughly the same as the entire rest of the system...
It's a Fury, which is nearly two years old now. I would have upgraded that too, since it only barely copes at 4k, but AMD are making me wait again......You didn't mention a GPU in there.
I wonder if that's related to a problem I had: My Plextor not recognised if I put it in the second, slow M.2 slot, but it does work in the Ultra M.2 slot. The Samsung works in both. It's annoying, since the Samsung would benefit more from being in the faster slot.I get somewhat similar problems on my Taichi-driven system. If I get a bad crash from Windows, my UEFI is no longer able to detect my NVMe ssd (BPX). Ouch! Have to reset the UEFI to get it to reappear.
Microsoft basically doesn't care anymore. They make money by selling your information.
They definitely do not care in my case, since I have been running Insider builds since forever . . . 9962 or whatever was the version just before that, straight on up into 15063 now. I still like to think they were spying on my forum activity since at one point I complained that Win10's performance with linpack on a Kaveri was dismal, and maybe two builds later, it was fixed. Bam! It was better than ever.
They probably would have figured it out without me though.
In all seriousness it took very little effort to get 100% verified Win10 working on my new Ryzen system following the same steps taken by Justinbaileyman. No keys required, all I had to do was log in with my MS account and answer their questions. Sadly what that got me was a retail copy of Windows, when what I wanted was to continue with preview builds (even though what I started with was preview build 14986; it "updated" to retail). I had to manually upgrade in place with another preview build and put myself back into the Insider program (?!?) to get Insider builds again. So, a little weird.
So far all the Insider builds seem to work just fine with Ryzen, though. Not sure if I'm getting the benefit of an improved scheduler or anything . . .
I to was a part of the insider build program since day one. Started out on a AMD x4 760k overclocked to 4.8Ghz throttle monster.The first 2 builds were pretty sluggish if Im remembering correctly.Not to bad with later builds though. I even still have that rig, well technically I gave it to my kids but its still in the house for now.Wanting to upgrade there rig to a R5 4c/8t with one of these B350 motherboards I have. Thinking I will keep the Gigabyte gaming 3 and give them the Asrock gaming pro.No need to shell out for balls to the wall parts for them when all they use it for is School work,Movies and Roblox LOL.Its got a R7 7800 2gb GPU in it, should I upgrade there GPU to? Whats a good cheapo GPU upgrade card these days that would be twice the performance of a R7 7800?They definitely do not care in my case, since I have been running Insider builds since forever . . . 9962 or whatever was the version just before that, straight on up into 15063 now. I still like to think they were spying on my forum activity since at one point I complained that Win10's performance with linpack on a Kaveri was dismal, and maybe two builds later, it was fixed. Bam! It was better than ever.
They probably would have figured it out without me though.
In all seriousness it took very little effort to get 100% verified Win10 working on my new Ryzen system following the same steps taken by Justinbaileyman. No keys required, all I had to do was log in with my MS account and answer their questions. Sadly what that got me was a retail copy of Windows, when what I wanted was to continue with preview builds (even though what I started with was preview build 14986; it "updated" to retail). I had to manually upgrade in place with another preview build and put myself back into the Insider program (?!?) to get Insider builds again. So, a little weird.
So far all the Insider builds seem to work just fine with Ryzen, though. Not sure if I'm getting the benefit of an improved scheduler or anything . . .
I to was a part of the insider build program since day one. Started out on a AMD x4 760k overclocked to 4.8Ghz throttle monster.The first 2 builds were pretty sluggish if Im remembering correctly.Not to bad with later builds though. I even still have that rig, well technically I gave it to my kids but its still in the house for now.Wanting to upgrade there rig to a R5 4c/8t with one of these B350 motherboards I have. Thinking I will keep the Gigabyte gaming 3 and give them the Asrock gaming pro.No need to shell out for balls to the wall parts for them when all they use it for is School work,Movies and Roblox LOL.Its got a R7 7800 2gb GPU in it, should I upgrade there GPU to? Whats a good cheapo GPU upgrade card these days that would be twice the performance of a R7 7800?
Ooooh nice, That'll work. Thank you!!An RX 460 would do it. You can find the 2GB version cards under $100 now.
Ooooh nice, That'll work. Thank you!!
ver 4.31 = Samsung B-die. You got the good stuff.
I had issues with 1607 GA build not updating to the slow/fast rings also. It's a problem with that build. I had to blow it away and install the slow ring build from ISO. Currently @ 15063. 15063 is faster for Ryzen than 1607 based on benchmarks I ran. They didn't change the scheduler. CoreInfo looks the same. Not sure what changed.
That's good to know. I searched all over the net but couldn't find this info, but I thought there was a high probability of Samsung with such high frequencies (LPX 3000 and 3200 are mostly Hynix I believe). Bit surprised I had to bump the SOC voltage slightly, but I think it might have to do with the fact that you are actually overclocking the Infinity Fabric at speeds above 2666.
An RX 460 would do it. That one has a $20 mail in rebate to bring it to $69.99 after MIR. There's also a 4GB 460 at $115.99, but after MIR it's $105.99.
Interesting....
Also remember that you will never see Samsung E-die on anything larger than 4 GB DIMMS, so if you buy 8 GB DIMMs, you get either D-die (bad) or B-die (good). And as a general rule, anything DDR4-3466 or higher pretty much has to be Samsung B. Nobody else makes ICs that reliably clock that high.
... but if you do that, keep in mind that it excludes you from any driver updates from Crimson ReLive and newer (they require a signed BIOS).Updated post to include cheapest cards that also have mail in rebates. Keep in mind you can unlock more compute units/stream processors on some (maybe all, haven't kept up since I first heard about it) of the RX 460s. Don't know if your kids will need the extra horsepower, but it might be fun for you to do, anyway, and it's free performance so why not.
Wow that's a crazy good deal.FYI, heads up. Apparently Microcenter is currently advertising 1700 at $100 off when you purchase one with compatible motherboards.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/..._AM4_Boxed_Processor_with_Wraith_Spire_Cooler