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Is the Ryzen platform now considered to be stable?

mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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When I say stable, I mean stable enough that you would happily build a Ryzen rig for your beloved grandmother who lives >100 miles away without worrying that she's going to experience weird problems as a result of an immature hardware platform.

I'm thinking of building my first Ryzen rig and I recall people complaining about early BIOS's and stability issues, that's why I'm asking, not out of a need to troll people.
 
Ryzen+ is about to be released, as are Ryzen APUs, and new chipsets, so I'd just wait for the 2000 series Ryzen chips at this point.
 
Stable. The Asrock boards seem to be the most stable (still). The teething issues have been addressed, so build away.
 
I've had no issues with mine. Most of the "stability" issues were centered around high RAM clock speeds. Since this is for a grandmother, I'm suspecting that's not really a concern here. Just pick something off the QVL to be safe and call it good.
 
As long as you stick to defaults/stock, Ryzen has been rock stable from day 1. The few kinks were worked out last spring.

The reason Ryzen got a bad rep early on is from overclockers, but what does one expect from a brand-new platform? Now, most of those issues have been worked out too. First-gen Ryzen should be considered mature. Second gen should be fairly mature by now, due to laptop using RR being out since fall. But since it hasn't been released for desktop, we don't know anything yet.
 
Thanks. I couldn't imagine that the issues could have dragged on as long as this, but then the idea of going back to AMD after the weird issues/foibles I've experienced with AM3 rigs I've built over the years makes me a little nervous.
 
Really the only ongoing issue has been in Linux environments and by now pretty much all of those have been sorted.
I built a 1700x rig for a friend who is into rendering and CAD, its been rock solid from day one.

So go ahead and build now if you need to, if you want to leave out any doubts just follow the QVL for your motherboard and you'll be fine.
 
The only stability issues I had were due to overclocking. On early BIOS versions I was getting random lockups and reboots trying to run my RAM at 3200 (which is its rated speed). On stock settings everything was fine. After a few BIOS updates, even my overclock is stable. Well, as stable as I need it to be for what I need it for. I've never stress tested it for more than an hour or so.
 
My 1700 has been running solid for 24/7 @ 100% load on all cores on World Community Grid since mid-November. All workunits have passed with no invalids. Basically 2.5 months of stress testing so I'd consider the platform to be stable!
 
Ryzen was fully stable since launch day.
The "issues" were getting higher speed RAM to run at their rated speed, but other than that, the platform is (and was since launch) rock solid.
 
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