AMD Ryzen price reductions last until December 2nd
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icedman
Just ordered 2 Ryzen 5 1600's one for myself and one for a customer for 230$cad each or 180$us, I was going to hold off on buying one for myself but at that price i couldn't resist.
kruno
They are probably clearing inventory before zen+ arrives,but man what a deals if somebody at the start of this year told me that before the year ends you could buy 8c/16t processor for 300$,i would have think he is on a good road to loonie house:):):)
fry178
R7 1700 is 260US$ on amazon..
MikeMK
Well, I just jumped on a threadripper 1950x - cant wait to see what it can do, it my first AMD chip since Athlon 64 days 🙂
signex
Just bought the 1700x as well when i saw the prices. Didn't know there was a price reduction.
I aimed for a 1700 this month, not sure if the 1700x is much faster though.
tunejunky
extremely clever marketing by bringing Europe into the "black friday" sales. thereby getting more folks into the AMD camp...
the very big plus is that all the new AM4 mobo's are forward compatible, meaning upgrades for the new folks are going to be very reasonable... that shiny new rig can just have that latest Ryzen+ (or 2...whatever) popped right in without worry.
Vananovion
If the rumors of an early refresh are true, I might just replace my 1600x and use it for an SFF build. Not that I need it, but I want to get some experience building SFF. I'll either give it away or use it as a media center later on.
Jagman
I think the same. Excellent prices getting more people onto the AM4 platform and therefore an easy upgrade path, even a couple of years down the line.
geogan
You know I *was* going to build a Ryzen system to replace my ancient X58 Intel motherboard/CPU, but then I saw youtube videos where reviewer said he was having all sort of bugs and errors and crashes until he completely re-installed a fresh Windows installation from his previous Intel based Windows install.
Well there is NO way I am going to reinstall Windows and all programs/utilities and all their updates I have ever used again, so no way I can buy Ryzen system. Much easier to upgrade to 8700K or similar and Intel motherboard and keep all my Windows software as is without having to start from scratch.
And I did really want a Threadripper system and the guaranteed re-use of motherboards that AMD promise for a few years... unlike Intel changing and making motherboard obsolete every year...
Vananovion
IMHO: even though modern Windows is able to run when the MB+CPU changes, I would still recommend a fresh install. Even when upgrading within the same brand/ecosystem. You can't know what kind of low-level stuff OS configures during installation, that is impossible to re-configure later during runtime or start-up.
For me it is also kind of a "cleansing" experience, especially if I ran the same system for several years. Various mess and one-off utilities pile up over time and it feels good to just throw it out completely and install only what I need and use regularly. I can always install whatever I want when I need it.
geogan
Yes i have done this myself a few times over the years when upgrading Windows or when C drive fails... but it is a total pain in the ass if you haven't got the time for it... or are not building a new machine from scratch.
It also "tricks" you into thinking your new machine is faster than the old because of your new hardware, when a lot of the time Windows is just faster because it is fresh and doesn't have all that stuff Windows builds up on every app install or upgrade (the massive inefficient hidden folder of millions of versions of old files for compatibility and registry). Windows *appears to be designed* to slow down over time to trick people into buying new hardware/software.
MonstroMart
That's why these days i use the portable version of an app when available. The registry might have been a good idea on paper but in practice it ****. I use portable apps and put then on a secondary drive and backup them on an external drive. This way when i have to reinstall windows i have to reinstall just a couple of apps like Visual Studio and Office. For the other apps i just restore my E: drive. I also save settings/saves in the cloud when possible. I love Steam it's so easy to recover backuped games with it. Just copy the Steam folder and these days pretty much all games support cloud saves.
fry178
@geogan
hope your joking, as a full install of win7/10 from a usb stick takes about 5 maybe 10min max (to an ssd).
besides that, im not the only one that will be refusing any help/support for that system/user,
if the board was changed (different one, no matter intel/amd or brand), and windows not clean installed.
anyone to lazy to the bare minimum (clean install and newest drivers), deserves to have trouble getting it to run...
sidenote: a clean install of windows after it was used for more than 8-12 month, gains usually around 25-50% in overall "performance", beating any "system cleaner" you can find.
chispy
Black Friday Ryzen 1700 + B350 Motherboard combo discount = $319.98US Dollars , amazing offer.
http://i64.tinypic.com/2qcqyci.jpg
https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3457354
Alessio1989
yep, decent ddr4 amount and speed (and latencies since we are talking about that crap MC made fore ryzen!), is like the combo Ryzen + good tier MB.
tunejunky
hey i'm not trying to pile on but there's something you might want to know.
i'm running windows 10 on four machines (Ryzen 1700, threadripper 1900x -$150 off on Amazon rt. now,
I7- 7700, Q6600 -core duo quad) 2 Intel, 2 AMD.
ALL of whom have/had issues with Win 10.
speaking from experience shared with most here, you really need to clean install Win 10. especially if you were running 32 bit windows.
i thought my htpc (Q6600 intel) wouldn't need a clean install...i was horribly wrong.
All AMD cpu's are just as compatible as Intel with Win 10. i installed Win 10 64 bit to Ryzen and Threadripper in less than 15 minutes (for both), waiting on MS updates from MS servers is just as time consuming for any cpu. My i7-7700 was pre-loaded with MSI bloatware - but it was a clean install (at factory).
