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Hi guys,

Looking to upgrade my current workstation to a Ryzen 2700X, have all the teething pains been addressed?

Motherboard: https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.a ... gnorebbr=1
RAM: https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.a ... 6820232091

I'll be carrying over:

950 Pro 256gb
850 EVO 1TB
WD Green 3 TB
GTX1060 6gb
H115i AIO

It's a new chipset (and I don't trust Asmedia for anything), so if you really want to be sure, wait 6 months.

In any case, coming from a 7700k hardly seems like an upgrade. You'll be losing a some performance in gaming and lightly threaded workloads. You'd have to really need those additional cores for it to be worthwhile.

The Egg wrote:

It's a new chipset (and I don't trust Asmedia for anything), so if you really want to be sure, wait 6 months.

In any case, coming from a 7700k hardly seems like an upgrade. You'll be losing a some performance in gaming and lightly threaded workloads. You'd have to really need those additional cores for it to be worthwhile.

The X370 are quite mature, but must make sure that you get one that has a sticker "2xxx compatible". I don't think the chipset itself has been a problem for a lot of people. Almost everyone had issues with RAM, which have been tremendously improved with BIOS updates and, if I understand correctly, resolved with the 2000 series.

I agree about the difference with the 7700K being minimal. Ryzen is probably more futureproof, even for games, but it only makes sense today if you plan on doing multithreaded stuff.

ptsant wrote:

The Egg wrote:

It's a new chipset (and I don't trust Asmedia for anything), so if you really want to be sure, wait 6 months.

In any case, coming from a 7700k hardly seems like an upgrade. You'll be losing a some performance in gaming and lightly threaded workloads. You'd have to really need those additional cores for it to be worthwhile.

The X370 are quite mature, but must make sure that you get one that has a sticker "2xxx compatible". I don't think the chipset itself has been a problem for a lot of people. Almost everyone had issues with RAM, which have been tremendously improved with BIOS updates and, if I understand correctly, resolved with the 2000 series.

I agree about the difference with the 7700K being minimal. Ryzen is probably more futureproof, even for games, but it only makes sense today if you plan on doing multithreaded stuff.

My usage:

Light gaming (WOWS, WOWP)
Video editing (Movavi Pro)
Hyper-V (running bunch of VM's for a lab for studying)

I am looking at X470 chipset btw

They've always been pretty stable especially if sticking to common parts (like you are).

Waco wrote:

They've always been pretty stable especially if sticking to common parts (like you are).

Most of them perhaps. Mine went down after around five months.

I can usually figure out what the problem is easier so it was a bit disheartening.

Got a new system coming so I can have one working and an easier time testing the one that isn't.

your post suggests that there was an issue with ryzen,