Targonis
Posts: 14 +14
For 1: More pins required, for relatively little change in performance. Sure there are a FEW cases where RAM is critical for performance, but if it won't be enough to justify raising the price by $30-$50, then sales are lost due to price for almost no gain. BIOS updates are really the key for RAM support, since the CPU itself can handle even ECC, the BIOS on most boards just doesn't like it.
For 2: I wonder how much of this also goes back to the BIOS, RAM being used, etc. There might be something on the CPU itself that is causing problems with clocking beyond 4.1GHz, but I suspect it is motherboard related. If motherboard, BIOS updates may do the trick.
For 3: Unlike previous chips, Ryzen really is a system on a chip, and most of the PCI Express lanes are actually handled by the CPU itself, the chipset just handles the connections. An added PLX chip on motherboards would add lanes, and we may see that in future motherboards after this initial batch is around for six months. I would like to see an option to disable some features and use the available PCI Express lanes for other things, so if we disable the m.2 slot, get some more lanes there. Disable those 1x slots for more lanes, etc.
For 2: I wonder how much of this also goes back to the BIOS, RAM being used, etc. There might be something on the CPU itself that is causing problems with clocking beyond 4.1GHz, but I suspect it is motherboard related. If motherboard, BIOS updates may do the trick.
For 3: Unlike previous chips, Ryzen really is a system on a chip, and most of the PCI Express lanes are actually handled by the CPU itself, the chipset just handles the connections. An added PLX chip on motherboards would add lanes, and we may see that in future motherboards after this initial batch is around for six months. I would like to see an option to disable some features and use the available PCI Express lanes for other things, so if we disable the m.2 slot, get some more lanes there. Disable those 1x slots for more lanes, etc.
My problem is not even the gaming performance, because that could be improved with patches.
I Have mainly 3 Problems with the Ryzen(and im an AMD fun):
1. Why Dual Channel RAM.... At the moment as I saw even if the mainboards can partially OC the RAMs even to 3600 MHz, but just on 2 slots, if I use 4 slots, the speed would drastically fall. I hope thats possible to change with a bios update
2. Overclocking and XFR - was so much wrote about the XFR..and even if I push a Predator 240 or Predator 360 I can get +100 Mhz from XFR.. that very very disapointing, the same about overclocking...the 6900 is able to overclock to 4,4Ghz and by the Ryzen 1800X is by 4,1 the end.....by the XFR range...
3. 20 PCI Lanes. Why to make X370 chipset for SLI setups with 20 PCI lanes. SLI setup is mostly made with high end GPUs which need x16 for the best performance. 20 Lanes are definetly not enough for a good modern processor. there should be at least 40. 2x 16 for the SLI setups and 2x 4 for two M2 or U2 slots.