So I am a geek, I am pretty sure most anyone who has seen my posts on here knows that. Anyway one of the things I did since my wife passed was build a computer out. Started messing around yesterday and decided to see what I could take a first gen Ryzen to. My intention is to pick up a 3rd Gen when they are in stock all the time and the newness wears off and price starts dropping.
Anyway I bumped the cpu from it's original clock of 3200 Mhz to 4100Mhz and was able to keep it stable. I was also able to run the ram at 3200Mhz which is what it is rated up to but still considered an overclock. One of the tests that I use to compare changes is Passmark. It works well for me even though some people complain that synthetic benchmarks do not equal real world performance. I disagree on some of that becuase it can show where one build can outperform another but you can't just look at one part, it is also great for comparing performance gains and losses on the same system.
Anyway here is what my test looks like in comparrison to the test some other people have done with the same CPU. Mine is running about 3000 points above the average and some poor sap is running about 5000 points below me... I have to laugh wondering how many people see that and try to get those results.
https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=124465456632
Anyway that puts me right around the range of a Ryzen 7 1800X which is an 8 core 16 thread CPU and the one I am using is a 6 core 12 thread cpu. I don't think that is too bad at all. For you car guys it's like having a 6 cylinder vs a V8. I just bolted on a turbo and dumped in some more fuel on a five year old car and got the same performance for less money than that brand new V8.
BTW for anyone looking to do a Ryzen build DO NOT skimp on the RAM. It likes FAST RAM. I did a test the day before with the ram at it's defaults which is DDR4 2133 vs the max settings which is DDR4 3200. The passmark test was 1000 points lower at 14507 for the CPU vs 15524. https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=124426558734
And here is another test showing the difference in RAM speed. This is Cinebench which is a rendering software. I went up from 1312 to 1348 on the CPU and from 119FPS to 134FPS on the GPU side of things. If you do any video processing this is a BIG deal. I use Handbrake to modify content and drop it on my server so that Plex can feed everything out to my stuff without transcoding on the fly every single time. My old computer would have been doing a CB score of around 665 that was an FX8350. That CPU overclocked to the max would be lucky to get to 779.
BTW if someone is interested in building something out to smash some benchmarks I work pretty cheap, LOL.
And I was able to benchmark at 4200Mhz but it would not pass a stability test at those levels.
Here are some other links to show different stages as I tested stuff after making some modifications.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/16705324 First test
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/16710430 Another test couple tweaks
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18634499 Overclocked, UFO incoming.
Anyway I bumped the cpu from it's original clock of 3200 Mhz to 4100Mhz and was able to keep it stable. I was also able to run the ram at 3200Mhz which is what it is rated up to but still considered an overclock. One of the tests that I use to compare changes is Passmark. It works well for me even though some people complain that synthetic benchmarks do not equal real world performance. I disagree on some of that becuase it can show where one build can outperform another but you can't just look at one part, it is also great for comparing performance gains and losses on the same system.
Anyway here is what my test looks like in comparrison to the test some other people have done with the same CPU. Mine is running about 3000 points above the average and some poor sap is running about 5000 points below me... I have to laugh wondering how many people see that and try to get those results.
https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=124465456632
Anyway that puts me right around the range of a Ryzen 7 1800X which is an 8 core 16 thread CPU and the one I am using is a 6 core 12 thread cpu. I don't think that is too bad at all. For you car guys it's like having a 6 cylinder vs a V8. I just bolted on a turbo and dumped in some more fuel on a five year old car and got the same performance for less money than that brand new V8.
BTW for anyone looking to do a Ryzen build DO NOT skimp on the RAM. It likes FAST RAM. I did a test the day before with the ram at it's defaults which is DDR4 2133 vs the max settings which is DDR4 3200. The passmark test was 1000 points lower at 14507 for the CPU vs 15524. https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=124426558734
And here is another test showing the difference in RAM speed. This is Cinebench which is a rendering software. I went up from 1312 to 1348 on the CPU and from 119FPS to 134FPS on the GPU side of things. If you do any video processing this is a BIG deal. I use Handbrake to modify content and drop it on my server so that Plex can feed everything out to my stuff without transcoding on the fly every single time. My old computer would have been doing a CB score of around 665 that was an FX8350. That CPU overclocked to the max would be lucky to get to 779.
BTW if someone is interested in building something out to smash some benchmarks I work pretty cheap, LOL.
And I was able to benchmark at 4200Mhz but it would not pass a stability test at those levels.
Here are some other links to show different stages as I tested stuff after making some modifications.
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/16705324 First test
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/16710430 Another test couple tweaks
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18634499 Overclocked, UFO incoming.