![]() File compression and extraction was also faster with Ryzen. Even when transcoding, I had to check CPU monitor to make sure all cores were busy because the system didn’t sound like it was being stressed from a cooling perspective. The noise wasn’t enough to be distracting nor bother anyone sitting right next to the case.Ĭompared to the 6 core / 12 threaded i7-5930K, I did notice transcoding and bulk photo resizing was faster on Ryzen 1700. Temperatures seemed to top out in the low 60’s and the radiator fans on the EK-XLC 240 Predator would go up to about 1000RPM when gaming heavily or transcoding video. The system was snappy and responsive all the time without any thermal issues or loud fans. When not testing the MSI motherboard, I ran the system at a 3900MHz overclock via BIOS without any issues or stability problems whatsoever. Here are some low light shots of the XPG Dazzle in action. The 32GB of Kingston Predator was the configuration I ran with so as to get a better comparison against the X99 i7-5930K system that also runs 32GB of Kingston Savage DDR4. I wasn’t able to get it to run over 2133MHz but the BIOS updates continue to come through so we will be testing again soon. #Using intel extreme tuning utility 5930k pro#I also turned off the paging file and hybernation to free up as much space on the boot SSD as possible.Īs an aside, I did also run the ADATA XPG Dazzle kit for a bit when reviewing the MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard and aesthetically it looked great – for gaming the 16GB (2x8GB) kit would have been fine. We will be testing more in the future but for now we have the choice of 16GB 2933MHz or 32GB 2133MHz so I went with the larger 32GB given that it’s a more likely representative configuration for content creating Ryzen 1700 system builders. To date, the only kit to hit 2933 has been the GEIL EVO X Dual Channel (GEX416GB3200C16DC). The benchmarks I ran for the R5 1600X and 1500X showed a slight technical advantage but I didn’t notice it in real life. ![]() To be honest, 2133MHz felt the same as 2933. The main reason related to testing the motherboard but I also wanted to see if I noticed the difference in real world use. 32GB (4x8GB) Kingston Predator DDR4 running at 2133MHzĭuring the project, I did fiddle around with memory a little.The specification was what I’d consider above average: For the next 5 weeks, I made a point of not using the X99 setup at all, rather using Ryzen 1700 on the MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon for absolutely everything except email (I have a laptop for that). The MSI X99 i7-5930K test system was our usual ‘go-to’ system for trans-coding, gaming and general grunt work so we moved the GTX 980 to the Ryzen build, gave it the same amount of RAM and made the switch. ![]() This is a powerful configuration that is considerably cheaper than a similarly performing Intel alternative, designed for multi-threaded use but also used for gaming. I won’t drag this out – the result was great and aligned with my initial review of the Ryzen 1700 CPU. ![]()
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