AMD Ryzen Deals & Offers

Thanks tried to buy that actually - AO on ebay don't deliver to Norn Iron for some reason..

It was AO, on ebay. Ebay had 15% discount at the time (for christmas), however it was £450 - £50 from ebay discount, so £400 in total. Sorry for misleading with £350.

Probably curry’s eBay during the 15% off in December - I got the same laptop for the same price

Bad deal

..... and the most positive thing I can say about Currys is they are utterly useless in just about every respect; if you do not believe me look at their TruistPilot reviews.

Ha... Built a few am4 pcs and the only thing I've paired with a320 board is the A8 and A10 apus, the ryzens need better

RTX is the attention grabbing thing here. As for the rest, PC builders need a wake up call. Stop using (poo) motherboard chipsets. A320 boards should only be in low spec or office machines. Saving £10-15 cost over a B or X chipset is inexcusable.

That unfortunate RTX 2070 is gonna be triple bottlenecked!

Agree and I didn’t see it listed if it’s 2x4gb or 1x8gb. Thinking the worst it’s only going to be single channel.

No, the OP simply knows very little about high powered PCs for VR use and is learning a lot rhough the comments here!

This is a photo from Google soit's not my own. Whenever you update the Bios it's worth pulling the battery for a few minutes to clear the cmos and then apply your overclock settings again. Everytime you adjust the clock speed or voltage you will need to reapply cool n quiet. But remember once you've found a voltage that is stable you must set it back to auto and then reapply cool n quiet..... Otherwise it will not down volt at idle.

Have had this board since launch paid £189 for it but am having a real issue I updated the bios ages back and my 1700x is stuck at 3.5 ghz and doesn't down clock. I complained ages back they sent me a beta bios and that fixed the issue but I recently updated it again as I will be getting a new zen 3 or 2+ what ever they will be calling it when they come out and needed a new bios If anyone has had this issue and has any ideas I will try anything to solve it. Where do you set cool n quite as that might be the issue.

Yeah it was the one thing MSI boards were criticised for but for me it's not required. I believe those that run Ryzen 2700X CPUs are quite excited as it allows them to undervolt meaning the CPU will run cooler and quicker. From what I've read manual overclocking 2nd gen Ryzen is pointless as they do it all themselves.

Sweet, thanks for the heads up - been waiting for this. (offset)

Forgot to add, Once you've worked out what you want and the cost, have a look at some of the pc makers (novatech, overclockers etc) and see if they have anything similar to what you want pre-built (sometimes they do a "barebones" system with memory, mainboard and cpu. Last time I upgraded mine it worked out less to get a barebones rather than the mainboard cpu, fan and memory separately.)

I've been using this for a day now testing various games. It won't have any problems playing at HD and QHD 60+ fps ultra presets I have even tried 4k ultra but it tanks the fps down to the 30's and fans go crazy loud

To my limited knowledge this PC will run any demanding game on Ultra or High settings at 60+fps. Less demanding games should be able to hit low 100fps+...

I’ve been eyeing up a gaming pc for a little while now. I’m not 100% clued up on what’s better than what so I have been going off opinion. I have a PS4 Pro so it’s use will be for the odd indie steam game and some AAA Xbox/Microsoft titles. I’m not fussed about 4K, I want to play whatever on Ultra settings with 60/+ fps, will this be possible or would I be shelling out nearer £1000?

Option of the RX Vega 64 GPU bring total to £889. Thoughts?? (wanted for VR use).

Easy for RTS

It’s a decent laptop, build quality is very good. Speed wise it’s pretty nippy, the SSD ensures that. The screen is nice and clear, obviously it’s a FHD screen but some can look awful but this one is very clear. What everyone is saying about the graphics card is basically correct, the laptop is just within the spectrum of a gaming laptop the 1050 can run Full HD Gaming on 60fps pretty easily, anything above it will struggle. Overall I still say for the price it’s very nice laptop obviously people have their own preferences and opinions, I personally would prefer an i5 8th gen or an i7, but in real life I have noticed nothing wrong with the Ryzen 7. If you are okay with the size of it (it’s not the thinnest laptop in the world) then I can’t imagine you would regret it. I don’t own this laptop I am just lucky enough to be able to test run a great deal of laptops :)

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Thanks (y) always great when a owner (I think by picture) replies ... What do you think of the laptop ? My 11 year old desktop is finally dead (not worth spending any time or money on so I am now more seriously looking) I'm also mainly looking for video/photo editing less in the going side. Thanks

I was reading something today about another laptop with a discrete GPU. Looks like the reason they may have designed it this way was that the 1050 kicks in only if you're gaming. For everything else, it uses the on-chip Vega. Makes sense - improves power consumption when you're not gaming.

I was mining Monero. But TBH, if you want to make serious cash in Crypto, the only way to do it is by trading. Of course, if you want to lose serious cash in Crypto, the only way to do is by trading. (lol)

The sell the same model with a AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.40GHz for £50 more, but is the rest of the spec still not good enough??

The AMD Ryzen 2200G has PCI Express Version PCIe 3.0 x8. As the built in GFX takes away the extra PCI lanes.

No AMD shortage. It’s a decent processor in its own right. Out it’s depth here though. As I say, expensive GPU cheap choice on the rest to extract (poo)

They ran out of decent processors (embarrassed)

It’s like the product team had been watching some ,”Will it blend” videos. Just toss all that stuff in, let’s see what we can get. Basically they over paid for 1070Ti cards and are trying to maximise the profit they grab from a machine equipped with one.

Way too pricey

Depends on your budget really. I can highly recommend learning to build your own. It really isn't that hard TBH and gives you the knowledge to repair, upgrade or replace your system when the time comes. PC part picker will tell you what parts are compatible and where the cheapest parts are. If you really want to just buy a prebuilt I'd say Overclockers, Scan, AWD-IT and ebuyer are some of the most reliable/cheapest. Some will argue against because they had an issue but on the whole they are the best IMO. But to get the very best for your money you need to watch some videos on how to build. Good luck.

Try Scan.co.uk just bought mine from there

I got mine from chillblast. Plenty of range for any budget.

Have a look on pcpartpicker site

Effectively no. But if it's Linux, can you not just run it headless? Most distros have the capability for that. Worst case, can you not just use a USB to VGA adapter? Something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUNKY-Adapter-Converter-External-Upgraded-Black-3/dp/B07FM8YFV8 ? I've not tried that specific adapter, but at a tenner it's dirt cheap.

Does a AM4 mobo have ANY graphics capability without a graphics card and a non-G Ryzen ? I need decent processing with only command line linux video output. Looking for the cheapest way to do this and getting max value out of a CPU.

I agree. The irony is, would a potential buyer building a budget rig with this CPU fitted be able to run The Division 2 'comfortably'. From what I remember the original game was quite resource hungry. I may be wrong though :/

LOL, I was naive and assumed higher numbers where faster! Silly me!

The 1500x is the better cpu, about 10%. When paired with a discrete graphics card it will play games better than the 2400g, but not by much. I think Smithers was pointing out the 2400g can play games ok without needing a graphics card

But but but, the Intel i9 9900k ePeen is an essential purchase. How else can you extract and extra gnats scrutiny hair out a GPU.

Gaming will change massively in the next set of gaming engines, where it will be multi core. Depends on if you want to hark on about making your old games work faster, or think about new games that will use more cores.

To be honest you are probably GPU bound anyway. Even with a 2080 ti I doubt you would get that many more frames with any cpu upgrade to make it worthwhile for gaming at the moment.

There is no sense in upgrading a 6700k to a quad or 6 core amd cpu now. His only logical upgrade for gaming is the new ryzen 10+ core chips due out in spring.

If you only do gaming then you should really look at quad or even six core performance in which case your i7 6700k isn't as fast as you think. With better single core performance you would think it can do a bit of web surfing slightly faster but nowadays even web browsing is using more than one core.