Ouch!

Hola, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)!

I was doing a search here for: AMD RYZEN

Then I saw Paul_D's post about that. Ouch! Thanks Paul_D.

I need to switch projects to get max results. Anyone? Thx

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BOINC@TOKYO_012_Omotenashi 2017 - PG - 03/10/2017 To: 03/20/2017 *Completed* 1st Team Andrax

BOINC@TOKYO_013_Omotenashi 2017m - 03/17/2017 To: 03/27/2017 1st Team Andrax

BOINC@TOKYO_011 - PG - 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017 1st Team Andrax

BOINC@TOKYO_015_Omotenashi 2017m - 03/16/2017 To: 04/16/2017 1st Team Andrax

Mar 2017 RR All-projects From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017
1st Team China, 2nd Decrypthon, 3rd UK (195,286) 4th Team Andrax (186,926)

Mar 2017 PG All-projects From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017 3rd Team Andrax

Mar 2017 RT All-Projects From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017 3rd Team Andrax

Small Team Race - RR From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017
1st Team China, 2nd UK (195,286), 3rd Team Andrax (186,926)

To Eliminate AIDS - PG - FAH-Phase2 From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017 4th Team Andrax

Pebor Challenge 03-2017- RT - All Projects From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017 2nd Team Andrax

SweatyCores March PG - All Projects From: 03/01/2017 To: 03/31/2017 2nd Team Andrax

The Dollars Run 0317 - PG - All Projects - From: 03/01/2017 To: 04/01/2017 2nd Team Andrax

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Paul,

Your comments made me decide not to even attempt this new AMD CPU. I believe I will stay with Intel unless a material change of events should occur.

Keep us posted with any other news regarding Ryzen that you should hear about.

Thanks!

Ray

Hi Ray, my Ryzen adventure has been less than ideal but I'm kind of happy that it's now at acceptable levels - with a couple of caveats.

Heat was the main issue, when I first put it all together, the second I ran Boinc to 100% usage, the temps shot way up and the system shutdown because of temps and just general instability.

After a motherboard change (after much angry shouting) it was slightly better, what I've ended up with now is a case with neither side panels on it, a corsair H60 AIO water cooler, 2 fans sat on top of my graphics card pointing at the capacitors right next to the CPU, they were getting skin removingly hot, now it just burns and a fan as close to the backplate as I can get it pulling warmth away from the backplate which is why both side panels are off.

The backplate fan made the biggest difference, around 10 Celciius worth and ever since it's been rock solid stable and I've even managed a small overclock to 3.9Ghz while everything has stayed stable. The temps now read at around 69 to 73 Celcius but AMD are claiming that the CPU is reporting 20 Celcius higher than it actually is and that that over report was intended, if that's true then the CPU is running reasonably cool considering it's core/thread count, the motherboard runs betwwen 30 and 40 Celcius.

Performance wise, it's a tough one to compare to other machine I run, I have a couple of 6 core i7 3930K's that tend to prodiuce more in a day but they're running Linux and are completely dedicated to crunching, the Ryzen hovers anything from 10-15K behind to at best I think was 12K more, now considering that the Ryzen is weighed down with Windows 10 and does a lot of other stuff - gaming, network monitoring, regular backups, browsing etc. then I'm happy with it's output.

I am very tempted to try running with Linux as an exclusinve cruncher for a few days but with the amount of messing/rebuilding/swearing/breaking things/angry driving to retailers I've done the last few weeks a much bigger part of me is saying leave it be.

So..... Ryzen works for crunching well, it's a stable if messy and shoddy looking setup, there are early adopting issues with some motherboards, this i think was most of my problems but over time I'm sure these issues will get ironed out - at that point they will make very good financial sense due to the low cost versus an Intel 8 core chip and they're not lagging massively behind in performance either.

Howzit! My Friday message from an "Electrically Challenged Rug-Rat" :-p Hope all's well there!

Hi Paul,
I'm completely on SCC and had low credit yesterday. I think it is caused by lomger running wu. Now I've received comparebly short wu with higher credit.
This is not unusual for vina projects like scc, oet a.s.o.