Well right now if you're considering Ryzen let me give you one big tip - don't and let me tell you why.

First up is frequency, in the end I bought a 1700x, the one that turbos to 3.8Ghz - except it won't, it refuses to go past 3.7Ghz which might not sound like the end of the world but if I wanted to run at 3.7Ghz I'd have saved £70 and bought a 1700.

Stability, I bought a Corsair h60 closed loop water cooler to keep the temperature down, sat looking at a utility program with the cpu coolers fan and pump both flat out at 100% and Boinc using no more than 70% processor it's sat at 70/71 celcius, if I push it 100% usage same as all my other machines it leaps to 74 celcius then bombs the system.

So i'm looking at a system that can only run at 70% which might have a dodgy cooler - or not, or a motherboard that simply can't cope or some other random issue that's making the system bomb out. I'm guessing it won't give Boinc performance much above a 6 year old 3930 system that runs rock solid at 100% 24/7 if it even manages to equal it at all.

Right now I wish I'd gone with my initial plan to get a 6 core Haswell system, right now I feel like throwingt this one in a skip.

Hi Falconet according to the Asus suite it's up to date, for now I've just left it limping along running at 70% and tomorrow I'm going to talk to the retailer and see if they'll take the bits back and how much I stand to lose.

Have lost all patience with it to be honest but I appreciate you trying to help.

First 24 hours scored a monumental 25,768 points so about a third of one of my 6700K setups with 5 pages of results pending validation

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Do you know that for a fact? Haven't seen many legitimate complaints outside of this thread about Ryzen. Surely if it was half we'd all be hearing about it more.

We need a larger sample size on WCG to pass judgement. Anyone else recently complete a Ryzen rig and have comments about their build, performance, and output numbers?

Link 2 seems to be a BIOS issue.
Link 3 is a Kernel issue, all that needsto be done is update the Kernel (obviously older kernels won't properly support Zen)
Link 4 also a software issue?

We will need to wait a few months for the issues to be solved, most specifically, those regarding AMD software and BIOS. I think they should have delayed the launch until the motherboard BIOS were working properly. And for the motherboard manufacturers to build up stock since there's almost no AM4 MB's for sale...

Keep checking for BIOS updates if you still have the Ryzen and can't return it.