AMD Ryzen - what's in your build?

[lem79]

That should be a nice upgrade, especially the CPU

[Melcar]

Well my AM3 rig died (mobo VRM burned out) so I figured may as well upgrade to Ryzen. I was originally planning on waiting till next year when all the links had been worked out, but I really need a proper working desktop.
Still buying parts. The whole Ryzen issue with Linux has me worried, but this is my planned build:

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming K7
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400Mhz (2x16gb to latter add another pair in the future)

Will re-use everything else.

[lem79]

Ryzen 5 1600X
ASRock X370 Taichi
16Gb (2x8) G.Skill Flare X DDR4-3200 CL14
500Gb Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe SSD

And.. it's awesome! 76% faster in Pianoteq 6 than my 8350. Gaming is faster/smoother (same Radeon 380X), and it barely breaks a sweat doing my usual work. Motherboard sensors and fan control (via pwmconfig) all working well. Ubuntu 17.04, Padoka stable PPA, AMD DC patched 4.12 kernel (https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries).

Strange though, 2200MHz seems to be the minimum frequency offered .. might be BIOS settings. Only just set things up today, but so far so good.

[chithanh]

chithanh: how did you get on with your ECC kit? I was going to get the Crucial 2666 stuff ( http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/x370-taichi/CT9993215 ), but my supplier said they couldn't (wouldn't?) get it, so I opted for the high speed Flare X instead.

Due to memory prices and availability, I decided to not order that ECC kit now. Instead I ordered a G.Skill F4-3466 2x4GB (non-ECC) when I found a very good deal on them. My Ryzen (UA 1715SUS) is unfortunately affected by the segmentation fault problem, so I will have to RMA it sometime. Also I am still using it with my old graphics card (HD6870) until the cryptocurrency craze is over.

I'll wait for the stars to align on better memory and graphics card prices, and then RMA the CPU, and swap out components for ECC memory and a modern graphics card.

[reet]

I recently upgraded to Ryzen from my aging FX-6300. The Ryzen 1600X provided a 100% increase in processing power, which is nice

My new PC specs:
Gigabyte GA-AB350M-Gaming3
Ryzen 1600X
16GB Corsair 3000MHz RAM (XMP Profile)
AMD Radeon HD7970 (280X)

I use Manjaro XFCE edition, latest 17.0.5 with Mesa 17.2 video drivers. Everything works just the same post-upgrade, no re-installation required, just boot up on the new hardware and enjoy!

[Zan Lynx]

I built a server very similar to your plan lem79.

Ryzen 1700X
ASUS PRIME X370-PRO
32 GB ECC RAM: 2x 16GB Micron 2400 UDIMM ECC
Radeon RX460 GPU
250 GB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe
6x 6 TB Western Digital Red drives in a BTRFS.
650W EGVA Gold power supply
Fractal Design R5 case (this thing is great, very quiet, sound absorbent, comes with rubber mounts for the drives and quiet fans)

And I went with air cooling. A Coolermaster Hyper 212. Works great. CPU temp as reported by the it87 module got into the high 70's, like 78°C during a Linux kernel compile. Idles at 46°C

[lem79]

Ryzen 1700X
ASUS PRIME X370-PRO
32 GB ECC RAM: 2x 16GB Micron 2400 UDIMM ECC
Radeon RX460 GPU
250 GB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe
6x 6 TB Western Digital Red drives in a BTRFS.
650W EGVA Gold power supply
Fractal Design R5 case (this thing is great, very quiet, sound absorbent, comes with rubber mounts for the drives and quiet fans)

Very nice. Is the ECC working well in ECC mode too?

[Zan Lynx]

Very nice. Is the ECC working well in ECC mode too?

I believe it is. All of the indicators in Linux are correct. I haven't seen any errors logged since I built it in May. One of my older systems with ECC gets errors every month. So that worries me a little bit. Either the newer RAM is more error resistant, or it isn't reporting? I am not sure.

Some of the interesting bits of /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0:

ce_count:0
ce_noinfo_count:0
sdram_scrub_rate:390720
seconds_since_reset:513277
ue_count:0
ue_noinfo_count:0

And the dmesg log:

[    6.259238] EDAC amd64: Node 0: DRAM ECC enabled.
[    6.259240] EDAC amd64: F17h detected (node 0).
[    6.259277] EDAC MC: UMC0 chip selects:
[    6.259278] EDAC amd64: MC: 0:     0MB 1:     0MB
[    6.259279] EDAC amd64: MC: 2: 16383MB 3: 16383MB
[    6.259279] EDAC amd64: MC: 4:     0MB 5:     0MB
[    6.259280] EDAC amd64: MC: 6:     0MB 7:     0MB
[    6.259282] EDAC MC: UMC1 chip selects:
[    6.259283] EDAC amd64: MC: 0:     0MB 1:     0MB
[    6.259283] EDAC amd64: MC: 2: 16383MB 3: 16383MB
[    6.259284] EDAC amd64: MC: 4:     0MB 5:     0MB
[    6.259284] EDAC amd64: MC: 6:     0MB 7:     0MB
[    6.259285] EDAC amd64: using x8 syndromes.
[    6.259285] EDAC amd64: MCT channel count: 2

So as far as I know, this means everything should be working.

[lem79]

ce_count:0
ce_noinfo_count:0
sdram_scrub_rate:390720
seconds_since_reset:513277
ue_count:0
ue_noinfo_count:0

Awesome! Keep us posted if you see ce_count > 0 .. very curious! (or ue_count > 0 for that matter)

[audir8]

I got my week 33 Ryzen 1700 from an AMD RMA, and happy to report the kill-ryzen script runs error free with the opcode cache on. Here's the rest of my build:
Gigabyte GA-AB350M-D3H has 2xUSB 3.1 Gen2
16x2 G.Skill TridentZ 3200 CL16 running at 2666 CL16 at 1.2V
16x2 Micron 2400 CL17 running at 2666 CL18 at 1.2V

also, 2xWD green HDs, Samsung 960 evo 250GB NVMe (saving money), GTX 1050 (CUDA), mATX rosewill case (saving money), EVGA BV 500W (over specd for this build by 30+%).

The system has been rock solid for ~a week, running kill-ryzen, memtest, mprime, and various gentoo compiles, so my memory config seems to be working. Yay 2 memory controllers. If I try to go any faster than 2666, the Gigabyte DualBIOS fails over (still figuring out how it works), so I think that's the limit for 64GB RAM. I bought both pairs for ~250, and they aren't anywhere near that now.

I would recommend the mATX Gigabyte board if you want USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, it seems like one of the few boards with this. Would've liked to get ECC with the Asrock, but spending it on 64GB of RAM feels good, and I'm sure it will help my JVM dev work.