QUOTE(kuci_mayong @ Apr 9 2020, 09:56 PM)
Ryzen main advantage is 3 things:
1) Price
2) Motherboard compatibility - You can use the same AM4 motherboard with 2nd gen and 3rd gen Ryzen cpu's. Heck now you using 6 core ryzen 5 2600 processor, in few years you can upgrade that Ryzen cpu to a 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X (when prices come down)
3) Core count, before Ryzen came in the picture, people were happy with 4 cores, and each year AMD is just pushing the core count even higher. Who would have thought we would see 8 core processors in laptops nowadays.
Compatibility is not on AMD motherboard, compatibility per se.
Even until Year 2020, AMD still has weird issues on the motherboard.
Weird RAM timing and compatibility issues.
Weird slow boot up with NVME 3200R SSD (you can refer this
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4936761 )
I had changed 3x B450 motherboards for my staff due to weird issues on the motherboard. Weird boot up and cold boot (could be the RAM compatibility issue)
I changed from Gigabyte to MSI and eventually Asrock B450 Steel Legend.
I have NEVER encountered such issue on Intel chipset motherboard in the last 30 years (I upgrade every 1-2 generation of Intel processor).
P/S
As shared by
JohnLai on above link
I never encountered such issue on Intel system, especially brand new motherboard.
It is just mindblowing to do this in Year 2020.
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Hey Guys,
New to the forums but experienced the same thing the rest of you had. Now, what was strange was when I first built my Ryzen 1700 with the MSI B350M Mortar Arctic everything was great! Boots were fast, crisp... updating was super quick. I was completely in love and happy to move away from my 6600k system. However, after using the MSI Command Center and changed CPU voltage setting that is where all my problems began. The moment I hit "apply" the system went dark, then booted back up into the bios. It seems from that moment on... POST started to take close to 20 seconds. Once the Windows logo was up, it was ready to go.
My second problem, though probably unrelated... Gears of War 4 would crash after just 10 minutes of game play. Every time I got a blue screen hinting at memory as being the issue. I thought, well, maybe I just need to re-download Gears and try again. So, after several crashes having tried different things I uninstalled Gears and reinstalled it again. Same thing. The odd thing was that the rest of my Steam games wouldn't crash, not a one. DOOM, Street Fighter 5, Neir Automata (and it's known to be buggy), etc. Only Gears!
So that is when I started looking into thinking I may need a BIOS update for Ram compatibility and general fixes. I've updated the bios and still had the same 20 second boot time. Crazy. Another user suggested that perhaps storage could be the problem. After the update I reset the bios by removing the battery and killing all power to the system. So I unplugged all drives plugging them back in systematically powering the system on first to see what happens. And guess what, boot times came back to normal. My OS drive is a Samsung 850 Evo which I plugged in first. Rebooted, then plugged in my OCZ 400GB Steam SSD, normal boot still. Then my 2TB WD drive... and you guessed it... no more odd issues. I haven't tested Gears 4 yet after the bios, I will soon. But at least for me.... completely resetting the bios, unplugging all drives and testing one by one worked for me.
*****TRY RESETTING YOUR BIOS AND REMOVING ALL DRIVES TESTING SYSTEMATICALLY EACH ONE***** Hope this helps someone.
This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Apr 10 2020, 07:56 AM