AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Processor, 8 Cores and 16 Threads with Wraith Spire LED Cooler

What an amazing processor, bought it for gaming but also for HTML programming (overkill for this), for gaming, paired with RX580 8GB I can get 100 FPS in battlefield 1, still need to test Doom and GTA 5 but this processor provides solid performance.Packaging: It is beautiful, i will say this is a premium package, when you open it the first thing you see is the included cooler which is amazin and the processor very well packaged too.Cooler included: Excellent, i overclocked it to 3.7 GHZ in all cores with this stock cooler and with max load using CPUz it doesn't go over 70 C, also the RGB is so cool. Very silent cooler too.Performance: Solid, moves Windows 10 like a joke, you can do gaming and a lot of other tasks at the same time without losing performance thanks to the 8 cores and 16 threats.Price to performance: I will say this is the best bang for the buck, I got it for $284 which was a discount price versus an i7 8700 which is faster in gaming yes, but it also costs $400 right now, on black friday it was for around $260 so it is a great option. A lot of ppl says this is crap for gaming, well... that's not true, it is excellent, yes, intel is better but not that much (around 10%). However overall benefit from this processor is better I think, for design and gaming balance.Good job AMD (I'm not a fan boy, all my last 5 PCs were all intel, just giving a good review to an excellent product).Update 01/26/2018 After 2 months of usage O can say this is solo good, best bang for the money. Run my games over 100 fps with the RX580 with no issues maxed graphics, imagine what you can do pairing this with a 1080 TI. Highly recommended.

Incredible value for way less than half the price. I wanted to build a computer for the work I do. Started shopping parts a couple months ago and read about AMD's soon to be released chips. Decided to wait as my work requires 3-27" monitors ( a 50" 4K and a 3-27" monitors was my goal to increase work efficiency ). I always have multiple cloud based subscription services being monitored, a couple email accounts, at least an excel spreadsheet going usually 2, a news feed, a couple dozen chrome tabs open, multiple google maps open, and every day numerous memory overload warnings, an occasional lockup......I was shopping an i7-6900k paired with a couple 1080's.I am glad I waited, even though I feared being an early adopter, this "built by me and my son computer" (1700 non X, with a pair of 480's, corsair 3200 LPX, Asus X370......) flat out blows my expectations away. For what I was going to spend on the 6900 alone, I bought the 1700, the 2 480's (nuegg MSI RX480 4gb $145ea after rebate) , the SSD a Hundy, the RAM a buck twenty and MOBO. The case, psu, W10, and hard drive were less than half the cost of one 1080.Needless to say, the final cost to build was less than half to build a 6900 system, far less than half.The expected performance for my needs has been far exceeded. I do game but I didn't build this for gaming, but it does game incredibly. The 13yo has confirmed completely.This was my first ever computer build, I did not know how to flash the mobo with the latest, I watched a YouTube video and 10 minutes later - the mobo was flashed with the latest! I did not know how to overclock, I watched a YouTube video and 10 minutes later I was overclocking at 3.8 and 2966 on the ram.My son, I encouraged him to help with the build, bios update, overclocking and software loading. Full disclosure- he pretty much entirely built the computer, flashed the bios,loaded the software ...... I just made sure he watched the videos and followed the directions on the videos. This has been great to build it with him as he has even less computer hardware and software experience than me. He now has real experience and confidence.What he built far exceeds my expectations going in, we have learned just how easy it is to choose and assemble a computer (2 hours of a 13yo's short attention span and constant refocusing) load an operating system, flash bios, overclock this CPU and ram.What a rewarding thing to do with him (second guess most steps really).The results of the performance of this system, had I bought a twin from ... HP or Dell, I would still be raving about!This computer build has completely blown away my expectations on not just how easy it was to build and tune, but also how it exceeds the performance level I was budgeting to spend over twice as much to achieve. Now we have a bunch of "fun money" that was budgeted for work... Our win, a trip to the beach becons this summer now.I'll update with some pics, of the beach of course.

What a great price for such a beast of a processor. I was so excited to build my first PC and also use this new chipset! I liked the performance adjustments you can seem to get out of this one over the x version, so I left the included cooler in the box and put it in storage. Then I brought out my Corsair AIO and hooked it up to my new 1700. Given a high RAM diet, this chip absolutely flies. Rendering and streaming are very quick. I can stream with OBS at 6300 bitrate at 1080p60fps with NO dips in performance ever. OBS tends to be quite CPU intensive, so this is quite nice (and luckily my internet speeds can keep up).People said this isn't as good at gaming as Intel's lineup. I'm sorry, but I just don't see it. I play all the latest AAA titles as well as competitive ESports titles at 1080p super-sampled to 4k when applicable, max graphics, etc, with no dips in performance, issues with frames, tearing, or anything but the best visuals in gaming I've experienced so far.As I mentioned earlier, this chip loves RAM. I had 16GB of 3200MHz RAM to start, but found that I needed an additional 32GB to really max out my streaming as well as my video editing. 32GB 3200MHz seems to really keep this chip happy and producing great numbers both in benchmarks and in render times, stream reliability and speed, etc.I have this overclocked to 4.1GHz on all cores. This was a trial though. I'm having an issue in the BIOS (ASUS TUF board) where I can't overclock past 3.65GHz unless I play with voltages. The problem is that if I change the voltages for the CPU literally at all, in any direction, the system reboots with a default speed of 1.5GHz on all cores. The only way to get past this was to use the Ryzen Master software. I actually had tried it earlier but thought it didn't work. Turns out it gives you an error saying the application of your overclocked failed, but it really doesn't. If you look at the output, your overclock runs just fine. The part of the program many people don't like is that every time you turn your computer on after being off, it resets to default speed. So every time I go onto my computer I must apply my OC before I game in order to have consistent gaming performance and streaming. I don't mind this at all though. Just keep it in mind when you get this chip.All in all this chip is my pride and joy. I brag about it a bit because it's better than I am in pretty much every way. Paired with a GTX 1080, my system can do just about anything. Ryzen 7 1700 is probably the best chip for the price if you're looking for the higher end as a gaming/editing/streaming usecase.