AMD YD1700BBAEBOX Ryzen 7 1700 Processor with Wraith Spire LED Cooler

Upgraded from a 8320 which didn't take to any overclock over 4.3ghz, even when throwing well over 1.5 volts at it. The 8320 was getting sluggist, and bottlenecked my rx 480 in most cpu-intensive games. Aside from the rocky launch, upgrading to this was a night-and-day difference. When overclocked, this chip is held back by my 480, and during heavy gaming, only sips 40-50 watts of power according to the newest version od HWMonitor. When unzipping files, usage sits at under 10%, and the whole thing is bottlenecked by my hard drive's read speed, instead of the cpu. I'm no content creator, so I've yet to find any everyday workload that will bring the CPU-usage above 20% or so. The stock cooler is really quite impressive. It's bulky, with a huge chunk of copper in the center right on top of the CPU. It kept my chip under 70 degrees, even at 3.7ghz. I loved the RGB fan, which is nice to show off if you have a windowed case like me. To me it's almost funny how good this STOCK cooler is, because if THIS high-quality cooler is what just comes in the box for an AMD processor, it makes it look like Intel hates you by comparison, which isn't too far from the truth. I got it overclocked to 3.7ghz without touching voltage (stock 1.185v). it hit 3.8ghz at 1.275v, which had the pleasant side-effect of making my 3200mhz ram stable at 2933mhz (it WOULD work at 3200mhz, but would take a few restarts to post, so I just left it at 2933 for stability's sake). However I wasn't able to get my chip 24/7 stable at 3.9ghz as it wanted at least 1.37 volts, which made it run much too hot for my cooler (a Cooler Master Hyper T4). From what I've heard, Ryzen seems to hit a wall at about 4ghz, so I'm pretty satisfied with 3.8ghz. I'm sitting at R7 1800x performance at almost half the price, which is fine by me. Even at 3.8ghz, Ryzen wipes the floor with all but the highest end Skylake and Kaby Lake chips, and comes biting at the heels of the 6900k. Which is unbelievable considering Ryzen's low price tag. As far as the problems go, there are really only two main ones. It's already been a month or so, and it doesn't look like RAM speeds will be going up for Ryzen any time soon. At least not with a simple BIOS update. You should still keep your BIOS up to date, but I think the RAM speed problem might run deeper than the BIOS. Either way, with my few hours of overclocking, I've managed to get 2933mhz RAM, which is about where speeds should have been to begin with, so my experience hasn't changed much. The second problem stems from Ryzen's design. These 8-core chips are, in very simple terms, two quad-core 'core complexes' stuck together. And if reports are to be believed, these two complexes have problems communicating between one another, so if two co-dependant threads are stuck by windows on separate complexes, performance takes a rather large hit. I personally haven't had any noticeable problems with this, but if it IS true, then I'd have to wag my finger at AMD for having such a fundamental flaw in the architecture. I would list the gaming performance as a problem, but nobody buys a $350+ processor just to game at 1080p on low settings, and this CPU is far from bottlenecking my RX 480, even with it's 1400mhz overclock. So this chip still gets a big thumbs-up from me in gaming. Overall, I think AMD has really hit it out of the park with Ryzen. While it may fall behind Intel's Skylake and Kaby Lake in single-threaded performance, it's no Bulldozer, and can keep up well where it counts.

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.

This is hard to write. I used to build nothing but AMD machines back in the tbird days. They were the plucky underdog of gaming. All was well until I bought the fx53. I had every type of problem known to exist to the point where I was calling amd and talking to technicians at multiple points. They did try to help but never replaced or refunded me either. It ran nuclear hot and eventually after two motherboards and three psu's it fried. I was only 17 and had saved up for over a year for this chip. Any other build to that point for me was cheaper than just that cpu. Never touched another AMD chip until now. Since switching to Intel I have had no issues at all, they run cool and efficient. Here's where the problem lies. Kaby lake is good but mediocre. Either skylake shouldn't have been released or it should have come with the Z270 features on it already. When I came into some scratch, I waited (not my strong suit). I wanted to believe AMD could once again topple a colossus. They have. Intel isn't going anywhere and nor should they, but it has made them sweat a little and I'm grinning the whole time. Both are amazing and loved by me, the left side of my brain loves the low tdp and numerous efficiencies. The right side of my brain loves that AMD has created a piece of sophisticated art while yelling out the window at the top of their lungs and never letting off the breaks. We need Intel's responsible conservative nature, but we also need AMD's belt fed .50BMG levels of insanity. It's not always smart to fix a problem with a sledgehammer but sometimes you actually do need one. This thing is cheap for what you're getting and only 65w tdp with eight cores and sixteen threads...It's insanity incarnate. I have it overclocked to 3.7 on the stock wraith cooler running idles at 38c and 1.185 volts. RAM is set to 2667MHz, but will soon be able to get 3200 as patches arrive. Unless you are an extreme enthusiast, just get this, so many bases are covered from heavy workloads and rendering to gaming and graphic design. There is some minor teething but most are already being fixed as I write this, it's new, there will be some tweaking required but nothing difficult. Check out level 1 tech's review as I feel they did a much better job of explaining the architecture and expectations of the new design. Ryzen is a sign of renewed competition which breeds smarter design. Thank you AMD for never giving up and showing us that underdogs can once again rise like a phoenix.

I just built my first box and read about the Ryzen, liked what I read, and thought I'd give it a shot. I love it. I've never had a machine this fast. The chip isn't the only reason it's fast, but it certainly helps. It's pretty awesome doing things like converting Flac to MP3 16 files at a time. And you can do so much multitasking that you'd have to be a very heavy user to make this thing slow down. I can run Visual Studio, serve up Plex, browse the interwebs, and load up whatever I want in the background, as well as encode video simultaneously without any slowdown at all. It's fascinating really. I've overclocked it to 3.7Ghz at 1.275v on the stock cooler with no problems. I could probably tweak the voltage down a little, but I need to test further. I keep debating about whether or not to get a better cooler, but on reasonable stress testing it never gets over about 65c with the stock cooler running at 100%. Pushing it to 3.8 is too much for my chip. I'd need another cooler for that and I really have to pump up the voltage to more than I want. And running Cinebench I don't get enough difference between 3.7 and 3.8 to warrant pushing it harder. The two are within about 50 points of each other. And at 3.7 I'm getting the performance of a stock 1800x per the CPU-Z benchmark test. So I'm happy. I don't have a drawer full of chips to test this against, but based on all of the online reviewers this chip is worthy. It's well-priced, comes with a pretty solid cooler that you can overclock with, and it can handle anything you throw at it. I'm considering building a box for my wife as a Christmas gift and if I do I'm definitely using this chip. AMD is in the game!

Blue screened 2 times so far, not sure if it is the CPU or other parts. Speeds seem to be ok, but in general I'm noticing some sluggishness I did not have with my 4 core i7 it is replacing. I'm hoping some fine tuning will remedy all these issues. For the price it is a good buy, and with a good cooler I hear it can clock to speeds comparable to the 1800x.

AMD has really outdone themselves with this new platform. The Ryzen 7 1700 is an amazingly powerful processor in its price bracket, and performs excellently in multi-threaded applications. When you compare this CPU to its closest competitor in terms of performance (i7 6900k), you get about 90% of the performance for 30% of the cost (can vary depending on how far you overclock). Also, the included Wraith Spire cooler is very good considering it comes bundled with the CPU, and has allowed me to achieve a modest overclock while keeping temperatures within reason. Coming from an FX 8350, the difference in power is astounding. A lot of games that I play used to stutter and drop frames on my old computer due to the lack of single threaded performance, but all of that has now changed. I’ve played many of these games on my new build featuring the 1700 and everything is now much more smooth and enjoyable. A lot of people harp on the Ryzen 7 series processors for not matching the ingame performance of Intel’s i7 lineup, but unless you have a very high end GPU and a super high refresh rate 1080p monitor (a situation where you need to have very high framerates constantly) you won’t be affected by this. I personally have a GTX 970 and a 1440p monitor and have had an amazing experience after the upgrade, even with the RAM at stock speeds. So just keep in mind that when you hear people say “Ryzen is bad for gaming,” that truly isn’t the case. With any new launch, there are always going to be some issues in the beginning; as many have pointed out, this platform has some issues with not easily being able to run high speed RAM. I am personally waiting for an updated stable BIOS release from my motherboard manufacturer before I attempt to run my RAM faster than stock speeds, but as far as out of the box performance goes I couldn't be happier. Keep in mind that this issue will more than likely be ironed out within a month or two. Overall, AMD really has hit it out of the park with this new release, and I heavily recommend this CPU for anyone who uses demanding applications, or even people who just play games and occasionally use applications that benefit from having 8 physical cores on the side (such as video editing, rendering, 3D modeling, etc.). If you are going to strictly be gaming and nothing else, maybe this isn’t the right product for you; however, in most other use cases this CPU is the price to performance king, and therefore I highly recommend picking one up.

Been using the last 4 gens of AMD in a DAW/gaming rig. AMD has always been underrated and a good value imo. Sure, they didn't hit benchmarks like the top Intel stuff especially for single core butt I have never really had an issue with them in a DAW using Cubase. For gaming they also seemed fine even if they didn't hit the top FPS like an intel. Upgraded from FX 8350. R7 1700 destroys it all around, its not even close. Well..... this new Ryzen gen smashes everything imo. The studio DAW has dual Xeon, I don't see any difference using Cubase with the Ryzen 1700. Zero latency, zero lag/stutter, no issues with 24-32 tracks all loaded with plugins, 8-10 fx channels with plugins, time based phase align on drum channels etc etc... I haven't needed to bounce down/freeze FX heavy tracks or anything like that. Every thing loaded, everything super sampled including a pre-master channel. So.... for $300 I think you will have a hard time beating this, at least until the Threadripper comes out. I didn't see a need to get the 1700x or 1800x but if you want a built in stable overclock then go for it. I'm running the 1700 stock with an Corsair h115i instead of the Wraith Spire. Idle temps are 28-30c.... it stays frosty on water cooled. Before I got the AM4 adapter I used the Wraith for a few days and idle temps were 15-20c higher, seriously. It seems to want to idle around 45-48c with the stock cooler. I don't think it really matters much but if you do want to overclock I would suggest getting a water cooler, you can find Corsair refurbs cheap if you look around. For gaming, I haven't got a chance to play anything super intense. I was playing Pillars of Eternity maxed and it was fine locked at 60fps with rx580 but that game is not resource intensive graphically. It didn't seem to really do anything at all to the CPU either, it was perfectly fine. I'd imagine that this can handle pretty much any game, especially as they continue to update etc. I played new Doom in dx12 and it was like 200fps or something lol. If you are playing above 1080p I would imagine the Ryzen processors are awesome but I can't say. TLDR: No other $300 cpu is going to come close to this one, period. If you are doing CPU intensive things like a DAW or video editing system this is way better than the i7 7700k imo and it is $50 cheaper. For $500 or so you can completely upgrade. r71700 w/ MSI tomahawk Arctic and Corsair 16g 3200.

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.

Llevo ya un mes con este procesador ya que lo adquirí en HotSale por menos de 5000 pesos y a MSI, Tenia en la mira este procesador desde hace meses y aprovechando un cupón lo conseguí a un muy buen precio, estuve indesicio si comprar este o el 1700x (3.4 Ghz de stock), Me decí por este ya que incluye un muy buen Cooler con RGB, el procesador por si solo con el software de Ryzen Master trabaja a 3.2 Ghz casi siempre aún sin hacer OC. Vivo en el norte del país donde la tempreatura de ambiente la mayoria del año es de entre 30 y 45 y la temperatura del procesador no sobrepasa los 49 grados (aún sin encender el Aire Acondicionado en la recamara). La principal función que le doy a este procesador es para hacer render de videos a 1080p con Sony Vegas y me sorprende que pueda seguir escuchando música, ver videos en youtube y editar documentos al mismo tiempo sin notar una baja en el rendimiento. Para Gaming no tengo ninguna queja; juegos como PUBGs se ven y se sienten suaves a 1080p 60fps. He probado hacer streaming y jugar al mismo tiempo (Fornite, Doom, Destiny 2, PUBGs, WoW, Ovewatch) sin perder calidad en juego o stream aún cuando solo tengo un módulo de RAM de 8Gb a 2100Mhz. Lo tengo con una MotherBoard MSI B350 ya que no siento la necesidad de hacer un OC muy extremo. El paquete llegó en un dia y muy bien protegido dentro de una caja con envoltura de aire, caja del procesador sin golpes y con sus sellos intactos.

J’ai acheté ce Ryzen 7 1700 en 2017, et il m’a vraiment bien servi pendant plusieurs années. Avec ses 8 cœurs et 16 threads, il a tenu le rythme entre gaming, multitâche et travail un peu plus lourd sans broncher. Je suis très content de sa longévité et de sa fiabilité. Il chauffait peu avec un bon ventirad, et il restait très stable même en usage intensif. Un excellent processeur pour son époque, qui mérite pleinement ses étoiles. Je recommande sans hésiter, surtout si vous cherchez un bon rapport qualité-prix.

Purtroppo AMD a causa dei processori precedenti e di anni e anni di oblio e svariati problemi ha una brutta reputazione e nella maggioranza delle persone c'è ancora molta diffidenza, insicurezza e sfiducia. Invece NO, dovete ricredervi e considerare questi NUOVI RYZEN dei processori di incredibile potenza, superiori, meno costosi e con possibilità di upgrade futuri superiori ad INTEL. in molti ambiti. In Gaming si potrebbe scegliere intel che è ancora il top ma lato produttività non c'e' storia. Ho acquistato questo processore per una configurazione dove lavoro per uso rendering 3d, montaggi video, autocad, Maya e vari programmi gestionali. Processore 8 core 16 thread esprime tutta la sua potenzialità con programmi che sfruttano il multithreading. Appena arrivato ho subito fatto una prova per vedere se era esente da segfault ed essendo della 40sima settimana del 2017 è risultato perfetto. Il 1700 liscio include nella scatola il dissipatore amd wraith spire rgb che con mio stupore, al contrario dei dissipatori originali Intel questo è davvero ottimo e carino. Ryzen 1700 portato facilmente a 3.8 ghz in overclock con temperature accettabili massime di 71/72 gradi dopo ore e ore di rendering. Consiglio di prendere questo 1700 e non la versione X oppure il 1800x appunto per questo motivo...lo si overclocca facilmente arrivando ad ottenere prestazioni simili ma ad un prezzo decisamente più basso. Straconsigliato!

Satisfeito com a compra

Like many i was a bit unsure going AMD due to inconsistencies in all areas. But ive found it the opposite. Overclocking is a piece of cake, multiplier and voltage and thats it. knowing your limited to 3.9 or 4.0 is handy to (mine is running 3.825). It takes no time at all compared to the days ive spent finding the optimum reliable OC on skylake (then watching the cpu cook) Ive also been running mine on the stock cooler while i wait for a noctua mounting kit and its fine! I cant encode video at 1.37volts but gaming is no problem. And important fact when comparing value - the 1700 can run out of the box - 250quid. A 8700 needs a >70quid cooler to go with it. Performance wise ive benched 3 games and its 2-1 to the the R7 over my 4.4k 6700. One game it utterly destroys the 6700, where the other 2 are close. This was at 1080p to as I wanted to really see whats going on cpu side. (im against the 1080p tests - 8core pc gamers are running hi-res displays). At 1440p im not seeing any hint of frame rate issues. PCmark comes in as a slight win for the 6700k (the 1700 being slightly ahead of my 4.4k 6600) Obviously with PCmark its up down depending on the test, but the 6700 comes out trumps in most cases due to the low core usage of the tests. And correspondingly the R7 isnt amazing single core, its noticeably behind the overclocked i5 and i7. But not that far behind in terms of IPC which was a surprise. But when you find a test to stretch all cores, its, well i dont need to even go there. Intel have shot themselves in the foot. And thats the thing, 3.8ghz is plenty fast for browsing. But double core count is a crushing advantage when the work load gets heavy. Overall, despite being a bad time to buy a cpu (prices dropping and cannon lake and Zen+, Zen2 round the corner) Im happy with my cheap upgrade from the 6700k and im glad to turn my back on the overheating, over priced yet under cored Intel lineup. Edit 04/11/17: Got my big cooler on and what a downer. My skylake inspired hyper cooled setup has gone to waste. I cant get it over 65c, with all the fans off and the cpu fans on about 30%. 5 expensive fans and new case wasted. On the bright side i could encode some video AND play a demanding game at the same time(also in silence as the fans didnt need to spin up). This 1700 has more than surpassed my expectations. Well done AMD.