Pros
-Price to performance ratio is great
-my old 4670 was bottlenecking multiple games but now my GTX 1070 can stretch its legs
-the stock cooler keeps temps under 75C when gaming for hours with a 4.00Ghz OC at 1.29V
-install and mounting hardware was straightforward and painless
-very stable compared to 1st Gen Ryzen
-Successful overclock to 4.2Ghz but with the stock cooler, it just isn't viable temp wise
-The mounting process for the cooler was super simple and easy
-The RGB cooler is really nice, love that I can tweak it to match the orange throughout my case
-GTA Online, AC:Origins and other games no longer being bottlenecked by my old 4670, 4 cores just do not seem to be enough anymore. Massive performance jump plus after benchmarking my 1% lows on fps are much better.
Cons
- Its cheaper now then when I bought it, lol
- This isn't a true con but I love the look of the cooler. I actually don't know if I'll put a H115i Pro on this or not because the cooler looks so simple but awesome.
Other
- no real cons so I'm doing other things to consider
-If you're purely gaming, no rendering, video editing, or streaming then save money and go with a 2600 or 2600x and I promise you won't notice a difference
-another side note, I bought the AM4 adapter for my Be Quiet! Dark Rock 3 BUT it does not work with my Corsair RGB RAM, blocks 3 DIMM slots.
I was using an i5-2500k for more than 6 years, which was unusual as before I had rebuilt my computer at least every 3 years and did the occasional video card etc. upgrade in between. When I saw this deal $224.99 for this processor on Prime Day, I had to pull the trigger on the rebuild. I needed these parts for the rebuild and I am listing them here so others will know what worked together on my system with no problems. First system I have built in more than a decade that doesn't have Intel inside. Glad I waited for the Ryzen 2.
-AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Processor with Wraith Spire LED Cooler - YD2700BBAFBOX
-MSI X470GPLUS Performance GAMING AMD X470 Ryzen 2 AM4 DDR4 Onboard Graphics CFX ATX Motherboard
-CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2B3200C16
-Samsung 970 PRO 512GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7P512BW)
I knew my new system would be faster but I was shocked at just how much faster. Encoding movies and editing pictures is crazy fast now. I have seen a tremendous boost just zipping and unzipping files and re-encoding music cds. I ripped a 22Gb 2.5 hour bluray disk to test and re-encoding it to a 2.15GB high quality mkv took about 10 minutes. SHOCKED! When I set the quality to higher with de-interlacing enabled it took about 21 mins to finish. This was using all 8 processors and my video card to process. My system runs at idle about 32º and the highest temp I got while encoding was 47º. I used MX-4 Thermal Compound Paste, Carbon Based High Performance, Heatsink Paste, CPU this time (after cleaning all the thermal material that was on the Wraith cooler), instead of AS5 this time and the temps are great. This bluray encoding job would have taken a couple hours, if not more before the upgrade. The games I have tested also got quite the boost in framerate and I have been well pleased. I can run the games to the max quality settings that my video card will do now. This is my experience so take it for what it is worth. I wanted to get a quick review in here to let others know what parts worked well together in my experience in case others are wondering about PciE M.2 SSDs, or Ram. The DDR4 memory is listed as tested for the above combination and it runs well at 3200 speeds once the bios was set up.
I upgraded from an FX-6300. This processor is a HUGE upgrade over that, and doesn't even break a sweat. Where my processor would be running at 100%, this would be at maybe 40% with almost double the frame rate. I also do game development, and re-hashing assets takes 1/3 time, less than 2 hours with a project size of 51gb. Extremely satisfied with the performance of ryzen, definitely staying with AMD after this.
Pros:
If you're in need of a CPU with great multi-threading performance, then go no further than a Ryzen 7. Great bang for the buck.
Included CPU cooler is sufficient (10x better than Intel's) for a non-overclocked 2700.
Sips power at stock settings. My PC with 2x 980ti's and a full custom water loop pulls only around 50W at idle. That includes the monitor, keyboard, accessories, etc.
At full load, it doesn't go much above 120W at stock settings (complete system with CPU load that is).
I get much less stuttering game play than with my i5 4670K @ 4.5Ghz. That would peg to near 90-100% at that speed in GTA V and Assassins Creed Origins. Now I'm at roughly 40-50% with the 2700, with better frame times, and smoother game play.
Cons:
Must have gotten a dud with the overclocking performance on this guy. I can't go above 4.050Ghz on this processor at 1.3875V. I don't want to go much higher than 1.4V, but putting this up to that doesn't' get me even 4.075Ghz, so it isn't worth it for me. You won't be able to get up to that voltage on the stock cooler, as it just doesn't have the capacity for that. It just goes right to 95C at those settings with the stock cooler. Isn't a problem for me, but still something to note for someone else hoping to get good overclocks with this CPU's box cooler.
Other thoughts:
I picked this up for $225 on Prime Day this year, and couldn't be happier with the performance for that price. For a full price of $290, its a harder sell because the 2700X is only $30 more, includes a CPU cooler that can handle a good overclock, and does overclock a bit better than the 2700. With the above mentioned settings and a full custom loop, the CPU doesn't go above 75C under full CPU load after about 2 hours.
My best Cinebench R15 score was 1818 @ 4.050Ghz with a set of 16GB 3200Mhz RAM. I was hoping to see if I could get up to 1850-1900, but I couldn't get there without extreme voltages. Pretty satisfied with the upgrade over my i5 with its best score 636 though. Almost tripled performance in this regard.
I was a little skeptical about getting my memory that wasn't tuned for AMD systems up to the advertised speed of 3200Mhz, but it took with no problems! AMD has really upped their compatibility and stability with memory over the last gen Ryzen, which is good because it really helps with latency times in the infinity fabric using higher speed memory.
This CPU should last me a good 5+ years, assuming AMD doesn't come out with something that's a lot better that will go into my motherboard with Zen2 or Zen2+.
My recommendation is that if you're looking to overclock, and don't already have a CPU cooler capable of doing this, then I would save another $30 and get a 2700X instead. However, if this goes on sale for anything less than $280, then it becomes a much better buy. Performance is within 5-10% when overclocked. If you're not overclocking, and looking for a workhorse that sips power, then this is it.
My system:
Ryzen 7 2700 @ 4.050Ghz 1.3875V
Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi
16GB of G.Skill Ripjaws V @ 3200Mhz, 1.35V
2x Asus 980ti's in SLI
Corsair HX850 PSU
500GB SanDisk SSD
2TB WD Green HDD
Full Custom Water Loop
I bought this item to build my first computer with. I paired it with a 1070, and 3200mhz ram. I’ve been using it for a couple months now and it has functioned flawlessly. I have dual monitors and usually have a game on one monitor(at max settings) and a chrome browser with 5+ tabs open one of with is more than likely a video. This machine just eats it up.
Feature Product
- 8 Cores/16 Threads UNLOCKED. Supported Technologies- AMD StoreMI Technology, AMD SenseMI Technology, AMD Ryzen Master Utility
- Frequency: 4.1 GHz Max Boost. CMOS : 12nm FinFET
- Includes Wraith Spire Cooler with LED
- 20MB of Combined Cache. PCI Express Version : PCIe 3.0 x16
- Socket AM4 Motherboard Required
Description
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Processor with Wraith Spire LED Cooler. Maximum Temperature 95 degree Celsius.
After years of upgrading and modifying my i5-2500K system, it was time to retire it. I wanted to do a beastly Mini-ITX build. This was right around the time the Zen+ reviews/releases were occuring. With that, the 2700 seemed right up my alley.
The last AMD platform I had was an Nvidia Nforce 3, Athlon 64 x2 3800+ system. The X470 platform is really straight forward and feels like any Intel chipset. I loaded my RAM's AMP settings (2933 Mhz, 32 GB) no problem, then began the OC process. I settled on a VCore of 1.275 v @ 4.0 GHz speed. It's a nice balance of power efficiency and performance. With an H55 cooler I usually hover around 60-65 C during Prime95. The 2700 is a real beast, and seeing all 16 threads in action is pretty crazy. Paired with a 1080 Ti and WD Black 3D Nand NVME SSD, this machine sings.
I've had my rig for about 4 months now. It's been very stable with no wierd hiccups. It's also nice knowing with an AM4 socket I can upgrade on the same motherboard in the future. Bravo AMD and welcome back to the big leagues!
Realy impressed with the speed, stability, and compatiblity. I installed this on an ASUS Prime X470-Pro motherboard, along with Ram from the QVL (Qualified Vendors List) and the system came right up and has worked perfectly. Speed wise, I have a compile job that take about 5.5 minutes on an Intel Core i7 quad core and that same job runs in about 30 seconds on this Ryzen 2700.
The only warning I would offer is that my older Marvell-based SATA expansion card does not support the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) used by this series of processor/chipset. Temporarily, you can set acpi=off in the grub boot options. Though, this disables many of the power and heat saving features. Thus, I did replace the SATA expansion card with a newer card and now everything works as it should.
Really great job AMD! Intel i9 performance for 1/3 the price!
Amazing performance and value for the money. Great deal on Prime Day for $225. Running with stock heatsink/fan OCed at 4.05GHz on all 8 cores and manual/static 1.275Vcore (check to make sure your LLC is sufficient enough such that Vcore doesn't drop more than 10-15mV during full 8-core load). In fact I'll be trying 1.25Vcore next and see if I'm also 100% stable there. This is running on x470 MSI GAMING PLUS motherboard and paired with DDR4-3200 G.Skill 14-14-14 RAM with AMP profile (remember on Ryzen fabric/cache runs at RAM frequency so higher RAM frequency also reduces cache latency and boosts overall CPU performance so you want to pair it with DDR4-2933+ RAM). Performs on par with stock 2700X with this configuration on multi-core workloads. Why 4.05GHz and not 4.1GHz? Well I did try 4.1GHz on all 8 cores but it requires a full 100mV extra (1.375Vcore) and translated into 30+W extra power at the wall, all for 50MHz bump - given that, I settled for 40.5 multiplier. About 110W delta at the wall between idle and full 8-core load, 60W at idle with 2x RX 580 GPUs (with 80+ Platinum PSU).
I picked up an X470 motherboard along with this chip. The motherboard manufacturer's (AsRock) support page only had Windows 10 drivers, but I was able to get the necessary X470 drivers from AMD's site. I slip-streamed the drivers into a bootable Windows 7 installation USB drive and everything went without a hitch. After the install, there was one (!) on the device manager, which was for the Intel Network Adapter (i211), but I was able to get the "legacy" drivers from Intel to solve that.
I'm moving up from a Xeon E3-1240 v5 (Skylake - 80W TDP). This thing is basically on par or slightly faster on single-thread performance, and way faster on multi-thread performance, with only 65W TDP. As I always do, I'm using ECC UDIMM (Kingston 2400 using Micron A-die, 16GB+16GB) and CPU-Z log file shows ECC working. There are a lot less clutter in the Device Manager device list, too.
It handles everything I throw at it. No complaints at all.
Wow. Positively amazing. This was an upgrade to an older Haswell era i7. I thought, sure it'll be a bit faster. No..oh no...It's like the first time you experienced a SSD versus a HDD. This is an absolute MONSTER of a CPU. I've been using it at the heart of a workstation for Next Generation Sequencing analysis, where 8 cores is about the minimum necessary, and I was blown away by the speed of this CPU.
I'm running this AMD 2700 cpu on an ASROCK B450M Pro4 motherboard
with a Noctua Nh-L12 cpu cooler
with 64GB of DDR4 2933MHz vengeance LPX memory from Corsair.
a 500GB WD Black SN750 nVME M.2 SSD
a 1TB WD blue SATA M.2 SSD
an old Radeon HD7750 GPU for basic display out purposes
with the OS being Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
First thing was first, I overclocked it. It's a bit more difficult with Linux as the benchmarking software is lacking, but using Blender I was able to dial in a stable all core OC of 4.1GHz at 1.36v. With the Noctua NH-L12 (with a NF-A12x25 fan, great fan!) I'm getting peak load temps while OC'ed around 72C with the fan at 100% (surprisingly tolerable noise level). At stock, not OC'ed, it was more like 3.6GHz all core, and 58C. If I didn't already have this cooler lying around I'd have gone for the NH-C14S, but for now this is fine because it cost me nothing extra.
Most people running the particular scientific programs around getting around 300-400 millions reads mapped per hour (at best) on their Xeon E5 based professional OEM workstation systems, meanwhile with the consumer grade Ryzen 7 2700 I'm getting ~800 million paired end reads mapped per hour. Most people say that hyperthreading isn't very useful for many of these scientific programs. However, I found AMD's implementation of simultaneous multithreading to be much more effective than Intel's hyperthreading and it was actually beneficial to use multithreading on AMD where it made almost no difference on Intel.
Paired with 64GB of RAM this thing is a beast. I wish it was possible to use 128GB as intel has supposedly allowed on their consumer platform using double capacity memory (which is so expensive it may as well not exist), but unfortunately memory capacities like that are only available on Threadripper for AMD.
A few programs a limited to a single CPU thread. In these cases it did boost up to 4.1GHz at stock, but would rarely hold there for long and would spend far more time around 3.6GHz. Manually overclocking in BIOS ensured the CPU will be around 3.9-4.1GHz all the time. Makes the system extremely responsive. Intel still reigns supreme at single thread workloads though with single core clocks of over 5GHz. Hopefully the next generation of Ryzen 3000 cpu's will address single thread speed a bit more.
Overall, I couldn't be happier, well maybe if I'd gone with Threadripper, but for the money, this CPU can't be beat.
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