Power Consumption and Temperatures
Power Consumption
This is fascinating, not only does the R7 1700 clock in with a slightly higher power usage at stock, it’s much higher than the 1800X while overclocked too. This shouldn’t be where it is, and we suspect that the 1800X was thermal throttling and therefore using less power during our testing phase. Perhaps a retest is in order in the near future, but either way, it’s obvious that Ryzen uses a fair bit of power, it’s a high-end 8-core processor, and high power usage should be expected to some extent.
Temperatures
Ryzen is a hot chipset, it’s quite compact despite housing 8 high-performance CPU cores, so a good cooler is recommended to get the best performance from it, although that’s true of virtually all processors.
Hard to take ANY of this seriously when you suspect thermal throttling at the end because of inadequate cooling. If the chip was throttling from the get go then every single bench mark was null.
Put a better cooler on and retest…
Huh? A 240mm CLC + one of the best conventional thermal compounds in the world is “inadequate cooling”?
Very first paragraph you wrote 1700X but you meant 1700. Didn’t read other comments to see if this has been mentioned.
He should listen you … Coz there are more typo errors …
Hard to take a article seriously when theres as many errors in it as this… one of the charts isn’t even right, and I’d question some of the results compared to the 1800X too.
maybe in may, ram issues cleared
Really bad review…
Only review that has a big difference between 1700 and 1800x OC. And the only review where the 1800x is at the top of the chart. And how does 2.5% of clock turns into + 12% performance?????