AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Processor with Wraith Spire RGB LED Cooler - YD1700BBAEBOX

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I’m not a big fan of overclocking and I like the lower temperature CPUs like the 1600, 1700, 2600 or 2700 which seem to fit my budget and are very appealing. You can extract most of the performance offered by Intel multi-core parts that are significantly more expensive.

I have been a long time Intel user, not because I was a ‘fanboy’ but simply because for a consumer grade processor Intel was by far the best option. The AMD part also offers significantly higher performance-per-Watt than the i7-7700K in those same multi-threaded prosumer workloads and it does so while having a 65W TDP that delivers less stringent CPU cooler requirements. Really, with the 1700 existing like it is, there's no reason to ever go for a 1700x or an 1800x unless you really want to eek out that little bit more for considerably more money.Removal of the plastic retention brackets is required as the cooler screws straight into the AM4 backplate. Intel's edge is thanks to a combination of both better IPC (instructions per clock) in its latest architecture, and the fact that it's clocked much higher, with a 4.

At the time we built our test system, it was the only cooler we had on hand that was designed for AMD's Ryzen chips. For communication with other components in the computer, Ryzen 7 1700 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. Last, we fired up the popular 7-Zip file compression software and ran its built-in compression/decompression benchmark, which is another useful test of a CPU's multi-core abilities. The Wraith Spire cooler features a five-bladed, 92mm fan that forces air over an aluminium fin array fed by a copper slug in the core. Obviously, knocking 23fps off your gaming performance is never a good thing—particularly considering how expensive high-end graphics cards are these days.Assuming that the mid-to-high-60s temperature reading for Ryzen 7 1700 is accurate, based on AMD's sensor design, I would have no worries about operating under these temperature levels for extended usage periods. Due to the use of slightly different CPU coolers, our temperature measurements should only be used as a guideline. CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 / Noctua NH-D15 / Cryorig R1 Ultimate / Corsair H100i v2 / Corsair H110i GT / EKWB Predator 240. The most important point to enthusiasts is its retention of the unlocked CPU frequency multiplier that should allow a typical 1700 to reach 3. Cinebench has a short run time on high-performance CPUs which influences the validity of the temperature reading, so we run AIDA64 stress test to validate data.

Our Ryzen 7 1700-based rig averaged 105 frames per second (fps), two fps less than the Ryzen 7 1800X's 107fps, while the Core i7-7700K averaged 128fps.Change country: -Select- Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. While Vulkan and DX12 let modern games split the CPU workload a bit better than before, it's still the type of workload that doesn't benefit that much from core count as it does from per-core performance as long as there are just enough cores. Ryzen 7 1700 shows a solid improvement and is able to offer slightly better performance than overclocked Core i7-5960X and 6950X competitors.