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5.0 out of 5 starsNo problems so far.
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017
So far so good. Besides your typical custom build stuff like the standoff on the mobo is goofy, came across these issues:
- Needed to take two plastic brackets off of the Asus mother board to get the AMD supplied fan on.
- It was not easy to get the fan on. Not impossible, just not easy.
- The fan can go on two ways, I think I guessed wrong, so the fan cable is flopping around.
- I didn't know this, on newer mobo there is an 8 pin header that you are supposed to plug in a power cable from the power supply. It looks like the six pin of a video card. If you don't have this from your power supply, no power to CPU, and no POST. Don't ask how I know.
- Have not overclocked. With an older nVidia GTX 650 video card can play RocketLeague at 60 fps on a 1080p monitor with everything turned up. To be honest, might be overkill, but once you buy a mobo/cpu/memory, its $$$ again. Can get a 4K monitor and a GTX 1080 later.
- The Asus mobo has this thing were it can control the fan speed. So you don't even need Task Manager, just listen to the fans. The AMD didn't even break a sweat. at the above settings. This is in the basement at about 67°F, your results may vary.
- If you do a search on AMD Wraith Spire, you will see a red ring of LEDs on the top. THIS UNIT DOES NOT COME WITH THAT. The higher 1600 gets it. It says so on the AMD website. You did not get cheated. Again, don't ask. Its not a big deal unless you are into that thing. And if you are, you can go buy one.
Update ....
Found out that Google's Android Development Studio has an emulator, and the emulator uses some Intel-only instructions (HAMX?), so any AMD uP will run slower. This is something that applies to like 0.1% of the population, but just thought I should point it out. All uP basically translate the instructions into native microcode, its just that Intel does something directly, and Google has decided to only support Intel. Something about hyper-threading and virtualization. If you search "Android Development AMD' you will come across various posts describing the details.
