Test Setup
Benchmarks
Other Software
Overclocking
The ASUS board was rather fragile at first and didn't play nice without our memory and so we had to sit tight for a BIOS update. This is a fairly widespread issue effecting the various AM4 motherboards. Once we had updated things were more stable, but we couldn't really get our memory kit much over 2400MHz.
Overclocking the CPU however is much more simple and we managed to overclock the Ryzen 7 1800X to 4.075GHz within the BIOS, this provides a nice jump in performance as demonstrated in Cinebench R15. ASUS have provided access to a manual CPU ratio control using the FID/DID that allows for finer control over the final target clock frequency.
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Cooling Noctua U12S
Motherboard ASUS PRIME X370 PRO
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz @ 2133MHz
Graphics AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
Storage Corsair Force LE 480GB
PSU Corsair RM750X 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
Cooling Noctua U12S
Motherboard ASUS PRIME X370 PRO
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz @ 2133MHz
Graphics AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB
Storage Corsair Force LE 480GB
PSU Corsair RM750X 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Home Suite & Photoshop
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
Games – Rise of the Tomb Raider & Total War: WARHAMMER
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Home Suite & Photoshop
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
Games – Rise of the Tomb Raider & Total War: WARHAMMER
Other Software
Temperature Analysis: Aida64 & Ryzen Master
Stress Testing Software: AIDA64 Stability Test
CPU Specification Monitoring: CPU-Z
Stress Testing Software: AIDA64 Stability Test
CPU Specification Monitoring: CPU-Z
Overclocking
The ASUS board was rather fragile at first and didn't play nice without our memory and so we had to sit tight for a BIOS update. This is a fairly widespread issue effecting the various AM4 motherboards. Once we had updated things were more stable, but we couldn't really get our memory kit much over 2400MHz.
Overclocking the CPU however is much more simple and we managed to overclock the Ryzen 7 1800X to 4.075GHz within the BIOS, this provides a nice jump in performance as demonstrated in Cinebench R15. ASUS have provided access to a manual CPU ratio control using the FID/DID that allows for finer control over the final target clock frequency.
