ryzen

  1. realtomatoes

    Working ESXi on Ryzen

    gents, a user on reddit just managed to boot up ESXi on ryzen. says all he did was disable SMT on bios. appreciate if ryzen owners could confirm that? thread here.
  2. S

    Ryzen Build 3x PCI Express full size?

    I've been hearing nagging to get rid of my E3 server. It was a 1U but that was too noisy for the SO, so I moved it to a mid-tower case. Now it's too ugly/cluttery. So here's my goal: Eliminate both E3 home-server and Intel Workstation, with a Ryzen build. I was thinking: Ryzen 1700 80+ Gold...
  3. Patrick

    All AMD (Ryzen and RX) Monero Mining Rig

    Since I know we have a lot of Monero mining folks, I wanted to highlight a little build with a unique feature, it is based solely on using AMD CPU and GPUs for mining. Configuration CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 with stock cooler Motherboard: ASUS Prime B350-Plus GPUs: AMD RX 480 (Gigabyte) and AMD...
  4. Patrick

    AMD Ryzen IOMMU on B350 Ugliness

    I was upgrading ryzen06 for DemoEval with GPUs. This is one of the B350 based systems. Using the newest Zesty image dated March 13, which has Kernel 4.10 as a base, I started seeing something odd: I did not get to take a snapshot of the IOMMU error on this build, but I did narrow that down...
  5. Patrick

    AMD Ryzen Systems - Tips to save money

    I just wanted to pass along a few notes on building Ryzen systems since I know a lot of people are thinking about builds. CPUs and Cooling Unless you are going crazy on cooling and spending a ton on it, just get the AMD Ryzen 7 1700. The stock cooler is good for getting the chips to 1700X and...
  6. Patrick

    DemoEval Ryzen03 - With Blue LEDs

    This one will likely end up becoming my personal workstation, or perhaps just a Linux test workstation. For now, it is going into DemoEval but I decided to use the machine for answering a few questions I had. Build Parts and Rationale CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 - The included cooler makes this too...
  7. Patrick

    AMD Ryzen and CentOS 7.3 (1611) Installer Crashing

    Anyone have ideas here? This is trying to do a minimal install off of an Everything DVD. I have tried other boot media and tried remote Lantronix spider mount and 3 different USBs now.
  8. R

    AMD RYZEN 7 1700X $32.00 ?

    Ok, AMD RYZEN 7 1700X 8-Core 3.4 GHz (3.8 GHz Turbo) YD170XBCAEWOF Desktop Processor | eBay What am I missing? This has got to be a typo.
  9. Patrick

    How-to Guide Getting AMD Ryzen Working With Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 and older

    One of the biggest issues anyone running Ubuntu will have with AMD Ryzen at launch is simply getting a stable system. For example, if you run Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (AMD64) server you will notice systems crash time to time. We have tried both the X370 and B350 based motherboards in 4 different CPU/...