Summary
While the Ryzen 7 1700X is still quite close to what the more expensive 1800X can do, the Ryzen 7 1700 has to make a compromise due to the significantly lower bar and also make a little longer in the explanation. If you focus more on multihreading in applications and want to chase the very last FPS in gaming, you don't have a bad offer here. As a pure consumer CPU, which is also to be used mainly for games, it is really only recommended if it is also overclocked. Then, however, at least one motherboard with a B350 chipset is due, which can be bought for well under 100 euros.
Overclocking as a feature? Why not? All of our six tested CPUs (including three genuine retail CPUs) were able to achieve the 3.8 GHz maximum clock speed for all eight cores without further intervention on all three tested boards. For this, a clock increase in the BIOS was enough, only with the Ryzen 7 1700 a manual voltage increase was necessary. Here, however, 1.35V or, in the worst case, 1.365V should be enough to bring the CPU back into play. Those who were looking for higher values up to 4.1 GHz must still be unashamedly lucky even with the expensive R7 1800X, because our two examples managed only the 3.9 GHz really stable. Thus, from our point of view, the sensible limit is reached at 3.8 GHz.
With the same clock, all three processors are exactly the same speed and hardly differ in their power consumption. This is pleasing for the Sparfuchs in spe in that you don't have to buy the top-of-the-range model in order to run with it at the same time in the clock limit when overclocking. Before the 4-GHz dream brand, everyone is the same (modestly). Is it going on or not? Mostly not, so better not to speculate on it at all.
Saving can also be really smart!
Together with a simpler B350 motherboard, you can get for approx. 440 Euro (or less) real eight cores and SMT (16 threads) – something like this really doesn't go any cheaper at the moment. If you bet on a future with more multi-threading-capable applications and games and don't have too many left fingers, you can hardly say no.
We also run the Ryzen 7 1700 once on an Asus B350-A Prime, which is a simpler mATX motherboard for currently approx. 90 Euro road price, but could not detect any significant performance losses.
A good combo: Ryzen 7 1700 with an Asus B350-A Prime
Of course, the features are a little more modest with such cheap boards as the Asus B350-A Prime, but for the normal user such a solution should be enough, especially since the overclocking is now not a witchcraft. The format is also suitable for larger cubes and the installed voltage converters should also take part in a clock of 3.8 GHz uncooled with the offered 6 phases.
On average, except for rendering and stress tests, no 100 watts are needed. If you want to be on the safe side, use a good air cooler as a downblower or AMD's new Wraith Boxed cooler and/or gluesmall matching aluminum coolers onto the voltage converters (two MOSFETs per phase on the low-side).
Conclusion
The bottom line is no different from the one at the launch of AMD's Ryzen 7 and the article published on it. With a small but very important difference. With currently approx. The 350 euro street price of the Ryzen 7 1700 is almost 200 euros cheaper than the Ryzen 7 1800X and also almost 100 euros cheaper than the middle-placed Ryzen R7 1700X. However, it is (almost) as fast as the large model, with which it almost always shares the upper limit of what is possible when overclocking. At least in the batches that are currently on the market.
Intel has a lot, from fast four-cores with SMT to great 10-cores – the pain-free prices are available, at least from the 6-cores upwards, but then no more. Good prices, good improvement? Probably only with AMD, because the enthusiast platform X99 can currently (yet) be rewarded intel for princely, so that you can't get it wrong with the purchase of AMD's Ryzen 7 1700. Of course, there are also pure four-cylinder fanatics among the gamers, who can live on for the next two or three years in good faith that high speeds triumph over more displacement. In many respects, they are even right – unfortunately, or so. still.
But if you try to plan into the future and who ends up with the higher range of usable applications (also and especially in the longer term) worth more than the pure gaming kick with many current titles, you are welcome to grab it here and now. The Ryzen 7 1800X is too expensive for the normal user, the 1700X hardly any fish left meat – but the Ryzen 7 1700 is a real bang together with the cheap board and from our point of view also has the stuff to mature and get better. Whether it's the Windows 10 scheduler or developers' knowledge that it's not just Intel that can build usable CPUs.
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