Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:44:31 +0300 From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good motherboard for Ryzen (first-gen) Message-ID: <1537641871.2008.0@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <205656c3-52a5-a75f-c352-8bf923b47b1f@vangyzen.net> References: <205656c3-52a5-a75f-c352-8bf923b47b1f@vangyzen.net>
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>=20 wrote: > I would like to build a Ryzen desktop. Can anyone recommend a good=20 > motherboard? >=20 > I'm planning on a first-gen, because the second-gen has similar=20 > stability problems as the first-gen had, and AMD hasn't released=20 > errata for the second-gen yet (as far as I know...I would love to be=20 > wrong). IIRC the weird freeze/segfault bugs were only in the early batches of=20 1st gen. If you get 2nd gen, you're *definitely* getting a stable chip.=20 My R7 1700 is from Aug 2017, never had any issues. So a 1st gen bought=20 today should be fine too of course, unless *somehow* you get very very=20 very old stock. > I would like to be a cool kid with a Threadripper, but I can't=20 > justify the cost, so I'm thinking maybe a Ryzen 7 with /only/ 8=20 > cores. :) Yeah, yeah. Good discounts on 1st gen Threadripper can be found these=20 days though=E2=80=A6 but still there's board cost + RAM cost (you have to=20 fill up 4 memory channels on TR if you want performance to not suck). > Ideally, I want an Intel NIC, ECC memory support, and a 3-year=20 > warranty. For ECC, you can google board name + ecc ram. You can often find=20 reports on forums/subreddits/whatever. Since you care about warranty, you probably don't care about=20 overclocking, so do not watch the following videos: B450 boards =E2=80=94=20 https://youtu.be/yWAwOH-egFs X470 =E2=80=94 https://youtu.be/L8T2gzIkw78 :) But still, good power delivery is important for an 8-core even at stock=20 settings, so avoid the latest ASUS TUF board, and super cheap boards in=20 general. I have an MSI X370 SLI PLUS. The firmware is good, RGB lighting support=20 is good (most important thing! lol. controllable under FreeBSD with=20 https://github.com/nagisa/msi-rgb), the VRM is okay but not super great=20 (8-core @ 1.39V 3.95GHz =E2=86=92 ~100 =E2=84=83 without any direct airflow= over=20 the VRM heatsink). NIC is Realtek, recognized by re(4), I never tried=20 it (I use a Mellanox card). Audio is Realtek, works fine 99% of the=20 time (very occasionally sound stops working, sysctl=20 dev.hdac.0.polling=3D1 brings it back). There is a pin header for the SPI=20 flash chip to recover a failed firmware update (I actually did this=20 once :D), but the pins are tiny (2mm instead of the usual 2.54). =
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