AMD Ryzen

[Sartaknight]

Hello LTT community,

I'm planning on building a new rig using the new AMD Ryzen, and I intend to use it mostly as a workstation, for rendering and animation. Anyway, getting into the motherboard topic, I'm having my share of doubts about what exactly am I looking for. Putting aside the comments of "you really should wait until the AMD Ryzen is reviewed independently", which I know I should, and I will, I'm not sure whats best on my motherboard. Looking for something that suits my needs (periphereals, ram, ATX) I went for the MSI B350 Tomahawk Gaming Motherboard (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B350-TOMAHAWK.html#productFeature-section). When I started looking at the specs on it, I read EVERYWHERE, Gaming that Gaming this, and I wonder if its the right decision. Not scaling to the X motherboards (not really into overclocking), is there a better choice?

 

Full AM4 motherboard list (I'm leaning towards B350): http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-am4-motherboard-round-up-msi-gigabyte-asrock-asus-x370/

 

Thanks

[Megah3rtz]

we dont know

[Efilnikufesin]

Unless you want to run multiple video cards, the 350 should do you just fine.

[Sartaknight]

Just now, Efilnikufesin said:

Unless you want to run multiple video cards, the 350 should do you just fine.

I dont intend to, as far as I know, so I'll stick with this one I guess. Thanks for commenting

[Qwweb]

Ryzen is in a wierd spot for workstations as it lacks PCIe expandability and quad channel memory. However, if you don't need these it will likely be fine. 

7 minutes ago, Sartaknight said:

When I started looking at the specs on it, I read EVERYWHERE, Gaming that Gaming this

R7 is aimed at the gaming/streaming/video editing etc. "enthusiast" market, not the ray tracing/physics simulations/vector rendering etc. "professional" market. It will likely be fine for mid tier workstations, but high tier workstations will still benefit from Intel CPUs due to more memory support. Ryzen will likely tank when running a program like Dassault Solidworks due to rendering utilizing 1 thread, but parallelizing the rays between the remaining threads (thus utilizing Intel's turbo boost much better).

 

The end choice will likely be decided on what your workflow is and what you want for future expand-ability.

[Sartaknight]

1 minute ago, Qwweb said:

Ryzen is in a wierd spot for workstations as it lacks PCIe expandability and quad channel memory. However, if you don't need these it will likely be fine. 

R7 is aimed at the gaming/streaming/video editing etc. "enthusiast" market, not the ray tracing/physics simulations/vector rendering etc. "professional" market. It will likely be fine for mid tier workstations, but high tier workstations will still benefit from Intel CPUs due to more memory support. Ryzen will likely tank when running a program like Dassault Solidworks due to rendering utilizing 1 thread, but parallelizing the rays between the remaining threads (thus utilizing Intel's turbo boost much better).

 

The end choice will likely be decided on what your workflow is and what you want for future expand-ability.

Well, I'm 20 years old and I'm starting a carreer in Industrial Design. The rendering is non-professional at all. I'm not looking for the best of the best, but I figure that the octa core will benefit my setup by A LOT.

[Qwweb]

Just now, Sartaknight said:

Well, I'm 20 years old and I'm starting a carreer in Industrial Design. The rendering is non-professional at all.

What programs do you use?

[Sartaknight]

3ds Max, Rhino, Adobe package

1 hour ago, Sartaknight said:

3ds Max, Rhino, Adobe package

3ds Max uses the VRay render

[Qwweb]

50 minutes ago, Sartaknight said:

3ds Max

I am most familiar with Autodesk products and can say that when they were made, the rendering platform was designed to leverage Intel turbo boost (due to AMD's lack of a similar technology) which may be a factor in your decision. Also to be noted is the fact that when not rendering, Autodesk is a single-threaded application that is highly dependent on single core speeds which still lean in favor (theoretically) to Intel.

[yoshiii]

1 hour ago, Qwweb said:

I am most familiar with Autodesk products and can say that when they were made, the rendering platform was designed to leverage Intel turbo boost (due to AMD's lack of a similar technology) which may be a factor in your decision. Also to be noted is the fact that when not rendering, Autodesk is a single-threaded application that is highly dependent on single core speeds which still lean in favor (theoretically) to Intel.

People should wait till release day, no one has said for sure at this point how Ryzen  will perform

[itsnippets]

At this point I watch Ryzen with interest but its currently unproven. I'm not sure I'd chose it for a workstation type build but the bottom line is that the motherboard you chose is irrelevant if it does exactly what you need it to do and is stable. Gaming boards are generally build with higher end components and stability is a key component..