com and PC Magazine are among the federally registered trademarks of Ziff Davis and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. This product has been inspected, cleaned and repaired to meet manufacturer specifications and is in . The most important point to enthusiasts is its retention of the unlocked CPU frequency multiplier that should allow a typical 1700 to reach 3. But, at least with this first round of Ryzen 7 chips, the XFR boost is locked at just an extra 100MHz. Next, we switched to the game Far Cry Primal, on the title's High preset, and saw similar results as on Tomb Raider.

We run the Windows platform test and in particular the Fire Strike benchmark, which is indicative of high-end 1080p PC Gaming. The previous test left us wishing for better performance from AMD's Ryzen 7 1700, but this result left us stunned by what AMD was able to deliver. The recently-released VRMark benchmark aims to score systems based on their VR performance potential by using rendering resolutions associated with VR devices of today and the future.While Vulkan and DX12 let modern games split the CPU workload a bit better than before, it's still the type of workload that doesn't benefit that much from core count as it does from per-core performance as long as there are just enough cores. So we were wondering how close it could be pushed to its higher-end Ryzen 7 counterparts when overclocked.

At 4K, where graphics horsepower is taxed and pushed to the forefront, Ryzen 7 1700 offers effectively the same performance as other modern Intel CPUs, including the i7-7700K. Assuming that the mid-to-high-60s temperature reading for Ryzen 7 1700 is accurate, based on AMD's sensor design, I would have no worries about operating under these temperature levels for extended usage periods.

I set cpu fan to go to 100% when temps at 80c but looks like cpu wont get that hot so need to lower the fans full speed engagement point to like 65c or something. However, the reported temperature reading with the Ryzen 7 1700 overclocked brings into question the operation of AMD's temperature sensor and/or offset value for the Ryzen 7 1700 (which should be operating around 20°C lower than reported, similar to 1700X and 1800X levels, if it has no offset reporting coded in). Grand Theft Auto V and its preference for Intel processors shows a slight performance deficit for Ryzen 7 at 4K but the around 2 FPS drop in average frame rates is minor.