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This is a random tangent, but I've been meaning to build my first PC and was thinking of going with Ryzen. Do you by any chance run Linux or Linux dev tools on
by RandomInteger4 9y ago
This is a random tangent, but I've been meaning to build my first PC and was thinking of going with Ryzen.
Do you by any chance run Linux or Linux dev tools on it and if so have you experienced hard crashing issues that I've been reading about?
- floatboth 9y agoCompiling a ton of stuff on my R7 1700, never encountered any issues. (But with LLVM on FreeBSD, not gcc on Linux.)
- dragontamer 9y agoFrom my understanding, a later version of Ryzen fixes the crashing issue that was common in the first-chip revision. The firmware updates should be fixed in any new motherboard you buy today.
- zanny 9y agoIt was a manufacturing error they fixed on new CPUs after week 25. If you bought one now, it would work fine.
- kogepathic 9y agoSo is it a new stepping? If so that would be remarkably fast for a bug to be fixed in silicon. Otherwise why couldn't AMD issue a microcode update to fix the issue on older processors of the same stepping? I guess I'm not understanding how it could be a silicon fix so quickly, or how any other manufacturing defect on the package would cause such an issue.
- barrkel 9y agoRumour has it that it's been fixed, and only affects early versions - http://techreport.com/news/32459/amd-ships-revised-ryzen-cpus-with-a-compile-bug-fix http://techreport.com/news/32459/amd-ships-revised-ryzen-cpu... It's hard to get official word though.
- TwoNineA 9y agoWhen you buy your processor, make sure it's built after week 25. On the processor you see something like UA 17??xyz ?? being the week number and xyz 3 letters like PGT or SUS. If the week number > 25, you are fine.