Zen 1 is just the bad generation of it. Get anything Zen 2 or later (like Zen 3).

Yeah, Zen+ is OK but I mean if you are already buying a new processor probably no point to buy Zen+ when we are already at Zen 3.

But it can also depends on motherboards of course. You can go from Zen 1 to Zen+ without changing one, but for Zen 3 you might need a new one depending on the chipset.

Last edited by Shmerl on 25 October 2021 at 5:52 pm UTC

1600 af it's zen plus has increased clock speed over the Ryzen 1 if you live in the UK and you don't mind second hand cex sells the 2600 for 95 and the 2300x for 70

Thanks for the suggestions. Something ~70-100 would be sweet, i'm stuck on 1080p so even the 1300x and the modest gfx card is not a problem for me.

If you just need a quick fix, you could try playing with voltages and see if that improves the situation. I ran a temperamental 1700 for a while that was unstable, but upping the voltages somewhat mitigated the stability issues such that I was able to make it work, although eventually I upgraded to the 3700x for speed and peace of mind.

I think towards the end I was running slightly tuned-up voltages and the C-states disabled and it was able to keep Blender and heavy compilation workloads running without crashing. I did have some other crashes, but those may have been due to my GPU having an overheating problem at the time, so it's hard to say for sure whether the CPU was being fully stable.

I'm running a AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU on a ASUS ROG Strix X370-F motherboard. In order to avoid any crashes I have to disable P-states in the BIOS. It's my second Ryzen CPU and I had these problems already with my old CPU (1700). So disabling P-states is no big deal for me. The 3700 is still way more stable than my old 1700 CPU.

I'm not sure but the motherboard could also well be part of the problem. It took countless BIOS updates to make it operate somewhat reliable- and it still acts weird from time to time.

Just an idea, in case of such issues you can request an RMA from AMD.

Thanks Shmerl; I probably could. But since the CPU is operating stable when disabling P-states, I have no reason going through the RMA process.