fishbaits: Welp, think I'm about to fold & grab an Ryzen 1700x. Was contemplating a 1700, but that little extra boost can always help :)
Now all I need is a cooler, memory, mobo & a case. Ouch! hehe
Talking of Ryzen stuff, one of the main overclocking guys at OCUK did a benchmark of Terragen3, showed quite good results.
Posted it to the Terragen forums. Turns out it came second place in all tests, first place was a dual cpu Xeon that costs hell of a lot more.
Seems like AMD definitely got the prices right. Well, at least for cpus ;)
1700 is recommended over 1700x unless you are not planning to overclock. stock cooler is very decent and will allow you to match 1700x without spending extra and without buying new cooler.
im on 1600 regular stock cooler and have it overclocked to 3.8. might push 3.85 but hit voltage limit and can't get to 3.9 stable. prime just crashes immediately.