The ‘city’ I’m in didn’t even have a computer store until 31st march (I actually had to drive a few hours to get my PC).
Going in tomorrow to grab a HDD if they have any, but apparently they don’t have much stock in yet so I’m not sure I’ll come home with anything.
If everything goes to plan I’ll try to get results for engine compile and lightmass bake for one of the free levels.
Would be nice to get stock + mild OC & try with different RAM speeds.
EDIT: I’ll do a release (4.15.1) compile soon, R7 1700 stock with RAM at 2400.
EDIT2: It’ll also be interesting to see the impact of storage speed.
EDIT3: Noticing Asus’ software reporting pretty different CPU usage to windows task manager. CPU chugging along at ~60c with the stock cooler, pretty happy.
Haven’t noticed task manager reporting storage at over ~7%.
EDIT4: I notice it always does 12 tasks in parallel, not 8, not 16.
Okay results are in:
CPU: R7 1700 - 3Ghz (<— All core speed)
UE4 version: 4.15.1
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB @2400Mhz
Using VS2015.
Full solution build: ~38 mins
UE4 development editor build: Total build time: 1307.32 seconds (Local executor: 1200.44 seconds), 21.78 mins | 20 mins
I also did a real quick OC, all I did was go up to 3.5Ghz, no more voltage or anything.
Full solution build: ~36 mins (could have been less, of course it finishes when I walk away)
UE4 development editor build: Total build time: 1275.42 seconds (Local executor: 1172.82 seconds), 21.25 mins | 19.54 mins
Was a little sad the OC results weren’t faster, but all I did was raise the bar in Asus’ Ai suite thing.
The nice thing was that temps still never went over ~64c.
Interested to know about the ‘X tasks in parallel’ thing, why 12?
ANOTHER EDIT: Something weird going on, Asus’ software reports different speeds to CPUZ.
So for the fun of it I set it to 3.8Ghz, Asus’ software still says it’s at 3Ghz (even though I applied the change in that software. CPUZ is reporting 3.8Ghz.
Wonder if CPU temp is being reported correctly, still at 61c, but I still haven’t touched the voltage.
Moar Results, at 3.8Ghz: Total build time: 1237.09 seconds (Local executor: 1138.94 seconds) 20.61 mins | 18.98 mins
At any rate I’m a pretty happy camper, my old i5 took 6+ hours to do the full solution build.
Pretty keen to get bios updates, maybe some more monitoring software & push things.
Assuming the reported temps are correct I’m pretty impressed with the stock cooler.
FINAL EDIT!:
Okay that Asus software was not reporting things correctly (temp and possibly cpu speed), so just take those stock numbers as stock numbers and take everything else with a large grain of salt.
Compiling may not have been maxing out the cpu, soon after the shaders started compiling for kite demo the PC shut down, and I’m sure glad it did.
Even at stock settings AMD Ryzen Master reports temps up to 82c, while Ai Suite 3 is still reporting 55-70, remember I have the 1700x, which doesn’t have the weird temp offset the X models do(did).
Anyway it’s 4:30 am and I’m going to bed, might do some more tests tomoz.
Someone plz comment a level to run lightmass on, keep in mind I only have 16GB of RAM.