AMD Ryzen 7 2700X gets overclocked to break the 6GHz barrier

With no onboard graphics you are required to buy a graphics card. That can raise your cost a significant amount if you weren't planning on buying one. If it ever dies, and every build I've owned has had the GPU die at some point, your computer is unusable until you buy another. Plus you can't do any Android development unless you boot into Linux. I'm sure these issues don't affect most people, and probably saves some gamers a little money that they can put toward their GPU, but I had two similar builds for the same price, picked AMD Ryzen over Intel to support the underdog and I regret it. I'm planning to give my Ryzen build to my folks and buy an Intel.

Given the pasting meltdown had on Intel performance and cloud providers pretty much have to run the patches, if Epyc doesn't sell well then Intel is pretty much unassailable.

I'm not convinced they are Opteron showed they can be vulnerable and Intel's handling of meltdown and PR was terrible, I imagine lots of pissed off CTO's.

The problem for folks below that tier is that the ecosystem for AMD is terrible.

On the software side, basic tools like numatop don't work on epyc. That's because the the equivalent of the Intel uncore counters that measure infinity fabric (AMD's new Hyper Transport, like Intel's QPI) are not available. Perhaps the big three have the time to do these tools themselves, and the NDAs in place to get access to the counters. Since even their single socket offering has up to 4 numa domains, getting access to these counters is pretty important.

There is also a limited selection of motherboard offerings from just a few vendors. This won't impact some of the cloud providers (who do their own board design), but for the rest of us, it is a pain. We've had an epyc we've been testing. I'm its biggest fan, but the motherboard is terrible in an enterprise setting. Just this week I updated the BIOS on it to get the new AGESA. Unlike our Intel / Supermicro boards, the BIOS update wiped all the settings. Earlier BIOS updates have required a physical (at the wall) power cycle, rather than a remote ipmi chassis power cycle.

The >3000 comments are fun to skim over :-)

I would guess that the remarkable fact is exactly that this CPU is still able to work somewhat properly at these extremely out of spec conditions, thus proving a good design/production process/idk

AFAIK, other than "because we can", "stable enough to get into an OS, but not to be reliably used" is pretty close to "stable", so assuming tech iteration doesn't result in a quality drop, you can think of it as a "Coming Soon" for what a generation or two later's high-end chips can be pushed to.

Getting a CPU Z validation is a sport, nothing more. But they have to develop tricks and techniques to further their sport, which may have other benefits in terms of understanding the hardware.

Isn’t the highest stable just over 10gigz??

The thing here is they overclocked all the cores at 6Ghz. P4s was single if I recall.

Some one managed to put a 486 to 1GHz using liquid nitrogen (Probably I read it wrong)

POWER6 had stock clocks that went up to 5 GHz. I wonder what the most someone has overclocked one of those to is?