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Hi,
I´ve ordered an AMD Ryzen 3800XT (and Board of course). Now I´m reading some threads about kernel panic with the 3000 series....
I´m worried about stability now. Should I better switch to an Intel 10700K (same price, almost same performance).
Are here Users with Ryzen 3000 Series that are happy and with stable system?
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First of, english is not my primary so excuse any misspells or grammar.
I built my new rigg a couple of months back and after some research I went all in on "team red".
I also wanted to make sure (as much as i could) to have platform/motherboard that will hold up for future upgrades, at least for a little while. So I decided to spend a little extra money on the motherboard and got an high tier X570. But for you a B550 motherboard might be a better choice, depending on your needs and usecase.
Spec as follow:
Ryzen 7 3700X
Asus ROG Strix 5700 XT
Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula X570
32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 3600mhz
PNY Xlr8 nvme m.2 drives for system and storage
Everything on a EK custom loop watercooling.
It´s not fastest rigg out there but it performs well and does what I want.
I´m on Arch with Gnome right now but I have tried other distros (such as Ubuntu, Pop OS, Fedora and Solus) on this rigg, and I haven´t had any problem at all. During install everything has full support in the kernel (as long as you don´t use a dated kernel), except the Aura RGB function. But I couldn´t care less about that (I know there is Open RGB). When it comes to hardware stability I´ve had exactly zero issues with it. Everything has so far just worked and performed as expected. I suspected that one of the LAN/network cards wich is Aquantia AQ111C 5G LAN would have some problem with drivers. But even that one works right out of the box.
There was some stability issues in the beginning when amd released the zen architecture but these days everything is right there in the kernel. The only thing that maybe could cause problems is if you use a motherboard manufacturer the uses odd combinations of layout and hardware on their motherboards.
Or maybe if you use a distro with a "dated" kernel, as mentioned before. Stick to the newer ones (later than 5.2) and you´re golden. I upgrade my hardware fairly often, once every or every other year and in my experience if you stick to the larger manufacturers such as Asus or Gigabyte and use their mid/top tier boards there should be no problem. But having that said I usually don´t upgrade right after the release of said hardware. I usually wait a couple of months so that devs and software engineers get a chance to iron out and mature the software from initial bugs.
Of course there are exceptions and there will always be someone who has some kind of issues or problems but that happens no matter the brands or manufacturers. In general AMD is hassle free and is full support and works perfect out of the box in most distros.
Last edited by mrazster (2020-07-21 15:22:30)
Arch...the way it was meant to be !!
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Thank you very much. I had problems with the lan module, but I could connect via usb phone to find a solution
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