Using Ryzen 7 CPUs for Content Creation and Gaming

I think most people would agree that using an 1800 x for the sole purpose of gaming wouldn't exactly be the most efficient use of funds. However, I can tell you right now that gaming on it with two TitanX Maxwell cards here, which are pushing 2 years old now, at this point, it's more noticeable that I'm using older cards than it is and I'm using an AMD CPU versus an Intel CPU. Yes, the TitanX Maxwells are old or dated; they're 2 years old now based on an older core, and it's definitely noticeable. The GPU cores are moving extremely fast these days, especially with NVIDIA's timeline, but gaming on them in the ultrawide QHD 3440 X 1440p panel behind me hasn't been a problem as you guys know. As resolution scales higher, it puts more of a load on the GPU than it does on the CPU, so again, no issues or no complaints there. In fact, I found myself wanting to kick my own ass for putting the TitanX Maxwell cards in there and being lazy and using cards that already had blocks on them rather than putting my Pascal 1080s in there because they're a lot more power-efficient and just as fast.

That being said, it really sucks that AMD decided to do the whole 20° offset. In none of the marketing material and none of the reviewers' guide that they sent did I check and triple-checked after you guys pointed it out mentioned that there's a damn 20° offset in there to make it more consistent with the temperatures of the 1700 when it comes to the fan profiles. That's stupid; it just left people like me going, "Why the hell is it running so damn hot?" How am I getting 85c on water which then of course left the jokes of looks like AMD is just in another furnace? No, it's actually running pretty cool overclocked at 65c no complaints there. Anyway, that's just a rant; I have no idea why they did that and AMD just stop it.

A Content Creator's Perspective

As a content creator and a gamer, I have been using the Ryzen 7 CPU for about a month now. To be honest, I was initially skeptical about its performance, but I've been pleasantly surprised by its capabilities. The Ryzen 7 has proven to be more than capable of handling my content creation workflow with ease.

One of the key benefits of the Ryzen 7 is its ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. With eight cores and sixteen threads, it can easily keep up with the demands of video editing, color grading, and other resource-intensive tasks. Additionally, the Ryzen 7 has a low power consumption, which makes it an excellent choice for content creators who want to minimize their energy costs.

In terms of gaming performance, I've been using the TitanX Maxwell cards with the Ryzen 7, and I have to say that they're quite capable. While older than some of the newer models, they still offer excellent performance, especially at high resolutions like QHD 3440 X 1440p. Of course, the performance could be improved by upgrading to newer graphics cards, but for now, the TitanX Maxwells are more than sufficient.

Gaming on the Ryzen 7 with the TitanX Maxwell cards has been a great experience. I've found that it's able to handle even the most demanding games at high resolutions without breaking a sweat. The only issue I've encountered is the fact that the GPU cores are moving extremely fast these days, especially with NVIDIA's timeline.

In terms of cooling, I've found that the Ryzen 7 has been quite reliable in this regard. It runs cool and quiet, even when under heavy loads. However, I have to mention that the 20° offset feature on the Ryzen 7 can be a bit of a concern. While it may seem like a minor issue, it can lead to some temperature fluctuations during intense workloads.

Building a PC for Content Creation

As a content creator, I've built several PCs over the years, but none have been as successful as this one. The main reason is that this PC has been able to handle my aggressive workflow with ease.

I've found that the Ryzen 7 has been an excellent choice for building a PC for content creation. Its eight cores and sixteen threads make it ideal for handling multiple tasks simultaneously, which is essential for video editing, color grading, and other resource-intensive tasks.

One of the key features that I've appreciated about this PC is its low power consumption. This not only helps reduce energy costs but also minimizes the impact on the environment. Additionally, the Ryzen 7 has been quite reliable in terms of cooling, which means that it doesn't overheat even during intense workloads.

In terms of upgrades, I've found that the Ryzen 7 is quite easy to upgrade. With its high number of cores and threads, it's an excellent choice for building a PC that can handle future-proofing. Additionally, the Ryzen 7 has been a great choice for cooling, with many aftermarket liquid coolers available on the market.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I've found that the Ryzen 7 CPU has proven to be an excellent choice for both content creation and gaming. Its eight cores and sixteen threads make it ideal for handling multiple tasks simultaneously, while its low power consumption minimizes energy costs and environmental impact. While there are some minor issues with the cooling system, overall, I'm very happy with this PC.

As a content creator, I would highly recommend the Ryzen 7 CPU to anyone looking to build a PC that can handle demanding workloads. Its performance, reliability, and affordability make it an excellent choice for anyone in need of a powerful and efficient processor.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is going to be a talking head video today that's probably going to seem like it's being done by either a drunk or someone high on drugs because I am tired I have spent I don't even know how much time anyway I I stayed up pretty much all night last night finishing up the Terry Cru bill which gets delivered in two days you guys will of course have a video on that hopefully next week but if my eyes are bloodshot and my train of thought just seems to derail really easily at least that's why so what you think you know I'll be honest I'm uh kind of impressed by it proportions I know right all right but let me show you something here I kind of like the thin ones M but this one is about form factor yeah but mine can fit in tight spaces with girth you can open tight spaces it's like a master key whether you like thick or thin the ITX lineup from fractal design is sure to have something that tickles your fancy remember it's not the size that matters it's all about how you use it no it's definitely the G no thinness girth girth there's no contest no there's contest it's girth by now you've probably heard that ryzen 5 is launched unfortunately this video today is not about ryzen 5 even though I have it I haven't had a chance to even take it out of the box yet because I've been so busy with the other project that I just mentioned but I what I am going to do is I'm going to tell you what the last 30 days have been like using ryzen as my daily driver now although the previous video about that went up on the 20th since I said I'm going to be using it for 30 days I was actually already 10 days into that 30-day challenge having moved into the studio on the 10th of March and it's now the 11th of April so I've got a good 30 days base of what it was like using ryzen for 30 days I I'll go ahead and say the three things I'm going to really focus on on this video are the video live streaming video creation content creation editing things like that and of course gaming if you're into things like compiling development work and virtualization I don't do any of that in my day-to-day workflow so I don't have any experience to talk about with that that'd be more like something you'd want to ask Wendell about so with that out of the way and the fact that this is just a talking head video feel free to minimize this so that my face isn't inconveniencing the pixels on your monitor trust me you wouldn't want you stuck pixels because of this face that only a mother could love now let's talk about live streaming real quick unfortunately when I did my live stream and you guys can watch the replay here or at least some of it Go sample it so you can see what I'm about to reference here a lot of people just didn't get it I think people f fail to realize although it mentioned this till I was blue in the face I think a lot of people just didn't realize I don't use a capture card I was not capturing something happening on a different machine I was capturing Capt captioning capturing what was happening on that machine as it was happening I was live encoding 10 megabit per second h.264 1080p 60fps on the same machine I was gaming on on a game like ghost Recons wildlands which is extremely taxing of any system so being able to maintain 60 FPS was an extreme chore for any CPU and ryzen 1800 x at 4 gigs did that for me now of course we had some uh low FPS at times we had a couple of dips down into the 40s well a few dips down into the 40s but that's honestly not that surprising given how taxing Ghost Recon is and there's still a lot of optimization that needs to take place and optimization in ryzen over the last 30 days has been happening and things are getting better and in only 30 days time it's not that bad I would have liked to have seen that happen before it launched but the fact that we're seeing it is a good thing now I moved on to GTA 5 which we know is extremely CPU bound and still was able to maintain uh a 60fps average now fortunately again we did have some lows down into the mid-30s on that one depending on what was happening in the game but the important thing to realize on these games is I was running them at their highest presets at least in ghost Recons I had uh Turf effects turned off cuz that wrecks any GPU but these were being rendered 10 megabit per second as I said 60fps live encoding on these games that are demanding at their highest presets that is something you could never dream of doing with an fx CPU uh so that shows how far AMD has come and try doing that on a 7700k now what about content creation well I'm going to shamelessly plug another video of mine that actually did pretty well a lot of people watched about using ryzen for things like Adobe premere Pro I had no problems I would be hardpressed if you had a blind taste test of what it was if you had a 6900k system set up next to a ryen system and had a sheet over them and then just had a mouse and keyboard and a timeline and said edit in this timeline and try to identify which Tower is which I wouldn't be able to to be honest with you in fact when it comes down to encoding the exact same timeline as you guys saw in that video it's about a 2 minute 2 and a half minute difference over the course of what was it 11 minute video I think it was I can tell you right now those 2 minutes some would argue over the course of a year and how many videos you render how much time that adds up to you're like that's just wasted time no I don't look at it that way because while the video is en coding I don't just sit there twiddling my thumbs waiting for it to be done I'm multitask and I do other things while that's rendering so it wouldn't affect my my workflow now if it took like 50% longer for ryzen to render then yeah I'd probably noticed that but I can tell you over the last 30 days I have not been sitting here going I miss my Intel machine I miss my Intel machine I've actually been perfectly content using ryzen over the last 30 days now of course we are talking about the 1800x though for 500 bucks it should be a good experience uh it is the fastest of the ryzen chips currently now yeah you can overclock 1700 and 1700x and get near that performance um but I'm just for the sake of Simplicity it's the fastest ship that they currently offer now the thing about that video is it wasn't very crazy when it comes to the timeline a lot of the videos you guys have seen have had heavy color correction especially since I shoot an SL log here on my fs5 there's a ton of post- production that has to be done on these videos a ton of color correction which can add uh a lot of render time to any c CPU and I'm proud to say that the render time on the ryzen has stayed right in line with the Intel offering like I showed you in that video so it hasn't been noticeable to me now it's a little bit noticeable when it comes to something like the 6950x because that's 20 threads of processing power but I when it comes to encoding on the 5960x compared to the ryzen it hasn't been noticeable so I can confidently recommend the ryzen 7 CPUs any of the three to content creators now what about gaming I think most people would agree that using an 1800 x for the sole purpose of gaming wouldn't exactly be the most efficient use of funds but I can tell you right now that gaming on it with two titanx Maxwell cards here that are uh pushing 2 years old now at this point it's more noticeable that I'm using older cards than it is and I'm using an AMD CPU versus an Intel CPU yeah I say the titanex Maxwells are are old or dated they're 2 years old now based on an older core and it's definitely noticeable the GPU cores are moving extremely fast these days espe with nvidia's timeline but gaming on them in the ultrawide QHD 3440 X 1440p panel behind me hasn't been a problem as you guys know as resolution scales higher it puts more of a load on the GPU than it does on the CPU so again no issues or no complaints there in fact I found myself wanting to kick my own ass for putting the titanx Maxwell cards in there and being lazy and using cards that already had blocks on them than putting my 1080s in there my Pascal 1080s because they're a lot more power efficient and just as fast because that's why you guys see the side panel open here they get really hot and that evolve case unfortunately is not very well engineered when it comes to air flow especially for water cooling and radiators and stuff yeah I find myself taking the top off and the side panel off often to keep the gpus cool not the CPU but the gpus and speaking of CPU though it really sucks that AMD decided to do the whole 20° offset because in none of the marketing material and none of the reviewers guide that they sent I I checked and triple checked after you guys pointed it out mentioned that there's a damn 20° offset in there to make it more consistent with the temperatures of the 1700 when it comes to the fan profiles that's stupid it just left people like me going why the hell is it running so damn hot how am I getting 85c on water which then of course left the jokes of looks like AMD is just in another furnace no it's actually running pretty cool overclocked at 65c no complaints there anyway that's just a a rant I have no idea why they did that and AMD just stop it but anyway to wrap up this talking bobblehead video from the perspective of a content creator and a gamer I have no problems recommending this CPU to someone who does both I would probably if you're purely a gamer would wait to check out what the the 1500x or the four core 8 thread variant has to hold I haven't been Hands-On with that and I'm sure there's tons of views reviews on the internet already I haven't watched a single one so I'm going to be completely green and new when it comes to checking out ryzen 5 I would probably see what those CPUs hold in terms of Gam gaming than blowing money on something like a $4 or $500 CPU if you're only gaming it doesn't make sense to spend that much on your CPU especially when eight threads is more than enough for gaming and it will be for a while anyway I hope this video has had some meaningful substance to someone out there trying to decide what to do or maybe on the fence about rise that I have not been in a rush to go out and create the new St Studio PCS like I said I've got several 6900 K to use I've got another 6950x to use I'm doing some more builds for the studio another centerpiece Boutique build like Skunk Works put to use here at the studio and have a a big over-the-top unnecessary PC as another centerpiece of the channel I have not felt the need to run out and do those I just haven't because this PC has done a phenomenal job at keeping up with the aggressive workflow that I need from day to day now we've got multiple systems to build here in the studio we'll be building some ryzen systems systems for display and of course uh Nick needs his system because he's going full-time next month uh so he's going to need a system to sit at and work at anyway guys let me know if this video has helped you in some way this has just been one person's perspective and experience in using this now for the last month it's actually been nice it's been really nice I could have never done this with FX I probably would have thrown myself off the second floor balcony if I had to go back to using FX with the aggressive workflow that I have now with running this channel anyway thanks for watching guys see you in the next onethis is going to be a talking head video today that's probably going to seem like it's being done by either a drunk or someone high on drugs because I am tired I have spent I don't even know how much time anyway I I stayed up pretty much all night last night finishing up the Terry Cru bill which gets delivered in two days you guys will of course have a video on that hopefully next week but if my eyes are bloodshot and my train of thought just seems to derail really easily at least that's why so what you think you know I'll be honest I'm uh kind of impressed by it proportions I know right all right but let me show you something here I kind of like the thin ones M but this one is about form factor yeah but mine can fit in tight spaces with girth you can open tight spaces it's like a master key whether you like thick or thin the ITX lineup from fractal design is sure to have something that tickles your fancy remember it's not the size that matters it's all about how you use it no it's definitely the G no thinness girth girth there's no contest no there's contest it's girth by now you've probably heard that ryzen 5 is launched unfortunately this video today is not about ryzen 5 even though I have it I haven't had a chance to even take it out of the box yet because I've been so busy with the other project that I just mentioned but I what I am going to do is I'm going to tell you what the last 30 days have been like using ryzen as my daily driver now although the previous video about that went up on the 20th since I said I'm going to be using it for 30 days I was actually already 10 days into that 30-day challenge having moved into the studio on the 10th of March and it's now the 11th of April so I've got a good 30 days base of what it was like using ryzen for 30 days I I'll go ahead and say the three things I'm going to really focus on on this video are the video live streaming video creation content creation editing things like that and of course gaming if you're into things like compiling development work and virtualization I don't do any of that in my day-to-day workflow so I don't have any experience to talk about with that that'd be more like something you'd want to ask Wendell about so with that out of the way and the fact that this is just a talking head video feel free to minimize this so that my face isn't inconveniencing the pixels on your monitor trust me you wouldn't want you stuck pixels because of this face that only a mother could love now let's talk about live streaming real quick unfortunately when I did my live stream and you guys can watch the replay here or at least some of it Go sample it so you can see what I'm about to reference here a lot of people just didn't get it I think people f fail to realize although it mentioned this till I was blue in the face I think a lot of people just didn't realize I don't use a capture card I was not capturing something happening on a different machine I was capturing Capt captioning capturing what was happening on that machine as it was happening I was live encoding 10 megabit per second h.264 1080p 60fps on the same machine I was gaming on on a game like ghost Recons wildlands which is extremely taxing of any system so being able to maintain 60 FPS was an extreme chore for any CPU and ryzen 1800 x at 4 gigs did that for me now of course we had some uh low FPS at times we had a couple of dips down into the 40s well a few dips down into the 40s but that's honestly not that surprising given how taxing Ghost Recon is and there's still a lot of optimization that needs to take place and optimization in ryzen over the last 30 days has been happening and things are getting better and in only 30 days time it's not that bad I would have liked to have seen that happen before it launched but the fact that we're seeing it is a good thing now I moved on to GTA 5 which we know is extremely CPU bound and still was able to maintain uh a 60fps average now fortunately again we did have some lows down into the mid-30s on that one depending on what was happening in the game but the important thing to realize on these games is I was running them at their highest presets at least in ghost Recons I had uh Turf effects turned off cuz that wrecks any GPU but these were being rendered 10 megabit per second as I said 60fps live encoding on these games that are demanding at their highest presets that is something you could never dream of doing with an fx CPU uh so that shows how far AMD has come and try doing that on a 7700k now what about content creation well I'm going to shamelessly plug another video of mine that actually did pretty well a lot of people watched about using ryzen for things like Adobe premere Pro I had no problems I would be hardpressed if you had a blind taste test of what it was if you had a 6900k system set up next to a ryen system and had a sheet over them and then just had a mouse and keyboard and a timeline and said edit in this timeline and try to identify which Tower is which I wouldn't be able to to be honest with you in fact when it comes down to encoding the exact same timeline as you guys saw in that video it's about a 2 minute 2 and a half minute difference over the course of what was it 11 minute video I think it was I can tell you right now those 2 minutes some would argue over the course of a year and how many videos you render how much time that adds up to you're like that's just wasted time no I don't look at it that way because while the video is en coding I don't just sit there twiddling my thumbs waiting for it to be done I'm multitask and I do other things while that's rendering so it wouldn't affect my my workflow now if it took like 50% longer for ryzen to render then yeah I'd probably noticed that but I can tell you over the last 30 days I have not been sitting here going I miss my Intel machine I miss my Intel machine I've actually been perfectly content using ryzen over the last 30 days now of course we are talking about the 1800x though for 500 bucks it should be a good experience uh it is the fastest of the ryzen chips currently now yeah you can overclock 1700 and 1700x and get near that performance um but I'm just for the sake of Simplicity it's the fastest ship that they currently offer now the thing about that video is it wasn't very crazy when it comes to the timeline a lot of the videos you guys have seen have had heavy color correction especially since I shoot an SL log here on my fs5 there's a ton of post- production that has to be done on these videos a ton of color correction which can add uh a lot of render time to any c CPU and I'm proud to say that the render time on the ryzen has stayed right in line with the Intel offering like I showed you in that video so it hasn't been noticeable to me now it's a little bit noticeable when it comes to something like the 6950x because that's 20 threads of processing power but I when it comes to encoding on the 5960x compared to the ryzen it hasn't been noticeable so I can confidently recommend the ryzen 7 CPUs any of the three to content creators now what about gaming I think most people would agree that using an 1800 x for the sole purpose of gaming wouldn't exactly be the most efficient use of funds but I can tell you right now that gaming on it with two titanx Maxwell cards here that are uh pushing 2 years old now at this point it's more noticeable that I'm using older cards than it is and I'm using an AMD CPU versus an Intel CPU yeah I say the titanex Maxwells are are old or dated they're 2 years old now based on an older core and it's definitely noticeable the GPU cores are moving extremely fast these days espe with nvidia's timeline but gaming on them in the ultrawide QHD 3440 X 1440p panel behind me hasn't been a problem as you guys know as resolution scales higher it puts more of a load on the GPU than it does on the CPU so again no issues or no complaints there in fact I found myself wanting to kick my own ass for putting the titanx Maxwell cards in there and being lazy and using cards that already had blocks on them than putting my 1080s in there my Pascal 1080s because they're a lot more power efficient and just as fast because that's why you guys see the side panel open here they get really hot and that evolve case unfortunately is not very well engineered when it comes to air flow especially for water cooling and radiators and stuff yeah I find myself taking the top off and the side panel off often to keep the gpus cool not the CPU but the gpus and speaking of CPU though it really sucks that AMD decided to do the whole 20° offset because in none of the marketing material and none of the reviewers guide that they sent I I checked and triple checked after you guys pointed it out mentioned that there's a damn 20° offset in there to make it more consistent with the temperatures of the 1700 when it comes to the fan profiles that's stupid it just left people like me going why the hell is it running so damn hot how am I getting 85c on water which then of course left the jokes of looks like AMD is just in another furnace no it's actually running pretty cool overclocked at 65c no complaints there anyway that's just a a rant I have no idea why they did that and AMD just stop it but anyway to wrap up this talking bobblehead video from the perspective of a content creator and a gamer I have no problems recommending this CPU to someone who does both I would probably if you're purely a gamer would wait to check out what the the 1500x or the four core 8 thread variant has to hold I haven't been Hands-On with that and I'm sure there's tons of views reviews on the internet already I haven't watched a single one so I'm going to be completely green and new when it comes to checking out ryzen 5 I would probably see what those CPUs hold in terms of Gam gaming than blowing money on something like a $4 or $500 CPU if you're only gaming it doesn't make sense to spend that much on your CPU especially when eight threads is more than enough for gaming and it will be for a while anyway I hope this video has had some meaningful substance to someone out there trying to decide what to do or maybe on the fence about rise that I have not been in a rush to go out and create the new St Studio PCS like I said I've got several 6900 K to use I've got another 6950x to use I'm doing some more builds for the studio another centerpiece Boutique build like Skunk Works put to use here at the studio and have a a big over-the-top unnecessary PC as another centerpiece of the channel I have not felt the need to run out and do those I just haven't because this PC has done a phenomenal job at keeping up with the aggressive workflow that I need from day to day now we've got multiple systems to build here in the studio we'll be building some ryzen systems systems for display and of course uh Nick needs his system because he's going full-time next month uh so he's going to need a system to sit at and work at anyway guys let me know if this video has helped you in some way this has just been one person's perspective and experience in using this now for the last month it's actually been nice it's been really nice I could have never done this with FX I probably would have thrown myself off the second floor balcony if I had to go back to using FX with the aggressive workflow that I have now with running this channel anyway thanks for watching guys see you in the next one\n"