Z97M Anniversity OC limit?

Question: Does the AB350M Pro4 support bclk overclocking?

It has come to my attention that not all boards supports this..

TAMW wrote: So have any of you gotten Zen'd up yet? Getting mine in a few weeks probably, waiting for the AB350M pro4 to get in stock. Going with the r7 1700 :)

I wish I could! The demand for Ryzen mother boards has surpassed the ability to keep them in stock. I'm not willing to compromise about what I want. The few boards in stock are the cheaper models that simply do not interest me. Wrong chipset on those boards.

Plus it seems the Ryzen processor launch was premature relative to the mother boards being ready. Sure, a completely new platform, not like Intel's tweak an existing architecture a bit, throw in a new feature or two in the chipset, not a big deal.

I have the other parts for a Ryzen PC ready, now I just need two more...

So have any of you gotten Zen'd up yet?

Getting mine in a few weeks probably, waiting for the AB350M pro4 to get in stock.
Going with the r7 1700 :)

Both have merits IMO, AMD just flogged a dead horse way too long with AM3/+.  AMD has always appealed to the budget user and being able to keep basically the same system and upgrade just the CPU and GPU from time to time was a great thing at the start. Unfortunately they just couldn't bring worth while upgrades to market after a point. 

wardog wrote: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242252-amd-declares-ryzen-will-four-year-architecture-details-overclocking-plans-emphasizes-hard-launch Also reassuring not to see AMD not jumping on the Intel "New Chipset/Socket a Week' bandwagon allthewhile fleecing the Intel Sheeple. I truly believe, in this economy, that people are finally beginning to step off that bandwagon, if only for a block, then, then, jump back on.

Neither design style is perfect, both have compromises.

I refuse to engage in name-calling, fan-boy-ism.

I'm surprised AMD is staying with the static socket design again. Ask yourself, how well did that serve them in the past? In terms of adding new features to the platform?

The Zen processor design with more of the chipset functions in the processor itself, should improve or fix that apparent limitation. AMD should have learned by now how to do that, and they have a huge potential advantage they could leverage, if they can do it.

The mother board itself is still a factor, due to the unknown nature of new interfaces like M.2 and DDR4, for example.

If AMD, for example, could add something like PCIe 4.0 to the processor, without the need to change anything in the mother board, that is the advantage I'm referring to.

For example, AMD could not add PCIe 3.0 to the FX/900 series systems. We know that was caused by the chipset being the source of the PCIe lanes to the PCIe slots. That is an example of the overall design being a limitation.

Intel updated their 100 series chipsets (most of them) to a DMI3 interface. That allowed the M.2 ports to use the chipset for their connectivity, and no longer used the processors PCIe 3.0 lanes for the M.2 ports. That required a new mother board. If AMD could do a similar thing by simply changing the chipset features within the processor, that is another example of the potential of the Zen design.

The ASRock mother board engineers are likely laughing at that statement. The realities of the hard wired connections between the resources and interfaces makes things like this extremely difficult, if not completely impossible. It also is an example of the need for a new mother board design.

My point is that every new socket, chipset, and resulting new mother board design from Intel is not simply milking consumers for no reason each time. Note that I did not say it was justified each and every time.

I hope that AMD is not designing themselves into a corner again with the unchanging platform. They should have learned from, IMO, that mistake of the past. Changing the platform with each or every other generation is easy. Evolving a platform without changing the mother board is very difficult. If AMD can do that at least to some degree, then they WILL have beaten Intel. I wish AMD luck.