Whats In the box

Well with a new AMD launch comes yet another awesome box of AMD goodies. Full disclosure, AMD sent all of this over for testing Ryzen 2000 Series. So this time there isn’t a nice wooden box like the original Ryzen launch but they did include another black Ryzen box along with a second smaller one. I must admit when I first saw Lisa Su post up pictures of the grey Ryzen box I thought maybe they were doing a water cooler bundle again. Anyhow inside of the black box were the two motherboards, the memory, and a cover that says to Bring Your Imagination To Life.

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Our kit came with the MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC and the X470 Aorus Gaming 7 Wifi, I will be diving into each of those individually as well as an Asus board that Asus sent over one at a time.

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They partnered with G.Skill again and this time they sent over a set of Sniper X memory. This is a Ryzen compatible kit obviously and it is unique with its urban camo design on the top of the heatspreaders. It’s a 16 GB kit and they run at 3400MHz with 16-16-16-36 timings. This is an improvement over the kits in the past and I tested both the new Ryzen 2000 Series CPUs as well as all of our original Ryzen CPUs with this new kit.

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So that wide grey Ryzen box, well that is what they packed the two CPUs in. They sent both CPUs in retail boxes with their respective coolers. Right on top when I opened everything up they also had a paper about the new Wraith Prism cooler. Don’t worry AMD I’ll get to it.

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So here are the two coolers. The 2600X comes with the normal Spire cooler, not the one with RGB lighting. Then the Wraith Prism is to the right. You can see that it is a little taller than the previous design. I’m planning on a short article comparing the Prism to the original Wraith soon. In fact, as I write this I’ve already finished the testing. I just want to spend a little more time talking about it than this article will really allow.

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So here are the two CPUs. There isn’t much to note here unless you have never seen an AMD CPU before. Unlike Intel, AMD has stuck with a pins on the CPU design. There are pro’s and cons, for example, these pins are stronger and a little harder to damage but the design doesn’t grip as well so you are a lot more likely to pull the CPU out when pulling a heatsink off. Anyhow they still have the AMD Ryzen logo etched into the heatspreader. Our 2600X was etched up higher, I’ve never seen that happen before. Beyond that, I should just note that it was clear that these had been tested prior to being shipped to me. There is no way to know if there was any cherry picking or anything, but I did see a fingerprint in thermal paste and extra paste around the edges. This isn’t unusual for pre-launch CPUs. A lot of times they update microcode on samples up until the last minute, not to mention with a set launch you don’t want to send out a dead CPU.

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