oh, sh*t...

At that point I literally just pull the plug.

@Ranchonyx

I was somewhat of a beta tester for AMD Ryzen (the first gen of the architecture). Got an ASUS "unbranded" ugly green factory motherboard with a pre-production sample Ryzen 7 1700x, for free.

Used it for Linux testing purposes back then, but still performs perfectly as my main gaming rig right now.

The only issue is that the motherboard has some ACPI incompatibility so it literally can only do one thing: reboot. — well, and be cut off from power.

No sleep, no hibernate, no power saving states, no shutdown.

So my daily agility training session is flipping the power strip switch exactly when the power cycles.

@bittersweet I am surprised that you don’t have any issues with the CPU… I mean, many technologies were introduced with this CPU, so I would’ve imagined that you’d have reliability issues. Apparently not.

@OmerFlame

I'm actually not an hardware expert or system developer at all. I just submitted a patch once for a Linux driver, and worked a bit on some metacity & compiz OpenGL stuff for Gnome2 in the 2000s.

I somehow ended up on some "kernel developer" list at AMD, so they've sent me hardware for testing purposes a bunch of times.

But just for fun I did run it through its paces when I received it, tried and failed to set up Linux gaming through IOMMU virtualization, set it up with 8 SSDs in a ZFS pool, things like that.

When I received it, I certainly had to mess around with a whole bunch of hand-compiled nightly kernels, because at that moment support for many features was still spotty.

The Bios on this motherboard is also bit crippled, has a whole bunch of disabled items. Can't regulate fan speeds other than 100% (so I'm using a manual knob), came with 32GB of stock RAM, can't set memory to other clock speeds than default in the BIOS, can't tweak CPU voltages, etc.

@bittersweet That's to be expected, boost and stuff like that should be implemented after stock testing passes. I also kinda get the 100% fan speed thing, it's to ensure the health of the CPU because it's a prototype and they don't have many of them.