AMD RYZEN Builders Thread

[imported_jjj]

Wonder if Gigabyte does a Gaming 8 and 9 with X370. Not that i see a point in 400-500$ mobos.

 

[IEC]

Well that was stupidly easy. In MSI's 2.1 and 2.2 BIOSes for the B350M Gaming Pro all I had to do was enable A-XMP and zero effort DDR4-3200 on reboot.

Gigabyte could take some pointers from MSI on their memory stability!

 

[Crono]

1002 BIOS out today for ASUS Crosshair VI Hero, on the official motherboard support page. Haven't downloaded it yet, but will flash it tomorrow.

 

[thigobr]

@IEC I am planning on buying a Ryzen 1700 plus this cheap B350M Gaming Pro from MSI (already have a G.Skill 2x8GB set TridentZ 3200 CL14). How does the VRM copes with the overclocked 1700? Did you try the 1800X @ 4.1GHz on this board or do you think would be too much for the VRM? Is the onboard sound any good?

 

[IEC]

@IEC I am planning on buying a Ryzen 1700 plus this cheap B350M Gaming Pro from MSI (already have a G.Skill 2x8GB set TridentZ 3200 CL14). How does the VRM copes with the overclocked 1700? Did you try the 1800X @ 4.1GHz on this board or do you think would be too much for the VRM? Is the onboard sound any good?

Max I have booted into OS successfully with this board is 4.05GHz. It drooped too much and failed stability though.

You are limited to 1.400V max vcore in BIOS and VRMs are probably cooking at that voltage. I would not advise OCing long-term at high voltages (>1.35V, maybe even 1.30V) until long-term reliability of this board is established. Unless you like pushing new hardware to its limits like I do... I do however have a fan blowing across the CPU vcore VRMs because it seemed liked a good idea given the low number of phases = more VRM abuse with overclocks.

Onboard sound is probably adequate for most. It's an ALC892 IIRC.

 

[alexruiz]

Anybody with Asrock B350 chipset tried 2.20 BIOS yet? Is the SMT on/off still available?

Yes SMT on/off is still available.

 

[Chiropteran]

New BIOS for the asrock x370 killer sli a/c didn't do it for me.

[Beta] 1.93A 3/30/2017 BIOS 5.82MB Improve XMP DRAM compatibility.

2666mhz is still the best I can get stable. No option to go to t2 command rate still AFAICT.

 

[VenomXTF]

New BIOS for the asrock x370 killer sli a/c didn't do it for me.

[Beta] 1.93A 3/30/2017 BIOS 5.82MB Improve XMP DRAM compatibility.

2666mhz is still the best I can get stable. No option to go to t2 command rate still AFAICT.

Traveling for work right now, I will test this BIOS with my TridentZ 2x16GB kit over the weekend. I haven't been able to post above 2133 with the 1.63 BIOS.

 

[Mockingbird]

Getting ready.

Photo from blurcam

Parts:

AMD RYZEN 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor
Zalman CNPS9900ALED Ball Bearing CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming K7 ATX AM4 Motherboard
[URL='https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MYH48d/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2b3000c15']Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Asus Radeon RX 480 4GB Dual Video Card
Antec Nine Hundred Two V3 ATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair Enthusiast 650W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply


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[Chiropteran]

Traveling for work right now, I will test this BIOS with my TridentZ 2x16GB kit over the weekend. I haven't been able to post above 2133 with the 1.63 BIOS.

Do you have the same RAM as me?

 

[coffeemonster]

you may want to load xmp profile and gradually raising your ram speed. make SURE to have 1.35V for anything above 2400. I am at 2667 with cheapo asrock b350 pro4 and 1.44 beta bios. time to try 2.2 bios

let us know how 2.2 is with ram. I have it downloaded but havent flashed yet

 

[SketchMaster]

1002 BIOS out today for ASUS Crosshair VI Hero, on the official motherboard support page. Haven't downloaded it yet, but will flash it tomorrow.

I've been running it for a few days, seems pretty stable. A little more picky with RAM though.

 

[james1701]

Trying the 1002 for the Crosshair. There are a few things it fixed, but I noticed there was a small hitch in my OS every now and then and that appears to be gone. The worst thing, it broke my manual fan profiles. It will not let me set the CPU fans less than 60% now on manual. I had to set it to silent to get the speeds down.

 

[VenomXTF]

you may want to load xmp profile and gradually raising your ram speed. make SURE to have 1.35V for anything above 2400. I am at 2667 with cheapo asrock b350 pro4 and 1.44 beta bios. time to try 2.2 bios

I did try with 1.63 beta BIOS and could not post with any setting above 2133. You're likely using a 2x8GB kit?

Do you have the same RAM as me?

No, I have the CL16 version 3200C16D-32GTZA

 

[IEC]

Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 is still in stock at Newegg. Either they had a airplane full of them delivered, or people don't like this board for some reason.

Maybe everyone is holding out for the Asrock Taichi...

 

[plopke]

Part 2 check : now only waiting on the ram !

 

[plopke]

Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 is still in stock at Newegg. Either they had a airplane full of them delivered, or people don't like this board for some reason.

Maybe everyone is holding out for the Asrock Taichi...

Feel sorry for you guys all just ddosing websites for the taichi , local store (belgium) has
ASRock X370 Taichi on stock but for a whopping 289 euro so 310 dollars.

 

[fleshconsumed]

I would actually prefer Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 (dual NIC is really nice to have for a server), or even Asus X370 Prime Pro, but so far Taichi is the only one that is more or less confirmed to have ECC working, and even has memory scrubbing option in the BIOS. Gigabyte K7 is complete unknown right now and while Asus X370 Prime Pro has been sort of confirmed to have working ECC by a user on German board, I don't think it has scrubbing option in the BIOS. So I've got no choice but to stick with Taichi.

 

[Markfw]

let us know how 2.2 is with ram. I have it downloaded but havent flashed yet

Not sure from your sig, but I just flashed to 2.2 on my ASRock AB350 Pro4, and started right up at 3200,CL 14,14,14,34 1T. Working on testing 3975 right now@1.375

 

[Mockingbird]

This is probably a stupid question, but why is Windows 10 showing my memory speed as 2133 MHz?

CPU-Z shows 2933 MHz.

 

[IEC]

MSI B350M Gaming Pro has yet another BIOS update dated 3/24 added to their site today. They've added 4 BIOSes in March. Impressive BIOS support for a $79.99 motherboard:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B350M-GAMING-PRO.html#down-bios

Meanwhile, my Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 still languishes on the 2/24 F5 BIOS which is unstable with my Flare X 3200. Hopefully F3b on the Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 will let me use the Flare X with no issue.

 

[plopke]

MSI B350M Gaming Pro has yet another BIOS update dated 3/24 added to their site today. They've added 4 BIOSes in March. Impressive BIOS support for a $79.99 motherboard:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B350M-GAMING-PRO.html#down-bios

Meanwhile, my Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 still languishes on the 2/24 F5 BIOS which is unstable with my Flare X 3200. Hopefully F3b on the Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 will let me use the Flare X with no issue.

i will not be overclocking my 1700 in the beginning and went for the better audio on the gigabyte one but i must agree they are kinda slow on the bios updates so far, compared to MSI/Asrock for better memory support.

 

[coffeemonster]

Not sure from your sig, but I just flashed to 2.2 on my ASRock AB350 Pro4, and started right up at 3200,CL 14,14,14,34 1T. Working on testing 3975 right now@1.375

I've got the 3200 CL16 set. the less than optimal one :/

 

[guachi]

Part one: 1700
Part two: Arctic silver (just in case)

Arrived today. Part three - Corsair 3200 CL16 RAM (It's on the QVL. Hope it works) should arrive tomorrow.

Final part should arrive Monday or Tuesday - Gigabyte Gaming 3. Buying it for the same reason basically everyone else is: the only B350 board with 1220 audio.

I'll post how the RAM works.

 

[alexruiz]

I've got the 3200 CL16 set. the less than optimal one :/

I am suspecting both kits, the CL16 and the CL14 are quite different under the hood.
The CL14 seems to be kicking butt in most boards, while the CL16 is struggling...