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*** AMD "Zen 4" thread (inc AM5/APU discussion) ***

rare said:
Exactly see that makes way more sense to me. These end the extra on the CPU or the GPU that’s the logical thing to do. I feel like the hero just isn’t worth 600+ to me, it should be a £500 board.

I would have gone for an X670E Master but they stupidly made it EATX!

All the boards on AM5 that I want all seem like they are too expensive for what they are, or something weird with them, like EATX only, or GPU bandwidth limitations. It’s a nightmare haha.
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Think they should be £400 but they are butthurt about AMD doing drop in upgrades, so they jacked the prices up.
 
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FredFlint said:
Think they should be £400 but they are but hurt about AMD doing drop in upgrades, so they jacked the prices up.
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True. It’s little things that I think it should have at that price, like metal guarded ram slots. I don’t know, just doesn’t feel like Asus tried particularly hard with the Hero. I really wanted to be wowed by it but..meh.
 
rare said:
I thought most of this had been cleared up now with that chipset?
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It's not worth even risking it with how important it is to my job so I've just had to strike them unfortunately. I'd get a taichi in heart beat as that's what I've been running my current gen rig with for the past 4/5 years but I EATX and I can't justify the cost.

EDIT: to continue, I do still think they're having issues with 225 chipset, particularly on Linux. I was reading a reddit post a couple days ago with people saying they're still having problems to this day and Asus are giving them the finger. Other boards with the 225 are apparently fine, so it's an Asus specific problem (on top of the already dodgy 225 chipset).
 
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Dave2150 said:
I've used the Intel NIC on past 3 motherboards, 0 issues.
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I have been reading up on it and am now really paranoid, everything out of the norm is now "Intel your NIC sucks". I can download at full speed(500Mb) fine and moved 300GB of data from my USB backup and then over the NIC to my second PC without issue, so it’s probably fine.
 
FredFlint said:
I have been reading up on it and am now really paranoid, everything out of the norm is now "Intel your NIC sucks". I can download at full speed(500Mb) fine and moved 300GB of data from my USB backup and then over the NIC to my second PC without issue, so it’s probably fine.
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Intel NIC's are generally the premium option. They offer low latency and are very compatible. In benchmarks with other NIC's, they always came out on top, especially for low latency gaming.

Budget motherboards tend to use realtec NIC's, or "Killer" brand, which are really terrible.

I believe there's a bug with older revisions of the l225-v where it couldn't reach full speed, though that's on 'old' motherboards now such as Z490 etc.
 
rare said:
True. It’s little things that I think it should have at that price, like metal guarded ram slots. I don’t know, just doesn’t feel like Asus tried particularly hard with the Hero. I really wanted to be wowed by it but..meh.
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Be careful inserting the DDR5, the slots are week! Apparently, its like this for all AM5 boards. Feels like they will snap off.
 
FredFlint said:
Be careful inserting the DDR5, the slots are week! Apparently, its like this for all AM5 boards. Feels like they will snap off.
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Yeah exactly what I read, which is why I think the hero at least should have bad reinforced dimm slots. Even the B650E Master does and a backplate!
 
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rare said:
Yeah exactly what I read, which is why I think the hero at least should have bad reinforced dimm slots. Even the B650E Master does and a backplate!
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Not to bothered by no backplate but the RAM slots are a #££ take, just asking for dead boards and they know it! Makes it worse that it’s so hard to get the RAM in, it was more stressful than installing the CPU without damaging the pins.
 
Yep don't use ethernet on my X670E-E because it always disconnects randomly.
Tried all these alleged fixes and gave up.
 
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jack.mitchell said:
Be careful with the Asus boards, I had one on order but cancelled it due to issues they've had with the Intel NIC. Working with developing hardware and using the machine for work an anywhere near dodgy NIC was a complete no go. Now flirting with the steel legend x670e/b650e but I've been trying to decide for a week now..... it's an absolute nightmare.
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Ive got an Asus Z790 Hero board in my Intel system and not had any issues at all. Always used them. Just bought an X670e Hero for the upcoming 70003d also. Hopefully I have no issues.
 
my VR headset connects to my router via wireless
and is "streaming" PC content through the router too

so ideally you want the PC connected to the internet via a cable, otherwise your wireless x2
 
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