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Might be a silly question, but how would I be able to find out about the VRM's on each board?
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Might be a silly question, but how would I be able to find out about the VRM's on each board?
Yeah great review
Nice to see also the performance of the various motherboards there.
some like asrock posts the vrm designs on their site.
many dont.
be a good idea however to have a list of boards but I assume a x370 board will do well overall if not pushed to hard.
if you want solid over time maxed out, then asrock taichi and other similar brand boards is needed due to vrm designs.
Yes I did, these were 2 mates one upgrading from a 2600k the other from a 2500k.
the top 2 boards we know atm
Asrock X370 Taichi, with a whooping 16 VRMs (12+4) providing 300W of power. (that will push very high the LN2 competition)
Asus Hero has 12 (8+4) VRMs,
MSI Titaninum has 10 if correct.
Most of the B350 are on 8 VRMs (4+4), but has shown that they do overclock well in par with their bigger siblings, especially the Tomahawk one.
But some might be low on the RAM VRMs :/
A visit to the relevant manufacturer website will resolve your queries.
Not only how many, but what capacity or capability, 6+4, 8+4 can be better than 12+4 depending on the quality of the components. This is often obscured, or not mentioned in reviews as it is quite a technical subject.
True, but we know from the technical reviews done on the Taichi and the Hero what each one is having.
The rest indeed someone should have a read.
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You can't have read the article at all. It's showing that the schedular is not the issue, not debunking the OS as the culprit entirely.
Excited much?
Got home last night, and my 1700 is sitting here, waiting to be built with. Motherboard (Gigabyte Gaming 3) and new case should be delivered on Monday. No AM4 mounting kit for my H115i though
So stock cooler for now.
Fresh SSD installs on both my systems (I'm taking the 480GB out my current system for the Ryzen build, and got a 120GB to put in my 4770k build that will be relegated to home media server duties). Also got a 240GB SSD to go into a laptop that I'm upgrading, so overall I'll have 3 new(-ish) systems to play with.
Also, new cases for both desktop systems, so new new new...
Got home last night, and my 1700 is sitting here, waiting to be built with. Motherboard (Gigabyte Gaming 3) and new case should be delivered on Monday. No AM4 mounting kit for my H115i though
So stock cooler for now.Fresh SSD installs on both my systems (I'm taking the 480GB out my current system for the Ryzen build, and got a 120GB to put in my 4770k build that will be relegated to home media server duties). Also got a 240GB SSD to go into a laptop that I'm upgrading, so overall I'll have 3 new(-ish) systems to play with.
Also, new cases for both desktop systems, so new new new...
Excited much?
Got home last night, and my 1700 is sitting here, waiting to be built with. Motherboard (Gigabyte Gaming 3) and new case should be delivered on Monday. No AM4 mounting kit for my H115i though
Fresh SSD installs on both my systems (I'm taking the 480GB out my current system for the Ryzen build, and got a 120GB to put in my 4770k build that will be relegated to home media server duties). Also got a 240GB SSD to go into a laptop that I'm upgrading, so overall I'll have 3 new(-ish) systems to play with.
Also, new cases for both desktop systems, so new new new...
I feel your pain, corsair are having supplier issues apparently. I'm still waiting for my bracket, I sent a webnote asking for an update and got ignored.
To be honest what is really needed is a reviewer with a good clocking chip testing in various motherboards, in order to see if any of them bottleneck that CPU. If not, then it doesn't matter which board you buy, from an overclocking perspective anyway. RAM testing would need to be done too though.
The VRMs look to be of high quality on the Taichi. At least, going by their photos.
Microsoft say it is but Allyn Malventano knows better, that guy is such a douche.
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Who knows what the reason is - it seems like loads of smaller reasons combining together. I mean if AMD had delayed the launch even three weeks,they still would have met a Q1 launch and Intel has no new launches for a few months anyway.
ATM,all the motherboard issues are not helping - this reminds me so much of the R9 290X launch TBH.
Wait a bit more and your clean install can be Win10 "Creators Update" (aka SP3)
What went wrong with it?
Ordered that thing after reading a post of yours. Cancelled after reading a post of yours. Thanks I guess
It's great that ryzen wasn't delayed, people who don't mind testing, tweaking etc have some fun and those who like everything more stable can wait (like they would've anyway if it was delayed).
There is nothing wrong for consumers that it was released when it was. Everyone is aware it's new, it requires updates, support from everyone around so buyers know what they are getting. You'd prefer it was released 1-2 months later? just buy it in 1-2 months when it's more stable, what's the problem? That you can see all the testing, all the bugs that wouldn't have been found otherwise? or are you worried about financial state of AMD?
HaOrdered that thing after reading a post of yours. Cancelled after reading a post of yours. Thanks I guess
Thermalright are sending me the AM4 upgrade for free along with a couple of fans that I've paid for. I have a feeling that some of the parts weren't quite right. The AM3 holes on the backplate didn't match up with the holes on the top mounting plate for example. So I'll see if it's any better when the parts turn up.