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ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-E GAMING WIFI owners thread***
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I did the same thing originally but I thought I may as well try the wifi as it's on the board and ended up sticking with it. No drivers needed for the usb ethernet adaptor either.
I picked up @Conanius's poorly board in the MM and managed to nurse it back to health, having not had an Asus board for a while (read: i5 3570k days!) I was quite surprised to see how many driver packages need to be installed manually outside of Windows Update.
I haven't had to supply a driver to Windows install since the heady days of pressing F6 to point at a floppy disk.
I haven't had to supply a driver to Windows install since the heady days of pressing F6 to point at a floppy disk.
Needs man of honour for this save !
Glad you got it going, though I don't remember having to work much magic for drivers
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Is the ethernet dropping out a known issue? I also have the F and haven't noticed any issues with networking using ethernet thus far (though now I'm worried that I'll find some if I look into it!).
Its hit and miss, some have issues, some don't. Mine was OK for ~6 months, then it started dropping out. Using "Windows Power Saver" mode makes it unusable. I tried a lot of things but gave up and got a USB Nic which works fine without needing any tweaks.
Ha! It was definitely a bit of a challenge, doubt I would have been able to save it without a microscope.
So Windows 11 needed the NIC driver (or Wifi) then I think I had to add the AMD Chipset Drivers from the AMD site and there were a few ancillary ones from the Asus site. All seems happy though with a 9800X3D (thanks @LtMatt!), 4090, 10Gbe NIC (was on the bench without a fibre run!) and a couple of NVME drives.
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Good to know, here's hoping I remain unaffected but if it happens I'll know the first subject for troubleshooting.
Mate, I owe you a beer! I'd always thought the droning noise coming from my PC was one of the fans somewhere, I'd never have thought it was the pump. I can't remember what I've set it to now but it now runs 10% slower & I can barely hear it over everything else.
Since upgrading bios a couple of weeks ago, I set core tunings for gaming to level 2. Was having a mess around today and set it to legacy (i.e off) and was surprised to see that with the latter, my ram latency in Aida64 dropped from 70-72 to 62-64.
Isn't the whole purpose of core tunings for gaming to reduce system latency, not increase it?
Having done some searching since, I understand MSI's "Latency Killer" (same thing, different name) also hurts performance.
Sorry if this has been brought up before on previous pages.
Isn't the whole purpose of core tunings for gaming to reduce system latency, not increase it?
Having done some searching since, I understand MSI's "Latency Killer" (same thing, different name) also hurts performance.
Sorry if this has been brought up before on previous pages.
I've had a nightmare 2 weeks with my B650E-E due to audio stutters in everything. First noticed it on Youtube.
So a couple of weeks back I did the 3208 bios update. My main reason for this is due to getting a new NVMe drive and my bios was quite outdated.
At the same time Windows 11 got another large update to 24H2.
This is around the time my audio issues started...
Take in to consideration that I run a Asus Xonar DGX sound card. So I was first thinking it was the drivers for this had been effected by either the newer Bios or the Windows update.
Tried all the usual of trying latest available drivers for everything. Even did the latset AMD chipset drivers. Then I went as far as doing a completely fresh install of Windows 11. Nothing solved my sound issues.
It was only last night that I got to spend a bit of time on my PC to try and problem solve some more. This was after thinking throughout the day what else might of changed.
Then I went in to the bios and defaulted all the settings. Tested in Windows/Youtube, and low and behold the sound was as perfect as it had always been up until 2 weeks ago.
A bit more tweaking and fiddling in the Bios and it was Expo that was causing the issue all along...
Basically at some point I had read that the Tweaked Expo settings were good to use. And I had it set to that for some months without a problem. But last night I set it to Either Expo 1 or Expo 2 (It's the one that sets the extra memory timings within the memory config page). And problem completely solved.
I would have never have thought it would have been memory settings that effected the sound like this.
By the way my memory is on the QVL for the board and has been fully memtested with not a single error.
I had also tested with 2x DAC's and the onboard sound card when I was having the problems.
So it was the Bios update it seems that screwed me over.
Just thought it was worth mentioning this for anyone else that ever comes across it (Or future reference for myself lol)
PS: Not a single issue with the onboard LAN here
Update to this:
My issue of the sound glitches come back after a short while.
After some more extensive searching, I actually come across a few others with the same issue. One person had to swap out their CPU. Which solved it for them. Obviously they had a faulty CPU (AMD also)
But they had the issue since building their system. So makes complete sense in their case. Not mine though, when mine has been running perfect from buying the whole system 12 months ago.
A few other's reported they had the issue, but it was only on a cold boot. This is were I did some experiments on mine. Cold boot = sound glitches. Restart = All fine, zero sound glitches.
This is where it got me thinking that at the time I had this issue start was around the time I updated my bios to the latest at the time, 3208.
I actually ended up rolling back to Bios 3042 (Which is the bios I was previously on)
System not boots from every cold boot with no sound/latency issues anymore.
So Asus definitely messed something up in one of the later bios updates. But there is nothing, anywhere that would point to an issue from anyone else.
Oh well. I'm happy now
So a couple of weeks back I did the 3208 bios update. My main reason for this is due to getting a new NVMe drive and my bios was quite outdated.
At the same time Windows 11 got another large update to 24H2.
This is around the time my audio issues started...
Take in to consideration that I run a Asus Xonar DGX sound card. So I was first thinking it was the drivers for this had been effected by either the newer Bios or the Windows update.
Tried all the usual of trying latest available drivers for everything. Even did the latset AMD chipset drivers. Then I went as far as doing a completely fresh install of Windows 11. Nothing solved my sound issues.
It was only last night that I got to spend a bit of time on my PC to try and problem solve some more. This was after thinking throughout the day what else might of changed.
Then I went in to the bios and defaulted all the settings. Tested in Windows/Youtube, and low and behold the sound was as perfect as it had always been up until 2 weeks ago.
A bit more tweaking and fiddling in the Bios and it was Expo that was causing the issue all along...
Basically at some point I had read that the Tweaked Expo settings were good to use. And I had it set to that for some months without a problem. But last night I set it to Either Expo 1 or Expo 2 (It's the one that sets the extra memory timings within the memory config page). And problem completely solved.
I would have never have thought it would have been memory settings that effected the sound like this.
By the way my memory is on the QVL for the board and has been fully memtested with not a single error.
I had also tested with 2x DAC's and the onboard sound card when I was having the problems.
So it was the Bios update it seems that screwed me over.
Just thought it was worth mentioning this for anyone else that ever comes across it (Or future reference for myself lol)
PS: Not a single issue with the onboard LAN here
Update to this:
My issue of the sound glitches come back after a short while.
After some more extensive searching, I actually come across a few others with the same issue. One person had to swap out their CPU. Which solved it for them. Obviously they had a faulty CPU (AMD also)
But they had the issue since building their system. So makes complete sense in their case. Not mine though, when mine has been running perfect from buying the whole system 12 months ago.
A few other's reported they had the issue, but it was only on a cold boot. This is were I did some experiments on mine. Cold boot = sound glitches. Restart = All fine, zero sound glitches.
This is where it got me thinking that at the time I had this issue start was around the time I updated my bios to the latest at the time, 3208.
I actually ended up rolling back to Bios 3042 (Which is the bios I was previously on)
System not boots from every cold boot with no sound/latency issues anymore.
So Asus definitely messed something up in one of the later bios updates. But there is nothing, anywhere that would point to an issue from anyone else.
Oh well. I'm happy now
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Nope. The Xonar has always been in the bottom PCIe 4.0 x16 slot.
Like I mentioned. It is all sorted now and it was definitely due to the Bios update which probably changed something in regards to the memory controller via the AGESA change.
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Anyone running a 9800X3D with Corsair DDR5 6000 on one of these boards? I've currently got things set to EXPO1 and things seem to be happy, but having read up about FCLK and all that stuff I'm wondering if I have the divider configured correctly.
Everything is on Auto, except for EXPO at the moment. This is my first AM5 board, so I'm waaay out of the loop on configuration/setups.
Any help/pointers gratefully received.
Everything is on Auto, except for EXPO at the moment. This is my first AM5 board, so I'm waaay out of the loop on configuration/setups.
Any help/pointers gratefully received.
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The comment here from an AMD employee indicates that the latency measurements in benchmarks such as AIDA64 aren't representative of real world performance.
Might be worth doing some in game benchmarks to see what differences there are (if any).
I have a set of their CL30 6000MHz stuff and have set EXPO and just got on with it, but you can check timings/MCLK/FCLK/UCLK etc using ZenTimings, a very lightweight little app.
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It was pretty painful, I gave up and got a realtek nic and not looked back. Thankfully after a bios update now and clearing CMOS all the weirdness like USB hubs vanishing have gone.
Fingers crossed I can finally have a stable pc after few years...
Hopefully mate, I've just put mine together and got into desktop, went with the e version, not reinstalled windows yet but it went into windows fine, tried bios flashback but that failed me, guess I didn't format drive correctly, now to figure out connecting to the lan without a driver
The NIC issue is hit and miss but its an easy fix (USB NIC) if you have it. SATA speed is not that much of an issue(~400M/s) for me as I use NVME drives for stuff that benefits from faster speeds.