Good time to upgrade? £1200 budget

DEL 707 said:
I've been thinking about this all day.
Watched those videos and the guy didn't seem that happy with the x470, so do I take a punt and hope that the x370 works off the bat...

I am quite litterally in for a penny, in for a pound at the moment.
Would going for the Asus Rog Strix x470-F be a viable option?
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£180.... Just get the B450 version for £120 , not to much difference

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £120.49 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Comes with WiFi :)
 
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DEL 707 said:
If the x370 works straight out of the box, would it still be the better motherboard?
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The X370 works with the R7 1700, 1700X and 1800X out of the box. If the board doesn't have an up to date bios version for the R7 2xxx series then it won't work until it has been flashed.
I don't know how the X370 Gaming K7 compares to the X470 Strix VRM wise but they are both good boards and won't give you any issues with an 8 core cpu.
 
Bit the bullet. Placed my order

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,653.29 (includes shipping: £15.90)​
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Got screwed on a few items where the discounts had disappeared, but not too bad. Taking a punt on the x370 and just hope she works.
Big thanks to Obital, Lee and everyone else who replied to this thread.

I'm sure I have more then enouigh questions later on.
 
@DEL 707 looks good, x470 Aorus 5 is back in stock but £24 extra , though does have WiFi who j can be handy . VRM set up a little different from .Entry Ultra model .

Looks like CPU and PSU has risen a little in price :(
 
Had a bit of a suprise, got a call saying my order had turned up, wasn't expecting it to arrive till Tuesday.

Got home, through all the basics onto a table just to test it out, but sadly it didn't work, was getting 0d error codes on the motherboard.
Looked around and couldn't find any real help on the internet other then that it was a RAM fault.
I tried changing the RAM around, but no change. Only other thing I had to go on with a light marked VGA.
I'd been plugging the monitor into the HDMI port on the motherboard, but I thought I might as well try it with the graphics card and lo and behold, it worked!

Not going to have time to assemble it tonight, but good to see it at least works.
 
DEL 707 said:
Had a bit of a suprise, got a call saying my order had turned up, wasn't expecting it to arrive till Tuesday.

Got home, through all the basics onto a table just to test it out, but sadly it didn't work, was getting 0d error codes on the motherboard.
Looked around and couldn't find any real help on the internet other then that it was a RAM fault.
I tried changing the RAM around, but no change. Only other thing I had to go on with a light marked VGA.
I'd been plugging the monitor into the HDMI port on the motherboard, but I thought I might as well try it with the graphics card and lo and behold, it worked!

Not going to have time to assemble it tonight, but good to see it at least works.
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Ah yes, no internal GPU with most ryzen CPUs , only 2200/2400g has it
 
Machine is together and Windows installed.

I let Windows handle most of the drivers, but I've installed the lastest chipset drivers and the latest radeon graphics drivers.
Computer says refresh rate is running at 144Hz and Radeon drivers are saying Freesync is enabled.
I noticed the board has 2 network controllers, Intel I211 and Killer E2500. I'm using intel at the moment.

Are there any other drivers I should update, or software I should download? I've checked the BIOS and it is running the latest.

Talking of BIOS, I left Ez overclocking on.
I installed AMD Ryzen Master and can see the clock speed going up and down, peaked at 4.3Ghz. Memory clock is 1067Mhz.
 
I got a bit of a problem.

Every things been going well, but as soon as I tried to play Vermintide 2, the machine turns off after a few seconds. It won't turn back on until I disconnect it from the mains.
Works if I run the game at it's lowest settings, but once I go higher it crashes.
I ran a Prime95 small FTT's test for over 10 minutes with no problem, max temp was 75oC.
Downloaded and ran Furmark and as soon as a click GPU Stress Test, the machine turns off.
What I don't understand is that I was able to complete a 3DMark bench test earlier.

It looks to me like the graphics card is connected properly.

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Furmark will run the GPU more the. Anything will ever . Bit like running Prime95 for a CPU .

By default, Vega does pump more voltage then needed.
Most or a lot of people undervolt to keep card cooler as well as increase performance due to running cooler.

First thing would be to adjust Fan curve to be more agressive .

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-RXVEGA64GAMING-OC-8GD#support-dl

Download Aorus engine and push fan curve higher

Formula 750w as well ?

As another heads up, try using two PCIe leads, and only plug one of the two 8 pins in, so each cable has one 8 pin plugged in and one free.

Very handy guide here for undervolting

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...king-undervolting-information-guide.18793012/

Have you tried any other games ?

Also, there is F2 bios for the Card , maybe running on F1
 
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Can i suggest that if possible you plug each of the 8pin gpu cables into a separate sockets on the PSU rather than using one cable for both 8 pin sockets on the GPU.
So use 2 cables for the gpu power from the psu instead of 1.

You could be tripping the over current protection on the PSU at high GPU load and using 2 separate cables instead of the twin one you are using now might eliminate the issue. Assuming this is the problem ofc.
 
DEL 707 said:
PHEW!!!!

Think your both right, just plugged in 2 independant cables and furmarks no longer crashing the machine.
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Your PSU is a multi rail setup and with over current protection 2 x 8pin gpus on one rail can cause issues due to the amount of power being drawn.

It isn't a fault, rather it is a protection measure that is working as intended. As you can see using 2 rails instead of one spreads the high current draw from 1 to two rails and the protection doesn't kick in.

On some PSUs you can switch to single rail mode and this also eliminates the issue. I am not sure if you can do this with yours or how, so dividing the power delivery as you have is the best immediate solution.

As Orbital said above me, the Vega cards do benefit massively from tweaking if you have the time. You can increase performance and reduce the powerconsumption at the same time.
 
Nice

Why we recommend formula as the budget PSU even though it's not the cheapest :)
If you want to make the cabling nicer , due to having exposed 8 pins and excess cable from the split .

8 pin PCIe extension cables :)
 
Things have been going generally well, until yesterday.
Playing Vermintide and suddenly my screen went black due to loss of signal, but after about 10 seconds it came back.
Then today, the same thing happened twice, but instead of the picture coming back, the fans on my machine went bat **** crazy and eventually it sounded like Windows crashed, couldn't talk to anyone on discord.

I've just installed the F2 BIOS for the card, so going to try that.
Trying to look into that undervolting, but I'm not seeing those options in this Aorus Engine software?

O.k scratch that, still not too sure what I'm doing, but using the Radeon software, I've reduced voltage on the GPU and memory to 900mV
 
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