MSI's X570 Tomahawk May Become Go-To OC Board??

Hey guys, which Tomahawk Motherboard between the X570 and B550 would you recommend?

I'm building a new rig around the new Ryzen CPUs and the RTX 3080. I don't need WIFI, at present I have a 2.5" 1TB SSD and three SATA storage drives. I don't need WIFI as I prefer Ethernet and powerline adapters.

But I'm wondering if I need the full PCIe4 off chipset etc? Will the 3080 perform the same on the 550 as the X570?
 
Yep, saw the new bios earlier and installed. I keep losing all my existing settings though, is that normal? No way of saving them/restoring after update?
 
slipd said:
Yep, saw the new bios earlier and installed. I keep losing all my existing settings though, is that normal? No way of saving them/restoring after update?
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Entirely normal, unfortunately. It's a right bugger putting all my tweaked DRAM timings back in :D
 
Installed the latest beta, it's listing my disks twice during bootup, first time on the wrong port. That seemed quirky, back to 1.30 for me (where this does not happen).

Can anyone check if they have the same behaviour?
My disks are on port 3,4,5 and 6.

Image: https://i.imgur.com/lAiIO7b.png

Oh and other question: how long does m-flash usually take you? For me it's 5 or 6 minutes, from a USB stick. Seems long, but maybe I'm impatient.
 
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@Forceflow - yeah, it takes about that long here as well.

As for disk listing behaviour on the new beta BIOS, not seeing that problem on my PC. I have two disks plugged into SATA ports 1 & 2 and one NVME drive in the first M.2 slot.
 
JRS said:
One HDD, one SSD - a Western Digital pile of spinning rust and a Crucial solid state.
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Maybe it only manifests with more disks.

Seems like it's two detection routines running: one with full disk name, and one with truncated ones.

Are your disks names truncated? Check my image for example :)

Could be related to the SMU they updated.
 
I did some more testing: even with only one disk attached (doesn't matter if it's an SSD one, or a HDD one) and with default BIOS settings (only changed boot logo to disabled so I could ook at post checks) every attached disk is listed twice.
First time (sometimes) incorrectly, second time correctly.

BIOS and Windows see the disks in their correct position and attached, so I'm pretty sure this is a POST-check bug. Maybe it goes wrong at first and then it corrects itself, or it's a timing issue ...
 
How strange. But if it's just a POST bug rather than anything that carries to the OS then it's only a minor concern. Plus, it's a beta BIOS. Hopefully MSI are aware and fixing it :)
 
JRS said:
How strange. But if it's just a POST bug rather than anything that carries to the OS then it's only a minor concern. Plus, it's a beta BIOS. Hopefully MSI are aware and fixing it :)
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Yeah, I'm probably making a lot of fuss about nothing. It's just confusing and feels quirky, so back to 1.30 for me. It's not like I have any hardware in my hands that needs that new BIOS already.
 
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