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

Paradiso said:
I flash my x570 tomahawk a week or so ago, it took over 10mins. To be safe just start the process and walk away for 20minutes.
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Rob_brum said:
Yes
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TY so much for these posts. I just finished building my 5900x pc, at first i had no signal coming, i realised it's probably the bios, i did not wait long enough last time, so next go i also used a 2.0 usb flash and waited 30 mins and volia, it just works.
Also on my second atempt to flash i had everything installed cpu, gpu, fans, ram no problem.
 
I've created this thread over here to ask for RMA advice on what i think is a borked X50 Tomahawk, but I'd be grateful for any technical advice here on what you think is the likely cause of the problem:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...ted-failure-support-via-ocuk-or-msi.18911088/

...bought an X570 Toma back in May/June, to run with a 3600.

Bought an 3800XT in October/November and updated the bios to 14 using the MSI application.
Failed the first attempt, appeared to succeed in the second.

Since then I have had periodic blue screens - usually when playing youtube videos from Firefox.
Never during gaming. And strees testing with P95 and a Farcry5 for an hour would never generate a hiccup.
Did all the usual tests for memory / driver verification / chkdsk / est, no errors of problems detected.

These became regular enough that i decided to reinstall Windows...
Turns out it looks like its a hardware problem, as I was getting blue screen errors (of all types) even during the installation process.

Blue screen when i removed one stick, then again when i swapped that out for the other.
Blue screens when I swapped GPU's.
Blue screens when I unplugged all additional sata devices.
Blue screens when I swapped boot ssd.

Only thing I haven't tested yet is the CPU, but these usually work or don't work, and the culprit seems very likely to be motherboard (especially after a bios update).
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your thoughts?
 
On the compatibility page for the x570 Tomahawk, under CPU it lists the 3800XT bios as 7C84v10. It may be worth flashing to that first then setting the bios to defaults, install fresh windows.

Then if its still the same, maybe try another PSU if you have one, you maybe getting wonky volts upsetting the hardware.
 
thank you.

not sure it stable enough survive a BIOS flashing...
hoping it isn't the PSU, as it is a Seasonic Prime Platinum and has worked well for six months now.
 
Hey guys, quick question if I may? My 5800x is going to be here in about an hour and the bios I'm using is v1.4, which says in the notes "This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
- Updated AMD AGESA ComboAm4v2PI 1.1.0.0 Patch C"

I'm not going to be using SAM as my 3080 just turned up also, so will I need to install the beta v1.51 bios? According to the notes of v1.51 it does this.

"This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
- Support AMD SAM(SMART ACCESS MEMORY) function"

Thanks In Advance.
 
Smiffy-UK said:
Hey guys, quick question if I may? My 5800x is going to be here in about an hour and the bios I'm using is v1.4, which says in the notes "This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
- Updated AMD AGESA ComboAm4v2PI 1.1.0.0 Patch C"

I'm not going to be using SAM as my 3080 just turned up also, so will I need to install the beta v1.51 bios? According to the notes of v1.51 it does this.

"This BIOS fixes the following problem of the previous version:
- Support AMD SAM(SMART ACCESS MEMORY) function"

Thanks In Advance.
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No you shouldn't need to. I was using my 5600x with the bios you currently have installed. Didnt have any issues. Now using the beta bios, again no issues.
 
SpudMaster said:
No you shouldn't need to. I was using my 5600x with the bios you currently have installed. Didnt have any issues. Now using the beta bios, again no issues.
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Thanks for the reply. Apologies my response is late. I didn't get a notification.

Question to all regarding the chipset temperature, this evening I was playing CIV 6 for about 2 hours, temps seemed all good with CPU 71C Max, my GPU was 68C. M2 SSD's were 46C and 47C, however I noticed the chipset temperature was just shy of 70C. Is that okay? I've got the fan on balanced as with my 3600 it was on silent and never got past 60C usually late 50s. I'm guessing the 5800x is very power hungry and a lot hotter than the Zen2 3600 lol?
 
I just updated the bios to 1.51 beta and enabled SAM, barely seen any improvement in fps in cyberpunk and the system became unstable and my system started randomly rebooting every 5 hours or so.
Turned it off for now, hopefully becomes more stable in the future.
 
Managed to solve my high temps. I just couldn't work out why 5600X was getting to 85+ when playing a few games. This is on a 280 AIO as well.

Bit of googling and found quite a few people with high temps also, and it was linked to the amount of juice going to the CPU. I capped it at 1.2v and my temps have come right down. Now maxing out at 60 and no stability issues or loss of FPS.

Hoping a bios fix will solve this, so I can go back to standard settings in the bios.
 
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