MSI's X570 Tomahawk May Become Go-To OC Board??
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Is it alive now?
Yeah I made a dumb mistake the power switch wasn’t in properly
. The lack of leds threw me off, thought the motherboard wasn’t getting power!
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Stupid question but can I get the seller to run the bios update for me? for example if I buy from OC is there an option to do this step and test the motherboard? Im building my first pc and this is one of the steps im dreading trying to do myself (just got my 5800x and the x570 Tomahawk looks like it would be a decent motherboard to pair it with)
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They offer such a service - you have to ask in order to get an offer.
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Anyone had any issues getting on the MSI website recently? Trying to get on to download a bios update and some drivers for my new board but the website just keeps flaking out 
. And I guess there's nowhere else I can get the official drivers and updates... Even if I fired up an old laptop with a CD drive all the stuff on the CD would probably be out of date.
Looking on google it seems that this might be quite a regular occurrence as there are people on reddit asking about this 2 years ago, 4 months ago, someone on twitter 5 days ago.... Not great service.
Think for now I'll just try setting everything up as it is, hopefully my 5800X will work because my x570 tomahawk box advertises compatibility.
. And I guess there's nowhere else I can get the official drivers and updates... Even if I fired up an old laptop with a CD drive all the stuff on the CD would probably be out of date.Looking on google it seems that this might be quite a regular occurrence as there are people on reddit asking about this 2 years ago, 4 months ago, someone on twitter 5 days ago.... Not great service.
Think for now I'll just try setting everything up as it is, hopefully my 5800X will work because my x570 tomahawk box advertises compatibility.
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I suspect that they're in the process of uploading updated files, because the site was working fine not very many hours ago.
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Anyone had any issues with the beta bios? Not sure if it's linked but recently started getting random reboots whilst browsing on chrome. Can't seem to solve the issue, only other change I made was going from a Samsung g7 to a 48 LG CX OLED.
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No issues with beta v153 here. Using PBO and curve optimiser to get my 5600X to boost to ~5GHz, RAM at 3600 CL14, IF 1800.
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Hey got every thing set up fine first time then went to set the 32gb vengeance amd 3600ram up as it only shows as running at 2133mhz. Anyway dont know what happened as i only set it to its own speed 3600 but it crashed the motherboard.
Thought I bricked it because it took all night and all this morning to finally get it to post again. Problem is though other problems arose. First was it would post but not boot to windows using the boot drive. So pressing f11 at restart would bring up the drive list and i could select it and boot.
Restart back to bios again but no drives would be listed for the boot priority so couldn't choose a boot priority. Finally got that by changing to legacy/UEFI and and the drives appeared so I could set the boot priority and it boots back at default settings.
Third problem is it was only booting with one stick of ram in slot 2, both sticks worked but only 1 at a time. Finally fixed that with a bios refresh so all back to square one.
So yes a long story of woes but I want to avoid that again so
How do I fail proof the way to get my ram running at 3600mhz
How do I fail proof a reasonable cpu speed
And is there any way to get the disks recognised in UEFI only rather than legacy/UEFI like it was when I first put it together.
Thanks
Thought I bricked it because it took all night and all this morning to finally get it to post again. Problem is though other problems arose. First was it would post but not boot to windows using the boot drive. So pressing f11 at restart would bring up the drive list and i could select it and boot.
Restart back to bios again but no drives would be listed for the boot priority so couldn't choose a boot priority. Finally got that by changing to legacy/UEFI and and the drives appeared so I could set the boot priority and it boots back at default settings.
Third problem is it was only booting with one stick of ram in slot 2, both sticks worked but only 1 at a time. Finally fixed that with a bios refresh so all back to square one.
So yes a long story of woes but I want to avoid that again so
How do I fail proof the way to get my ram running at 3600mhz
How do I fail proof a reasonable cpu speed
And is there any way to get the disks recognised in UEFI only rather than legacy/UEFI like it was when I first put it together.
Thanks
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@bris re: RAM - did you enable A-XMP, and have you tried manually setting RAM voltage to whatever Corsair recommend (1.35V IIRC)?
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I tried all that the first time round but must have gone wrong somewhere as it went to black screen. Not sure if I did it correctly but I thought I had.
There is an A-xmp button with two settings 1 and 2 so I chose 1. or is there another way to enable it
There is an A-xmp button with two settings 1 and 2 so I chose 1. or is there another way to enable it
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No, that should have been fine. But the other way is from the Overclocking menu.
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Ah Maybe it was the 14-15-15-35 that was the problem, isnt the ram meant to run at 18-22-22-42? Profile 1 and 2 are identical so why have 2 profiles the same?
If I do that again I am worried about bricking it again. Should I OC the CPU first?
If I do that again I am worried about bricking it again. Should I OC the CPU first?
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Those numbers should be different on your RAM.
For 3600MHz, I'd try A-XMP Profile 1, manually set DRAM frequency to 3600, FCLK 1800, UCLK DIV1 Mode to UCLK == MEMCLK. In Advanced DRAM Configuration manually set up the first batch of numbers to Corsair spec (18-22-22-42), leave the rest on Auto. Manually set DRAM voltage to 1.35V.