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

I'm going to have a rant, I wanted to add a third NVME via the PCI-E lane with an adapter, but my 3090Ti covers the lane entirely with the shroud and there's not even space to fit a riser, what's the point in these motherboards having all these features that are obviously making the price higher when you physically can't access them due to the stupid design of I guess both the GPU and Mobo manufacturers not thinking about where everything goes and it being able to be accessed ? You shouldn't have to be making sacrifices on premium boards like this, hopefully something changes in the next gen either GPU's start getting smaller or the Mobo designers come up with ways to make all the features accessible regardless of what GPU you have
 
Minusorange said:
I'm going to have a rant, I wanted to add a third NVME via the PCI-E lane with an adapter, but my 3090Ti covers the lane entirely with the shroud and there's not even space to fit a riser, what's the point in these motherboards having all these features that are obviously making the price higher when you physically can't access them due to the stupid design of I guess both the GPU and Mobo manufacturers not thinking about where everything goes and it being able to be accessed ? You shouldn't have to be making sacrifices on premium boards like this, hopefully something changes in the next gen either GPU's start getting smaller or the Mobo designers come up with ways to make all the features accessible regardless of what GPU you have
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Which 3090ti do you have? How big is the cooler on it?
 
SpudMaster said:
Which 3090ti do you have? How big is the cooler on it?
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EVGA FTW Ultra

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3.5 slots lol
 
Minusorange said:
I'm going to have a rant, I wanted to add a third NVME via the PCI-E lane with an adapter, but my 3090Ti covers the lane entirely with the shroud and there's not even space to fit a riser, what's the point in these motherboards having all these features that are obviously making the price higher when you physically can't access them due to the stupid design of I guess both the GPU and Mobo manufacturers not thinking about where everything goes and it being able to be accessed ? You shouldn't have to be making sacrifices on premium boards like this, hopefully something changes in the next gen either GPU's start getting smaller or the Mobo designers come up with ways to make all the features accessible regardless of what GPU you have
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Riser cable with both male and female 90 degree adaptors. (Thermaltake PCI-E 4.0 Dual 90 Degree Riser Cable 130mm)

Not cheap though.
 
freddie64 said:
Riser cable with both male and female 90 degree adaptors. (Thermaltake PCI-E 4.0 Dual 90 Degree Riser Cable 130mm)

Not cheap though.
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I did think of a riser cable, but I'm not sure there's enough space between the slot and the GPU shroud above it, can't mount the GPU on a bracket and use riser cable on that either because it would mean my USB PCI card would no longer fit
 
Minusorange said:
I did think of a riser cable, but I'm not sure there's enough space between the slot and the GPU shroud above it, can't mount the GPU on a bracket and use riser cable on that either because it would mean my USB PCI card would no longer fit
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What size are your existing drives? Thinking replace one for a 4TB.

Alternatively get a external NVME enclosure.
 
Hi guys,

Just finished updating my bios, latest update, and spent a bit of time setting my fan curves back up.

Question, does the OC Profile save feature save any other settings, other than voltages etc., does it save system settings or anything?

Thanks.
 
slipd said:
Hi guys,

Just finished updating my bios, latest update, and spent a bit of time setting my fan curves back up.

Question, does the OC Profile save feature save any other settings, other than voltages etc., does it save system settings or anything?

Thanks.
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BIOS profiles will save your fan curve and other settings, not just voltages.
 
slipd said:
See my comments above. I've saved bios settings to USB, hoping not to have to go through the process of setting up my fans again after an update...
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I saw you post and the response, but neither infers that the profiles are retained after a bios update. The saving is designed to allow you to easily switch back and forth between a number of different scenarios where you've change many things. Given that bios updates often provide new abilites, or indeed extra settings on existing options, I'm wondering does a bios update wipe profile saves.
 
tangey said:
I saw you post and the response, but neither infers that the profiles are retained after a bios update. The saving is designed to allow you to easily switch back and forth between a number of different scenarios where you've change many things. Given that bios updates often provide new abilites, or indeed extra settings on existing options, I'm wondering does a bios update wipe profile saves.
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An update will reset any of your existing settings so best to save them to a USB.
 
slipd said:
Are these the "OC Settings?"
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It'll save all of your settings as far as I'm aware. One thing I did find when flashing my board recently was that it didn't then recognise the old save file, maybe because there was a big overhaul in the microcode or something, so it doesn't hurt to take pics of the various screens just in case :)
 
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