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Ryzen "2" ?

Chaps,

Specc'ing up a Ryzen 7 2700X build; is the ASRock X470 Taichi a good choice of board? Or is the CH7 the "go to" motherboard? I tend to keep my builds for a long time, so want the most stable board, with a view towards Ryzen 3000 in the future.

Also for RAM, looking at the G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (F4-3200C14D-16GTZSK), which I think is Samsung B-die, and therefore awesome?

[edit] Also any cooler reccs? I am thinking Noctua U12, but the Corsair 115i is also tempting me...

LMK if I am about to make any terribad life choices with the above :D

Cheers,

Su
 
Sumanji said:
Specc'ing up a Ryzen 7 2700X build; is the ASRock X470 Taichi a good choice of board? Or is the CH7 the "go to" motherboard? I tend to keep my builds for a long time, so want the most stable board, with a view towards Ryzen 3000 in the future.
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My choice (failing anything interesting coming out of Computex) will be a CH7. Reviews well and has cracking good VRMs on it, makes me feel very confident that it'll take a 3700X further down the line.

Taichi, just doesn't quite review as well. Example: https://www.kitguru.net/components/...taichi-nice-pcb-shame-about-the-overclocking/
 
Liking this 2600X.
Not done a thing to it, still on stock cooler and getting some decent boosts. I saw 4375 last night on one core, probably just a 2 second spike, but nice to see.
Just waiting for my AM4 bracket and 2 new fans then I can get my water cooler on it and mess around a bit more in the bios

 
Those seeing these high CPU speeds are all on x470 it seems?

Don't get me wrong on my x370 board I get all core 4Ghz and what must be single core up to about 4.1x but that's as high as it goes.

Nothing above 4.15GHz. (Noctua NH14)
 
Looks like folk are seeing good gains from going to 103 or 104 on bclk.. boosting into the 4.4s and even up to 4.5 with limited threads.
Quite a novel overclocking setup AMD has created with this.
 
So not sure if anyone else has had any problems, yesterday I left my PC running on the morning, tried to remote in from work at lunchtime but was suprised I couldnt! Went home and found it was shutdown. When I started it up got stuck on the windows loading screen, had to restart then got a message about bios needing to load up in safe mode etc.
I am on a CH7 with 2700x , 8Pack 3200 Memory set to the DOCP profile for 3200.
It was running pefect for the past week almost with no issues.
Anyway long story short I had to update to the latest bios 0601 I think it was then I was able to re-apply similar settings to before the crash. This morning I left PC on again, got to work to test the remote connection and noticed it had restarted again! Not sure whats going on :P I did a Intel Burn Test on Max last night for about 30 minutes and it was fine so not sure whats causing the random shutdown (on idle).
Anyone else had this?
I was getting shutdowns intially when I had the ASUS AI software on but since I removed those PC was running fine for almost over a week until yesterday. Just wanted to know if anyone else out there had similar probs as of yesterday?
 
Does higher bclk drop pci express dividers? On my x399 if I used 104 I basically get PCie gen 2 speeds rather than gen 3, halving the bandwidth of my NVMe drives.
 
Robi_uk said:
So not sure if anyone else has had any problems, yesterday I left my PC running on the morning, tried to remote in from work at lunchtime but was suprised I couldnt! Went home and found it was shutdown. When I started it up got stuck on the windows loading screen, had to restart then got a message about bios needing to load up in safe mode etc.
I am on a CH7 with 2700x , 8Pack 3200 Memory set to the DOCP profile for 3200.
It was running pefect for the past week almost with no issues.
Anyway long story short I had to update to the latest bios 0601 I think it was then I was able to re-apply similar settings to before the crash. This morning I left PC on again, got to work to test the remote connection and noticed it had restarted again! Not sure whats going on :p I did a Intel Burn Test on Max last night for about 30 minutes and it was fine so not sure whats causing the random shutdown (on idle).
Anyone else had this?
I was getting shutdowns intially when I had the ASUS AI software on but since I removed those PC was running fine for almost over a week until yesterday. Just wanted to know if anyone else out there had similar probs as of yesterday?
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If I left my old Aorus Gaming 5 and 1600 set up in sleep for too long it'd completely soft brick, no leds, no fans, nothing. I would have to disconnect everything from the mobo, drain caps, clear cmos and remove the battery from the board for a little while. Then it would boot back no problems.
I've see a fair few reports of the same thing online. It happened to a friends Gaming 5 too, but he didn't know how to resolve it so actually returned the mobo and cpu to rainforest and got new ones!
 
Dont think this was in my case as my PC doesnt go to sleep mode. Since I have upgraded to an SSD I dont bother putting PC to sleep as its quite quick at booting up.
First week after getting the mobo and cpu I was getting the random shutdowns that then required me to unplug at mains before I could start it back up. But after reading online that this might be an issue caused by ASUS software I removed these and have not had any more shutdowns like that.
 
Robi_uk said:
So not sure if anyone else has had any problems, yesterday I left my PC running on the morning, tried to remote in from work at lunchtime but was suprised I couldnt! Went home and found it was shutdown. When I started it up got stuck on the windows loading screen, had to restart then got a message about bios needing to load up in safe mode etc.
I am on a CH7 with 2700x , 8Pack 3200 Memory set to the DOCP profile for 3200.
It was running pefect for the past week almost with no issues.
Anyway long story short I had to update to the latest bios 0601 I think it was then I was able to re-apply similar settings to before the crash. This morning I left PC on again, got to work to test the remote connection and noticed it had restarted again! Not sure whats going on :p I did a Intel Burn Test on Max last night for about 30 minutes and it was fine so not sure whats causing the random shutdown (on idle).
Anyone else had this?
I was getting shutdowns intially when I had the ASUS AI software on but since I removed those PC was running fine for almost over a week until yesterday. Just wanted to know if anyone else out there had similar probs as of yesterday?
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Should be something in Display settings-> Power & sleep -> Additional power settings.

The other possibility is that somehow the CPU idle state doesn't communicate properly with your power supply unit.
 
4K8KW10 said:
Should be something in Display settings-> Power & sleep -> Additional power settings.

The other possibility is that somehow the CPU idle state doesn't communicate properly with your power supplu unit.
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Currently on the balanced setting (windows 10) have checked, sleep is disabled on there, I disabled hybrid sleep just now(no idea what that is).
My monitor does go to sleep but that is a monitor thing so shouldnt effect the PC right?
I have thought about the PSU, I have a brand new one waiting in its box... am thinking of getting a M2 drive if I come across a good offer on HUKD, was thinking I will just replace PSU at the same time to save a bit of time! Although if I get anymore crashes I will just go ahead and swap out the PSU regardless.
 
opethdisciple said:
Those seeing these high CPU speeds are all on x470 it seems?

Don't get me wrong on my x370 board I get all core 4Ghz and what must be single core up to about 4.1x but that's as high as it goes.

Nothing above 4.15GHz. (Noctua NH14)
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Single core i'm getting a gnats under 4.4 using 101BCLK single core. All core sits around 3975-4025 depending on chip temp. That's on a X370 Taichi.
 
Getting 4.340GHz single/couple of cores, 4.16ishGHz all core at the moment. Screenie on home PC and I'm at work though...

Think I may have got a good 'un.
EDIT Tell a lie... found it in me Onedrive. Actually better than I remembered!

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I use IBT for all core, single core just whatever the highest reported speed is in HWinfo.
 
If your after all core multi thread performance a manual overclock and a fixed lower voltage. For instance 4250 should be about 1.362v with LLC.
If your after max boost and best single core then standard settings or a bclk overclock and PBO/XFR/PE whatever you wanna call it is better.

From what I can see so far. :)
 
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