I'd probably go 850w, it gives you a bit of extra room if you decide to upgrade the gpu etc and even if not it will likely be in the sweet spot for efficiency and no fan mode if it has it.
Yeah kinda what I was thinking with the 850w! Any suggestions of brand/model? Or are most PSU's about as good as each other?
I'm currently running a corsair rmx850 (2021) and it seems fine with current set up of a 5950x and 1060 6gb (the fan hardly ever comes on but it's so quiet I'd likely miss it anyway).... it should be fine for your setup imo.
Sounds good! Thanks, I'll have a look!
I'm not sure how good kolink are in all honesty, they only give you a 5 year warranty and most of their other products are more 'budget minded'
I'm sure I read a post with them saying they went ryzen 5600... although they mention 8 versus 16gb ram there....
650 would be fine, but 750 or 850 would be nice, to give a bit of headroom for a high-end GPU, as you said.Ended up with 16gb RAM and a Corsair RM750 PSU as I found one nearby on sale!So a 5600 non-X, with a GTX 970? Yeah, 1000 watts is insane for that build
Guess you got it right in the first place Moto!
Are you giving your new rig long enough to boot up? The first boot process can take a fair while with ryzen.
Well, unless it takes over 30 minutes with zero beeps or response from the mobo.. I think so!
I thought something like that might be the case so I left it going for a while just to see
Assuming this is the borrd you meant (or the black non wifi version)Well, unless it takes over 30 minutes with zero beeps or response from the mobo.. I think so!
Played around with some combinations and now I'm getting the same response of 1 long beep then 2 short beeps when I have my 1x16gb ram stick in by itself AND when I have the ram in with my gpu
www.msi.com
Next to the 24pin power are the 4 light, I get a brief red light on CPU, then a longer red light on VGA followed by a constant red light on BOOTAssuming this is the borrd you meant (or the black non wifi version)
MSI MAG B550M MORTAR MAX WIFI AMD AM4 DDR4 Lightning Gen 4 M.2 HDMI WiFi6E mATX Gaming Motherboard
Powered by AMD Ryzen AM4 processors, the MSI MAG B550M MORTAR MAX WiFi inspired by the military armor design, tuned for better performance by Core boost, DDR4 Boost, WiFi 6E, Lightning Gen 4 M.2 with M.2 Shied, 2oz copper PCB
I've never had beeps from my mortar (I have the linked board) but I have seen the error lights.... so do you have any error lights showing. They should be top right corner between the 24pin power and the a pwm fan header.
Red light on BOOT is basically moaning about not being able to load an OS.... you either need to install OS and/or make sure it can find the boot drive with the OS already installed on it... double check boot order
I have an SSD with my OS installed on it already which I've been plugging in during tests to see if it would boot to that but I can't even load to BIOS so I can't check boot order or anything. Still happens with just 1 SATA cable plugged into a single hard drive
hmm if everything has spun up then something is clearly 'working' in the gpu.....have you tried different outputs, hdmi instead of display port and/or checked every port because it's entirely possible for one output to be fried and the rest fine etc.
Okay, good news! If me being an idiot counts. I've been using my primary monitor during these tests which has been a HDMI. Both the mobo and the gpu have HDMI ports so been alternating between them for testing purposes. Dragged down an old monitor from upstairs with a VGA cable. LO AND BEHOLD! We have BIOS!
I've just enabled it for myself for peace of mind!
The motherboard HDMI doesn't do anything with the non G ryzen chips, there's no onboard graphics on your cpu so you'll never get anything out of that port... should have thought about this myself to be honest lolOkay, good news! If me being an idiot counts. I've been using my primary monitor during these tests which has been a HDMI. Both the mobo and the gpu have HDMI ports so been alternating between them for testing purposes. Dragged down an old monitor from upstairs with a VGA cable. LO AND BEHOLD! We have BIOS!
Now just gotta figure out how to make it boot from my drive which already has an OS installed :`)
Also, the BIOS has a setting to enable POST beep which was disabled by default
I didnt think it had any onboard graphics but the port was there and there was no harm in trying it so thought it might be worth a shot!The motherboard HDMI doesn't do anything with the non G ryzen chips, there's no onboard graphics on your cpu so you'll never get anything out of that port... should have thought about this myself to be honest lol
So VGA works on your gpu, does the hdmi cable (maybe need a new one?) work when plugged into the gpu?
As for getting the boot. Working from memory here - You've got some icons on the bios home page near the top right, iirc they're drag and drop for boot order so just move your drive to the start. XMP1 and XMP2 quick links should be top left, click them for your xmp ram speed.
Once that's all sorted you can play around with infinity fabric (match to 1/2 ram speed - 3600mhz ram = 1800mhz infinity fabric) and the likes
Haha
weird, have you tried with just the os drive plugged in?
Don't forget your pbo and curve optimiser etc tooNever actually played about with infinity fabric! Another thing to play with once everything is up and running
