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Having no luck with the taichi and Kingston HyperX on their QVL list at anything more than 2400. Might need to change ram

*Update* updated to the latest beta bios and I'm in windows at 3200(16-18-18-36).
 
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If I'm reading this right do you need to install windows to update the bios the first time as the instant flash isn't available until you update to 1.5?
 
What are people able to get in regards to memory speed with the taichi and killer and does the killer support Bclk overclocking? I'm looking at the killer and putting more money towards ram as the taichi seems too expensive but i dont really understand the difference between the boards other than wifi. Im looking at gskill 3600mhz cl17 now as its £30 cheaper than 3600mhz c16. If its not possible to make use of this speed ram should i get 3200mhz c14 or go for c15 to save money?
 
Chewie said:
I went for 2x8Gb PC3200 Trident Z CL15 as the Flare X PC3200 are still unavailable. They're supposed to also be based on the famous Samsung B die chips so fingers crossed they will work just fine.
Worst case scenario I'll send them back and wait for the Flare X.

By the way received the Taichi this afternoon, very impressive looking board! :D

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Interesting details to help identify the Samsung B chips on some of the available memory kit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/commen...bdie_confusion_eg_on/?st=j0zuwh6g&sh=2ac3529a

It also confirmed that the one I went for is indeed Samsung B.
 
Vish Petrol said:
What are people able to get in regards to memory speed with the taichi and killer and does the killer support Bclk overclocking? I'm looking at the killer and putting more money towards ram as the taichi seems too expensive but i dont really understand the difference between the boards other than wifi. Im looking at gskill 3600mhz cl17 now as its £30 cheaper than 3600mhz c16. If its not possible to make use of this speed ram should i get 3200mhz c14 or go for c15 to save money?
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AMD have said that Ryzen is good for at least 3600mhz RAM and recently tweeted a picture of a Asus CH6 mobo and Trident Z RAM and said it was running at 3400mhz. They're working on an update for May to allow higher memory speeds (https://community.amd.com/community...4/tips-for-building-a-better-amd-ryzen-system), at the moment the taichi BIOS, and I think all the other AM4 motherboards, only allow for preset speeds up to 3200. The timings don't seem to matter nearly as much as the speed. I personally chose the higher speed ram as it didn't cost that much more and seemed to be more 'future proof'.

You can do a compare of the motherboards on the asrock website: http://www.asrock.com/mb/compare.asp?Models=X370 Taichi,X370 Killer SLI/ac, the Killer doesnt have the ASRock Hyper BCLK Engine II. I haven't tried any BCLK overclocking as I have an NVMe SSD. Increasing the BCLK increases the frequency of the m.2 slot and going too far can cause the drive to operate outside of its range and cause data corruption.
 
What sort of backup do asrock motherboards have if you mess up during a bios update? Like gigabyte have the dual bios, and asus have the usb thing. What could i do if i bricked an asrock mobo during a bios update? I guess if anyone knows for msi as well that would be good as well
 
I'm back and now running a full AM4 Ryzen Platform :)

The whole "swapping process from Intel" was not as hard as I feared but I have to say the Taichi does feel a bit rough around the edges from a BIOS/glitch perspective.
I have upgraded the board to the latest 1.60 version without any problems using the USB UEFI flash option (it came with version 1.50 installed).

On both versions I was able to run my RAM (G.Skill Trident Z F4-3200C15D-16GTZ) at 3200Mhz just by selecting the XMP option in the bios, very happy from that perspective.


Now regarding the Taichi/BIOS here are the things/glitches I've noticed:

* board take an extremely long time to initialize. Not talking about boot time to Windows here but how long it takes for the board to come up upon powering on for example. Looking at the diagnostic LED codes it seems to go through an awful lot of checks/sequences before reaching POST.

* I have set some custom fan profiles in the BIOS but sometimes upon boot or reset they don't stick or just seem to go back to default (I can spot the difference immediately as I run a silent setup and when the fans go back to default it's more noisy)

* I could not get my Asus Essence STX II sound card to work reliably when plugged in the bottom PCI-E 1x slot. Sometimes it would fail to "recognize" the card and I would boot into Windows with device not detected. Solved the problem by putting the card in the PCI-E 16x slot below.

* Wi-Fi module stays enabled (detected and showing up in Windows) even though I've disabled it in the BIOS.

* Provided documentation for the BIOS is really poor. There is a ton of options but there's no way of knowing what they're for (and I'm not just talking about OC related stuff) :(


Satisifed overall but you can clearly see and feel it's early days for AMD and their Ryzen Platform, hoping everything will get better with time.
Few pictures below, enjoy ;)






 
It really is a lovely board.

http://imgur.com/a/1x5b2

I did experience slow posting on the original 1.50 BIOS, but it's been much better since putting on the beta BIOS, I skipped over 1.60.

Not been able to get my RAM at 3200 yet on the beta BIOS but I've not had much of a play; only tried the XMP profile. (Team Group Black).
 
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