Which AM4 x470 motherboard?

regarding heatsinks for nvme drives.i notice samsung in particular has a sticker covering the chips with serial etc printed on it.I am wondering how effective the cooling would be if you left the sticker on?
I mean if you remove it you loose the warranty right?
 
ANDARIAL said:
regarding heatsinks for nvme drives.i notice samsung in particular has a sticker covering the chips with serial etc printed on it.I am wondering how effective the cooling would be if you left the sticker on?
I mean if you remove it you loose the warranty right?
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I think somewhere in all the PR **** they states it's like a copper paper of some sort..... Haha

AMDPower said:
thanks for all the input and help everyone,

i am leaning toward the ASUS Crosshair VII and it would most likely be my choice.
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What ever you go for, any flagship x470 will do you well :)
 
Hey all, I bought a ryzen 2700x and an x470 gigabyte aorus ultra gaming motherboard (please no one else buy it, it is terrible in many many ways)
I also got team group vulcan 3200mhz ram (which wont go above 2866 no matter what i try)

My question is, now i really want to get a different motherboard, which one can i get that actually has good vrms and will let you set LLC and Vcore in the bios?(the ultra gaming does neither of these things)

My budget is not able to stretch the the £200+ boards (ultra gaming was £140)

Please help as I am very unhappy with this motherboard although I lucked out on the 2700x and can get 4.3mhz comfortably, but the motherboard just flakes out (even 4.2 on 1.27v using ryzen master, but again the motherboard can't deal with it or the ram)
 
Illuminist said:
Hey all, I bought a ryzen 2700x and an x470 gigabyte aorus ultra gaming motherboard (please no one else buy it, it is terrible in many many ways)
I also got team group vulcan 3200mhz ram (which wont go above 2866 no matter what i try)

My question is, now i really want to get a different motherboard, which one can i get that actually has good vrms and will let you set LLC and Vcore in the bios?(the ultra gaming does neither of these things)

My budget is not able to stretch the the £200+ boards (ultra gaming was £140)

Please help as I am very unhappy with this motherboard although I lucked out on the 2700x and can get 4.3mhz comfortably, but the motherboard just flakes out (even 4.2 on 1.27v using ryzen master, but again the motherboard can't deal with it or the ram)
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is that ram B die samsung ram? That could be the problem as to why you are not stable above 2866mhz. I got the ASUS Corsair VII but have not set up yet just been so busy and too hot to do anything.

Others have more experience than me with AMD and motherboards, but if you can save up a little get the cheapest of the high end boards ie the X470 Asrock Taichi its an excellent motherboard. But as said earlier its most probably ram and cpu rather than motherboard. Since the memory controller is on die and its kind of a lottery with them.

good luck
 
AMDPower said:
is that ram B die samsung ram? That could be the problem as to why you are not stable above 2866mhz. I got the ASUS Corsair VII but have not set up yet just been so busy and too hot to do anything.

Others have more experience than me with AMD and motherboards, but if you can save up a little get the cheapest of the high end boards ie the X470 Asrock Taichi its an excellent motherboard. But as said earlier its most probably ram and cpu rather than motherboard. Since the memory controller is on die and its kind of a lottery with them.

good luck
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Hey there, yeah the ram is b-die when i examine it in thaiphoon ram checker thing, but its still cl 16 , i am not bothered about the ram for now, but I am very bothered that gigabyte haven't updated their bios beyond 1.0.0.2 and have no overclocking options in the bios.

I do it all through ryzen master, which I cannot abide, as using software for an overclock is a no no for me.

The taichi would be my frist choice but I can't (and my wife would kill me) expend and extra £70 + for a new motherboard providing i can sell this one for a decent price also.

Looking for a sub £200 alternative that at least has the correct bios options for overclocking
 
If I go AMD then I'm pretty much set on the Asrock Taichi X470 and Ryzen 7 2700X. It's not much of an upgrade over my I7 6850k when it comes to gaming (if at all), but hopefully it'll be less of a headache than the flaky X99 platform. Having less PCIe lanes is the main negative though and I've not heard great things about X299 either considering the cost.

Even the Taichi X370 is a decent board if you get it at a good price.
 
orbitalwalsh said:
@Illuminist Good Gigabyte rep on their forum have mentioned they are Jumping to 1.0.0.5a , should be out next 2 weeks
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Anyone know anything about the new gigabyte x470 bios F3 ? for Agesa 1.0.0.4 it says, i cant find anything explaining what it does or improves, it's not the 1.0.0.6 that you mentioned, if anyone knows anything please let me know @Gigabyte-Gaming
 
Illuminist said:
Anyone know anything about the new gigabyte x470 bios F3 ? for Agesa 1.0.0.4 it says, i cant find anything explaining what it does or improves, it's not the 1.0.0.6 that you mentioned, if anyone knows anything please let me know @Gigabyte-Gaming
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Its just AMDs AGESA update, I flashed it yesterday on my X470 Gaming 7 and so far im loving it, I don't have the best 2700X, its always only done 4.15ghz max but needed 1.4v to do that, however ive managed to reduce the vcore to 1.375v so far, and throwing every test at it that I can, ive been running prime95 and realbench since, passing with ease, next drop will be to 1.35v and then re-test, realbench is running as I type this, nearly finished.

Don't believe all that Samsung B die rubbish, that may have been true right at the beginning of ryzen's release, but AMD have been working from day 1 to get Hynix based ram working better on AM4 platforms, hence any AGESA updates that you see that state better ram compatibility and my system is proof of that, im running 32gb, 4 x 8gb sticks of G.Skill Trident Z RGB (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR) and its Hynix based, that's 2 separate kits, that's right, I said HYNIX, its running at 3200mhz, all 4 sticks, 1.35v, even if I remove 2 sticks, and believe me ive tried, the CPU wont give me any more mhz.

What do you mean your board doesn't have any overclocking options in the bios.....WTF ????

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Anyone know anything about the new gigabyte x470 bios F3 ? for Agesa 1.0.0.4 it says, i cant find anything explaining what it does or improves, it's not the 1.0.0.6 that you mentioned, if anyone knows anything please let me know @Gigabyte-Gaming
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Have to look at US forum about beta or bios updates, just know they were jumping a few versions as wasn't stable or didn't offer the best increase in optimisation etc
 
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Have to look at US forum about beta or bios updates, just know they were jumping a few versions as wasn't stable or didn't offer the best increase in optimisation etc
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Yes thats where I found out too, I think Gigabyte just released 1.0.0.4 in the end because everyone was getting really fed up over there on the USA forums from not hearing anything or getting any bios updates, it appears though they have released that AGESA update for all of their AM4 boards, B350, X370, X450 and X470.
 
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Jamin280672 said:
Yes thats where I found out too, I think Gigabyte just released 1.0.0.4 in the end because everyone was getting really fed up over there on the USA forums from not hearing anything or getting any bios updates, it appears though they have released that AGESA update for all of their AM4 boards, B350, X370, X450 and X470.
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Well it does absolutely nothing for me no new options in the bios so I can't overclock, no go with the 3200 mhz ram I have either.... This is turde
 
Illuminist said:
Well it does absolutely nothing for me no new options in the bios so I can't overclock, no go with the 3200 mhz ram I have either.... This is turde
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can you post a couple of pictures of your bios, im very surprised an X470 board doesn't have any overclocking features in the bios, no matter what level.This bios is doing wonders for me, just raised to 4.175mhz an so far passed an hour of prime95, no adjustment on the volts, still at 1.375v/core
 
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can you post a couple of pictures of your bios, im very surprised an X470 board doesn't have any overclocking features in the bios, no matter what level.This bios is doing wonders for me, just raised to 4.175mhz an so far passed an hour of prime95, no adjustment on the volts, still at 1.375v/core
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There is one extra option in the memory voltage section with random letters i've never heard of, I'm at work so can't post any pictures currently.
At a guess its something like MVO_MME or something like that idk

The only options on the gigabyte x470 ultra gaming for overclocking are dynamic vcore, there is no LLC options or settable voltage either, its terrible
 
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Illuminist said:
There is one extra option in the memory voltage section with random letters i've never heard of, I'm at work so can't post any pictures currently.
At a guess its something like MVO_MME or something like that idk

The only options on the gigabyte x470 ultra gaming for overclocking are dynamic vcore, there is no LLC options or settable voltage either, its terrible
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You should be able to see all of these options in your bios under the MIT section, otherwise I would say you possibly have a faulty board.: https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-x470-aorus-ultra-gaming-review,18.html
 
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