depends on how much you want to spend.can you recommend me a decent 750w PSU?
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Right, looking at this for my upgrade:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £91.99
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600 3.90GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £149.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30= £99.95
- 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £104.99
The ryzen 2600 will have enough processing power i think and the ram is fine but don't know about motherboard as i am no expert.
Enjoy.
Right - Santa delivered my new parts todayand so far the install has gone surprisingly well! *crosses fingers*
Now I need to establish how things have (hopefully) improved in comparison to my old system so I ran the Passmark benchmark test before I installed the new kit and again straight after installation - here are the results:
i5 2500K @ 4.3GHz & 16GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
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Ryzen 2600 @ stock & 16GB T-Force Vulcan DDR4 RAM
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Now obviously I was looking for a generous improvement and the "CPU Mark" jumping from 8577.9 up to 14160.8 is (I assume!) a decent bump, however, the overall score only going from 4712 to 4906 is not as big of a jump as I was expecting and I'm wondering whether there is a problem with the RAM - since the "Memory Mark" has dropped from 2662.9 down to 1932.1!?!?!?
Make sure your bios and drivers especially chipset drivers are up to date.
If that doesn’t help use XMP but drop the ram speed down one divider to 2933. Or possibly even down again in speed. Ryzen works best with Samsung Bdie based ram, it is likely yours is Hynix based which can run slower.
As above, update bios for full ram speeds, it took and age for my sons motherboard to be bios updated to get the (Hynix) ram past 2400 to 3000...ryzen really benefits from ram speed... update and get it as high as you can.
Also you are right on the ram sticks, sorry, the design makes them look a bit taller than they are to my eyes.
How do I check to see what chipset version I'm on? I've been on the support tab for my motherboard and under chipset I can download version 18.10.20.02 - but when I run the setup exe file it (eventually) takes me to an "AMD software" installation where it checks for new drivers and then gives me the option to install 18.12.2 - which is obviously different to "18.10.20.02"!?!?!
Also, according to CPU-Z I'm running the "F2" BIOS but there is an "F3" that was released yesterday but I just get a page of nonsense if I try and download the "Europe" version??
Go there https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B450-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10#support-dl-bios and click the Asia link![]()
Thanks - I hadn't realised it was simply the server - I thought the "Europe" BIOS might be different somehow!
Chipset-wise though, I've put the CD in that came with the motherboard and the chipset version is listed as 17.40 - I presume I can ignore this since my "AMD Software" version is already 18.12.2 (although there is an "option update" showing in the AMD control panel listed as 18.12.3 - is this the chipset or something else??
Thanks - I hadn't realised it was simply the server - I thought the "Europe" BIOS might be different somehow!
Chipset-wise though, I've put the CD in that came with the motherboard and the chipset version is listed as 17.40 - I presume I can ignore this since my "AMD Software" version is already 18.12.2 (although there is an "option update" showing in the AMD control panel listed as 18.12.3 - is this the chipset or something else??
The latest chipset version on Gigabyte website is 18.10.20.02 so maybe try that one just to see if it gives you a message saying you already have a later version etc. The 18.12.3 might just be the control panel build version.