@DarthKyrie , thanks !
Of course. I bought a $105 1600 dinosaur just to upgrade the bios. When they come out, my x370 Taichi will have one of my 3900x's in it, and my 3950x will be in a x470 ,otherboard. Or I will get an X570 to see how they are.
@DarthKyrie , thanks !@Markfw Do you plan on getting a 3950x as well?
@DarthKyrie , thanks !
Of course. I bought a $105 1600 dinosaur just to upgrade the bios. When they come out, my x370 Taichi will have one of my 3900x's in it, and my 3950x will be in a x470 ,otherboard. Or I will get an X570 to see how they are.
Building a 3900X machine for a buddy; is there a general consensus of what mobos to use? ATX or Micro ATX. He doesn't have an unlimited budget but also isn't a cheapskate. He'll be reusing his flare X 3200mhz 14-14-14-34 RAM from his current 1700X build.
What board does he have now? It could be just a drop-in replacement if the MB makers ever release updated BIOS's with AGESA 1.0.0.3 AB to properly use Ryzen 3000. If the board has an AGESA 1.0.0.2 BIOS it should work almost perfectly there will just be an issue with the CPU clocking properly.
I had a bad experience with a Gigabyte X370 Aorus board, so I’m a little reluctant to buy another Gigabyte. I had previously used a few Gigabyte boards over the previous years and liked them, but I as really disappointed by their BIOS in the X370 board and felt they weren’t truthful in the advertising.
The Asus CH8 is another board I’m looking at - good feature set and good aesthetics.
If you're not going to build with it, I might personally consider scalping it on ebay or something. Are they still in sporadically-short supply? (Arriving in batches, at stores?)
If I had $500 + ship, I'd make you an offer for it.
Nothing newer available for the x470 Taichi.@Markfw The reason why you are limited to 2666 RAM and crap performance on 1.0.0.1 was because that was a pre-release BIOS intentionally crippled by AMD to prevent early performance leaks (yeah, genius move that... ). You need a board BIOS with AGESA 1.0.0.2 or better to even clock your RAM past 2666... and need 1.0.0.3+ for boost clocks to work correctly
So yeah, probably will be a month or so with AGESA 1.0.0.4 before most things "just work" for most people. As it is, if you are comfortable changing settings in BIOS you can get most of the way there in anything 1.0.0.2 and up. Or if you're just using typical 3200 MHz or lower RAM kits it'll probably all work on XMP settings because this memory compatibility is definitely leagues beyond Zen/+.
Nothing newer available for the x470 Taichi.
Same with the X370 Taichi which is what my buddy uses. I'll be monitoring this thread to see how updated bios do so if anyone has that mobo and runs a 3900X I'm very curious how it performs.
That's understandable. I was helping out a friend on his build a few years back who was dead set on ASRock, due to the price. After all the headaches I watched him deal with, I swore them off, too. I've had some builds with Asus and Gigabyte boards that are still alive and kicking (*knock on wood*), so I decided to give GB a shot this time around. Worst case, I'll just RMA it, or get a refund and buy a different board.
Looks like the x570 Strix-F and x570 Tuf have 8 sata ports, and you'd only lose two if you used both M2 slots. At least, that's what's listed on that spreadsheet someone on overclock.net made indicates.
Caught a Buildzoid video last night, and he was pushing the sub-$300 x570 boards pretty hard, saying they were really good. If that aorus master sucks or is DOA, I'll switch to one of those instead.
I've got 24 GB of the DDR4-3000 LPX I could use, but I wanted either 32 or 64 and maybe something a little faster. Super memory speed isn't too essential for me, given my usage scenario. With the motherboard situation the way it is, I'm losing enthusiasm and may decide to sell it to Mark and wait until the fall.
@DarthKyrie , thanks !
Of course. I bought a $105 1600 dinosaur just to upgrade the bios. When they come out, my x370 Taichi will have one of my 3900x's in it, and my 3950x will be in a x470 ,otherboard. Or I will get an X570 to see how they are.
Crucial Ballistix is using Micron E-die which is supposed to work well with Ryzen and the heat spreaders are barely larger than the DIMMS themselves. .
Take the system back to microcenter, and ask them to "reflash" it. Tell then it was supposed to work.I finally put together my new build and I can’t get it to post.
instead, when i turn the computer on it runs for about 10-15 seconds, then I hear a “click” from the power supply, and it restarts. I thought the click might signal a short, but i disconnected and reconnected all the wires and components minus the cpu and mobo.
I have a b450 itx fatality that micro center said had been flashed with the new bios. I’m thinking maybe that was a miscommunication since at this point i can’t think of what else the issue might be. Any similar experiences/suggestions?
Those DIMMs are about 40mm tall, so the options with an NH-D15 would be to either raise the front 140mm fan up (if your case has enough space for that), swap the front fan for a 120mm, or remove it altogether, and use it like an NH-D15S and use the 140mm fan as a case fan somewhere.
The Ballistix DIMMs are definitely too tall to for the NH-D15 in its default configuration.
I have an unopened Ryzen 9 3900x sitting about 5 feet from me right now. To be honest, I'm seriously thinking about returning it and not going forward with a build until things calm down. The motherboard situation is a mess and I'm not sure about RAM either - I assume something like Corsair LPX @ 3200 will work at full speed, but who knows at this stage?
I'm selfishly hoping you keep that 3900x and run it on that X370 Taichi, since that's the board I have as well and I'd be interested in your experience. Too bad ASrock is taking their sweet time with the bios updates. BTW, go Colts! I'm from Fishers originally and a huge Colts fan as well
Theoretically, the 64GB kit of LPX 3200 I ordered should be here tomorrow afternoon. Assuming it actually does arrive on time (I've got a feeling it'll end up being Wednesday morning) and the DIMMs aren't DOA, I'll let you know how it goes.
I thought that I saw a few sets of low profile E-die kits.
Current Username is almost as good as old user name. Good work Sir.