Why not give it a shot and see what you can get out of it? Maybe you could do 4.1 without going to hog wild on the voltage.
Markfw, I believe you are correct. I have 2 RX480s in CF in my simple B350 Asus Prime plus but I would not suggest OCing.
Funny reality is that right now the high end Ryzen, 1800x, has very little OCing room, even on a high end board.
Obviously X370 is the only chipset to support SLI.
Another Heads up folks, seems there have been a rash of ASUS Crosshair VI Hero boards getting bricked by a random and mysterious automatic BIOS update.
Here is a few people from Reddit that had their boards die: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5xn51g/my_asus_crosshair_vi_hero_got_bricked/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5xmg5p/asus_c6h_wont_do_anything/
Also, JaysTwoCents had one of his do the same.
Edit: Looking into this, it's really bad... Lots of peoples boards are bricking everywhere, reflashing doesn't work and it looks like ASUS is doing a recall!
Yep. B350 doesn't support SLI, and only kinda-sorta supports CF (AFAIK splitting the 16x GPU lane into 2 8x is presented as an X370 feature, and B350 boards run CF through an x4 slot through the chipset). And as X370 boards are higher end, they get better VRM setups almost by default. Which makes it all the more baffling why there are no X370 mATX boards around. Seriously. It simply isn't possible that there are any actual design limitations making this impossible - X99 is far more complex than AM4, and we have plenty of mATX X99 boards (heck, even an ITX ...).I did a little research, and forgive me if its already answered in this thread, but the X370 motherboards appear to be far better for overclockers or those with more than one video card is what I read.
Correct ?
Big warning if you guys didn't know: Some boards are getting bricked during the bios update process. Jayz2cents bricked his Crosshair VI Hero doing a BIOS update. Makes me glad mine won't ship for a while.
California Tustin microcenter has two of those expensive, top shelf MSI boards in stock (probably already gone). $300 is too much for me to spend on a board for this build. Value is diminished due to poor OC headroom, otherwise I'd have less of an issue with it. Feeling conflicted about spending $500 on the 1800X, but I have a feeling that once the temp monitoring bugs are worked out and people start settling in with their builds, I think we'll see more 1800X's hitting 4.0-4.1 than 1700's or even 1700X's. I am considering going back to microcenter and buying protection on the 1800X since these things require 1.4v or higher to hit 4.0ghz. Makes me concerned about the life of the chip. $500 is a lot to spend on a chip that might die early due to voltage.
I'll wait for the Crosshair board to ship and watch other people's experiences until then. In short, I am feeling some remorse for spending high end CPU money on an 1800X, yet at the same time conflicted enough to not exchange it for a 1700. First world problems of the first degree I suppose.
Yeah I just posted several links from Reddit, happening everywhere and rumors abound of ASUS doing a recall! Also, it isn't a user initiated BIOS update, seems to happen by itself sometimes during overclock, and locks up bricking the board, also attempts to reflash with emergency procedures fail.
I heard that from somewhere else too. Why is this true?
I need it explained. As i probably run the same ram and have messed a lot with it. They ended at 2933c14 but what for the rest of the ram sertings?“When running 2667 or higher for stability we run in memory in Geardown mode so CS is driven for 2 memclks, and UMC and PHY need to be in sync regarding even clocks for cmd/add bus setup/hold time, other parameters that have to be even include Tcwl, Twr, etc. So, when in geardown mode, CAS latency has to be even number as a logical requirement.”
Source http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-1700x-and-1700-processor-review_191753/4
That's... genius. Is there any way to disable automatic BIOS updates? I hate automatic anything. I'd hate to get my motherboard Tuesday and then wake up to a bricked system on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, custom dual-pump water cooling loop almost complete...
You can install a community maintained media center on Windows 10 not supported by MS but it works well I have it on my HTPCThinking of building a micro ATX AM4 based system as an update for my old Athlon based Media PC I use to watch and capture over the air (OTA) TV, watch streamed TV (Netflix, Amazon and PlayStation Vue) and play Blu Ray Disks. Saw that the 7th Gen A12 GPU's will work in an AM4 system. Is the A12-9800 GPU commercially available in the DIY builder market, soon to be available or will I need to buy a Ryzen 1700 CPU. A little concerned about the Ryzen as I use Win 7 with Windows Media Center which does not work with Win 10. From what I have read Win 7 is not being supported for Ryzen...no drivers from AMD.
Thinking of building a micro ATX AM4 based system as an update for my old Athlon based Media PC I use to watch and capture over the air (OTA) TV, watch streamed TV (Netflix, Amazon and PlayStation Vue) and play Blu Ray Disks. Saw that the 7th Gen A12 GPU's will work in an AM4 system. Is the A12-9800 GPU commercially available in the DIY builder market, soon to be available or will I need to buy a Ryzen 1700 CPU. A little concerned about the Ryzen as I use Win 7 with Windows Media Center which does not work with Win 10. From what I have read Win 7 is not being supported for Ryzen...no drivers from AMD.
You can install a community maintained media center on Windows 10 not supported by MS but it works well I have it on my HTPC
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Finally found a board! Tomahawk is in a shop 2 hours away and i'll be hitting the road tomorrow or Tue.
I need it explained. As i probably run the same ram and have messed a lot with it. They ended at 2933c14 but what for the rest of the ram sertings?