AMD RYZEN Builders Thread

[krumme]

And I got the BIOS to update through the ASUS EZ Utility. I tell you it is a real pain.
Now I am on the BIOS 0503 for B350 Prime Plus.

I find the ASUS Application terrible, even when doing nothing it consumes 100% usage of one core, somebody just write a while(1) loop I suppose.
When I try to change anything from the UI, it freezes, but after rebooting I can see that the settings in the BIOS were changed. I think there are issues how the Application interfaces to the Board, no wonder the BIOS update took me 6 hours. My last BIOS update took 2 minutes.

However I got the Trident Z 3200 CL15 to work reliably with 2966 MHz.

How can I link pictures, I want to show if the voltages are OK. CPUZ is telling I have 1.425 on the core which is high I think.
I don't want any OC, I just want the RAM to run close to 3000 MHz.

I am going to run some benches to see if the System is stable

Thanks to the members for the support few pages ago.

Damn nice to hear. Congrats on the ram speed. Excellent...for now .
Happy ending.

.....

Now waiting for the next bios update. lol

 

[DisEnchantment]

I just ran some tests seems the system is stable.

http://imgur.com/a/LT4EC

AIDA64 Memory throughput is not bad but latency is quite high

--------[ Memory Read ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8x Ryzen 7 1700X HT 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2928 16-15-15-35 CR1 43559 MB/s

--------[ Memory Write ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8x Ryzen 7 1700X HT 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2927 16-15-15-35 CR1 42470 MB/s

--------[ Memory Copy ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8x Ryzen 7 1700X HT 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2927 16-15-15-35 CR1 37532 MB/s

--------[ Memory Latency ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ryzen 7 1700X 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2927 16-15-15-35 CR1 88.7 ns

The other tests, CPU Queen, Hash etc are respectable.

Cinebench R15 MT is 1533, ST is 140.

Now time to do real work.
I have installed Visual Studio and imported all my VMs, but I am super happy with the VM performance.

All in all, great day with Ryzen.
Only irony is Win10 took 5 minutes to install but ASUS BIOS took 6 hours

R7 1700X + NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 / XFX RX 480 GTR / ASUS B350 Prime Plus / G Skill Trident Z 3200 CL15 / Samsung 960 Evo 500 GB

 

[Markfw]

Crosshair is now "add to cart" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132963

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Asus Hero VI is back in stock at newegg... I went ahead and snagged one asap this time. All said and done and paid for!! I couldn't stand by and wait another week or 2 just to have this happen again. I was just plain sick of playing the waiting game.

Edit: crap markfw you beat me to it

 

[Crono]

Crosshair is now "add to cart" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132963

Grabbed one. Thanks!

 

[DooKey]

I'm going to wait to see how my Prime x370-Pro does before I bite on a Crosshair.

 

[unseenmorbidity]

 

[krumme]

I just ran some tests seems the system is stable.

http://imgur.com/a/LT4EC

AIDA64 Memory throughput is not bad but latency is quite high

--------[ Memory Read ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8x Ryzen 7 1700X HT 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2928 16-15-15-35 CR1 43559 MB/s

--------[ Memory Write ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8x Ryzen 7 1700X HT 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2927 16-15-15-35 CR1 42470 MB/s

--------[ Memory Copy ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

8x Ryzen 7 1700X HT 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2927 16-15-15-35 CR1 37532 MB/s

--------[ Memory Latency ]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ryzen 7 1700X 3500 MHz [ TRIAL VERSION ] B350 Dual DDR4-2927 16-15-15-35 CR1 88.7 ns

The other tests, CPU Queen, Hash etc are respectable.

Cinebench R15 MT is 1533, ST is 140.

Now time to do real work.
I have installed Visual Studio and imported all my VMs, but I am super happy with the VM performance.

All in all, great day with Ryzen.
Only irony is Win10 took 5 minutes to install but ASUS BIOS took 6 hours

R7 1700X + NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 / XFX RX 480 GTR / ASUS B350 Prime Plus / G Skill Trident Z 3200 CL15 / Samsung 960 Evo 500 GB

Yeaa i recon its a very strong VM rig for cheap?. Latency is very bad. No bios whatever will help it is my guess. First priority for zen plus.

 

[TypoFairy©]

Crosshair is now "add to cart" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132963

Just snagged one from the canadian newegg portal for my brother. I will laugh and then cry if this arrives before my ncix order i made on the 3rd...and then it will become mine xD

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Just an FYI for those with Asus Crosshair VI Hero motherboards. Elmor (world class OCer) worked with ASUS to develop a fixed BIOS that supposedly ends the "bricking" issue and adds some memory compatibility/stability.

I will be updating to this BIOS and provided all is stable, install my custom loop today or tomorrow.

Some stuff I found helpful below.

C6H 0902 bios:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1624603/rog-crosshair-vi-overclocking-thread/820#post_25910910

EK blocks + Ryzen install tips:
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/745205-watercooling-ryzen-x370/

Oh boy I hope your right and they worked it all out cause I just bought this board like less then 5 mins ago.Now showing payment charge and now in packaging very happy now.Looks like it'll ship out today and I'll be getting it next week some time.

 

[unseenmorbidity]

In STOCK: ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero AM4 AMD X370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboards - AMD

Ehh.. Mark beat me to it.

 

[Crono]

Oh boy I hope your right and they worked it all out cause I just bought this board like less then 5 mins ago.Now showing payment charge and now in packaging very happy now.Looks like it'll ship out today and I'll be getting it next week some time.

Mine's in packaging now, as well. Will take a few days to get to here (NY) from CA.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Wow wow wow wait a minute here.... does anyone here actually have the Asus X370 hero VI mobo yet? I just noticed that on the top left of the motherboard there is 2 cpu power plugs one 8 pin and the other a 4 pin. Do I plug in to both at the same time or is it one or the other? I think all I have is a single 8 pin connector on my psu for cpu.I dont want to fry my hardware..

 

[unseenmorbidity]

Wow wow wow wait a minute here.... does anyone here actually have the Asus X370 hero VI mobo yet? I just noticed that on the top left of the motherboard there is 2 cpu power plugs one 8 pin and the other a 4 pin. Do I plug in to both at the same time or is it one or the other? I think all I have is a single 8 pin connector on my psu for cpu.I dont want to fry my hardware..

I think that is an auxiliary power plug for LN2.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

So I can get by with just the main 24 pin and the 8 pin for the cpu?

 

[unseenmorbidity]

Yah, pretty sure you don't need to plug that thing in.

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Ok cool beans, thanks!!

 

[DooKey]

Just put my ASUS PRIME X370-Pro in and I like it a lot. Looks good and has lots of fan headers. I like it better than the PRIME B350-Plus I started out with.

 

[guskline]

DooKey, I originally was going with the C6H but with all of the BIOS problems I'm just glad I have a Prime B350-Plus that works.

Tell me what you like better about the Prime X370 Pro.

 

[DooKey]

guskline, I like that it has many more fan headers for one. Also, it's full ATX and the outside screws holes rest on supports. I kinda like the RGB aura instead of the red aura you get with the Plus. Additionally, the X370-Pro has in Intel NIC instead of Realtek and that's a good thing IMO. Of course the Pro supports SLI and has a much better sound codec. Overall it's a better board for only $60 more.

 

[SketchMaster]

Woot! Fedex just dropped off the 1700 and Asus Prime x370-pro. creating a win 10 stick and will get cracking here in a bit.

 

[SketchMaster]

Whew! Thought I was SOL there for a minute. The system cycled a few times with a black screen before finally showing me a new CPU installed message. Seems to be holding stable now

 

[DisEnchantment]

Yeaa i recon its a very strong VM rig for cheap?. Latency is very bad. No bios whatever will help it is my guess. First priority for zen plus.

Yes it is awesome for VM, you can assign 4 Cores to the VM and it is supremely fast. Its like running on native machine.

I think better support in the BIOS for higher clocked memory will help the latency a little bit.
Because when I was running the Memory at 2666 CL15 Mhz I got Latency around 94 ns. Then when I tried 2933 I got latency 88 ns. I am thinking with 3200 it could be 84 ns. I will try this, hopefully it will POST.

Update:
It POST and stable.

http://imgur.com/a/03jGZ

At 3200 MHz with G.Skill kit
Very interesting, Latency is now 83ns
Memory Read went up from 43559 MB/s to 47519 MB/s
Memory Write went up from 42470 MB/s to 46523 MB/s

And strangely every other bench improved

Could someone also try with CL14 kits?

 

[Malogeek]

Whew! Thought I was SOL there for a minute. The system cycled a few times with a black screen before finally showing me a new CPU installed message. Seems to be holding stable now

Do you have access to Battlefield 1 by chance? Having a weird issue in that game when OC'd.

 

[SketchMaster]

Do you have access to Battlefield 1 by chance? Having a weird issue in that game when OC'd.

I do indeed! What's the issue you want me to look for, and what's your OC settings?