Asus Strix X470-F Gaming owners thread

[AniChatt]

Hello guys, I am starting this thread for all Stix X470-F owners to discuss their overclock settings, issues etc. So that everyone get help quickly in a organised way. Installed my old 1600x in this mobo with 4011 bios and flareX 3200 with default docp and it works just fine without any issues so far. One thing to mention The board pushes 1.15v soc default docp profile. Is it normal seems a bit high for me as I have upgraded from B350-F gaming.
However a small issue I believe, the asus lighting control is not behaving normal. I mean just after login to windows it is taking a bit time to start (5min) before that if I try to on Lighting Control by clicking it, program crash window appears after few seconds. But when it starts on it's own then I can open asus lighting control. Anyone experiencing similar issue???
Also tried to use older version.

[Alcolawl]

TehNyo wrote:
Hello, so i finally replaced my 3570k and after being Intel CPU user forever i went AMD this time (hopefully no regrets heh).... (edited for space)

Lots going on here, so I'm going to try to quickly break it down and give you some pointers to get you headed in the right direction. I'd make a more detailed post but it's Thanksgiving and I've got lots going on today lol.

Idle temps on Ryzen are a bit wonky, as the "Sawtooth Bug" (Though it's not really a bug) is what you seem to be experiencing here at idle. It bouncing ~10°C higher every few seconds is normal. That being said, 35°C-40°C is a bit high. The cooler you have is nice but it's rated TDP is barely enough to cover the 2700X under load. That might be why you're seeing such high load temps. Ideally, you don't want them to exceed 70°C or you'll face throttling. Also, check your case airflow and make sure your cooler is being fed enough air. Even with an Arctic Freezer 33 eSports ONE, my 2600X with Peformance Enhancer (PE) set to level 2, I rarely exceeded 70°C except for stability testing.

Real quick, Performance Enhancer sets XFR and PBO to pre-determined values, so you actually don't need to touch PBO and XFR if you're using Performance Enhancer levels. It's a bit of a quick overclock.

Unfortunately, the out of the box settings in the BIOS can lead to high idle and performance temps, as reported many times in the past here in this thread. The first thing I'd do is set Performance Enhancer to Default (Or Level 1 or 2 if you'd like higher all-core boost clocks). Auto seems to behave like either Level 2 or Level 3 and it's the default setting weirdly enough. PE tends to set high voltages, which leads to higher temps. For example, my 2600X on Performance Enhancer Level 2 was seeing voltages spike over 1.5v before I set an offset voltage. I'd highly consider setting an offset voltage as well. Many people with Ryzen 2000 series processors report being able to run anywhere from a -.05 to -.1v undervolt. I've set a -.1v undervolt myself, and voltages don't see above 1.45v under load.

Additionally, you may want to look into lowering the SOC voltage if it's reporting anything higher than 1.1v. Generally, 1.0v is fine on Ryzen+ and vSOC definitely effects temperatures. This voltage seems to be set by the motherboard according to what memory speed you're running, so each case is different. I believe I lowered my CPU temps by about 5°C or so by lowering my SOC voltage with no stability issues.

Your fan issue is something I and many others have faced with this motherboard and should hopefully be fixed with the next BIOS release. In the Q-Fan settings (Monitor tab -> Q-Fan or something -- Do not use the Q-Fan tuning utility with the graphs and stuff, it's not as fully featured.) set the smoothing up/down time to maybe 7.7 Seconds or something and see if that helps. It didn't help me personally, but it has worked for others. I wound up setting the smoothing up/down time to 7.7 seconds and then tuning the fan curve so that the fans didn't start ramping up until temperatures exceeded 50°C or so. My CPU would regularly see above 40°C when browsing the internet, resulting in the fans roaring up and down constantly when opening tabs and loading webpages. Setting the fan curve stopped this behavior entirely.

I'd consider maybe a better cooler. You said you're not interested in overclocking or PBO so it may not be necessary. It might be worth looking into re-pasting your cooler just to make sure. Your CPU should reach 4.0 GHz All-Core, maybe 3.95 GHz depending on workload, but these CPUs adjust their clock speeds based on current, and temperature. As long as there's temperature headroom, the CPU will try to boost higher. So until the CPU is cooler under load, you probably won't achieve 4.0 GHz all-core without enabling PBO. With all that said, I'd consider enabling PBO if and when you fix the cooling situation, as it makes a tremendous difference in performance.

Wow, this is longer than I wanted it to be. Oh well. One last thing, a lot of what you're experiencing is because of this motherboard, and not so much AMD. Don't let this sour your AMD experience. They're finally a competitive CPU company again, and you've bought into a platform that will give you many upgrade paths in the future.

[AlleyViper]

Alcolawl wrote:

Wow, this is longer than I wanted it to be.

Due to how terrible it is to figure PB/XFR/PBO/PE/VSOC settings regarding AMD operation vs Asus bios, these posts always seem to end up terribly long!

[Karizma]

Hi, everyone-new to discussion boards, and I noticed 70+ pages of dialogue regarding this MB. So-let me try this to see if others have this EXACT issue:

New MB, X470-F, DDR4 3400 GSKILL SNIPER 16 MB/2 sticks in B2/A2, EVGA GTX 1080, SSD EVO 500GB/SSD EVO 1TB, AMD Ryzen 2700X with wraith cooler. My issue is the MB won't allow me to boot, period. I get to the ROG emblem, and screen says press F2 or DEL to enter BIOS...but nada. I have stripped the MB down to only basic user necessities. I have swapped RAM in/out of all slots, I have swapped and verified the SSD is functional, and has the correct image on it (from my old build), I have verified all pins are not bent, all connections are solid, and the power supply is plenty (1000W).

This has me stumped! If I can't enter BIOS, I can't change boot directories or anything.

Ideas?

Thanks, Shawn

[Plan3tCrack3r]

Karizma wrote:
Hi, everyone-new to discussion boards, and I noticed 70+ pages of dialogue regarding this MB. So-let me try this to see if others have this EXACT issue:
...
Ideas?
Thanks, Shawn

I haven't had that happen, but have you tried these?

Using a different keyboard or plugged into a different port, jamming on that F2 or DEL key? Disconnecting all drives? One stick of memory? What are the LEDs in the top right corner of the board doing during boot, see page 1-8 of user manual for corresponding LED error. Do you have an ISO USB of your OS to try and see if that boots, even with all other drives disconnected? Reset CMOS?

[Karizma]

Plan3tCrack3r wrote:
I haven't had that happen, but have you tried these?

Using a different keyboard or plugged into a different port, jamming on that F2 or DEL key? Disconnecting all drives? One stick of memory? What are the LEDs in the top right corner of the board doing during boot, see page 1-8 of user manual for corresponding LED error. Do you have an ISO USB of your OS to try and see if that boots, even with all other drives disconnected? Reset CMOS?

Hi-I figured if I could CTRL/ALT/DEL using the USB keyboard it's loading the profile and recognizing it. There are no LED's that stay lit, all pass. I have ISO USB stick that I tried, but the system doesn't recognize it, perhaps because it's USB 3..and I can't set parameters without entering the BIOS. I also reset the CMOS as a last resort. Still mind boggling-but perhaps I have a bad board...


UPDATE: Bad Board. I must say, this was the first time I have encountered a bad product from ASUS.

[homdax]

Karizma wrote:
Hi, everyone-new to discussion boards, and I noticed 70+ pages of dialogue regarding this MB. So-let me try this to see if others have this EXACT issue:

New MB, X470-F, DDR4 3400 GSKILL SNIPER 16 MB/2 sticks in B2/A2, EVGA GTX 1080, SSD EVO 500GB/SSD EVO 1TB, AMD Ryzen 2700X with wraith cooler. My issue is the MB won't allow me to boot, period. I get to the ROG emblem, and screen says press F2 or DEL to enter BIOS...but nada. I have stripped the MB down to only basic user necessities. I have swapped RAM in/out of all slots, I have swapped and verified the SSD is functional, and has the correct image on it (from my old build), I have verified all pins are not bent, all connections are solid, and the power supply is plenty (1000W).

This has me stumped! If I can't enter BIOS, I can't change boot directories or anything.

Ideas?

Thanks, Shawn

Did you check the onboard LED indicators for more info? Above the RAM sockets there are LED indicators that will react to three different kind of system errors, the most common is orange for RAM issues. Check the manual for more reference. Try one stick in default socket, default BIOS etc.

The Keyboard USB thing could absolutely be an issue and given advice is good.

[EEFREETH]

Hi there I love the ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING MOBO, but I noticed the Asus service of drivers and updates are several slow and the drivers they post for the AMD platform are out to date so I give the latest drivers for the chipset, USB controllers and devices of the MOBO, because better drivers do better performance....

These are the drivers updated to March 17th 2019...

AMD GPIO Controller 2.2.0.113

AMD High Definition Audio Bus 18.41.0.0

AMD High Definition Audio Device 10.0.1.7

AMD PCI 1.0.0.57

AMD PSP 3.0 Device 4.9.0.0

AMD Root Hub(xHCI) 2.0.0.48

AMD SATA Controller 1.3.1.276

AMD SMBus 5.12.0.38

AMD USB3 Host Controller 2.0.0.48

AMD USB3.1 eXtensible Host Controller 1.0.5.3

AMD USB3.1 Root Hub 1.0.5.3

AMD Virtualized AHCI Controller for StoreMI 17.42.34.786

ASMedia USB Root Hub 1.16.55.1

ASMedia USB3.1 eXtensible Host Controller 1.16.55.1

Intel(R) I211 Gigabit Network Connection 12.15.184.1

Realtek High Definition Audio 6.0.1.8652

and this is the download link...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hDL_SPOBP8QgFwGaw7DzdjZJ1qENvuBw?usp=sharing

Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) V18.0.0.9

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v18009-released

:cool: Enjoy! :cool:

[Topfn]

EEFREETH wrote:

Realtek High Definition Audio 6.0.1.8186

latest?

I'm on 6.0.1.8648.
You can even find 6.0.1.8652 as of now.

[EEFREETH]

Topfn wrote:
latest?

I'm on 6.0.1.8648.
You can even find 6.0.1.8652 as of now.

Yeah I missmatch the driver number the right one is 6.0.1.8652

[dfg555]

EEFREETH wrote:
Hi there I love the ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING MOBO, but I noticed the Asus service of drivers and updates are several slow and the drivers they post for the AMD platform are out to date so I give the latest drivers for the chipset, USB controllers and devices of the MOBO, because better drivers do better performance....

These are the drivers updated to March 17th 2019...

AMD GPIO Controller 2.2.0.113

AMD High Definition Audio Bus 18.41.0.0

AMD High Definition Audio Device 10.0.1.7

AMD PCI 1.0.0.57

AMD PSP 3.0 Device 4.9.0.0

AMD Root Hub(xHCI) 2.0.0.48

AMD SATA Controller 1.3.1.276

AMD SMBus 5.12.0.38

AMD USB3 Host Controller 2.0.0.48

AMD USB3.1 eXtensible Host Controller 1.0.5.3

AMD USB3.1 Root Hub 1.0.5.3

AMD Virtualized AHCI Controller for StoreMI 17.42.34.786

ASMedia USB Root Hub 1.16.55.1

ASMedia USB3.1 eXtensible Host Controller 1.16.55.1

Intel(R) I211 Gigabit Network Connection 12.15.184.1

Realtek High Definition Audio 6.0.1.8652

and this is the download link...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hDL_SPOBP8QgFwGaw7DzdjZJ1qENvuBw?usp=sharing

Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) V18.0.0.9

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v18009-released

:cool: Enjoy! :cool:

How did you manage to get these drivers?