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.

[gdaswani]

Any word on when a new BIOS will be released with 1.0.0.3ABB AGESA?

The current version [5204] is working well from a memory perspective (can run 3000 MT/s on 4 x 16 GB chips - 64 GB total) but I'm still getting WHEA errors in the windows event log (related to NVIDIA - and the PCIE x16 slot) .

1.0.0.3ABB is supposed to fix this issue.

[Sakaal1]

Which bios version would you recommend for zen+ users? Any reason to go with newer AGESA? I updated to 5007 (1.0.0.2) at the start of the month but I think I have gotten some stability issues with it.. is 4804 good?

[Rbryan04]

Sakaal1 wrote:
Which bios version would you recommend for zen+ users? Any reason to go with newer AGESA? I updated to 5007 (1.0.0.2) at the start of the month but I think I have gotten some stability issues with it.. is 4804 good?

to be honest im not sure if u can downgrade bios safely from 5007 i remember trying to flash to older bios and it wont read the file some thread said u have to edit something cant remember n we got no bios flashback. Based on experience 5007 had better stable ram oc even docp with 2700x had 3600 ram n get errors on windows ram test with 1.35v had to go 1.355 on older bios no ram errors n no random game crash. And stability may not only be caused by bios. Maybe reset ram or something. Hard to tell. Just my 2cents not an expert.whats ur hardware?*

[Dekuyt]

Hello my friends..
First I would like to apologize, my english is terrible .. and I am using the translator in some words. Let's go to my problem ..

I bought a ryzen 3600 (before I had a 1800x) the 1800x was overclocked to 3.9 and whenever not in use, the frequencies would decrease. this does not happen with 3600. I tried to overclock to 4.2 and decrease vcore to 1.32500 .. it starts normally but the frequency does not decrease .. why?
With the 1800x even overclocked, everything worked perfectly .. when playing or using a program, the frequency increased. And when it wasn't in use, the frequency was at its minimum (the processor multiplier went down, it wasn't always at 39)
with ryzen 3600 when I overclocked to 4.2 the multiplier always stays at 42, even without use, can anyone help me ??

Another thing ... In STOCK, without overclocking .. before the last bios update, the processor reached the frequency of 4,199MhZ. Now it only reaches the maximum frequency of 4141.60Mhz .. even running cinebench R15 .. is the maximum it reaches

[Rbryan04]

Dekuyt wrote:
Hello my friends..
First I would like to apologize, my english is terrible .. and I am using the translator in some words. Let's go to my problem ..

I bought a ryzen 3600 (before I had a 1800x) the 1800x was overclocked to 3.9 and whenever not in use, the frequencies would decrease. this does not happen with 3600. I tried to overclock to 4.2 and decrease vcore to 1.32500 .. it starts normally but the frequency does not decrease .. why?
With the 1800x even overclocked, everything worked perfectly .. when playing or using a program, the frequency increased. And when it wasn't in use, the frequency was at its minimum (the processor multiplier went down, it wasn't always at 39)
with ryzen 3600 when I overclocked to 4.2 the multiplier always stays at 42, even without use, can anyone help me ??

Another thing ... In STOCK, without overclocking .. before the last bios update, the processor reached the frequency of 4,199MhZ. Now it only reaches the maximum frequency of 4141.60Mhz .. even running cinebench R15 .. is the maximum it reaches

i dont think oc 4.2 is meant to downclock at all as its not variable its doin what its supposed to do. Theres ppl on reddit saying their *3600 arent hitting max clocks with 1.0.0.3ab. However gamers nexus says 1.0.0.3ab is meant to fix single core boost clocks. I dnt know anymorelol

[Crosslhs82]

Hi Guys
Having issuse's here with the new bios 5007 also.
Specs:
Rog strix x470 f gaming
Ryzen 5 2600x
16gb of G. Skill flare x 3200cl14 2x8 was running @ 3400mhz
Using dram calculator fast
Zotac gtx 1070 ti
Samsung 970 evo m.2 250gb os
Crucial mx500 500gb m.2
Samsung 860 ssd
2x pny 120gb ssd
Toshiba 3tb spinner
Corsair h110i water cooler
Corsair Cx650m 80+ bronze
Win 10 home 1903
All updates / drivers

I was running 4602 had great performce
Then put my ghost recon wildlands on the crucial mx500 but it would freeze and crash to desktop.
Tried different drive but not the os drive and the same thing would happen.


Done ram tests with dram calculator membench and was having errors don't know if it was a bug in their software or not.
Decided to update chipsets 1st then 5007 bios now the system won't boot and hangs on mem @3400
So i have it @ 3200 fast.
Ran memtest86 with no errors.
With 4602 my cinnabench score was 1440 to 1462 now it's 1353 to 1360 but on 3dmark firestrike it scored 18134 which is comparable to what i was running.
I have xfr/pbo level 2 set. Running ryzen master and cinnabench to watch turbo it stays at 4.0 where before i was at 4.1 to 4.2ghz.
Changing power plan option between ryzen balanced and high performance plans only changes a couple points in cinebench.
So is there anyway to revert back to 4602 without bricking the board.

[Xploder270]

Had some time today to work on my system and upgraded to 5204 again.
This time I made a Ryzen Master screenshot with my stable 5007 settings (only some timings set, most was on Auto) and applied these trained settings manually to my 5204 config.
This seems to work. Looks like there is a regression with RAM training on Auto settings (maybe termination or something like that) in this new Bios. Since I've already tried fixing timings before on 5204 so it must be something in the DRAM controller section or voltages.

I'll do some more testing tomorrow and maybe I'll find out what changed exactly.

EDIT: AUTO Training timings and dram controller settings seem to be the same, only difference was ProcODT compared to 5007 which can fluctuate. Voltages are the same aswell. My advice is that if you have aggressive DRAM settings, screenshot your known stable 5007 settings in Ryzen Master and in 5204 don't use XMP and fixate your previous settings manually instead of relying on memory training and/or the XMP profile (which I think set 5204 to CR2 aswell!).

[Rbryan04]

Xploder270 wrote:
Had some time today to work on my system and upgraded to 5204 again.
This time I made a Ryzen Master screenshot with my stable 5007 settings (only some timings set, most was on Auto) and applied these trained settings manually to my 5204 config.
This seems to work. Looks like there is a regression with RAM training on Auto settings (maybe termination or something like that) in this new Bios. Since I've already tried fixing timings before on 5204 so it must be something in the DRAM controller section or voltages.

I'll do some more testing tomorrow and maybe I'll find out what changed exactly.

EDIT: AUTO Training timings and dram controller settings seem to be the same, only difference was ProcODT compared to 5007 which can fluctuate. Voltages are the same aswell. My advice is that if you have aggressive DRAM settings, screenshot your known stable 5007 settings in Ryzen Master and in 5204 don't use XMP and fixate your previous settings manually instead of relying on memory training and/or the XMP profile (which I think set 5204 to CR2 aswell!).

hows the boost algorithm?. Does it improve 3900x as per gamers nexus coz some reddit post says otherwise*

[ArkhX470f]

Rbryan04 wrote:
hows the boost algorithm?. Does it improve 3900x as per gamers nexus coz some reddit post says otherwise*

Is worse, lost 100mhz max boost on my 3800x

[Crosslhs82]

Update to 2600x 5007 no boot @3400

Thank you for the info.

Turns out I'm on 5204 and finally managed to boot @3400
But only by no docp and still with errors in drm calc.
Strange thing it's running @3600 no errors in rdrm calc.
16-15-15-35-50 cmd 1t 1.37500v soc 1.11000 rest auto.
Running memtest86 v8.2free now first pass complete no errors.
I have a bunch of pics
From cpu-z, passmark performance 9, 3dmark firestrike,
Ryzen master, all ran @3600 if anyone wants to see.