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.

[AniChatt]

deankenny wrote:
You mean a way for people with stock fans I assume? Because my pump is just running all on auto have not changed anything, I assumed it's running 100% with fans, but they are 1000x quieter that the stock cooler that I literally cannot hear anything but the chassis fans which run at a constant non changing rpm.

I can not tell what will be the result for a stock fan. But the behavior of the sensors in this board is different compared to the other mobos. By tweaking few settings you can normalize the spikes of fan speed. But I don't have the stock cooler so I can not assure you that. Actually this mobo responses almost in real time with cpu tdie this is the reason why it is happening.

[fungamer]

deankenny wrote:
You mean a way for people with stock fans I assume? Because my pump is just running all on auto have not changed anything, I assumed it's running 100% with fans, but they are 1000x quieter that the stock cooler that I literally cannot hear anything but the chassis fans which run at a constant non changing rpm.

By default, the krazen is set to silent mode for both fan speed and pump speed, and they are set to monitor the temperature of the liquid. Most users wld set them to monitor cpu temp. Try giving a tick to that auto startup when window launches, do you have window crashes for the subsequent boot ups?

[Allikat]

Lovely hardware. The BIOS is a pain in the neck however.
I moved my Ryzen 5 1600 and Hynix AFR memory to this board after my old MSI B350 board kept trying to cook itself running at 3.9 Ghz on the CPU and 2933 memory. I then find I can't manage to equal those settings on far superior hardware. DOCP just plain won't boot, and even throwing maximum safe voltages around like candy, it won't get my chip and memory stable at the same speeds.
The Strix won't even run my 3000 rated memory at 2933!
Come on Asus, fix this please? We know you're better than this!

Oh... wait, I own a Crosshair 3 formula...

[cgmjr]

I am happy to report that things seem to have settled down for me too. Perhaps I just needed to make a sacrifice of Time to the god of Motherboards.

I chose to wipe it all clean once again and change how I configured StoreMI. I put my OS on an 850 Evo, and I've set up my tier drive as non-boot with a 960 Evo M.2 and a 2TB WD Black mechanical drive. The weird StoreMI splash screen is gone, my Green Q LED is not staying on, and I've passed all but one IBT test (that one was with the NZXT CAM software running). I ran a seven hour MemTest86 on the ram last night, all passed.

I've gone manual on the DRAM timings and voltages. I have Aura off in the BIOS atm. I've started CAM to configure the X62 then closed it. CPU is still on Auto everything. My clocks are in the 4.1ghz area, occasionally hitting 4.4ghz for a moment. I'm game testing today because I'm tired of stress testing 🙂

Thanks again for the help. I appreciate having this forum.

[fungamer]

Anyone using nzxt kraken? i'm using x62 with CAM v3.5.90 installed. Randomly causing black screen and can only be hard reset via the power supply switch. No other monitoring software opened though. Once CAM was uninstalled, everything revert back to normal operations. Running on bios 4011

[cgmjr]

fungamer wrote:
Anyone using nzxt kraken? i'm using x62 with CAM v3.5.90 installed. Randomly causing black screen and can only be hard reset via the power supply switch. No other monitoring software opened though. Once CAM was uninstalled, everything revert back to normal operations. Running on bios 4011

I'm running the X62 and CAM 3.5.90. CAM seems to contribute to the "sensor conflict" issue mentioned in this thread. It will still upon occasion reboot my system when I first start it, but it seems to have settled down. It was quite destabilizing when I first built this system, but I chalk that up to having the MSI Gaming App and other HW monitors running.

I have switched my monitoring to HWiNFO and Rainmeter (see attached) running on a GeeekPi 5" monitor in an NZXT S340 Elite. I only start CAM to set my pump LEDs, speed, and fan profile, then shut it back down. So far, so good.

I'm sill on BIOS 4008, as I rolled back while troubleshooting.

HTH,
-cgmjr

[fungamer]

cgmjr wrote:
I'm running the X62 and CAM 3.5.90. CAM seems to contribute to the "sensor conflict" issue mentioned in this thread. It will still upon occasion reboot my system when I first start it, but it seems to have settled down. It was quite destabilizing when I first built this system, but I chalk that up to having the MSI Gaming App and other HW monitors running.

I have switched my monitoring to HWiNFO and Rainmeter (see attached) running on a GeeekPi 5" monitor in an NZXT S340 Elite. I only start CAM to set my pump LEDs, speed, and fan profile, then shut it back down. So far, so good.

I'm sill on BIOS 4008, as I rolled back while troubleshooting.

HTH,
-cgmjr

Not sure if the built in Intel overclocking tool causing the conflicts or the CAM has more issues on Asus mobos. There's been saying CAM has lots of issues on windows 10. I have to do a re-installing of CAM whenever I need to make changes and make sure auto start function is disabled upon rebooting. Otherwise, whenever CAM is running, it gives me black screen/freeze. Running on bios 4011 and windows 1803.

[sarcasman]

With my new Strix X470-F I am having boot issues. The system starts, shuts down after three seconds, then automatically restarts and boot normally. This happens with all settings in default, OC and only in the first cold boot:



I have done tests with AIDA64, Prime, Cinebench, MemTest86 and everything works fine.

specs:
Ryzen R7 1700 (3.7 ghz).
Corsair LPX CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 (3200 mhz).
Seasonic M12II 620W Bronze EVO.
Sapphire RX 480 8GB.

[cgmjr]

I'm trying to learn more about Precision Boost Overdrive, XFR2, the bios on our boards, etc. Here's a snippet from an article I found over at ardOCP.

Some Odd Failures
I ran into some failures using PB2 and I was able to track these down to NOT being PB2's issue, but rather a Windows Bug. We are using the latest version of Windows 10 64-bit and all its updates that were available on April 17th. We knew we were going to be doing a lot of testing, so we froze our OS updates at that point. What I was finding is that I would get these random power-downs using Cinebench, HWinfo64, and CPUz at the same time. I could not replicate the error without these three programs running simultaneously. At time I just assumed that I was beating on the CPU hard enough to make it fail, until it went into a hard power-down while sitting idle at the desktop, and I could replicate this issue at idle. Talking with AMD and ASUS about this, they asked me to work through the other power profiles we were not using. We use "High Power" for all our testing here. I moved to the Balanced profile, and it still happened. I then moved to the Ryzen Balanced profile, and it was still happening. Once I moved back to the High Performance profile again, I could not repeat the error. I could not replicate the error in Balanced or Ryzen Balanced either. ASUS let me know that there has been a Windows bug identified with this issue. The current solution to the issues seems to be to switch power profiles one or two times and it will correct itself. So if you are having some odd shutdowns, do not assume it is anything hardware or heat related.

Link to article here.

Unsure if this is still a thing, but I'm a bit haunted that I never found the root cause of my early, odd behaviors. I DID do a lot of switching Power Profiles, so perhaps I inadvertently fixed something.

System has been solid for a week now. I'm experimenting with PBO, and seeing some interesting CPU Clocks in the 43xxMHz range.

[ahmad_aljallad]

sarcasman wrote:
With my new Strix X470-F I am having boot issues. The system starts, shuts down after three seconds, then automatically restarts and boot normally. This happens with all settings in default, OC and only in the first cold boot:



I have done tests with AIDA64, Prime, Cinebench, MemTest86 and everything works fine.

specs:
Ryzen R7 1700 (3.7 ghz).
Corsair LPX CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 (3200 mhz).
Seasonic M12II 620W Bronze EVO.
Sapphire RX 480 8GB.

https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/150535-pc-powers-up-turns-off-for-2-seconds-then-boots-normall...
clearing CMOS would resolve your issue