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.

[Leeta]

dfg555 wrote:
You using Kraken X62?

No I am using a cooler master master liquid that is supposed to work out of box on motherboard pins.

By the way, does anyone know the purpose of VDDCR CPU Capability? It does not seem to improve stability to me and only raises VDDCR CPU voltage which apparantly can cause damage over time if it gets to ~1.45v. Using LLC seems to work fantastic where lvl4 lowers vdroop to 0.0125v-0.01275v with a ridiculously low spread. When idling it barely spikes SVI2 cpu voltage over default set voltage. Static 1.3625v on idle spikes at most to ~1.3635. I haven't tested LLC5 because LLC4 is super predictable and allows me to finetune voltages.

Never seen a motherboard with such a high control over vdroop and DOES NOT SPIKE IDLE VCORE.

[Sparx75]

Are everyone getting the same 1.475+ voltages on idle and load(and higher temps as a result) on the new 4018 bios?
4008 and 4011 got the temps too high for me, so I switched back to 0255, as the Cinebench score is more or less the exact same.

Running pretty stable right now on my 2700x with just one monitoring app, so I am wondering if there's any change to the temps between 4011 and 4018 to warrant even bothering to try the new bios.

[norman_87]

I was browsing the Crosshair 7 Hero forum and some people said downloading the latest HWInfo Beta version fixed the black screen issue while having Corsair Link/Cam/AISuite and HWInfo open at the same time, haven't tested it myself but sounds promising.

[Alcolawl]

Maybe I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how Q-Fan works but I can't seem to get one of my fan curves to behave properly. I bought a temperature sensor to measure internal case air temperature, and it works great. I wanted to tie the exhaust fan in my case to that temperature sensor, so when things get a bit warm in the case the fan ramps up. Easy right? Ambient is ~21C and under load case temperatures reach 36C or so. I had Q-Fan detect the minimum duty cycle of the fan and applied it to the lowest temperature possible, which is ambient. Then I set the maximum duty cycle (100%) to ~40C. Middle Duty Cycle is about 32C. It seems as though the fan will work it's hardest (at a blistering 1800 RPM) until the sensor starts reading the minimum temperature. So even when the temperature sensor is detecting a balmy 25C or so, the fan will be nearly at Max RPM. The only way to prevent this is by changing the maximum temperature to something absurdly high. So basically, the fan curve, to me, isn't applying correctly and it seems as though the motherboard will tell the exhaust fan to work it's hardest until the temperature sensor reads nearly ambient, which is silly. I want a smooth fan curve, not a hurricane 90% of the time. Seems like such an easy concept but perhaps I'm configuring it wrong. Easy Fan 5 on my Gigabyte Board was a bit easier to deal with.

Any help or insight would be appreciated.

Sparx75 wrote:
Are everyone getting the same 1.475+ voltages on idle and load(and higher temps as a result) on the new 4018 bios?
4008 and 4011 got the temps too high for me, so I switched back to 0255, as the Cinebench score is more or less the exact same.

Running pretty stable right now on my 2700x with just one monitoring app, so I am wondering if there's any change to the temps between 4011 and 4018 to warrant even bothering to try the new bios.

I checked on this yesterday and with PBO Enabled, Scalar 3X, and a -0.05v vCore offset, my CPU rarely exceeds 1.46v. Make sure you're looking at actual vCore voltages and not the Core #x VID values which, from what I've gathered, is the voltage the CPU is requesting before the offset is applied. 1.475+ isn't a huge deal, as per AMD, in small spikes. It's actually normal. I'd look into lowering your vSOC voltage if you can, which made like a 5-6 degree difference in temps across the board.

norman_87 wrote:
I was browsing the Crosshair 7 Hero forum and some people said downloading the latest HWInfo Beta version fixed the black screen issue while having Corsair Link/Cam/AISuite and HWInfo open at the same time, haven't tested it myself but sounds promising.

Exciting. I'll give this a shot when I get home from work and report back.
EDIT: HWInfo Beta Changelog mentions disabling ASUS WMI support, so the people on the CH7 forum might be right.

UPDATE: Newest HWinfo Beta does not crash the system when NXZT CAM 3.6.3 is running simultaneously. They've disabled the "ASUS EC" sensors by default in this release, which I guess is the source of the problem.

[Crowzer]

Anyone experiencing issues with the new 4018 BIOS such as stuttering, slowness or lag in Windows ?
Since I put 4018 on my ROG STRIX X470 I feel like everything is lagging and boot time have increased.

[dfg555]

Crowzer wrote:
Anyone experiencing issues with the new 4018 BIOS such as stuttering, slowness or lag in Windows ?
Since I put 4018 on my ROG STRIX X470 I feel like everything is lagging and boot time have increased.

I'm fine here, no issues. Have you tried "load optimized defaults" settings on the motherboard bios?

[Crowzer]

I actually think it might be a Windows 10 issue, I reverted back to 4011 and nothing changed.
By lag I mean: once I click on applications or Windows apps, it took few second to lauch, even on CMD command haha. I didn't have this before.

I did clear CMOS, restaured to default settings and no changes. But sometimes it works as intented and no issues.

[Alcolawl]

Crowzer wrote:
I actually think it might be a Windows 10 issue, I reverted back to 4011 and nothing changed.
By lag I mean: once I click on applications or Windows apps, it took few second to lauch, even on CMD command haha. I didn't have this before.

I did clear CMOS, restaured to default settings and no changes. But sometimes it works as intented and no issues.

I've noticed this as well. Opening the Start Menu or any apps from the start menu creates a very jarring stutter or pause in everything, including mouse movement. Luckily it doesn't seem to happen while gaming. The issue existed on my previous motherboard (Gigabyte) so I definitely think it's a Windows Issue. Or perhaps a driver issue? Depends on what your setup is.

Windows 10 x64 1803
AMD Ryzen 2600X
AMD Vega 56 (18.7.1 Adrenaline Drivers)

[Niptech]

Sparx75 wrote:
Are everyone getting the same 1.475+ voltages on idle and load(and higher temps as a result) on the new 4018 bios?
4008 and 4011 got the temps too high for me, so I switched back to 0255, as the Cinebench score is more or less the exact same.

Running pretty stable right now on my 2700x with just one monitoring app, so I am wondering if there's any change to the temps between 4011 and 4018 to warrant even bothering to try the new bios.

I've also switched back to 0255, with version 4018 my CPQ fan was becoming very loud for few seconds often - how they manage to screw up the new version...

[AniChatt]

Niptech wrote:
I've also switched back to 0255, with version 4018 my CPQ fan was becoming very loud for few seconds often - how they manage to screw up the new version...

It is not a problem posted a tutorial how to fix/reduce it with adjusting the reaction time and also shown why it is happening. However the question is is there any noticeable improvement in this bios or not? Otherwise it seems it is better to stick with my trust 4008 bios with all of my stability tested and working like a charm.