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Asus Strix X470-F Gaming owners thread

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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.
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Hey everyone! I had a question with my X470-F gaming board. How has the latest bios update been for everyone? I am currently on version 5007, and while my board can't handle OC-ing my Ryzen 2700, just doesn't like it at all, I wanted to know if it's worth updating.

So are we getting a 1.0.0.3ABB BIOS any time soon? All the other B450/X470 boards in the lineup seems to have (over two weeks ago). After hearing about the longevity concerns with 1.0.0.2 it would feel better to have latest AGESA. I'm still on 5007 as I've mostly heard bad things about 5204 so I've been waiting for a new ABB based version before updating.

fragande wrote:
So are we getting a 1.0.0.3ABB BIOS any time soon? All the other B450/X470 boards in the lineup seems to have (over two weeks ago). After hearing about the longevity concerns with 1.0.0.2 it would feel better to have latest AGESA. I'm still on 5007 as I've mostly heard bad things about 5204 so I've been waiting for a new ABB based version before updating.


What longevity concerns with 1.0.0.2? I am still on 42xx BIOS so I'm wondering if I should update, I still have my 2700x

fragande wrote:
So are we getting a 1.0.0.3ABB BIOS any time soon? All the other B450/X470 boards in the lineup seems to have (over two weeks ago). After hearing about the longevity concerns with 1.0.0.2 it would feel better to have latest AGESA. I'm still on 5007 as I've mostly heard bad things about 5204 so I've been waiting for a new ABB based version before updating.


what are the bad things about 5204? I’m on 5204, should I be concerned? I’m using 2600x.

schmak wrote:
So no real difference here either with 1usmus's plan

Depends what to call a real difference.
For me the difference was:
1) Ryzen Balanced tried to use the fastest core on CCX0 and the second fastest one on CCX0 in turn in a single-thread workload, so it jumped from one to another core. 1usmus plan v1 reduced that noticeably.
2) Slightly, but still higher frequencies.
3) The cores under Ryzen Balanced aren't loaded consistently, it drops from 100% everytime, while the 1usmus plan held the cores at 100% load most of the time.

It may not be much for Cinebench, but in games it may reduce stuttering, because jumping from one core to another and inability to keep the full load and max frequencies may cause stuttering. It may not be so much of an improvement, but since Ryzen still hasn't fully caught up with the Intel's gaming level, every additional fps may make a difference, especially when you have a high-frequency monitor. One may say that Ryzen 3000 already gives enough, but you guys still buy low-timings RAM and try to tighten the timings furthermore just to get more fps and less freezes, so I'm personally extremely thankful to 1usmus for caring and doing what he's doing, thanks to him AMD are making more improvements and don't rest on laurels.

BIOS v5406 (1.0.0.4B)

Source

I read somewhere that with 1.0.0.4B RAM overclock became worse, wonder if it applies to us too, can't test anything yet.

Long_Y0! wrote:
BIOS v5406 (1.0.0.4B)

Source

I read somewhere that with 1.0.0.4B RAM overclock became worse, wonder if it applies to us too, can't test anything yet.


I have been running it on Prime Pro for a couple of days, latency is better, which may lower max frequency for RAM a bit but in the end latency is more important. I have no problem running my old 4x8GB AFR RAM at 3000MHz, it's not bad, and with better latency than ABBA.

VDDG is too high by default in this bios, 1.1V, I had to lower it to 950mV to regain the same boost as ABBA. A tricky bit is VDDG is now in four places, two under Asus menu and two under AMD CBS. One has to set 950mV on all four. Anyway, my 3700X boosts to 4442MHz which is not bad.

Overall performance, mult thread seems a little bit lower than ABBA but single thread is better. Again, like latency, single thread is more important on the desktop.
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Hi guys, let me just start off by saying this thread has been an insane amount of help, along with a few others on the internet. Thank you all so much.

So lets get down to it. I am having the worst time getting my system to be stable, random blue screens for all sorts of reasons.

Ryzen 2700x
Corsair Vengeance pro rgb 32gb 3200mhz (16-18-18-36)
Rog strix x470-f bios 4207

I have been chasing down timings for a month now, and ended up finding a couple of users who posted decent timings that got me at least booting with manually input timings. D.O.C.P does not work well.

However I am still having issues and was wondering if anyone could help me get this finally sorted out.

I am running the timings from DRAM calculator 1.6.2
Ryzen 2 gen
Memory type set to Samsung OEM - as suggested on a forum by a user who found this more closely matches than the supposed samsung b die that this ram is
Version 1 Rank 2

https://imgur.com/a/KWRFSPs

^ the settings in the second image get me booted by manually entering them.
I then tried to modify each setting to match some of the first image and still havent been able to achieve anything I can really trust.
Trying to boot from settings with odd timings on the main timings ended in non post and the need to reset bios.

Any help?

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creten93 wrote:
Hi guys, let me just start off by saying this thread has been an insane amount of help, along with a few others on the internet. Thank you all so much.

So lets get down to it. I am having the worst time getting my system to be stable, random blue screens for all sorts of reasons.

Ryzen 2700x
Corsair Vengeance pro rgb 32gb 3200mhz (16-18-18-36)
Rog strix x470-f bios 4207

I have been chasing down timings for a month now, and ended up finding a couple of users who posted decent timings that got me at least booting with manually input timings. D.O.C.P does not work well.

However I am still having issues and was wondering if anyone could help me get this finally sorted out.

I am running the timings from DRAM calculator 1.6.2
Ryzen 2 gen
Memory type set to Samsung OEM - as suggested on a forum by a user who found this more closely matches than the supposed samsung b die that this ram is
Version 1 Rank 2

https://imgur.com/a/KWRFSPs

^ the settings in the second image get me booted by manually entering them.
I then tried to modify each setting to match some of the first image and still havent been able to achieve anything I can really trust.
Trying to boot from settings with odd timings on the main timings ended in non post and the need to reset bios.

Any help?


here is some simplified custom ram timings/settings @3200mhz
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?116210-how-to-set-up-memory-speed-with-incompatible-memory...

you have some weird settings/timings in the image you posted, i dont have the stamina to go into them here

example: Cl16 and TCWL18 is degrading performance much, keep CL (cas latency) and TCWL (tertiary cas write latency) on the same floor at least

TCWL above CL can be useful for benchmarking memory very high for screenshot (easier to boot up at extreme memory frequency)

a tips: don't start inputting most of the timings manually without knowing what they actually do, your motherboard will do this just fine at 3200mhz for you, with most settings left on auto (focus on the primaries or you will have a mess)

something like this would work for your memory:
3200mhz :16.16.16.16.34 (high performance modules) or 16.16.16.16.36 (home safe) TCWL16 @dram1,36v
if you notice that the motherboard is overcompensating for some of the timings you manually set, disable gear down and power down for full user control
example: you set in bios 16.16.16.34 but in cpu-z it shows 18.16.16.34 TCWL16->TCWL18 and so on (sh*t is drifting)

good luck

ps; TCWL was TWCL before if i am not mistaking (disclaimer)

Rockford wrote:
here is some simplified custom ram timings/settings @3200mhz
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?116210-how-to-set-up-memory-speed-with-incompatible-memory...

you have some weird settings/timings in the image you posted, i dont have the stamina to go into them here

example: Cl16 and TCWL18 is degrading performance much, keep CL (cas latency) and TCWL (tertiary cas write latency) on the same floor at least

TCWL above CL can be useful for benchmarking memory very high for screenshot (easier to boot up at extreme memory frequency)

a tips: don't start inputting most of the timings manually without knowing what they actually do, your motherboard will do this just fine at 3200mhz for you, with most settings left on auto (focus on the primaries or you will have a mess)

something like this would work for your memory:
3200mhz :16.16.16.16.34 (high performance modules) or 16.16.16.16.36 (home safe) TCWL16 @dram1,36v
if you notice that the motherboard is overcompensating for some of the timings you manually set, disable gear down and power down for full user control
example: you set in bios 16.16.16.34 but in cpu-z it shows 18.16.16.34 TCWL16->TCWL18 and so on (sh*t is drifting)

good luck

ps; TCWL was TWCL before if i am not mistaking (disclaimer)




So in the DRam calculator for ryzen, my tcl and tcwl are both 16. Are you saying that I should drop down my trcdwr/trcdrd and trp to 16 as well?
I merely used what the DRAM calculator recommended as it was the only thing that got me booting at 3200mhz