Rog strix b550-e gaming

[Raven41]

new bios 1202
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-B550-E-GAMING/HelpDesk_Download/

ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING BIOS 1202
1. Updated AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.1.0.0 Patch B
2. Improve system performance and stability
3. Improved DRAM compatibility

[Quentin79]

Finally AMD acknowledged the USB issues on Series 500 motherboards: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/lnmet0/an_update_on_usb_connectivity_with_500_series/

[schm0]

Why is there no option in the BIOS so set the LED lightning color?
The Armory Crate software is crap.
Bloatware like everything else these days, like NVidia Drivers, Corsair iCUE etc...
~ 200MB? OpenRGB is 20 MB....
And the Uninstaller doesn't work.
I had to manually remove some things to make it go 100%.

And generating LED lightning effects through software is just plain bad and poor design choice.
(which is actually case if the "high accuracy mode" (can't remember what is was exactly called again) is checked)
The software should only be used to set the parameters (and then saved to firmware/uefi flash) and the LED controllers reads this info and applies the effects.
No need for background services etc...

[MKEEN]

Agesa 1.2.0.1 any news on a bios anyone?

[Feverdog]

Added a 3080 card so running PCIe 4.0 instead of the old 980 card being 3.0 - Had to set Power Supply Idle Control back to Typical from Auto - as getting random USB dropouts again.......not as often, but still every few mins......and still nothing update wise in a while now to try to resolve my QVL sticks not hitting their DOCP profile 😞

[Feverdog]

Noticed even with Power Supply Control back to Typical I'm still getting lockups of the mouse and keyboard now when things like a Teams call are ongoing. Only difference being the change in card from a 980 to a 3080 card

This is beyond a joke!!

[Jora1]

amd fixed usb, waiting for an update BIOS link
issue xmp WHEA-Logger link

[PTF2000]

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/257958/20210312/amd-resolves-usb-connectivity-issues-with-agesa-1...

Looks like that it takes some time until April

[schm0]

Seems like even a SOC Voltage of 1.025@1800 FCLK is stable on my system.

That is also the default voltage when running stock FCLK (1200).
I also used the other default voltages IOD/CCD 0.9504 and VDDP 0.9002

Can someone explain why there is a 0.0030 Voltage Drop when using:
VDDP: 0.900 -> ~0.8970
IOD/CCD: 0.9500 -> ~ 0.9470
I don't remember the exact numbers, but something around that.
Why do I have to set the voltage 0.0001 - 0.0002 higher to avoid this Voltage Drop?

And is running PBO with a scalar of 1x actually the same as the basic overclock?
Is this the reason no one actually sees a difference in performance?

[yukich]

schm0 wrote:
Seems like even a SOC Voltage of 1.025@1800 FCLK is stable on my system.

That is also the default voltage when running stock FCLK (1200).
I also used the other default voltages IOD/CCD 0.9504 and VDDP 0.9002

Can someone explain why there is a 0.0030 Voltage Drop when using:
VDDP: 0.900 -> ~0.8970
IOD/CCD: 0.9500 -> ~ 0.9470
I don't remember the exact numbers, but something around that.
Why do I have to set the voltage 0.0001 - 0.0002 higher to avoid this Voltage Drop?

And is running PBO with a scalar of 1x actually the same as the basic overclock?
Is this the reason no one actually sees a difference in performance?

There will always be some vdrop, this is perfectly normal. I am not sure what you mean with "no one sees difference in performance", if you set your custom limits on PBO manual you will see a huge perfromance boost, but also a huge temp raise, as simple as that. Nobody should touch scalar or other voltages, static voltages are not safe on Zen3.

[schm0]

When I search for some PBO tests online, 99% of the time there is no difference in performance.

Also with FMAX Enhancer enabled, why is PBO Scalar set to 7x on the Auto Setting?

https://www.overclock.net/threads/asus-rog-x570-crosshair-viii-overclocking-discussion-thread.172879...

In some cases, the results can be improved even further, by increasing the "Precision Boost Overdrive Scalar" value from the default 1x setting. This option directly affects the silicon reliability and because of that, it should be only increased from the stock if the performance improvements justify it (which they frankly, seldom do). Personally, I would never increase it to higher than 4x. The current level can be checked with HWiNFO (Central Processors >> CPU PBO Scalar (Reliability Reduction)).

Also, it would be nice to have the same smoothing fan values for both CPU and case fans.
I like to run my case fans and CPU fans in sync, temperature wise.
But the minimum case fan smoothing value in seconds is 12s.
And for CPU fans it is like 1.x seconds (cant remember the exact value)

I worked around this by using a fan cable splitter that connects my two CPU fans to the CPU fan header.
And have my fan controller (which controls my case fans) connected to the CPU optional header.
Now I can use the same smoothing value for the ramp up time but there are a few problems with this:
- Case fans can't be set to a higher speed than the CPU fans
- I would like to use the same ramp up time for both case and CPU fans but let the case fans have a higher ramp down time