AMD slow to support Ryzen platform with quality x370 motherboards. Wholly Intolerable

[os2wiz]

I have read the list of boards that AMD posted for Ryzen from various motherboard maufacturers. Asus has only 1 pitiful B350 board listed not one x370 high end board. Both MSI, Asrock, and Gigabyte all have at least x370 board mostly 2 such boards. This is disgraceful. Asus must not have a commitment to AMD customers and enthusiasts to be so far behind in the curve. The MSI board looks to be equal to any Intel z270 board on the market I have consistently supported Asus with 2 ROG AMD motherboard purchases and one other Asus purchase. I do not know what kind of game they are playing with us now, but they badly miscalculated. Unless I see product listing for x370 Ryzen boards by the end of January I will dump Asus and never purchase from them again. I repeat this is shameful and totally unacceptable.

[wmunn]

Dominican809 wrote:
ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero AMD on Amazon just order mine...... with 1800X from microcenter

I also ordered my crosshair VI hero last night, however, I am having great difficulty in locating the QVL for the memory types proven to work well with this board. Anyone have a link to this file? As the Aus website doesn't have any of the support details available on it yet.

[kkn]

wmunn wrote:
I also ordered my crosshair VI hero last night, however, I am having great difficulty in locating the QVL for the memory types proven to work well with this board. Anyone have a link to this file? As the Aus website doesn't have any of the support details available on it yet.

i know g-skill and corsair have a mem calc you can use to see what mem works whit what board.

[Vlada011]

wmunn wrote:
I also ordered my crosshair VI hero last night, however, I am having great difficulty in locating the QVL for the memory types proven to work well with this board. Anyone have a link to this file? As the Aus website doesn't have any of the support details available on it yet.

CONGRATS... You will have serious, serious performance improvement from FX8350 to 1800X.
That's upgrade, not Skylake-Kaby Lake.
That's bigger improvement than Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake.

[wmunn]

Vlada011 wrote:
CONGRATS... You will have serious, serious performance improvement from FX8350 to 1800X.
That's upgrade, not Skylake-Kaby Lake.
That's bigger improvement than Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake.

Thanks for the encouragement 🙂

Unfortunately, today things aren't looking too great, Amazon has not changed my order status from preorder to actual order, have not charged my card, and have sent zero emails. Hopefully they process the order later today and get it shipped out ASAP, I have 1 day shipping on the order and was really looking forward to putting this thing together this weekend. I have everything else in my hands including the CPU, all I need is the motherboard.

The second tough situation is a complete lack of availability of motherboards locally. Best buy is a complete joke around here, and the tiger direct store closed a few years back. Leaving us with basically no stores that carry a full range of PC components.

I have emailed a local gaming PC boutique shop to see if they will have mercy on a local person, and sell me the crosshair VI hero from them, then I would be set.

Not sure how this is going to turn out.........

[wmunn]

I am thinking about just going ahead and ordering this

G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GTZR

[wmunn]

I ended up ordering this
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16Q-32GTZR
based on my past experience with ROG boards, this should be on the list, I hope. since they weren't cheap.

[Praz]

Hello

The board's specs state supported memory speed overclocks and 3200MHz is the highest shown. One should be able to draw a reasonable conclusion as to what the QVL will look like when released.

[wmunn]

Praz wrote:
Hello

The board's specs state supported memory speed overclocks and 3200MHz is the highest shown. One should be able to draw a reasonable conclusion as to what the QVL will look like when released.

I think I should be fine overshooting the max specs a little bit, you can clock it down, but not always up 🙂

[MeanMachine]

I've got mine on pre-order too and chose Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) CMD16GX4M2A2666C15 DDR4 2666MHz. Yes there's no QVL as yet however no probs, If they don't work I'll return them.
I also ordered GTX 1080 and H115i cause i'm going to test for MAX OC. I really do hope AMD come thru with this and their LAB testing results are true what they indicate.
With the amount of pre-orders recorded at Amazon and Newegg, there's lots who are putting faith in AMD.

[Raja]

MeanMachine wrote:
I've got mine on pre-order too and chose Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) CMD16GX4M2A2666C15 DDR4 2666MHz. Yes there's no QVL as yet however no probs, If they don't work I'll return them.
I also ordered GTX 1080 and H115i cause i'm going to test for MAX OC. I really do hope AMD come thru with this and their LAB testing results are true what they indicate.
With the amount of pre-orders recorded at Amazon and Newegg, there's lots who are putting faith in AMD.

There are not many things you can do to tune memory right now. Only the primary timings are available for adjustment. We have to use our best Samsung B-die modules to bench at DDR4-3600 on the AMD platform. These are modules that will do DDR4-4266+ on Z270. Currently, the secondary timings on the AMD platform can only be crudely adjusted by messing with different ratios and using BCLK.

For people looking at achieving stable 3K + speeds, you need a decent CPU (lots of variance) and to overspend on memory. There's considerable scope for disappointment if people are looking to easily achieve the rated speeds of kits binned on an Intel platform.

With all of that in mind, a DDR4-2666 purchase is sensible. However, there could even be some give/take at those speeds depending on how aggressively that kit was binned on Intel.

Lastly, CPU overclocking is landing around the 4GHz mark. Expectations need to be realistic.