You are an absolute godsend. I just picked up the X370 Gaming K4 and I thought i was stuck on 1.50. Thanks a million man! Why doesn't Asrock have documentation on this!
I bought this motherboard and just got it in the mail. I've never built a computer before. Is flashing just updating to the most recent bios version? I still have to wait a little over a week before I get my CPU. So I have some time to prepare. I'm a little nervous about the whole process.
I've been following your channel lately and it's truly great to have a professional overclocker reviewer free of compromises and company sponsorship ties, just pointing out what works and what doesn't. Need to ask as right now I'm tossing up between this motherboard and the ASUS PRIME-X370PRO, and maybe you can help me out. I saw in one of your videos that the vrm area of the ASUS is somehow compromised with high temps, but I believe it has a more mature bios than the ASROCK. As you have tested both, what would be your recommendation today?
S M I had memory issues on my x370 pro but otherwise the board is solid. I ended up shoving it in a family members pc with 2933 ram due to the memory issues. It has been reliable and headache free @ those settings thus far paired with a 1500x.
I hope those memory issues should be solved with the latest bios releases, will check some forums. Any other thought? I'm going to put a 1600 on it, pretending to clock it at 3.9-4.0 ghz with some luck, and I truly don't know if the $ difference is justified between the 2 boards just functionally/quality speaking. Thanks
Brian Mclachlan on ASRock's RAM compatibility page it says that 3000mhz is downgraded to 2933. There isn't a lot of options as far as stable RAM goes for Ryzen yet.
Did you manage to answer your question on your own? I might be getting the taichi x370 for my upcoming ryzen 3700x build. I am afraid getting the bios updated is quite a hassle, as I cannot even skip all versions to 5.6 and I do not yet own any ryzen processors at the moment.
atascatorDAOC I am willing to work with any vendor if they would like me to and they can "tolerate" me. I will not work for anyone however. I like my freedom.
so you are running 3.0? I dos flashed to 3.0 then bios flashed to 3.1 and I am having no issues at all at this point. I don't touch CPU voltage at all. I leave it at 1.35 and use the offset voltage below. .10000 got me to 1.45 and all good. Cpu voltage didn't let me get above 3.8.
You are an absolute godsend. I just picked up the X370 Gaming K4 and I thought i was stuck on 1.50. Thanks a million man! Why doesn't Asrock have documentation on this!
I bought this motherboard and just got it in the mail. I've never built a computer before. Is flashing just updating to the most recent bios version?
I still have to wait a little over a week before I get my CPU. So I have some time to prepare. I'm a little nervous about the whole process.
1.0 to 3.0*
I've been following your channel lately and it's truly great to have a professional overclocker reviewer free of compromises and company sponsorship ties, just pointing out what works and what doesn't.
Need to ask as right now I'm tossing up between this motherboard and the ASUS PRIME-X370PRO, and maybe you can help me out.
I saw in one of your videos that the vrm area of the ASUS is somehow compromised with high temps, but I believe it has a more mature bios than the ASROCK. As you have tested both, what would be your recommendation today?
S M I had memory issues on my x370 pro but otherwise the board is solid. I ended up shoving it in a family members pc with 2933 ram due to the memory issues. It has been reliable and headache free @ those settings thus far paired with a 1500x.
I hope those memory issues should be solved with the latest bios releases, will check some forums.
Any other thought? I'm going to put a 1600 on it, pretending to clock it at 3.9-4.0 ghz with some luck, and I truly don't know if the $ difference is justified between the 2 boards just functionally/quality speaking. Thanks
Brian Mclachlan on ASRock's RAM compatibility page it says that 3000mhz is downgraded to 2933. There isn't a lot of options as far as stable RAM goes for Ryzen yet.
would i be able to do this without a cpu installed?
i want to buy the taichi x370 board and 2600x, but dont have a ryzen gen 1 cpu to use to flash
Did you manage to answer your question on your own?
I might be getting the taichi x370 for my upcoming ryzen 3700x build. I am afraid getting the bios updated is quite a hassle, as I cannot even skip all versions to 5.6 and I do not yet own any ryzen processors at the moment.
Are you gonna work with Asrock? I will be awesome to see them improve the Their AM4 and TR4 lineup for real :)
atascatorDAOC I am willing to work with any vendor if they would like me to and they can "tolerate" me. I will not work for anyone however. I like my freedom.
Why did you dos flash 2 times? Why not just flash to the latest version with dos?
Latest bios isnt available in DOS
so you are running 3.0? I dos flashed to 3.0 then bios flashed to 3.1 and I am having no issues at all at this point. I don't touch CPU voltage at all. I leave it at 1.35 and use the offset voltage below. .10000 got me to 1.45 and all good. Cpu voltage didn't let me get above 3.8.
SgtCage1971 because if you do not dos flash backwards it will leave parts of newer agesa in the flash making the older bios fairly unreliable.