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So yesterday I assembled a rig that I recommended to a friend that features Ryzen R5 1600, MSI GTX 1060 6GB Gaming X, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LED RAM 3000MHz & MSI B350 Gaming Plus motherboard.

 

Sadly, the A-XMP feature doesn't work with the RAM yet, but the BIOS is from the beginning of April and the latest one is from July which includes AGESA 10.0.0.6. I'll update it today to see whether the RAM can work at 2933MHz, I'll be mad if it doesn't... :|

 

P.S. Yesterday was the first time I held a Ryzen CPU in my hands, and I gotta tell you guys that the stock Ryzen cooler (Wraith Spire) is f*cking amazing for a stock cooler, it's completely incomparable to what Intel ships with their CPUs (well, most of them ;)), it's well-made, beefy and really good looking.

 

Gonna take some pictures of the finished build today ^_^ It's a sexy little rig inside a Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 5 kept in a black & red theme.

  1. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    A-XMP didn't work on my Tomahawk either. Updated to the latest BIOS (last one before AGESA 10006) and it worked flawlessly from that point.

  2. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    @revsilverspine The problem is that the Tomahawk board has memory compatibility issues in general, the Gaming Plus one was supposed to be better, I hope the BIOS update will fix it :) I bought the 3000MHz kit intentionally since Ryzen benefits from memory speeds and my friends needs as high FPS in CS:GO as possible ^_^

  3. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    By that logic, if it works on a Tomahawk, it'll work on the Gaming Plus

  4. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    I certainly hope so! I was originally going to use the Tomahawk board but got informed that those boards have issues with high-speed DDR4 and 8/10 boards don't get to 2933MHz :( Current BIOS is from 08.04.2017 while the latest one is like 03.07.2017.

  5. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    Those rumors are biased as fuck.

    I'm running my memory at 2933MHz and the kit I got wasn't even on the QVL

     

    Built a customer a rig that is almost identical to my own, but with 3200MHz ram that works at its highest speed with no issues.

    Even though I only managed 3.75GHz on my 1600, the customer's 1600 managed 4GHz at 3.3V (whereas mine's at 3.475V)

  6. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    3.3V on a CPU? That's impossible :P I haven't tried overclocking yet - I wonder how far can the stock cooler get that particular 1600 :)

  7. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    Wops. 1.xxxV

     

    I was thinking about something else entirely unrelated.

  8. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    http://valid.x86.fr/bgak7z

     

    This is my validation for my rig

  9. ivan134

    ivan134

    Aren't MSI AM4 boards prone to have problems?

  10. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    @ivan134 Besides the A-XMP issue, so far so good. It's quality-made, rich in features and looks badass for the price, I'll update the BIOS later today when I visit my friend again and check whether the issue persists. I'm yet to do CPU overclocking there too, so I can't say for sure that there won't be issues :)

  11. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    @ivan134 only if by prone to problems you mean have had the normal new platform problems at the bios level.

    4xRyzen builds with MSI boards that I've made so far and none have any sort of issues once updated to a more recent BIOS.

  12. Morgan MLGman

    Morgan MLGman

    As an update: I updated the BIOS to the latest one and the A-XMP feature worked flawlessly, got the RAM working at 2933MHz :)

  13. You_are_a_cunt

    You_are_a_cunt

    Told'ya

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