Nakedpeanut

balistix elite

I just bought the 4x8GB 4000Mhz kit, hope it gives me less issues than yours Is the kit on your motherboard QVL? If not I'd recommend doing the whole Ryzen RAM calculator and setting the timings manually.

Asus is very good with updates, you can check the support page: https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-b550-f-gaming-model/helpdesk_bios/ Their audio is decent, but I've not done any back to back testing. I've had no issues with the boards I've bought from asus (5 in 6 years all intel though). I'm yet to get the new one though

You can find issues with every board out there, I would go tomahawk over the -F. But they both have some minor draw backs. Tomahawk only has 5 usb out back. I personally think that extra 1Gb nic is a waste, and the hdmi port is not 2.1. So if you wanted to relegate this to a little media rig one day it's not ideal. The Asus doesn't have a usb-c header for cases and yeah seems to have fewer fan headers. Also more expensive. At the end of the day you need to figure out what features you need. Like wifi6 is really nice to have but don't pay for it if you're just going to cable your pc in anyways. I had ordered the tomahawk but cancelled it for a b550-E I found for a good deal.

So final update: B&H finally shipped the 5600x (ordered 22nd)!! I decided to ditch the ram upgrade and found an Open Box Asus STRIX B550-E for $199 on their site so picked it up over the Tomahawk. Easy decision for $20-> bios flashback button, error codes and wifi 6.

I've been thinking about it some more, and I'll stay with 5600x. At least this way I have CPU upgrade options for more cores if i second guess myself and I'll be on PCIe gen 4. It has also been a while since i bought AMD, think Athlon 64 x2 days .

Try recreate the issue using a benchmark tool like OCCT. Once you have a repeatable way of triggering it you can try different options in your bios. It just sounds like some instability with CPU and RAM.

Thanks for all the feedback so far! I was happy with my 5600x choice originally then came across this YouTube from TechDeals which got me thinking in context of the review from hardware unboxed: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Review: 6-Core Gaming Beast (techspot.com). TechDeals rambles on a bit, but essentially you have games now days getting close to topping out the performance of todays 6 core parts (remember when 4c was all you needed?). I know games don't care for thread or core count, but merely the performance from all combined, and Cinebench seems to be a very good indicator of this. So if you consider a *future* game that can fully load 5600x like Cinebench does, you'll get a bit more performance from something like an i7, i9 or r7 - I'd opt for 5800x but it's just overpriced. I hope that made sense:

So I'm trying to decide between these three upgrade paths 5600x vs i7 10700k vs i9 10850k with Tomahawk motherboards. You'll notice ram with the 5600x, thinking this will give me the extra performance on 5600x to help it compete better with Intel vs the 3000 CL15 kit I have. I also need a new CPU cooler plate for mounting my existing EK velocity Waterblock (custom water cooling setup with 2x 360mm rads I planned for this upgrade). Option 1: I have this all on order, but debating if I should cancel and stick with intel here - as all I do is game but this build better play AAA's in 2024 @1440p without stutter. My 4c4t CPU is not cutting it. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $299.99 @ Walmart Motherboard MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard $179.99 @ Amazon Memory Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory $74.99 @ B&H Custom EK-Quantum Velocity D-RGB Mounting Plate - AMD Black $19.99 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $574.96 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-29 21:20 EST-0500 Option 2: I'm heavily leaning this way. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i7-10700KF 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor $329.99 @ B&H Motherboard MSI MAG Z490 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $189.99 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $519.98 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-29 21:15 EST-0500 Option 3: probably more cores than I need and yes I 'm conveniently excluding PSU upgrade when I get the 3080. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6 GHz 10-Core Processor $399.99 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI MAG Z490 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $189.99 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $589.98 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-29 21:15 EST-0500 Option 4: Out of left field, get base i5 for now then upgrade to Rocket Lake i5 or i7 k CPU. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-10400 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor $159.00 @ B&H Motherboard MSI MAG Z490 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $189.99 @ Amazon Custom EK-Quantum Velocity D-RGB Mounting Plate - AMD Black $19.99 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $368.98 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-29 21:34 EST-0500 Current System and yes I plan on upgrading the 3060ti to 3080 but it was all I could get my hands on (replaced GTX1070). PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-7600K 3.8 GHz Quad-Core Processor $319.72 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $480.99 @ Amazon Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory $82.99 @ Newegg Storage Western Digital SN750 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $59.99 @ Amazon Storage Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $104.99 @ Lenovo Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $57.98 @ Newegg Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply SeaSonic G 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit $139.88 @ Other World Computing Monitor Dell S3220DGF 31.5" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor $449.99 @ Best Buy Keyboard Corsair STRAFE Wired Gaming Keyboard Mouse Corsair M65 PRO RGB FPS Wired Optical Mouse $59.99 @ Corsair Headphones Audio-Technica ATH-AD700X Headphones $119.99 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1876.51 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-29 21:10 EST-0500

If I had to choose between those two, it would be the Z490-P. Is the Asus tuf z490 or Gigabyte z490 Aorus Elite out of reach? They usually get discounted to ~$160 range. I'd only recommend spending more on these if you are going to get a K chip and throw an OC on it. If you just want the ability to run faster ram, then you can probably get a cheaper board and not care too much about the VRM and PCB thickness.

Been ages since I used an MSI bios, but try enable the 'MSI Fast boot' option: MSI USA

Yeah so budget and Z490 do not go together so well, that said I would likely choose: MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS ATX Gaming Motherboard (10th Gen Intel Core, LGA 1200 Socket, DDR4, CF, Dual M.2 Slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2, 2.5G LAN, DP/HDMI, Mystic Light RGB) It has what's important to me, 2 x m2 slots, usb-c front connecter, enough usb, 6x Sata ports (at least 4 are 90deg), good enough VRM's and looks good. I've not found another board below this ~$160 price point that's appealing, but my needs are likely different to yours.

What Is VSync and Do I Need It For Gaming? (groovypost.com)

Disable any frame rate limiting options, like vsync then rerun the test. Happened to me

You'll see there are benchmarks showing it's better to go z490 +Faster ram but only you can answer the question of cost vs performance. Intel Core i5-10400 vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (techspot.com) If you go z490, you at least have the option of getting a 11th gen k CPU in the future to OC, but if that's not your plan, it's hard to recommend intel here.