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So I got my mate a new rig for him and it worked on first shot.  Everything was well.  The system was quiet no noise.. He comes from a Core 2 Quad 8GB RAM SSD.  I got him a 2700x with a Gigabyte X470 Gaming Ultra and Trident Z RGB 32GB 3200Mhz and his memory speed was at 2133Mhz.  No biggie we thought we could fix it in the BIOS.  Well he tried all he could and some options were disabled.  He was stuck on 2133 and told me I tried everything and I believe him.

 

So we got Ryzen Master and with that by simply moving the slider from 2133 to 3200Mhz then rebooting worked and he was at 3200Mhz.  But then his stock CPU fan start throttling and it was loud and he was like wtf happened.  Finally I got him to change his Smart Fan 5 profille 1 to quiet and that did the trick and now its silent again.  One problem now Ryzen Master can't even take him to 3200Mhz, plus hes tried everything XMP blah blah He is not stupid so I know he went to every tweak option and just couldn't do it.  Now Ryzen won't even let him set to 3200Mhz and hes stuck at 2133. 

 

So right now our next step is to update the BIOS as its a 2018 BIOS.  Will flashing the BIOS on this board open up the memory options and finally giving him 3200Mhz for good ?  Thanks all who read this far.  I welcome any input.  Also mind you this is new to me as I am a intel guy but I like AMD as well.  But it just doesn't make sense.  Shall we flash the BIOS or is that a waste of time ?   Thanks and God Bless

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33 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

So I got my mate a new rig for him and it worked on first shot.  Everything was well.  The system was quiet no noise.. He comes from a Core 2 Quad 8GB RAM SSD.  I got him a 2700x with a Gigabyte X470 Gaming Ultra and Trident Z RGB 32GB 3200Mhz and his memory speed was at 2133Mhz.  No biggie we thought we could fix it in the BIOS.  Well he tried all he could and some options were disabled.  He was stuck on 2133 and told me I tried everything and I believe him.

 

So we got Ryzen Master and with that by simply moving the slider from 2133 to 3200Mhz then rebooting worked and he was at 3200Mhz.  But then his stock CPU fan start throttling and it was loud and he was like wtf happened.  Finally I got him to change his Smart Fan 5 profille 1 to quiet and that did the trick and now its silent again.  One problem now Ryzen Master can't even take him to 3200Mhz, plus hes tried everything XMP blah blah He is not stupid so I know he went to every tweak option and just couldn't do it.  Now Ryzen won't even let him set to 3200Mhz and hes stuck at 2133. 

 

So right now our next step is to update the BIOS as its a 2018 BIOS.  Will flashing the BIOS on this board open up the memory options and finally giving him 3200Mhz for good ?  Thanks all who read this far.  I welcome any input.  Also mind you this is new to me as I am a intel guy but I like AMD as well.  But it just doesn't make sense.  Shall we flash the BIOS or is that a waste of time ?   Thanks and God Bless

 

It *could*

Ryzen 2000 CPUs and 400 series motherboards were a little picky with DRAM -- that said, still better than Ryzen 1000 series and 300 series motherboards.

A newer BIOS could be beneficial, since there were a few AGEAS updates between August 2019 and now.

 

If all else fails, your buddy may have to settle with 2933 MHz or 3000 MHz.

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11 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

It *could*

Ryzen 2000 CPUs and 400 series motherboards were a little picky with DRAM -- that said, still better than Ryzen 1000 series and 300 series motherboards.

A newer BIOS could be beneficial, since there were a few AGEAS updates between August 2019 and now.

 

If all else fails, your buddy may have to settle with 2933 MHz or 3000 MHz.

Thank you soo much you little rascal lol!  Thanks for that info.  He will flash today I got the latest BIOS for the board.  Can he put it on USB stick and boot into BIOS and flash it there ?  I don't want to do it inside of windoz and sh*T.  Thank again!  Well it was 3200Mhz then that got messed up back to 2133Mhz so we settle at that speed wtf I bought 3200+  I hope the flashing of the BIOS to 2019 2 months old does the job and opens up his memory options or let him to change to 3200+ and what not.

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16 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

Thank you soo much you little rascal lol!  Thanks for that info.  He will flash today I got the latest BIOS for the board.  Can he put it on USB stick and boot into BIOS and flash it there ?  I don't want to do it inside of windoz and sh*T.  Thank again!

This happens when you mess with the bios. you can reset the bios with the bios reset button on the I/O.  

Now to let you know you can’t jump steps in the Bios especially for gigabyte like say if you’re on F30 you can’t jump steps to F 40 you have to install each bios that leads up to it.  

 I include a screenshot of the bios upgrade read the stuff in RED:

 

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My PC:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor (4.4Ghz), MOBO: GIGABYTE X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WiFi (AMD Ryzen AM4/ X470/ Intel Wave 2 WiFi/M.2), RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15, GPU: Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Windforce OC GV-N1080WF3OC-8GD Graphics Cards, STORAGE: 120GB CRUCIAL SSD, 1TB WD BLUE, COOLER: Cooler Master 212 EVO RGB Black Edition, FANS: 4 x MasterFan MF120R RGB (2 Front, 1 Back, 1 Top), 1 x Noctua NF-P12 Redux 1700 RPM(Back off Cooler), PC CASE: Cooler Master MB500 case, PSU: EVGA 750 BQ.

 

My Kids PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 (95watt @3.5Ghz @1.40V), MOBO: ASUS M2A-VM, RAM: Kingston 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 800MHz, GPU: nVidia GT 710 2GB DDR3 (OC’ed Clock to 1300Mhz and Memory to 950Mhz), STORAGE: 250GB HDD, 500GB HDD, COOLER:  Cooler Master 212 EVO, PC CASE: Cooler Master Q300L , FANS: 3 x upHere RED LED Fans (2 Front, 1 Back), PSU: Generic 300 Watt PSU.

 

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4 minutes ago, vjizzle2384 said:

This happens when you mess with the bios. you can reset the bios with the bios reset button on the I/O.  

Now to let you know you can’t jump steps in the Bios especially for gigabyte like say if you’re on F30 you can’t jump steps to F 40 you have to install each bios that leads up to it.  

 I include a screenshot of the bios upgrade read the stuff in RED:

 

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Ok thanks for the heads up my friend.  Now Im freakin confused LOL.  Q FLASH is in DOS ?  Can we flash from inside the BIOS ?  It says I need F40 and AMD chipset drivers.  We haven't installed any AMD driver so I guess we should install this chipset driver as the insturction say then I have to run FW update tool ?

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Ok thanks for the heads up my friend.  Now Im freakin confused LOL.  Q FLASH is in DOS ?  Can we flash from inside the BIOS ?  It says I need F40 and AMD chipset drivers.  We haven't installed any AMD driver so I guess we should install this chipset driver as the insturction say then I have to run FW update tool ?

 The easiest way if you can get into Windows is to frist download gigabyte app center: http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_appcenter_B19.0227.1.zip

And then download this it bios updater  

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_atbios_B19.0226.1.zip

 

For your board you’ll have to manually download F 41 after you have install all the bios till F40 via the bios app and then Open up the bios app and update your bios using the F41 file.

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING-rev-10/support#dl

My PC:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor (4.4Ghz), MOBO: GIGABYTE X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WiFi (AMD Ryzen AM4/ X470/ Intel Wave 2 WiFi/M.2), RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15, GPU: Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Windforce OC GV-N1080WF3OC-8GD Graphics Cards, STORAGE: 120GB CRUCIAL SSD, 1TB WD BLUE, COOLER: Cooler Master 212 EVO RGB Black Edition, FANS: 4 x MasterFan MF120R RGB (2 Front, 1 Back, 1 Top), 1 x Noctua NF-P12 Redux 1700 RPM(Back off Cooler), PC CASE: Cooler Master MB500 case, PSU: EVGA 750 BQ.

 

My Kids PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 (95watt @3.5Ghz @1.40V), MOBO: ASUS M2A-VM, RAM: Kingston 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 800MHz, GPU: nVidia GT 710 2GB DDR3 (OC’ed Clock to 1300Mhz and Memory to 950Mhz), STORAGE: 250GB HDD, 500GB HDD, COOLER:  Cooler Master 212 EVO, PC CASE: Cooler Master Q300L , FANS: 3 x upHere RED LED Fans (2 Front, 1 Back), PSU: Generic 300 Watt PSU.

 

Console:  PS4 - vjizzle2384

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2 minutes ago, vjizzle2384 said:

 The easiest way if you can get into Windows is to frist download gigabyte app center: http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_appcenter_B19.0227.1.zip

And then download this it bios updater  

http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_atbios_B19.0226.1.zip

 

Thank you again Vjizzle my nizzel hehe  :) Ya I got the BIOS.  I will get gigabyte app center.  I just don't want something to go wrong.  Should I install the chipset drivers ?

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Thank you again Vjizzle my nizzel hehe  :) Ya I got the BIOS.  I will get gigabyte app center.  I just don't want something to go wrong.  Should I install the chipset drivers ?

Yes I would download and install it, also go to Utilities and download System Information Viewer / Smart Fan 5 and Easy Tune.

My PC:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor (4.4Ghz), MOBO: GIGABYTE X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WiFi (AMD Ryzen AM4/ X470/ Intel Wave 2 WiFi/M.2), RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15, GPU: Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Windforce OC GV-N1080WF3OC-8GD Graphics Cards, STORAGE: 120GB CRUCIAL SSD, 1TB WD BLUE, COOLER: Cooler Master 212 EVO RGB Black Edition, FANS: 4 x MasterFan MF120R RGB (2 Front, 1 Back, 1 Top), 1 x Noctua NF-P12 Redux 1700 RPM(Back off Cooler), PC CASE: Cooler Master MB500 case, PSU: EVGA 750 BQ.

 

My Kids PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 (95watt @3.5Ghz @1.40V), MOBO: ASUS M2A-VM, RAM: Kingston 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 800MHz, GPU: nVidia GT 710 2GB DDR3 (OC’ed Clock to 1300Mhz and Memory to 950Mhz), STORAGE: 250GB HDD, 500GB HDD, COOLER:  Cooler Master 212 EVO, PC CASE: Cooler Master Q300L , FANS: 3 x upHere RED LED Fans (2 Front, 1 Back), PSU: Generic 300 Watt PSU.

 

Console:  PS4 - vjizzle2384

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1 minute ago, vjizzle2384 said:

Yes I would download and install it, also go to Utilities and download System Information Viewer / Smart Fan 5 and Easy Tune.

WOW no kidding.  Ok ok we will get System Info Viewer and Smart Fan 5 and Easy Tune.  Wow thank you, hell be online soon I will tell him to install AMD Chipset and the 2 apps you told me to get.  I will hit you up when we do your instructions.  Thanks again plenty.

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Scarlett 2i2 Audio Interface / KRK Rokits 10" / Sennheiser HD 650 / Logitech G Pro Wireless Mouse & G915 Linear & G935 & C920 / SL 88 Grand / Cakewalk / NF-A14 Int P12 Ex
AOC 40" 4k Curved / LG 55" OLED C9 120hz / LaCie Porsche Design 2TB & 500GB / Samsung 950 Pro 500GB / 850 Pro 500GB / Crucial m4 500GB / Asus M.2 Card

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WOW no kidding.  Ok ok we will get System Info Viewer and Smart Fan 5 and Easy Tune.  Wow thank you, hell be online soon I will tell him to install AMD Chipset and the 2 apps you told me to get.  I will hit you up when we do your instructions.  Thanks again plenty.

Yeah no problem just tag me in your posts.  Hope these fixes it.

My PC:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Processor (4.4Ghz), MOBO: GIGABYTE X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WiFi (AMD Ryzen AM4/ X470/ Intel Wave 2 WiFi/M.2), RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15, GPU: Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Windforce OC GV-N1080WF3OC-8GD Graphics Cards, STORAGE: 120GB CRUCIAL SSD, 1TB WD BLUE, COOLER: Cooler Master 212 EVO RGB Black Edition, FANS: 4 x MasterFan MF120R RGB (2 Front, 1 Back, 1 Top), 1 x Noctua NF-P12 Redux 1700 RPM(Back off Cooler), PC CASE: Cooler Master MB500 case, PSU: EVGA 750 BQ.

 

My Kids PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 (95watt @3.5Ghz @1.40V), MOBO: ASUS M2A-VM, RAM: Kingston 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 800MHz, GPU: nVidia GT 710 2GB DDR3 (OC’ed Clock to 1300Mhz and Memory to 950Mhz), STORAGE: 250GB HDD, 500GB HDD, COOLER:  Cooler Master 212 EVO, PC CASE: Cooler Master Q300L , FANS: 3 x upHere RED LED Fans (2 Front, 1 Back), PSU: Generic 300 Watt PSU.

 

Console:  PS4 - vjizzle2384

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