Apparently it does. Oh well the board it's replacing is the B550 vision-D which is getting really expensive and hard to find. I wouldn't recommend a B550 Master to anyone who wants to OC. The B550-E is similar in features to the Taichi but the Taichi is better equipped for RAM OC.
@@mainly_dyutish9 yeah I'm agreeing with you. I made a mistake about how many M.2s it has. I'm just also explaining why I wouldn't remove the board from the list anyway since there aren't really any better alternatives to the B550 Taichi.
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking Taichi has consistent issues with mem even on the new topology. I’ve worked with about a half dozen people on OC discord who’ve had extreme difficulty with the board. The only thing I didn’t extensively test regarding the issues was termination, namely the ODT impedance. Assuming that wasn’t the cause of the issues, I’m personally hesitant to recommend the board for memory OC.
00:00 - Intro MOTHERBOARDS 00:39 - MSI B550 UNIFY-X (aside from memory overclocking, also applies to non-X) 04:25 - X570 BCLK Limitations 05:54 - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master ("expensive, all-around motherboard") 08:13 - Asrock X570 Taichi ("the everything motherboard" non-oc feature-wise) 11:28 - Asrock B550 Taichi ("interesting alternative to the X570 board if you'd like to save a bit of money and maybe get somewhat better overclocking") 13:25 - Gigabyte B550 Aorus PRO V2 ("the cost effective option", "strong memory overclocker", "same VRM as X570 Taichi") MEMORY KITS 15:26 - G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4-3600 CL14 ("strong Samsung B-die bin", good for intro to manual oc or set and forget XMP) 18:00 - RGB flavours of the same kit (Trident Z Neo, Trident Z, Trident Z Royal in Silver, Trident Z Royal in Gold) 20:09 - Crucial Ballistix 2x32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 ("as high performance as it gets for 32GB DIMMs") 22:47 - G.Skill Ripjaws V (and Flare X/Trident Z) 2x16GB DDR4-3200 CL14 ("cost-effective B-die kit", "terrible at [XMP]") 24:18 - Crucial Ballistix 2x8GB DDR4-3600 CL16 and G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x8GB DDR4-3600 CL16 ("'I don't care about overclocking but I want good performance' kits") Also includes tangent into practicality of doubling up on two DIMM kits 27:27 - Closing comments/Outro
I got 4x8gb Patriot Viper Steel 4000 C19 and damn I am glad I listened to you. With them it made memory overclocking a lott less painful because basically anything I typed in worked andwould stay stable. Thanks for showing me a kick ass memory kit for cheap.
Thank you very much for this. I am an enthusiast who likes to tinker with their daily setups and learn hardcore overclocking because it fascinates me and indirectly teaches me about the hardware and the physics/engineering behind high-performing hardware. But having high-end dailyable set-ups is perfect content for me, and I think a lot of people. Also, using your power-plane cooling idea (not fool cooling, but basic heatsink and fan) did increase performance by a measurable amount on a 5900x.
My Favorite PCB and Bdie education channel. 🧠 ❤️ P.S thank you so much for informing us about the additional discrepancy between x570 base clock issues, I was about to get a x570 for some hobby OC, 😅 phew.i wasn't aware of this.
10:01 On the ASRock X570 Taichi board, I believe the 3rd m.2 only shares PCIe lanes with the bottom PCIe x4 slot, so you should be able to run 8 SATA drives and 3 m.2s if you wanted, and give up the bottom PCIe slot (if I'm reading the manual correctly. ASRock doesn't have a nice storage compatibility chart like gigabyte or ASUS). Thanks for the great video as always Buildzoid. Nice to have a great summary video like this. Helped me makes my final purchasing decisions.
I have the "avoid" B450 Gaming F from Asus and it's running 2000 FCLK on the 5600X quite ok, I just had to bump the four voltages that dram calculator recommends you use, and just a tad over that recommended value for three of them. I did experience some USB reconnecting issues like Ryzen does, like you said that is unstable infinity fabric, so I bumped up those four voltages and now it's running ok. No memory errors on 4000 CL 16, overclocked 3200 CL14 Flare X. I could not get CL 14 to work on 4000 yet. Thanks for creating this channel, I have learned a lot from it. Good luck with your XOC endeavors! I am currently building a custom water loop for the 5600X. Why? Because I want to overclock the snot out of it, and maybe get a 5800X in the future.
I mod my PCIe covers to add extra buttons such as Clear CMOS and my case didn’t have a reset switch and I have added a power button in parallel to case one and mounted it on my desk
Great video mate. I just got a B550 Vision D from the italian Amazon. I was thinking about going for the Aorus Master x570 but I wanted the looks of the Vision D.
WOW incredibly descriptive, I loved it, More, more, more please. I've been looking for a motherboard and Processor like a Ryzen 7 5800X or (really leaning towards) 5900X. I was seriously looking at ASRock X570 Tiachi. After your review and some insight, I believe MSI MEG B550 UNIFY X might be it if I can find one. I was on the right track for ram and bought G.SKILL Ripjaw V32 GB (2X16) DDR4 3600 but didn't realize the CL was 16 until now hope their ok. P.S. I "Subscribed", "Clicked the Bell" and chose "All" to get every video.
On the ASRock X570 Taichi (Razer Edition) the only compromise is that you have to choose if you want to use the third M.2 slot, coming from the chipset or the regular chipset PCIe slot. The 8 x SATA always works. (Source: Me and a personal system 🙃)
Howabout the gigabyte vision d-p? Just dropped on newegg. What I mean is it seems to trade little ram overclocking for more pcie slots and dual x8 pcie simultaneously/sli.
I chose that Crucial Ballistix kit for my Ryzen 5600X build despite my MSI MAG B550M Mortar having four DIMM slots as I learned my lesson with my 2600 build that had 32GB in a four DIMM config. I tried the G.Skill RpiJaws V kit first but it ran a bit warm and didn't really clock all that well on top of being pricier than the Crucial kit (at the time).
Very helpful solid advice for new builders. I was looking at the MSI X570 Unify and the ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming when I was configuring my build. I finally decided to pair my 5950X with the Unify and have been happy with it ever since MSI released a bios with AGESA 1.2.0.0 and up solving a lot of nagging issues. I never really liked ASROCK boards and that's totally subjective and not based on any of my own experience. 4 sata ports is more than I need let alone the 8 of the Taichi.
I find the x570 dark hero to be a good step up from the x570 master I get a bit better memory O/C as well as far less annoying quirks (ie my board not turning on every week or two unless I pull the battery for 5min). Also I really think for a high end gaming setup the b550 master is a fantastic board. Really good vrm and great feature set, yes the dual bios is kind of odd but that really does not come up unless you are really giving it.
I run both X570 Dark Hero and B550 Unify-X. I prefer the Unify-X and would recommend over the Dark Hero. If you overclock that is especially on the RAM side of things.
You're the kind of content creator whose videos I like before I start watching, because I already know you're THAT good. Keep up the awesome work, Buildzoid! 🤩
Interesting video, as always. By the way, I'm kinda mad that ASUS didn't made to your list (yeah I love ASUS, judge me) but I can see why. Also, could you post a video on overclocking with PBO2? It's quite fun and different using the curve optimiser vs all-clock overclock.
I'm currently running 32GB (2x16GB) of Crucial 3600 CL16 at XMP on a 3400g / MSI x570 Gaming Plus (yeah yeah I know the VRM is crap on this board, but I don't overclock these days). I've also got a 16GB (2x8GB) kit of the same stuff, identical XMP timings just single rank Rev-E instead of dual. I was thinking of running all 4 sticks as 48GBs in a triple-rank configuration after I eventually swap out this 3400g for something with Zen3 when prices hopefully come down a bit later in the year. Any oddities you can think of that I might run into when running such a configuration?
I have an Asrock X570 Taichi. I quite like the board, but only for its feature set. Clear cmos, bios flashback, both things I've used a quick rescue, lots of storage expansion which I'm keen on, running it with lots of PCIe (SLI, all M.2s populated). I quite like the board but you really hit the nail on the head with bios being clunky
What more can you hope to get than 4000Mhz IF and ram speeds? This runs perfectly stable on my Dark Hero with an x5950/Samsung 4000Mhz b-die mem kit. Afaik that's basically as far as IF will go anyway. Or can B550 push this meaningfully higher with BCLK?
Got 5950x back in February with B550 Unify(non-x) with 4x8Gb Viper steels 4400cl19 following your PCB review. What a great memory for it's price,currently daily driving 3800 cl14 at 1.5V in 1:1, beast for daily PC.
@super hessu Not sure about Intel, but SoC and DDR voltages are separate things, as far as I know it's shouldn't do any harm to cpu itself,also I got a fan directly on top of my RAM in case,so both should be safe
@super hessu I know what IMC is, and those concerns is here from around when DDR4 was released. I know many people that running 1.5 daily for 3+ years without any signs of degradation on both ram and CPU whatsoever.I can't say that it's absolutely safe, but people run it at 1.5 for whole DDR4 lifecycle without any major sings of CPU failing, so I'm willing to take the risk)
@@SovietN1nja Just out of curiosity how did u get a fan over your ram? Is it like an addon fan or what case are you using? I know its not necessary if im below 1.5v but i kind of want to do it anyway?
@@LordBattleSmurf it's just a case fans, but they blow on the RAM directly.It's Lian LI Lancool 2 Mesh Performance,top and front 140mm fans create very good airflow in the RAM area.
Are you willing to do or suggest a guide for overclocking the 2x16GB 3200 CL14 kits? They have been around a fair while so I imagine wquite a few of us have them.
Also as a side-note. I have an x570 Aorus Master because of the PCI-e config and the feature-set. My brother has a B-550 Aorus Master because it was on clearance at Microcenter. I was and to get the x570 master very close to the b550 in stable dailyable settings, but I had to do A LOT of tinkering. There’s also a weird thing where the performance of the x570 w/ a CPU and 3 m.2 seems to be affected by where you put the USBs at. I wonder if it has anything to do with that USB dropout people talk about. I know with the x570 board, each new BIOS released seems to either keep things the same or make them better. Which is counter to what you’ve said in the past, but I’m assuming it’s just an exception. M.2s are really popular for people like me because they’re low-hassle, and you stick it on the board, and it just works kind of deal. No awkward cable management (which gets dicey when you want to populate a fuckton of fanslots). You want a new case, or to run your PC open-air for a bit because you’re busy modding something you’re going to swap out? your drives stay on there. It’s weird being on the most enthusiast end of the normie spectrum. On one hand you want performance, but on the other you have to consider other normie stuff x570 AoMa has been pretty fucking great.
Since you really seem to know your ram and motherboards, Could you recommend any budget samsung b-die kits for a 4x4gb or 4x8gb configuration? This is for mining monero-xmr where 4 sticks is optimal, would be paired with an underclocked 3900x or 3950x. Could you recommend a budget b550 motherboard that can handle 3600 cl14 ram configuration with the best vrm possible at or under US $150?
What do you find is the most common reason to not being able to hit 1900FCLK? 5950x, x570 Aorus Master, TridentZ Neo 3800CL14. Like you mentioned 1900 will just not boot. Any tips to getting a boost in FCLK? or does it come down to the individual CPU or MB just not being up to the task? Thanks for the video!
The Asrock x570 Taichi allows you run 3 x M.2 and all 8 SATA ports at the same time, I've been running it like this since buying it about 1.5 years ago. If using the 3rd M.2 you lose pci slot 5. its a choice between the two. Its been a really great board.
Question BZ, What are your current thoughts on the B550 Unify-X? People are saying it's inconsistent and some of them such as mem OC and that I should not buy it if I can't get it binned? It fits more or less what I want to try and play with but I csnt afford to buy a few and bin to sell the bad ones. Is this a real concern or?
@buildzoid. You mentioned 4 stick DDR4 being horrible? why? what's the tech limitation that's causing this? I have 4 sticks (8 GB) of B-die and on my Aorus X570 Aorus Elite Wifi, I can't even enable XMP which was 3600-CL18-19-19-39-58 older Coasair Vengeance (with just white LED lights). The best I could do with my 4 stick is 3400 CL14-15-15-31-48. 33 MHz over 3400 will result in mobo not even POST regardless of voltage adjustments on b-die or mem controller on my Ryzen 5900x.
I'm probably not going to mess much with overclock, but building a music production pc and ended up going for x570 Taichi and the Crucial ram. Looks like I didn't make a too bad decision. :D
Unfortunately my 5900x is limited to 1866fclk, so I ended up selling my 2x16 b-die and getting that 2x32 rev b ballistix kit... it was basically an even trade for double the capacity. They both run 3733 cl14 and while the timings don't generally play as nice, it's really not that big of a deficit. Highly recommended for anyone looking for higher capacities.
Note that the Micron E die 3600 kits are commonly just single rank at 16 GB these days. Ordered those you recommended a few months ago and found out the hard way and wanted dual rank so I ended up with 4x16GB in my system later :D
what memory kit would you recommend for a b350 board running a 1800x . running an older 2666 kit now on 2800 speed with low timings. but with all those 3600 kits I'm lost . i know I might have to turn the speed down . but is it still better for timings? i mean will a 3600 kit cl 16 run 3200 cl 14 for example ? I'm no expert , my knowledge is basic.
This came out after I bought but with my 5950X I got a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC (based on one of your previous videos) and the Crucial Ballistix 64GiB 3600 C16. (and not for fun overclocking, more just for a daily overclock and leaving it alone) So I guess I picked well.
I had a heck of a time finding a 64gb kit for the x570 Taichi. The crucial ballistix 2x32 cl16 was finally the answer and runs 1900:3800 on a 3900xt. It hated 4x16 3200 cl14 and was never even quite stable with a 3x32 garbage lpx 3200 cl16.
Similar issue on the b550 Taichi: Tried 4x 16gb gskill 3600 cl 16 (b-die) sticks and was not even able to run them at 1600:3200. Would have needed to go down to 1500:3000 so I returned them and went with 2x 16 gb gskill 3600 cl 14. That works flawless. 4x sticks seems to be too hard for most b550/x570 boards.
I run 4x16 micron rev-e 3200 cl16 at 3600 cl16, just had to bump trcd from 18 to 20. I also tested 4x16 micron rev-b 3200 cl16, that set worked at 3600, but at cl18 trcd 20. This is on a “pre-b550 times” release x570 Taichi
I have my 5950X in a TUF x570 plus wifi. not perfect by any means but it works well for my needs. I have 4x16gb 3600 cl16 gskill neo and the XMP profile works well, but I do modify a few of the secondary timings. I would rather have the Crosshair dark but it was out of stock when I was buying. I miss the better UEFI and water-cooling options and plugs for things like temp sensors. if you have any tips on keeping the pbo clocks high and leveling the Voltage I would love to see the settings.
I have a Asus Crosshair Hero VIII wifi with 2x32gb corsair dominator white RGB cl16 kits for 64gb total. I have been very happy with it so far but many have been complaining in the ROG forums about bios issues. I haven't noticed them myself. I am not doing XOC and x570 is fine for my uses. Great info buildzoid 👍
The newest bios ( have non wifi) fixed all my issues. Don't use the beta version though: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-whuXXSZ6pJs.html
I had this board when I did my 5950x build and within a month it started not waking from sleep or shutdown without doing a psu reset. ROG crosshair hero viii wifi / hero viii dark hero all have this defect and Asus won't take responsibility for it. Had to buy a MSI mpg X570s carbon max wifi
5950x + Asus WS Pro ACE x570 + 2x32GB Kingston ECC @ 3200Mhz here.. surprised to not see this board on here but.. I read it was a slightly older design or something.. been stable for my needs so far running Ubuntu on the NVME and a Windows SSD swappable on boot up to game.
I already have a set of the g.skill F4-3600C16D-16GVKC 2x8 GB that i bought 8 months ago, would you recommend me buying another set of the same kit, or getting rid of the kit i have and get the 4x8gb kit they sell? .btw i have the b550 aorus pro v2
Hmm, any reason you dropped the X570 Unify? Thought they both (Unify and Aorus Master) are pretty similar and isn't the Unify even a bit better with memory 5000 to 4400.
A little late but would like to know too. Would you pick the x570 Taichi over the x570 Unify? I want the B550 Unify X but the coil whine problems have scared me off a little.
How do you feel about the x570 ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard for Ryzen 5950x? If you had these two, what specific RAM and cpu fan would you recommend?
hi Buildzoid, I have two sets of Patriot 4400 CL19 kits (cause they're so cheap!) to run with a 5950x. I understand running xmp is a no-go, but what frequency and timings should I be aiming for? Edit question: How badly does my Asus x570-F (yea I know it's a dumb board but it came through a bundle deal) hinder me tightening the timings?
Also have 2 of these kits. I have them running 3800 CL14 at 1.49v on a Tomahawk X570. Any higher gives WHEA errors. If you can boot 3800 and are WHEA free (try it at CL18 first to check if it boots and if you're WHEA free) that will likely be the max. I had to buy another set and bin the sticks to do CL14 though, initially one stick was holding me back at 3800 CL16 for the set of 4. Sold the two worst sticks. Individually all the sticks I kept do 4400 CL16 at 1.5v, but as a set its max 4200. But thats with FCLK/BLCK not 1:1 (just wanted to check). Shame we cant do FCLK 2000 1:1 on Zen3 right :(((. Thats why I bought these sticks initially last november when Zen3 came out. I even had 3 different 5900X CPU's and one 5800X in my board to check if I could run higher FCLK. All failed at exactly the same point of 1900 FCLK. Starting to think its the board (bios/agesa/X570) and not the CPU's Infinity fabric......
For 128GB 4x32GB Ryzen systems, it is ever worth doing more than XMP? Also it looks like the Crucial kit you recommended only comes in 2x32 configs. It's difficult to find any information on working 128GB Ryzen configs. I know quad rank is terrible on Ryzen but some projects actually need the ram! Threadrippers are so expensive...
For the B550 Pro v.2, they at least list that exact kit as supported in a 4 dimm configuration. I guess there's no guarantees about what performance you get, but it's better than nothing.
Hi! Thanks for your videos. What set of 64gb (or 128?) I have to choose for Msi Meg x570s ace max? I'm studying and searching the entire internet but I'm not sure yet. I hope you'll find some second for answer me because I need some help. Thanks again for what you do for the community. Bye!
i guided a friend of mine for a X570 Aorus pro + 4*16gb Gskill 3600 C17-19-19 kitt (due to price/vs gb value + it was on QVL list of the board), hes biggest importance was good enogh vrm for the 5950x + SLi option for hes dual gpus(he runs 6 monitors,so he needs 2 gpus). And he dosnt really oc, so we just wanted stabillity lotsa ram/cores for the lowest posible mobo/ram price combo, with the SLI/Multi PCI-E 8.0 lanes support.
the recommendation to have 2 ram sticks instead of 4 was good for the ryzen 3000 like the 3950x, while for the ryzen 5000 series such as the 5950x, 4 ram sticks instead of 2 increase performance apparently. i moved from the 3950x to the 5950x and it seems more stable with 4 ram sticks of Corsair Vengeance Pro 3600mhz, cl 18, 128gb (4x32). I could not find the cl16 version.
So even if I use 2 dimms and reasonably oc them I can still use them with the Master x570 and just leave those 2 slots empty. My goal is max exploit of IF... which is 3866ish? Question is I'd like to have 64gb in my system for longevity (on a 5950x). but rumours here and there are 32gb sticks are more difficult to oc. Could I ever reach 3866ish ( if cpu permits) with a 2x32gb?
I've got some experience with two separate MSI B550 Unify (not the Unify-X), and both of them have suffered from very loud VRM coil whine, a quick search shows several forum threads with people complaining about similar issues too, so if you're planning on getting Unify or Unify-X it's probably worth keeping this in mind. On the other hand, both Unify and -X versions are deeply discounted right now in the UK (they're about 50 quid cheaper than the B550 Aorus Master as of June 10th) so if you're after a decent deal and are not too bothered by VRM noise, it might be worth picking it up.
Coil wine in aida test is fun on the X but since running custom bios and turning down edc my board stopped wining but the first run it was like a bee got in the window
@@hannahtimson2526 Yes I have a similar experience with Aida benchmark (memory and cache), it's pretty repeatable & reproducable as well, starting a Memory Copy bench has the coils singing. Could you share your EDC settings and maybe more details on your custom BIOS? I've had to tighten the retention screws on the VRM backplate, which helped with the noise a little bit, but didn't eliminate it
@Captain Price When did I ever say the Unify was bad? The Unify/Unify-X has the most overbuilt VRM of ANY B550 boards from any of the major OEMs. There's no objective 'best' board, do your research regarding price points/features/VRM specs and choose one that best fit your needs. MSI and Asus both makes amazing boards and garbage boards. So does Gigabyte and ASRock. TLDR: No such thing as 'best board', go do your own reading, watch some reviews and determine what's best for your own usage, nobody can make that decision for you.
@Captain Price If you REALLY want to see a well-rounded cross-section of recommendation, watch the summary section of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VUwjxNEe26I.html (from 2:05:00 onwards), where he makes multiple recommendations from a range of OEMs, highlighting the feature set/pricing pros/cons of each of his choice. I am not really seeing this 'mostly you saw buildzoid recommending Gigabyte motherboard in the B550 series' that you're talking about. He's stated multiple times that the MSI Unify-X is great for VRM/MemOC, Asus TUF for generally well-rounded featureset and price, GB Aorus Master/Asus Crosshair if you have plenty of cash to splash about and don't care about value for price... I don't see any overall propensity on him to universally recommend Gigabyte boards over others. He's almost always very clear about the reason he likes a particular board. Actually watch the videos and pick out the factors that is specifically important to you (is it VRM? Memory layout? Rear panel I/O? 5/10GBit ports? M.2 slots?) Pick your poison.
Had to indeed tinker a lot to make my 4x8 Viper Steels work with my x570 Unify and 5900X. The XMP never booted, and FCLK 2000 wouldn't boot until a way later version of AGESA. Passing TM5 stability but with way too many errors. They're fine at 3666 14 and/or 3833 16. Still hoping that 4000 will be achievable someday
4000 is a bitch to get stable 4400cl9 steels wouldnt do it but teamgroup 3600cl14 can but it needs a lot of soc and soc related setting plus a few ram timings tricks. ccd/iod tuneing is a must
@@hannahtimson2526 I can't get a stable 4000 with the soc at 1.2 and IOD/CCD at 1.150. With the DDR at 1.5 obviously. My windows event logger would just implose with 150 erroes a minutes lmao
Okay Buildzoid I have small question. When I build one year ago my new pc, tryed so hard to buy G.Skill TridentZ Royal 3600 mhz CL14 in Central Europe where am I. That didn't happen so I searched specifically for B-Die kits. I managed to get a dual 8gb Corsair Dominator Platinium 3600 CL16 which apparently is worse B-Die on the market but still. Please tell me if Typhoon confirms that those are Samsung B-Die, they should be easy to OC with my Ryzen 3 3300x placed on Asus X570 Crosshair VIII Formula. Why they basically don't go more than stock D.O.C.P.?
Oh by the way I subscribed to your channel almost 2 years so I watched many, many, many videos with you doing OC DDR4 sticks. I feel quiet sure how to do it following your steps🙂. But still mine Dominator's they don't boot after slightly changing settings other than D.O.C.P. Can you give me some advice, please? I can write serial numbers if you want... P.S. As always I left a like as a thanks for all job you doing 😉
Have the board with a 5900x - PBO on with a 4.55 all core OC that kicks in roughly when more the 6 to 7 cores are maxed (took a few weeks to figure it out and fine tune). Over all, I love it - RAM is stable at 3800 CL14 1.5v and I can actually get my CPU to 4.7 but it burns up at 85°+ and I like to stay around 75° or lower. I will say this, my buddy has the 5950x and the Dark Hero and it seems to have more headroom then my 5900x on the same board.
@@phillipschulte-hordelhoff4261 I switched from x570 Aorus Master to Dark Hero two months ago (using 5950x). Had some issues with stability on master but after updating to new AGESA Bioses that should fix USB issues and Zen 3 cache latencies, it went from bad to ugly. With Aorus RTX 3080 Eagle in 1st slot I was getting often either black screen or nvidia driver crashing and time from time it refused boot from SSD. After switching to Dark Hero I had black screen once and driver crash two times in two months period and I know driver crash was related to specific app running as it didn't crash with application stopped. (tried two different Master boards, same behavior) Now Master is in my wife build, with 5800x and non gigabyte RTX 2060, so far running fine. Unlike most other x570 motherboards Dark Hero have passive chipset cooling, improved VRM and memory frequencies. Its also only motherboard that support something called Dynamic OC which improves multicore boost without sacrificing single core boost and as per info, it suppose to stay limited to Dark Hero motherboards.
@Captain Price If you are OK with having one m.2 less, then dark hero is better. Even with new x570s variants, I would still go with Dark hero because I don't know for what stupid reason Gigabyte removed 2nd NIC from all new x570s boards. That was one of two main reasons going with x570 in 1st place.
Dark Hero have better VRM than Gigabyte x570s boards and its also improved version of normal Hero(Passive chipset cooling, better VRM, Better (higher clock) memory support, Dynamic OC switching). I think Dark hero is better than anything Gigabyte can offer, even before considering all issues I had with both x570 Masters I tried.
Hi there I would like to ask you for your help ? My new pc build is going to have a 5950x with a gigabyte auros X570S master, but am struggling for which memory to use. The store that is going to build it for me have picked Corsair dominator platinum 16Gb (2x8Gb) 3600Mhz Cl 14 X2 packs. They only stock Corsair memory, I won’t be overclocking the memory so wanted to know if this was good memory to use or if you would recommend a really good kit that maybe I could buy separately and plug in myself. Many thanks in advance
I bought the patriot viper steel 4x8 4000mhz CL19. For my motherboard msi mag b550 tomahawk atx am4 and I have a ryzen 5600x. I don’t know much about overclocking ram but what can I do to be able to run stable at xmp or close to that?
My vision d is going strong. However I really only have played with cpu OC, since my RAM is 64GB, 4 DIMMs, and dual rank sticks of CJR or DJR, so not much room to play with them
I'm going to ask the maybe stupid question but I have 2 sticks of Viper steels 4000 CL19 (PVS416G400C9K), running at 3800 CL16, on a 5600x , would it be a bad idea to try to get 2 more sticks to get 32gb of ram?
Thoughts on the New (Released in April) F4-4000C16D-32GTZNA? G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 4000 (PC4 32000) Timing 16-16-16-36 CAS Latency 16 Voltage 1.40V Just bought to pair with x570 Unify. Timing for 4000MHz seemed to good to pass up. Priced at $330 seemed pretty solid when compared to most CL14s.
Hey buildzoid, I have Strix B550-F, 5900x and F4-3200C14D-32GTZR samsung b-die dual rank kits. My memory is super unhappy with this board. But I know the board was running my single rank kits @ 4000. Do you think I should sell the board and get a unify x or I should sell the kits and try to get another b-die kit. Thanks.
Question: What about QVL's. For my B550I Aorus Pro AX, the QVL ist just shitty...CL14 Memory? Just some non-existing ADATA RAM...and so many Quad-Kits in the QVL on a 2-Slot Board...
I'm having trouble overclocking with the B550 Unify X. I had a B550 Aorus Pro AC and was able to overlcok my Patriot Viper 4000mhz 2x8 b-die to 3800cl14 but I cant do it with this Unify X. It would boot on the Unify X but it would BSD when I ran Aida or TestMem or any other applications. I used the same ram timings as I did for the Aorus Pro AC with the same ram timings of 14-15-8-12-28-40 but don't know why it wont work on the Unify X. I have a 5800X3D. Can you please help? Any suggestions?
The B550 Unify has shit QA, I got 3 of them and had to return all 3 due to VRM issues (it's a known issue). The X570 Taichi is nice, but I wouldnt say its great for memory OC. I now have a B550XE and it works like a charm. Managed to get my hands on a 4000Mhz C16 BDie kit, and my 5800X ran the XMP profile without any issues.
I'm guessing you are also ok with the RGB version of Crucial Ballistix RGB BL2K32G36C16U4BL 3600 MHz, DDR4, DRAM, Desktop Gaming Memory Kit, 64GB (32GB x2), CL16, Black?
