Asus Strix X470-F Gaming owners thread

[Crosslhs82]

Update
Ran p95 had screen blank out x2
Each time had to increase voltage.
Now @1.37500v
If it blanks again i will drop it 4.1 and try working voltage down again.

So did some reading on the p95 screen blank outs and came across some of the very early pages of this forum thread on our mobos.
Some of the elders here may remember some of the issues of running 2 monitoring softwares and p95 at the same time.
So after reading those pages decided to uncheck run at startup in my corsair link 4 for my h110i but have not ran p95 yet to confirm or not if thats was the reason for the p95 blank outs.

With the change above i also disabled xfr and what i could in pbo, dropped from 4.125ghz to 4.1ghz lowered the voltages
And have been having pretty good luck.
Currently still have LLC'S @ level 3 for cpu and soc.
Vddcr cpu override @ 1.35000v
Soc @ 1.06250
Running tests now.

Previous voltage was 1.35625
Which OCCT ran for 9hrs no issuse's.
Ran 8hrs realbench stress testing with 8gb of my 16gb No issuse's.

So eventually i will still have to try p95 (more for confirmation) again but for now i will use Occt v5.3.2 , aida64, and realbench for stressing along with 3dmark firestrike, passmark performance test 9 and cinnabench r15 for performance testing.

[Filters]

Update
Ran p95 had screen blank out x2
Each time had to increase voltage.
Now @1.37500v
If it blanks again i will drop it 4.1 and try working voltage down again.

So did some reading on the p95 screen blank outs and came across some of the very early pages of this forum thread on our mobos.
Some of the elders here may remember some of the issues of running 2 monitoring softwares and p95 at the same time.
So after reading those pages decided to uncheck run at startup in my corsair link 4 for my h110i but have not ran p95 yet to confirm or not if thats was the reason for the p95 blank outs.

With the change above i also disabled xfr and what i could in pbo, dropped from 4.125ghz to 4.1ghz lowered the voltages
And have been having pretty good luck.
Currently still have LLC'S @ level 3 for cpu and soc.
Vddcr cpu override @ 1.35000v
Soc @ 1.06250
Running tests now.

Previous voltage was 1.35625
Which OCCT ran for 9hrs no issuse's.
Ran 8hrs realbench stress testing with 8gb of my 16gb No issuse's.

So eventually i will still have to try p95 (more for confirmation) again but for now i will use Occt v5.3.2 , aida64, and realbench for stressing along with 3dmark firestrike, passmark performance test 9 and cinnabench r15 for performance testing.

When OC ofc you need to disable PBO and also Core boost :P but i still dont understand why you dont use pbo on that cpu

[Crowzer]

I've only ever seen a VRM spread spectrum setting. But there is also a hidden SB clock spectrum setting. I dumped the BIOS and opened it in AMIBCP and saw that there is another spread spectrum setting in the main AI Tweaker menu and it should be visible according to AMIBCP, but I've never seen it. I've never gotten a perfect 100MHz bus clock on this board, except once. And 101 or higher just won't boot. The one time I did get an even 100 on the bus was by a fluke. I accidentally loaded one of the user profiles I saved from a different BIOS version. Many of the settings it prefilled were just the letter "o" instead of an actual value. I fixed them all manually, but it also must have changed hidden settings as well. The BIOS screens now had a left to right swipe animation when switching between pages and when I got into Windows, I was getting nice round boost clocks due to 100.0 bclk, but performance was hosed because cores were dropping down to 550MHz on load, most likely because of the user profile changing some hidden setting. I loaded optimized defaults and manually set everything again and the old 99.8 bclk was back.

I noticed the mouse lag issue in the BIOS to when I first got the board. I only use the keyboard now except on the Qfan graphs.

Ok thank ! Same as me, I just see VRM spread spectrum setting and nothing else.

I tried to change the BLCK to 100.0 but I cannot put any "." (dot) in the line so it's 100 or 101. Guess I'll stuck to 99.8 until change to a new motherboard next year.

Also, I'm getting annoyed to this board because I cannot overclock my b-die ram to more than 3200Mhz without BSOD. And the ultra-late BIOS update.

[Long_Y0!]

Also, I'm getting annoyed to this board because I cannot overclock my b-die ram to more than 3200Mhz without BSOD. And the ultra-late BIOS update.

Our board's RAM OC mediocrity is caused probably by the T-topology. My 3200CL14 "achieved" only 3200 "Fast preset", it can start @ 3333 MHz Fast preset and @ 3400 MHz Safe preset, but TM5 shows multiple errors, and everything starting from 3466 MHz even with the "Safe preset" timings makes a brick out of it so I'm forced to clear CMOS.

And yeah since it must not be very popular selling-wise it gets those updates really slow. Basically I'd call this motherboard a disaster.

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Our board's RAM OC mediocrity is caused probably by the T-topology. My 3200CL14 "achieved" only 3200 "Fast preset", it can start @ 3333 MHz Fast preset and @ 3400 MHz Safe preset, but TM5 shows multiple errors, and everything starting from 3466 MHz even with the "Safe preset" timings makes a brick out of it so I'm forced to clear CMOS.

And yeah since it must not be very popular selling-wise it gets those updates really slow. Basically I'd call this motherboard a disaster.

This board is Daisy Chain and it can oc pretty well i can say. I was able to use stable 3533mhz on ryzen 2600x and now 3733 on the 3600 whit some problem and tuning ofc but nothing impossible. I also have a old x370-f and thats one was T topology, whit same cpu ram etc was stuck to 3333mhz so im talking for personal experience

[Crowzer]

I got this board for more than one year (and to be honest, I quite like it) and also tried a ton of OC for my ram, but never able to do 3600 stable and even 3400. Anyway, I have stable 3200 C14 with "fast" preset so I should be glad.
But next time I'll buy a CrossHair or swtich to an another brand. I use Asus from years but I should have go for high end.

The 99.8 bus clock annoy me the most and I cannot set 100Mhz. And because of that, instead of have a 1600 Mhz ram frequency, I have 1596.8. (https://i.imgur.com/1McK7d0.jpg). Yeah, I doesn't change anything after all, but I prefer have ""simple"" number.

T-topology, what is it btw ?

[SexySale85]

T-topology, what is it btw ?

Memory layout configuration of MB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vQwGGbW1AE

or
simply Google it

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I got this board for more than one year (and to be honest, I quite like it) and also tried a ton of OC for my ram, but never able to do 3600 stable and even 3400. Anyway, I have stable 3200 C14 with "fast" preset so I should be glad.
But next time I'll buy a CrossHair or swtich to an another brand. I use Asus from years but I should have go for high end.

The 99.8 bus clock annoy me the most and I cannot set 100Mhz. And because of that, instead of have a 1600 Mhz ram frequency, I have 1596.8. (https://i.imgur.com/1McK7d0.jpg). Yeah, I doesn't change anything after all, but I prefer have ""simple"" number.

T-topology, what is it btw ?

What cpu did u have ?
On first and second ryzen cpu the IMC on the cpu make the difference on this board i believe, and ofc also depend what ram did u have :P

[Clouseau]

The whole BCLK issue not being 100 but when set to 101 it is 101, makes one scratch their head about what the actual issue is. Have the same issue when BCLK is set to 101, cores on my 3800X are frozen at 3.939GHz as well. Think it goes back to when Ryzen first launched and that any auto boosting was disabled when a manual oc was detected. Changing the BCLK on my C6H off of 100 caused this disabling to kick in. Appears the same is still true. I have had a quite boring ram overclocking experience; no matter what was set, aside from an odd cas setting, just worked. Am currently running this kit, F4-3600C16D-16GTZ, at 3800 CL16 with the fabric clock, FCLK, at 1900 without issue.

Bios Screen Shots
https://i.imgur.com/TGxosCy.png
https://i.imgur.com/E5V2BLf.png
https://i.imgur.com/TujLOtI.png
https://i.imgur.com/PPzCMIC.png
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https://i.imgur.com/wLKPyLI.png
Everything else is left on auto/default.

Aida64, CPU-Z, and Corona
https://i.imgur.com/eFvcZa7.png
https://i.imgur.com/tXFp8sO.png
https://i.imgur.com/smmf10D.png

[frissonfry]

Also, I'm getting annoyed to this board because I cannot overclock my b-die ram to more than 3200Mhz without BSOD. And the ultra-late BIOS update.

I have 2x16GB Micron e-die which requires a bit more finesse at finding the right timings past XMP settings. In my case, DOCP does not set proper subtimings, mainly the three TRFCs so I had to find complete settings screenshots to get an idea of what to set besides the 6 main timings. It took me a few weeks, and I mainly just researched other people's Ryzen Master screenshots and tried their settings until I found one that worked. I'm at 3733/1866 RAM/FCLK on BIOS 5204. I believe voltages on this board are key as well. I'm running at the upper limit of SOC at 1.2v. I've set DDRVTT to .8, and VDDG to 1.05. My main frustrations are due to being an Intel-only guy for the past 10 years and knowing the ins and outs of OC'ing that platform and then having to start from scratch with Ryzen. I'm anxiously awaiting AMD's firmware announcement on 9/10 which hopefully brings even more performance. But for now, I'm finally done tweaking.