visper wrote:
And on a different note, in considering the passive 30W GT 1030 video card, I wanted to compare AMD alternatives too, which seems to be the RX 550. Any comments on it? There seem to be no passive ones, so are there user reports on how quiet they are in fan noise and potential coil whine? At least some models mention semi-passive fans.
Atm im using
MSI GeForce GT 1030 DirectX 12 GT 1030 2GH LP OC 2GB 64-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 (uses x4) HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card, as a filler on my threadripper build, but it will be ugpraded once Nvidia release the 2070/2080. But i can confirm no whine that i can hear on the MSI GT1030, i chose that one specifically because its one of the few that comes with HDMI and DP. Now on AMD RX550 i have no experience at all, so idk, but if you want to go this route, i would probably consider the
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 550 DirectX 12 GV-RX550D5-2GD 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card, has the best user reviews and has a big fan, lots of others are low profile that i would avoid with small fans.
visper wrote:
So perhaps we have to go about it in another way: what is the highest frequency achieved by 4 X 16GB modules on the Asus Prime X370 Pro or Asrock X370 Taichi? And just as importantly, which models were they? If anyone knows of such user reports, it would be quite useful.
While its a good approach, its not guaranteed, as it depends on the chip itself, you might get a great overclocker chip and be fine, or vice versa, you get a bad overclocker and you are not able to reach what others say they could. I think Ryzen, specially memory controllers have to mature, to get close to how we think with intel, given that you still have the luck of the silicone, its not as variable as with AMD.
A video worth checking,
Level1Tech ASRock X370 TaiChi Motherboard Review- Ryzen, I like a lot Wendel reviews, he is a big linux supporter, even says his testing were done only on linux, no windows. The only bad thing about the review, is he went with ECC memory and thus lower speed,
Kingston Technology ValueRAM 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 ECC CL17 DIMM 2Rx8 Desktop Memory (KVR24E17D8/16). He also talks about memory around 15:30.
Now lets go with site reviews to see if can find what you looking for (damn im sounding like BONO),
From
TechPowerUp ASRock X370 Taichi (AMD AM4) Review, The test setup was with 2x 8 GB DDR4 3200 MHz G.Skill FlareX F4-3200C14D-16GFX, according to CPUz screenshot, seems they reached 3200mhz on the memory.
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Intel XMP profiling is supported as well, although not all memory will work without some tweaking. The entire platform is subject to this right now, so that is no issue particular to the X370 Taichi, but should you want to tweak memory timings, you will be able to do so just as easily, although you will have to dig through a few layers of menu options in order to find what you need.
From
HardwareCanucks ASRock X370 Taichi AM4 Motherboard Review test setup was with G.Skill Trident Z F4-3200014D-16GTZSW - 2 x 8GB.
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Since it is a big question at the moment, the memory kit that we used was half of a 4x8GB G.Skill Trident Z F4-3200C14Q-32GTZSW kit. It features a DDR4-3200 XMP profile with 14-14-14-34 timings. The Taichi actually has an option to enable XMP profiles, and we used it to automatically set the timings, but we did have to manually set the aforementioned SOC voltage, and also give a slight bump in the RAM voltage from 1.35V to 1.40V.
From
KitGuru ASRock X370 Taichi Motherboard Review,they used 16GB (2x8GB) G.Skill TridentZ 3200MHz 14-14-14-34 DDR4 @ 1.35V, according to the CPUz they did reach 3200mhz.
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We maintained the DRAM frequency at 3200MHz to take its stability out of the overclocking equation
From
OC3D.net ASRock X370 Taichi AM4 Motherboard Review, they used Corsair LPX 2666MHz / Corsair LPX 3000MHz,
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our final clock with 3360Mhz memory, this could be finicky and took some tweaking between benches to keep it all singing the same tune
What can we conclude form the reviews, well sadly none tested 16gb modules, but seems a lot of the reviewers favor G.Skill Trident memory as it suppose to have the Samsung B-Die that its suppose to be the most compatible memory for ryzen.
Now checking user reviews from
Newegg ASRock X370 Taichi AM4 AMD Promontory X370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard Quote:
-Did not have RAM issues others have had. 16GB Black Ripjaws V 3200MHz set to 3200MHz via XMP Profile with ease.
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G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-16GTZKW
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32GB (2x16GB) of Kingston HyperX Fury DDR 2666MHz RAM, HX426C16FBK2/32
There are a lot reaching 3200, saldy only one with 16gb modules.
Now from
QVL List of AsRock X370 Taichi, on 16gb modueles with Gskill Trident that can reach high, you will find the following, all seems to have been able to reach 2993, but again you might be able to reach this or higher or lower, its going to depend on your luck with the chip.
F4-3200C15D-32GTZR (cheapest sort of speak)
F4-3200C14D-32GTZRF4-3866C18D-32GTZR