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** Official Gigabyte A320, B350, X370 Owners club **

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** Official Gigabyte A320, B350, X370 Owners club **



After a few searching through OCN, I realized there isn't an official thread for Gigabyte AM4 motherboards to discuss/share ideas etc

Reviews :

AX370 Gaming 5

AB350 Gaming 3

Tips and tricks :

Key features :

Confirmed bugs/issues :

XMP profile must be loaded before memory multipliers will work
Apparently redundant naming for some settings in the UEFI. Eg; CPU LLC: Normal, Standard, Medium. Three settings, all essentially with the same meaning. If settings do have small differences, rename for clarity. Eg; Level 1, Level 2, Level 3.

( Bugs are on Gaming 5 )

Moded bioses :

Latest beta bioses :

AX370 Gaming 5 F5d

AX370 Gaming K7 F3b

AB350 Gaming 3 F6d

AB350M Gaming 3 F3c

Overclock records :

AB350 Gaming 3 - 3942Mhz

AX370 Gaming 5 - 4091Mhz

 
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what was gigabyte thinking with the m2 placement on the 5. its in the worst possible spot. without a doubt that's going to choke a 950 / 960 pro ssd. especially when gaming. i would heavily consider putting the gpu on water if you're going to use this board along with a m2 nvme drive.
 
#5 ·
I bought a reference 1080 Ti more-or-less due to this.

The fact that the non-reference version cost even more, and $700 for a GPU was (I think) already a lot, played a big role too.
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Originally Posted by muffins View Post

what was gigabyte thinking with the m2 placement on the 5. its in the worst possible spot. without a doubt that's going to choke a 950 / 960 pro ssd. especially when gaming. i would heavily consider putting the gpu on water if you're going to use this board along with a m2 nvme drive.
 
#6 ·
i just received my gaming 5 to replace my crosshair hero. i updated to f5d and i have to say the gaming 5 boots a lot faster than my previous crosshair did.
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Originally Posted by zvonexp View Post

Why ? i'm using sm951 m.2 and no problems.. however once when u install he staying there
i'm concerned about temperatures. my 1080 ftw puts out a lot of heat.
 
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Originally Posted by muffins View Post

what was gigabyte thinking with the m2 placement on the 5. its in the worst possible spot. without a doubt that's going to choke a 950 / 960 pro ssd. especially when gaming. i would heavily consider putting the gpu on water if you're going to use this board along with a m2 nvme drive.
It looks like some kind of mission when you have to pull it out. But other than that I'm not sure, honest. My case is one big cooler by itself
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, and the windforce heat-sink on the gpu will pretty much blow some air on or around my 960evo. I'll let you know guys. And sure I'll mount the gpu on the x16 and x8 port to see if there is any difference between the two. I believe it will be marginal.
 
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Originally Posted by muffins View Post

i just received my gaming 5 to replace my crosshair hero. i updated to f5d and i have to say the gaming 5 boots a lot faster than my previous crosshair did.
i'm concerned about temperatures. my 1080 ftw puts out a lot of heat.
why ? there is no reason to be concerned.. it's ssd
 
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So almost done setting up my rebuild with the gaming 5. As mentioned earlier first thing I did when I first booted was update to f5d. inital impressions so far have been very pleasing and a nice alternative to the crosshair. compared to my crosshair hero, the gaming 5 has "worked out of the box." there are some immaturity with the bios in regards to features. unless i'm missing something, the inability to disable onboard audio or one of the secondary network cards. but right now I would rather have gigabyte focus on stability, compatibility, and performance. which appears to be their focus.

the board itself looks great and outside of those two low priority features i've mentioned, the bios has all the features I want. only thing I haven't tried yet is setting my ram to their rated speeds, but i'm going off a limb with the assumption it should work since its a single rank, 16gb, cas 14 3000mhz samsung gskill kit.

my 950 pro has been cool so far, but we shall see once I get a long bf1 session going. nevertheless, i ordered a pci-express m2 nvme adapter. regardless if I need it or not, its nice to have because I've been wanting to add in a second nvme drive.

edit:
so i set my ram to 29 multi, since 30 multi sets it to 32, 3200, and 29 sets it to 2933mhz. ryzen doesn't have a 3000mhz ratio, so i understand why. changed timing control to advance manual, set both a and b channels to 14-*(14)*-34, and dram voltage to 1.35v's and it ""appears"" to be working. we shall see lol.

edit #2:
memory performance at the same settings and kit is far better than on the crosshair. an extra 1GB in bandwidth in write, read, copy, and 6ns less latency in AIDA64. seems like gigabyte is doing better in the memory department. so far at least i'm pretty damn happy with the board.

edit #3:
after playing bf1 for about an hour, my 950 pro had a max of 60c with an average of 57c. so not to bad considering its underneath my 1080.
 
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Originally Posted by muffins View Post

i just received my gaming 5 to replace my crosshair hero. i updated to f5d and i have to say the gaming 5 boots a lot faster than my previous crosshair did.
i'm concerned about temperatures. my 1080 ftw puts out a lot of heat.
Now that I've built my Ryzen rig I can give you an honest answer. My 250GB 960 evo idles around 30°C. It goes up to 39°C when my GTX970 is getting 100% use. I would even say it's an advantage. When my 960 evo sees heavy load, my GPU is just idling and its fans are cooling my NVMe disk down
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Originally Posted by zvonexp View Post

Yeah, board is awesome.. i'm waiting for some memory kit.. better memory on ryzen improves a lot performances
G.Skill 16GB kits -2*8GB- DDR3200 with a latency of CAS14 go up to 3200MHz in a flick of a switch. Does it really makes that much of a difference? I don't know yet. I still have to create a restore point with Reflect before thinking doing tests
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Originally Posted by Euskafreez View Post

G.Skill 16GB kits -2*8GB- DDR3200 with a latency of CAS14 go up to 3200MHz in a flick of a switch. Does it really makes that much of a difference? I don't know yet. I still have to create a restore point with Reflect before thinking doing tests
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Got the same kit being delivered tomorrow along with the board. Let us know your results.
 
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Originally Posted by fastpcman12 View Post

How are you guys controlling your case fans with the gibabyte boards? I need some recommendations.

SIV does not work at all for me. I can't click on anything.
there should be a smart fan option in bios. that one works fine for me.

I'm about to update my K7 with the F3b bios, is anyone running that right now?
 
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Originally Posted by zvonexp View Post

Yeah, board is awesome.. i'm waiting for some memory kit.. better memory on ryzen improves a lot performances
G.Skill 16GB kits -2*8GB- DDR3200 with a latency of CAS14 go up to 3200MHz in a flick of a switch. Does it really makes that much of a difference? I don't know yet. I still have to create a restore point with Reflect before thinking doing test
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Originally Posted by LBear View Post

Got the same kit being delivered tomorrow along with the board. Let us know your results.
What I meant is that I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference between 2666, 2933 and 3200MHz? I'll play with memory speed this weekend and we will see
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I received my memory on Monday, I set the memory at 3200MHz and used the XMP profile for timings and voltage.

And voila :
 
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well i finally got my first anomaly today with my gaming 5 with f5d. just browsing the internet with firefox, only around five tabs open. nothing out of the ordinarily. no flash, videos, or the like playing and the computer just froze. nothing else running at all. a complete hard lock. couldn't move the mouse, couldn't even turn off my numpad on my keyboard. power button did nothing. 100% frozen. had to do a hard reset.

very odd as i have been running the computer just fine since i installed the motherboard. just got done going three full days without a single reboot. did my first reboot last night because i got the urge to double check my ram and ran memtest. let it do two passes and everything was clear. then today i had to reboot for a windows update but the machine was on after that for three hours before the freeze.

my cpu is running at nearly full stock, auto settings. only my ram has fancy settings. running at its rated cas 14, 14, 14, 14, 34 @ 2933 (3000)mhz with 1.35v's. i don't believe it was caused by my power supply as i owned it since october and it was in my previous build. a evga 750 watt g3. i checked event viewer and it didn't pick up anything under system out of the ordinary. it didn't record a bsod. just a "critical, kernel power - system didn't reboot cleanly."

edit:
thinking about it, i don't think this was my first.... shortly after i built the computer and installed windows, i was checking voltages and temperatures with hwinfo. well after i had opened hwinfo i opened up cpu-z along side it to compare, and when cpu-z was loading up, my system froze identically to what just happened. at the time i figured it froze because i was trying to run two monitoring programs at the same time, and even reported it in the hwinfo thread.

but now with an awfully similar hard lock, but this time without running any monitoring programs, and nothing else in the background. just firefox, i'm starting to think it wasn't hwinfo and cpu-z that caused the very first freeze almost a week ago. i wonder if its just a bios issue. i hope that's all it is. ugh.
 
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I'll join in on this one. Have the AB350 Gaming 3 on the F5 bios. Haven't tried to OC as of yet but currently it's sitting with a Wraith cooler. (Was bundled with the 8350) so I may give it a shot. Will post some pics of the rig tomorrow and after getting the bracket from Corsair.
 
#20 ·
Hi everyone, first post here. This is my first AMD build, and I am experiencing some issues.

My specs are as follows:
  • Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 with F5 BIOs
  • RYZEN 1700 stock cooler + stock clock
  • Corsair 16GB DDR4 Vengeance LED 3200 Mhz
  • AMD Firepro W7100 8gb GPU - Latest Firepro drivers.
  • 650W EVGA PSU
When I play my MMO, I crash randomly in places that have high graphics. The PC never crashes when I'm not playing games. Before crash the CPU temperature is 40-45C, and GPU is at 70C.

When a crash happens, my screen turns black and I hear a loud buzzing sound until I force the PC to power down.

I am scratching my head what the issue is. Could it be the workstation GPU not able to handle games even with latest drivers? It should be able to as this MMO is 8+ years old.

I have reset BIOs, no overclock, and even had no issue with my MemTest86 results.

Anyone can assist me or give me some idea what could be the issue?
 
#21 ·
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Originally Posted by hotbrass View Post

Where did you get the F5 bios update. I only see F2 on the Gigabyte web site? Thanks!
I've since returned the board to the store it was bought from. I wasn't a fan of some of the VRM chips not having a cooler on the.

When I looked I managed to snag it directly from the Gigabyte website. There wasn't much added from the F4 bios either.
 
#22 ·
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Originally Posted by molang2 View Post

Hi everyone, first post here. This is my first AMD build, and I am experiencing some issues.

My specs are as follows:
  • Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 with F5 BIOs
  • RYZEN 1700 stock cooler + stock clock
  • Corsair 16GB DDR4 Vengeance LED 3200 Mhz
  • AMD Firepro W7100 8gb GPU - Latest Firepro drivers.
  • 650W EVGA PSU
When I play my MMO, I crash randomly in places that have high graphics. The PC never crashes when I'm not playing games. Before crash the CPU temperature is 40-45C, and GPU is at 70C.
When a crash happens, my screen turns black and I hear a loud buzzing sound until I force the PC to power down.
I am scratching my head what the issue is. Could it be the workstation GPU not able to handle games even with latest drivers? It should be able to as this MMO is 8+ years old.
I have reset BIOs, no overclock, and even had no issue with my MemTest86 results.
Anyone can assist me or give me some idea what could be the issue?
Hello. It happened to me twice when playing GTA V.
My specs:
  • Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3 with F6d bios
  • RYZEN 1700x, stock clock, Noctua NH-D15
  • 2*8GB HyperX Predator 3200 (working at 2400, try any higher settings and all hell breaks loose)
  • Sapphire RX480 8GB, Nitro OC
  • 650W SuperFlower Leadex Gold PSU
I built this box on March 17/18th and only had time to test it in 2 games, DotA2 and GTA V. No problems in DotA, but GTA gives me the same crash/freeze as your MMO.
If I lower a bit the graphics settings it seems to work for a longer time, but still crashes in the end.
I don't think this is normal at all, please keep me updated if you figure out what is causing it. I'll do the same.
Cheers.
 
#24 ·
F6d was released the day I got the motherboard (March 17th), however they pulled it out a few days later. I don't know what is so dangerous about it, but in my case, what is bad with F6d gets much worse with F5. Not the lockups, but memory compatibility, getting stuck in endless reboots at power on... With RAM that is on the QVL listed as working at 3200...
 
#26 ·
If anyone with the K7/K5/G5 would be kind enough to test, can you enter into the bios and hover over the right side monitoring info panel and check if mouse movement is making your bclk jump up and down?

I took a video of the behavior. It happens with my mouse in the DAC-up USB and regular USB on the latest beta bios (also happened in the F3 official bios).



I'm pretty sure me taking this video is what corrupted my SSD a week back. Trying to figure out if it's unique to a board line, or just my board specifically. Thanks.
 
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