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Simple really, does anyone know anything about this board?

I've a Crosshair vi Hero, but I bought a biostar X370GT7 for my son and it's been pretty good with the 1700 I put in it for him.
Pretty much everything was in the bios if a bit hard to find, runs fine at 3.9Ghz/3000 mem (hynix ) which was all it would do in the C6H anyway.

if the X570GT8 is anything like, at the price its unbeatable, anyone know any gotcha's? I've a 3900x on the way :)

EDIT: Not any more, got a 3600 on the way, going to wait for the 3950x

here are some pics

VRM s are ir3555m and ir 35201 controller

in the 2nd to last pic the pint of the screwdriver is over the x570 chip
 

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Yes I am running that bios now but never saw anything about it being able to run the 3000 series cpu. Maybe I will just buy a 3800X and see what happens.
 
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Oh. I didn't know that. You just saved me $200-300 bucks. :thumb:


That 3900X is supposedly a 105 watt item. I remember seeing this 1700 hit 165 watts and the VRMs have never gone past 68C.
 
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Have they improved the fan control for the X570GT8? My X470GT8 left me wanting as it was kinda limited in it's options.
Only PWM control and you couldn't mix and match which sensor each fan header was reading temperature from. They were stuck to their original source.

Gigabyte had much better options and easier to use.
 
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don't know , I was comparing it with my C6H, where you can set 3 points only in the bios to get a "curve". which the bios then seems to ignore and says all I'm going to do is cycle between slow and fast lol
 
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I believe the VRMs are the same as the CH6 but not as many and the heat sink is just a solid block of aluminum.



The case fan controller sounds like it is the same on the x370 and x470. Yes PWM only and it is locked to the system temps instead of the CPU temps. Whether this is good or not depends on one's priorities. To me this is very good as the case fans only rev up when gaming and the GPU needs lots of cool air. If one is interested in the highest possible overclocks, then this is a bad thing.



What I like is how each fan can be tuned from idle to top rpm so that they run at the same speed at all times. Fans running at different speeds and producing bad atonal harmonics is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me and this is the first board I've had that lets me tune that out.



But still, when I go to the Biostar site and look for retailers it says to go to Newegg, but Newegg does not have the X570 for sale. So who knows what features it may have?
 
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miklkit said:
I believe the VRMs are the same as the CH6 but not as many and the heat sink is just a solid block of aluminum.



The case fan controller sounds like it is the same on the x370 and x470. Yes PWM only and it is locked to the system temps instead of the CPU temps. Whether this is good or not depends on one's priorities. To me this is very good as the case fans only rev up when gaming and the GPU needs lots of cool air. If one is interested in the highest possible overclocks, then this is a bad thing.



What I like is how each fan can be tuned from idle to top rpm so that they run at the same speed at all times. Fans running at different speeds and producing bad atonal harmonics is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me and this is the first board I've had that lets me tune that out.



But still, when I go to the Biostar site and look for retailers it says to go to Newegg, but Newegg does not have the X570 for sale. So who knows what features it may have?
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Well I will on the 2nd when it arrives :) . I've a 3900x on order so when it eventually arrives, I'll post a small review and some pics without all the heatsinks/fancy bits on. My 2700x is going to my eldest so I'll try it in my C6H first and see if there is any difference in clocks or DRAM over-clock ability. I've a nice set of teamgroup b-die 3200 CL14 which should max out the 1:1 at 3600/3733.
 
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It looks like a good layout. That fan looks like a high speed job with so-so blades so it won't be the quietest, but considering that Biostar tends to use good quality parts it should last a long time.



I don't like those hard plastic PCIE lock downs as I tend to break them right away. But I have not broken the ones on my X370 so they must be better somehow, maybe because they are bigger so I can use a finger instead of a screw driver.


Pet peeve: I'd like to see the socket for the case front panel cable moved to the leading edge of the board by the SATA sockets for better cable routing.



It still has the dual bios chips with a switch which helped me a lot when I messed up ram settings.


It's too bad it's not for sale on this continent.
 
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No reports on the BIOS/features for the X570GT8?

Even if the X470GT8 had dual bios I never broke it on that board. Too much fail-safe built-in and didn't let you use unstable settings.
 
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Mostly I use that for new bios by leapfrogging from one to the next. That way if a bios was no good a flip of the switch got it back to where it was. But it really didn't like the settings that ram utility from musimus or whatever his name is spit out and it simply would not post.



Yeah, is the new bios like the old bios?
 
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Discussion starter · #18 · (Edited)
Bios pic for those interested

here are a few bios pics of it running on my bench, the bios seems to have all the settings my C6H does.
It runs my bdies and hits 4.2mhz on AGESA 1.0.0.2c. and 3200 cl14 stable.

I've got 1.0.0.3abb on the first bios to try tonight, still runs 3200 cl14 xmp stable.

and a final pic of where its going when I get the 3950x :)

oops first pic upside down lol

one thing, if you have bdies change proc to 34.3 to get them stable
 

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Hi,

Just stumbled upon this thread. I'm looking into the x570gt8, could you please give me some details ? Is the chipset fan noisy ? Do you hear it at idle, what about load ? Also, is there chipset fan control in bios ? Bought a x570 tuf for my 3700x but returned it because the chipset fan was annoying and asus doesn't allow fan control. I was looking into the gigabyte boards since they have chipset fan control but i want a mb with a ps/2 port for my keyboard.
 
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The chipset fan is noisy with the default setting. But you can set a custom fan curve for it and then it is inaudible. I personally set the chipset fan to 50% until 70 °C. In my experience that is enough cooling, the chipset stays far below the 70°C and it is silent.
Overall fan control is in my opinion sufficient, but not comparable with what old classics like Speedfan provide.

The RAM OC problems earlier Biostar boards had seem to be gone. Every setting you could want is available, including CAD Bus and Data Bus configuration settings. The latter are sadly not together with the timings settings, but buried in the "Advanced" tab. My personal results with E-Die are good (3733C15). MEM VDDIO and MEM VTT are not reported in Ryzen Master. RAM voltage can only be set as an offset to the 1.2V standard voltage. Up to (and including) ABB BIOS it consistently set the ProcODT value too low, causing problems to even load the XMP profile of my RAM (3000C15). Since ABBA that problem is fixed - at least for my RAM.

Things that annoy me:

- The CPU boost feels rather low, but performance is still good. 196 R15 SC is ok for a 3600 despite it not reaching 4200MHz during the run. Performance is ok, so I decided not to care too much for now.
- Default LLC feels rather aggressive. Changing it to LLC1 produces much lower temperatures and a slight multicore performance gain. SC stays the same.
- It reports wrong PSU voltages. It reports 2V for the 3.3V rail, 3.4V for the 5V rail and 3.65V for the 12V rail. FFS. That should never get through quality control.
- It does not report VRM temperatures or stuff like that. Probably an unnecessary feature as the VRM of it should be good enough for any AM4 CPU, but still - can not be that hard to display that value.

Thing that is seriously broken:

- The primary video device setting under "Chipset->Northbridge->GFX configuration->Primary Video Device" is not user enabled. With the 1004B Beta BIOS the mainboard tries to use my soundcard (Asus Xonar DGX) as video output. That does obviously not work. As a result: No post. Only fix I found so far was removing the soundcard. Lets hope they fix the bug. Otherwise I will have to see about either a BIOS mod or returning the board as defective.

That looks like quite a long list of problems, but overall I like the board. It got a very good feature set hardware-wise and is let down a bit by the software. Price/Features is very good. If the Bios gets fixed I can seriously recommend this board, otherwise I will probably be forced to learn how to mod the BIOS.
 
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