[kamil234]

Might have to wait for new AGESA. Things I have heard that helped people, but haven't verified myself:

• Uninstall Ryzen Master

• Increase BCLK to 100.1

• Turn off XMP + PBO

• Try BIOS F4 + F5E.

If none of those work you in a holding pattern. Good news is gaming should be fine, since its almost all multi threaded.

I’ll try it out and report back tomorrow.

 

[Jimini]

I was wondering if anyone has run into problems with USB on this motherboard?

Half the time when I connect my keyboard to the USB2 ports and the system boots into the bios, it’s very hard to navigate, whenever I select an option with enter it sends so many enters it almost immediately exits without letting me select anything. Then after a while the keyboard dies. The other half the time the keyboard simply doesn’t work. Mouse doesn’t work at all. Same happens with the USB3 ports on the front of the case.

The only way to get it to work is to plug it into the white USB 3 port. I haven’t seen any options that could be causing this and it’s the first time I run into something like this for a PC build. Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening and how I could fix it? I’d hate to have to dismantle everything again and deal with newegg returns.

 

[GBT-MatthewH]

I was wondering if anyone has run into problems with USB on this motherboard?

Half the time when I connect my keyboard to the USB2 ports and the system boots into the bios, it’s very hard to navigate, whenever I select an option with enter it sends so many enters it almost immediately exits without letting me select anything. Then after a while the keyboard dies. The other half the time the keyboard simply doesn’t work. Mouse doesn’t work at all. Same happens with the USB3 ports on the front of the case.

The only way to get it to work is to plug it into the white USB 3 port. I haven’t seen any options that could be causing this and it’s the first time I run into something like this for a PC build. Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening and how I could fix it? I’d hate to have to dismantle everything again and deal with newegg returns.

What BIOS version? If you had trouble booting the first time it may have gone back to BIOS F1. If so get up to speed with the latest and try again.

 

[phillyman36]

Just curious for those who have their system put together(3900x, 3700x etc etc) how did you apply thermal paste to your cpu? With this chiplet design did you apply just a pea size dot in the middle or did you use another method?

 

[vaff]

For someone looking at a highend x470 (Gaming 7) or x570 (AORUS Elite or Pro) ... I'm not interested in pci-e 4.0, but I want to run a solid board with my 3900x, is there anything specific I should look at?

 

[kamil234]

Just curious for those who have their system put together(3900x, 3700x etc etc) how did you apply thermal paste to your cpu? With this chiplet design did you apply just a pea size dot in the middle or did you use another method?

I used the usual method (pea in the middle)

I noticed the heatsink included with the cpu is not very flat where the copper pipes run actoss the bottom, there are huge inward gaps. I filled a VERY TINY amount of paste between the gaps, and smeared it with a credit card, then used the pea method on the IHS. The temperatures are still horrible, although people report that 45-50C is the normal idle temps for the 3900x..also the CPU idles at 1.45v which i found strange, but it's also in line with what people reported online...

I used gelid ge- lid extreme paste

another edit: apparent AMD robert on twitter said that most monitoring software (even ryzen master, their own software..lol) poll frequently which wakes up the cores from sleep all the time. Gonna remove ryzen master and use cpu-z which he confirmed works correctly, and check idle voltages again.

 

[pschorr1123]

Just curious for those who have their system put together(3900x, 3700x etc etc) how did you apply thermal paste to your cpu? With this chiplet design did you apply just a pea size dot in the middle or did you use another method?

Since I used Thermal Grizzly I followed their directions which is you paint a thin layer over the entire cpu. They give you a little "spatula" and a thin nozzle. The nozzle is impossible to clean though

 

[pschorr1123]

I also wanted to report that I was having issues resuming from sleep.

I'm on 1903 and manually updated all of the drivers from Aorus website.

I would be greeted with a black screen and no led activity on keyboad and mouse. Shift+Ctrl+win+B would not work to reset display driver

For now I went in bios and disabled the Realtek 2.5G lan and all is well concerning sleep working.

Anyone else has issues with sleep?

This behavior was on f5e and the Test Bios Matthew posed yesterday

 

[LazarusIV]

Works! Just sent to HQ to test.

Awesome! 😁😁

I GOT IT TO POST XMP. I cannot believe this is what was causing it, but I had the memory in slots A1,B1 and they had to be in A2 B2 to post XMP. I cannot believe I overlooked this... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Dude, nice. I'm actually using two of those kits so I'm wondering if I would've been ok. Anywho, the updated version of Manjaro with the fix has been in testing so we should have a fix is stable soon.

 

[Aenra]

For someone looking at a highend x470 (Gaming 7) or x570 (AORUS Elite or Pro), is there anything specific I should look at?

If the higher RAM frequency is also not of interest to you (it being platform related), i'd get the X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi and happily call it a day. And for multiple reasons at that.
On the other hand, if you aren't interested in PCIE 4.0 (ergo new NVMEs), or in having an extra -actually usable- PCIE slot, or in RAM freqs.. what exactly constitutes high end for you? The extra 200ish MHz an OC could give you? 'Cause you could get those with a 450 as well, no need for "high end".

Nice to have choices, long as we take advantage of them

 

[EpiDx]

I never even saw a place to change the voltage on the bios, that could be the issue, I was supposed to increase it to 1.45

 

[GBT-MatthewH]

Updated my first post with fan profile BIOS for all boards! https://www.overclock.net/forum/28023210-post4.html

 

[vaff]

If the higher RAM frequency is also not of interest to you (it being platform related), i'd get the X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi and happily call it a day. And for multiple reasons at that.
On the other hand, if you aren't interested in PCIE 4.0 (ergo new NVMEs), or in having an extra -actually usable- PCIE slot, or in RAM freqs.. what exactly constitutes high end for you? The extra 200ish MHz an OC could give you? 'Cause you could get those with a 450 as well, no need for "high end".

Nice to have choices, long as we take advantage of them

So what you are saying is. I should go with the dirt cheap MSI x470 Gaming Plus that I came across?

 

[bucdan]

Went with the 3700x and the Aorus Pro Wifi. Trying to get PBO going, but the BIOS settings are confusing, very convoluted. There's multiple places to enable PBO and even XFR, some I'm not sure which one is correct to adjust. I hope they clean it up a bit. I can make sense of the tweaker page easy, but the moment I go to settings, it's kind of all over the place where i can adjust the CPU and RAM there as well OUTSIDE of the tweaker page.

Updated my first post with fan profile BIOS for all boards! https://www.overclock.net/forum/28023210-post4.html

Hey, it's Matt! Didn't know you dwelled on OCN as well as seeing you in the AMD subreddit. Matt for your instructions, any reason why it just uses bin files while the one on the official website is using 3 different files? I just copied all 3 files to a USB and flashed in the BIOS just fine.

 

[GBT-MatthewH]

Hey, it's Matt! Didn't know you dwelled on OCN as well as seeing you in the AMD subreddit. Matt for your instructions, any reason why it just uses bin files while the one on the official website is using 3 different files? I just copied all 3 files to a USB and flashed in the BIOS just fine.

Other files are for command prompt flashing. Means nothing to 99% of users. All you need is the BIN.

 

[bucdan]

Other files are for command prompt flashing. Means nothing to 99% of users. All you need is the BIN.

Ok cool.

 

[Nopileus]

Updated my first post with fan profile BIOS for all boards! https://www.overclock.net/forum/28023210-post4.html

Amazingly fast turnaround on that, thanks a lot.

Just flashed on my Elite and the Fan stays off on the silent profile, shame you didn't ship it this way from the get go but this is great regardless.

 

[Forceman]

If the higher RAM frequency is also not of interest to you (it being platform related), i'd get the X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi and happily call it a day. And for multiple reasons at that.
On the other hand, if you aren't interested in PCIE 4.0 (ergo new NVMEs), or in having an extra -actually usable- PCIE slot, or in RAM freqs.. what exactly constitutes high end for you? The extra 200ish MHz an OC could give you? 'Cause you could get those with a 450 as well, no need for "high end".

Nice to have choices, long as we take advantage of them

The x470 boards don't have the ability to flash without a CPU, do they? Will they boot up enough with a 3 series to allow you to flash a supported BIOS version? I've been thinking of going x470, but I only have Intel CPUs right now.

 

[BLKKROW]

Trying to decide between the Aorus Pro Wifi and the Aorus Ultra. This upgrade will need to last a few years so I am looking for something with good power delivery and a bit future proof.

Anyone have any opinions on either? I may be mistaken but the only difference I can see is the extra M2 slot in the Ultra.

 

[bucdan]

Trying to decide between the Aorus Pro Wifi and the Aorus Ultra. This upgrade will need to last a few years so I am looking for something with good power delivery and a bit future proof.

Anyone have any opinions on either? I may be mistaken but the only difference I can see is the extra M2 slot in the Ultra.

I think either are future proof. The VRMs on both of these boards are way up there. IMO, if you care for WIFI and bluetooth, then get the Pro Wifi. The most you can say for future proof with this board is Ryzen 4000, becuase Ryzen 5000 may be on a new socket.