besides the lack of p-state oc and the weak vrm cooling, it works "ok" for my ryzen 5 1600.

Oh dear oh dear, im hearing all sorts of horror stories with the gigabyte aorus x470 board, yes you guessed it, theyve learned absolutely nothing, the bios is just as bad. once again people are sucked in by the flashing lights.

TBH I blame the youtubers/websites reviewing Gigabyte X470 board , they all say is Top Quality board for X470, they say the board is well designed, lots of extras and that it works very well out of the box and better memory compatibility than most of the other brands.

This is exactly what I experienced with Gaming 5 X370, and the reason why I bought it in the first place. BIG MISTAKE!

I don't know if the reviewers receive modified boards or what is happening, but they all say good things about Gigabyte.

Most reviewers are just clueless and have absolutely no idea how to properly test. So I'll put to you a simple question; who would you rather trust a reviewer who just plonks in a few components then fires the system up to benchmark it or someone like me who has worked for Mushkin memory R&D in the past and thus knows how to test for bugs.

The reviewers havent got a clue because they dont actually buy the hardware or spend any meaningful time with it. these people are paid to say what they do.

@ket if it wasnt for you i would have sold my gaming 5 three days after i bought it, terrible terrible boards

Zitat von PickMeNow im Beitrag #693

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TBH I blame the youtubers/websites reviewing Gigabyte X470 board , they all say is Top Quality board for X470, they say the board is well designed, lots of extras and that it works very well out of the box and better memory compatibility than most of the other brands.

This is exactly what I experienced with Gaming 5 X370, and the reason why I bought it in the first place. BIG MISTAKE!

I don't know if the reviewers receive modified boards or what is happening, but they all say good things about Gigabyte.

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Modified F23f is up for the Gaming 5. I changed a few things for fast boot let me know if all the options display still.

for 3466mhz xmp ram on the taichi i would highly recommend setting the memory impedance to 53.3 ohms, got mine at 14,12,10,11 1T the corsair rgb ram that is, you will notice you might need to do two save and exits in the bios for the setting to fully load.

And whatever you do never use CPU-ID or (CPU-Z) on any ryzen board, the displayed LLC voltages are all wrong, for my taichi x370 i use the app from asrock (A-Tuning utility) it has direct contact with the motherboard giving spot on accuracy of voltage readings. one thing i admire about asrock, they dont fill their software full of useless bloatware.

okay i have a pretty dumb question but is it possible to replace rgb fusion with aura sync? or somehow spoof the motherboard to an asus x370 motherboard and re-route the commands ?

Get yourself a corsair rgb controller theyre pretty cheap, come with 4 fully programmable strips and connect to 6 fans too, lighting node pro kit.

yes of course i can do that but the gaming k7 that i have has a lot of rgb leds already and it would be a waste to just not use them. the only thing that lights up in my case at the moment is my corsair vengeance rgb which is controlled via aura sync because gigabyte's software sucks and can't change the colors of the ram and its on the supported list...

Corsairs own software controls rgb ram lighting, theres also a demo test point on that motherboard thats powered from 5v

you can use iCue or Link for rgb ram, strips and fans

the leds themselves are pretty poor on aorus boards though, and as you say its software is meh.

i use these with the lighting node pro and 4 individually adressible led strips, theyre excellent

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CO-9050...ghting+node+pro

corsair icue software is out now, it even has game profiles, basically you can set the ase fans/strips/ram to any colour on launching a game or other program.

icue works with all rgb corsair keyboards,ram,strips and fans, its bloomin awesome.

I am glad I found you @ket, otherwise I would be clueless about what to do with my gaming 5.

I decided I will wait for Zen2 to upgrade my system, CPU and Motherboard, let's just hope gaming 5 doesn't die on me sooner.
Next time I will go Taichi all the way. Seems to be amazing boards, although they are very easy to go out of stock.

Boards that go out of stock quick are the best sellers, both x370 and x470 taichi boards are monster performers

this is what i got on the r7 2700x in the x370 taichi