I've been away for a while, and I upgraded to 2700X.

Kept the same board (AX370-Gaming K7) and memory kit (4x8GB G.Skill TridentZ F4-3200C16Q-32GTZ - Samsung D-Die)

I'm using the latest ket's modified firmware (F23f) and it's working well. CPU is overclocked to 4.2Ghz, and memory runs at 3200Mhz - XMP is working fine..

Settings I'm using (what I changed from Default):

Multi: 42X
Vcore: 1.31850v
VSoC: 1.10v
Vcore Loadline Calibration: Turbo
Vcore SoC: High
XMP Enabled
Geardown Mode: OFF (CR2) - ON works as well - difference is that with ON bandwidth is slightly higher, and with OFF latency is slightly lower. I'd go with latency.

Everything else on AUTO.

The main difference between Ket's and GB's firmware is that Ket actually fixed CSM setting, adding Windows 10 WHQL setting, which completely turns off CSM, allowing SecureBoot to work.

AMD SVM in Ket's firmware setting has a typo - Virtulisation - only cosmetic though.

My 1800X is a poor overclocker - 3.9Ghz @1.38750v is the maximum attainable oveclocked frequency.
My memory kit worked well though.

That's it for now. I'll keep an eye on this thread once in a while. Good job and thank you for your efforts so far in fixing GB's half-assed firmwares.

my 2700x cpu is dead, it just randomly shut down and wouldnt power up again showing debug code 07 on three different motherboards, rma is in process and will receive a new one within 7 days. the x470 gaming7 wifi i just bought is a beautiful looking board

Although i mentioned the 2700x will work ok in an x370 board i would now strongly recommend against doing this, the x470 is designed for ryzen+ for a reason it seems.

If your cpu survives the first month thats the real test, after this its safe to say all will be well for years.

theres really no need to overclock a 2700x in an x470 board it does eveything itself and with better results, on water fully overclocks itself to 4.3ghz, there are are settings on x470 bios that dont exist on any x370 board, including ultra fine tuning of xfr2 and precision boost2 and massive memory timing improvements, also now memory defaults to 2933 instead of 2133, so with that said i would only ever use 3466 or 3600 ram on x470 to get the full benefit, only 4 bios revisions have been released so far, all this is looking very promising indeed, im a happy bunny now, with all the complaints about gigabytes previous gen joker boards, it seems the company has actually taken action at last.

the gigabyte x470 gaming 7 wifi is everything the gaming5 x370 isnt, sleek, fast and bloody beautiful, every part of the board can have its leds changed digitally and individually, also backward compatible with standard analog 4 pin led strips/fans, it also has bloody amazing memory performance knocking spots off any x370, includes a end user replaceable bios chip, which is an absolute must with ryzen, in fact i would consider this the most important feature and would now never buy a motherboard without it. theres so much on this board there wasnt even enough room to fit a simple power button, its on the led illuminated built in io shield, the uefi fan controls are now also absolutely perfect, basically these boards are an upgraded and superior version of the gigabyte x370 gaming k7, with much better memory, led and io support. better in every way basically, it even feels like a quality product with metal backplate on the rear of the board for stability, its also unusually heavy and has proper finned heatsink assemblies around the vrm sections, that drops the temps 15c lower than any asus board.

This is ideal in my situation, as my thermaltake tower900 case has a centrally mounted 140mm fan pushing cold air upwards all over the motherboard at all times, it runs at just 700rpm so its totally silent when the glass doors are closed, i even love how the debug readout is now under the memory slots, in the tower 900 case this means the readout is showing the correct orientation not sideways.

The gaming 7 wifi also has various vcore 12,5 and 3.3v voltage test points for a multimeter right above the cpu socket, they really have thought of everything, i cannot believe they made a board this good after churning out those fucking awful gaming 5, k5 and k7's, its almost as if another company has built it, even the pcb itself is really thick and strong, no flex whatsoever, it just feels and looks like a quality product. The large rear metal stability bracket is genius, ive fitted thermal pads under it cooling the vrms and cpu socket area even further shaving off yet another 7 degrees of load temps, on the back of the motherboard in my tower900 case on the back panel there are two slow running 140mm fans blowing directly over the rear heatsink, god i love this case is so bloody good, you literally have 360 degree cooling, corsair could learn a thing or two from the tower900, gpu sag can never happen for starters!

Im now running my corsair vengeance rgb xmp 3466 cas 16,18,18 ram at 3520MHz cas 14,13,10,11,1t & 53.3 Ohm resistance, memtest reports 49.70 ms latency, and 25.02 GBs bandwidth, what an incredible increase! all these small improvements really do add up

At last gigabyte have made a decent board, after all the upset and stress the gaming5 caused me i was seriously getting put off to buy the gaming 7 x470, im so glad i did now though, its the number 1 board for x470 now in my books, but the taichi remains the best x370 board, no other even comes close here for x370 it is an absolute beast of a performer.

I know ive done nothing but rip on gigabyte on this forum and all this may seem a bit hypocritical, but i had every reason to, after all none of the other gigabyte boards even work properly and have various faults, this new revision chipset is just stellar and everythings fixed with the added bonus of extra performance and an absolutely beautiful led implementation, far better than any of the competition.

This board is a whole 100 pounds cheaper than asus's flagship board and ill be perfectly honest, the asus does nothing for me at all it just looks bland and unappealing, thats a serious price difference and considering what you get with the gaming7 its a no brainer, i have had a play on asus's flagship x470 board, cant say im keen on it at all, its boring.

hey - thank you in advance

could you please mod

GA-AX370-Gaming-3 BIOS F23d?

i would love to have VCore and LLC ;)

Zitat von AndreDVJ im Beitrag #736

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AMD SVM in Ket's firmware setting has a typo - Virtulisation - only cosmetic though.

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I mean it's missing an 'a' for Virtualisation.

Ket,

Have the latest bios mod for the AX370 K-3 and cannot set the VSoC to 1.1v or just don’t know how. When I type in Turbo I get increments that only go up in voltage for VSoC and not towards the negative (lower) voltage. The board is running good, but concerned about heat related issues. If the bios is OK it seems counter intuitive to me. Care to help a old geezer again??

Thanks,

MAK

Zitat von AndreDVJ im Beitrag #740

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I mean it's missing an 'a' for Virtualisation.

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Zitat von racerxnet im Beitrag #741

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Ket,

Have the latest bios mod for the AX370 K-3 and cannot set the VSoC to 1.1v or just don’t know how. When I type in Turbo I get increments that only go up in voltage for VSoC and not towards the negative (lower) voltage. The board is running good, but concerned about heat related issues. If the bios is OK it seems counter intuitive to me. Care to help a old geezer again??

Thanks,

MAK

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Hi, so I finally received my X470 Taichi, and have been running it for about 2 weeks now. Overall I find it OK, some of the positions for fan and LED headers could have been better, but I have one very irritating issue:

Every once in a while one of my fans gets stuck at 100% speed. It is always the same fan. The fan is completely controllable inside the BIOS, but as soon as you get past the POST screen, it gets maxed out again. Most of the time I can fix it by resetting the BIOS to defaults, but a few days ago even that didn't help. I updated the BIOS to the newest beta version (1.35A), but this morning it again did the same. I really can't see what is causing this. The other fan that is set up identically is performing as it is set up, so I don't think it is temperature related... Any suggestions will be appreciated!

I will try to contact ASrock support tonight when I can look up the serial number of the board. Sorry that this is not related to the Gigabyte BIOS, but I remembered that some of you have a lot of experience with motherboards in general, and also ASrock specifically.

I also have an issue with Windows 10 freezing randomly while on the desktop, not during gaming yet. I have tested the RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostic, reinstalled Windows 10 (spring creators update, with all updates installed that were supposed to fix issues it had at the beginning), set all CPU and RAM clocks to default speeds and also the voltages. I am running out of ideas what to check. It started roughly around the time I updated to Spring Creators update, so I thought it was related to that. The messages in the event viewer are also not very descriptive, but I keep checking and investigating them after every time it happens again. Thanks for any advice on this topic too!

Zitat von Mach5 im Beitrag #744

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Hi, so I finally received my X470 Taichi, and have been running it for about 2 weeks now. Overall I find it OK, some of the positions for fan and LED headers could have been better, but I have one very irritating issue:

Every once in a while one of my fans gets stuck at 100% speed. It is always the same fan. The fan is completely controllable inside the BIOS, but as soon as you get past the POST screen, it gets maxed out again. Most of the time I can fix it by resetting the BIOS to defaults, but a few days ago even that didn't help. I updated the BIOS to the newest beta version (1.35A), but this morning it again did the same. I really can't see what is causing this. The other fan that is set up identically is performing as it is set up, so I don't think it is temperature related... Any suggestions will be appreciated!

I will try to contact ASrock support tonight when I can look up the serial number of the board. Sorry that this is not related to the Gigabyte BIOS, but I remembered that some of you have a lot of experience with motherboards in general, and also ASrock specifically.

I also have an issue with Windows 10 freezing randomly while on the desktop, not during gaming yet. I have tested the RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostic, reinstalled Windows 10 (spring creators update, with all updates installed that were supposed to fix issues it had at the beginning), set all CPU and RAM clocks to default speeds and also the voltages. I am running out of ideas what to check. It started roughly around the time I updated to Spring Creators update, so I thought it was related to that. The messages in the event viewer are also not very descriptive, but I keep checking and investigating them after every time it happens again. Thanks for any advice on this topic too!

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@ket

first of all i want to thank you that you do GBs job
if you have patreon i would buy you a beer ;)

but can you please mod Bios F23d for GA-AX370-Gaming-3 // http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/BIO...aming3_f23d.zip
because F22 has a pretty bad DDR4 support for Ryzen 2XXX CPUs

would be great ;)

ps have a nice WorldCup

Zitat von @JSebastian im Beitrag #745

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Hey @Mach5... Windows 10 Spring Update caused me a ton of headaches right from the start!!! Have you checked Event Viewer yet??? You should take a look at any & all errors that might be listed repeatedly... Did you install any of the ASRock Apps??? Latest Chipset drivers from AMD Support Site that are meant for Spring 2018 Update... Could you add your complete hardware setup as well, please... Thanks in advance bro... I'll help you as much as I can with what I've learned from my case with Spring Update ok...

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Are you running AIDA64, because that program randomly ramps fans up to full speed for no reason.

@ket any idea where the "RELAXED THROTTLING" setting is on gigabyte boards, on my asrock it was in CBS/NBIO options

Zitat von Mach5 im Beitrag #744

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Hi, so I finally received my X470 Taichi, and have been running it for about 2 weeks now. Overall I find it OK, some of the positions for fan and LED headers could have been better, but I have one very irritating issue:

Every once in a while one of my fans gets stuck at 100% speed. It is always the same fan. The fan is completely controllable inside the BIOS, but as soon as you get past the POST screen, it gets maxed out again. Most of the time I can fix it by resetting the BIOS to defaults, but a few days ago even that didn't help. I updated the BIOS to the newest beta version (1.35A), but this morning it again did the same. I really can't see what is causing this. The other fan that is set up identically is performing as it is set up, so I don't think it is temperature related... Any suggestions will be appreciated!

I will try to contact ASrock support tonight when I can look up the serial number of the board. Sorry that this is not related to the Gigabyte BIOS, but I remembered that some of you have a lot of experience with motherboards in general, and also ASrock specifically.

I also have an issue with Windows 10 freezing randomly while on the desktop, not during gaming yet. I have tested the RAM with Windows Memory Diagnostic, reinstalled Windows 10 (spring creators update, with all updates installed that were supposed to fix issues it had at the beginning), set all CPU and RAM clocks to default speeds and also the voltages. I am running out of ideas what to check. It started roughly around the time I updated to Spring Creators update, so I thought it was related to that. The messages in the event viewer are also not very descriptive, but I keep checking and investigating them after every time it happens again. Thanks for any advice on this topic too!

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