I'm a guy who just ordered a Gigabyte Gaming K7. Ask me anything

I'm a guy who just ordered a Gigabyte Gaming K7. Ask me anything.

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who cares?

I mean, you should. Now I can stop shitposting about which mobo to get.

Why waste your money?

It's not a waste! Look at those LEDs

>buys a motherboard with SLI support
>only has one gpu
Every time.

Do they make B350 boards with a timer chip?

I've had one running for the past week but you don't see me making shit threads.

How do you like it?

can it run crysis?

What's that? I bought this for webm encoding for /wsg/.

overkill just for webms

should I overpay for crosshair and keep old cooler or get taichi and wait when new cooler arrive?

just imagine you'd be able to encode 10 webms at once!

converting gondola youtube vids dosent take alot of power.

>Not wanting the option in the future

they don't sell good quality boards without sli/crossfire
i'd get that one, if it was available

my stock 2600 chokes a bit on webm convertings

Op here, thank you.

Can you do P-state overclocking?

even cheap b350 can

What is that?

It's a decent board, the BIOS options are really sparse but it gets the job done. Runs my RAM at 3200CL16 no problem so I'm happy.

Ubuntu based distros fail to boot though (some IRQ vector something error) but I'm a Manjaro user so it doesn't matter to me, though it is something that needs addressing.

Some ANUS B boards boards can't even multiplier OC, much less P-state

Not currently in the bios options unfortunately.

This this, as much as I like overclocking with Zen I'm pretty much throwing all the delicious power management out of the window, with P-states I can get something close and keep somewhat of the efficiency

>Ubuntu based distros fail to boot though
i had a similar problem. ubuntu can boot but is unusable and other debian OSs refused to boot at all.

asus and msi didn't even try
Pretty sure they regret it now.

Taichi and the expensive asus boards have it IIRC.

>buying anything with the word 'gaming' on it
Overpriced, flashy LED shit for the vast majority.

In layman terms something like controlling the chip's turbo function, both for all core and single core.

It's the most plain looking X370 board you can currently get. For what it's worth, you can remove the stupid VRM shroud plastic, as well as turn off all but the diagnostic lights, though I do admit I played with the RGB nonsense in the bios when I first set it up for shits and giggles.

The taichi was my first choice (has more bios options), but I just can't stand ugly looking boards. That GEAR GRAPHICS shit is terrible. At least this Gigabyte board is all black.

Fuck this batch, I'm waiting for the X390 boards.

Oh nice, I'll read up on it. Thanks user!

Can you change the color of those leds?

What in the fucking shit

How do you expect to boot without issues?

Look closer.. eg. ASUS Prime X370-Pro
Don't get me wrong, some 'gaming' products are fine.
Eg. I have a 'gamer' keyboard with 6 macro keys which I use for work and recently bought a MSI Gaming X RX 480 as it seemed to have the best and quietest cooling solution of the cards available to me.
Doesn't change the fact that most 'gaming' labeled products are overpriced pieces of shit with LEDs that make a rave party look like a Sunday afternoon in a funeral home.

Ninja-addition: and yes, most X370 boards out right now are flashy and obnoxious. Wait a few months and hopefully it gets better.

That board also has ugly board print.

You're about to learn a hard lesson my friend.

Enjoy your bad bios and lack of continued support from gigabyte. These days I only buy the higher end asus ROG or high end asrock boards. Anything else is either junk or doesn't get updates.

What do you mean? I just need to put my ram, hard drives, and 7700k in there right?

You know the ASUS ROG board you're recommending is the worst of the launch boards right? Including such amazing features like Self-Bricking.

When it gets updated it's gonna be just like any other high end board, ASUS did fuck up the launch spectacularly though

What are the benefits of the x370 vs b350?

Are you a poofta?

more ports/lanes/whateveruselessshityouneverneed

The biggest benefit is usually more chokes for overclocking.

I wanna see cheap B boards with a 8+ phase setup, too bad that seems to only be limited to the 50% more expensive X boards

asrock got 9 phases.

Same guy.. I'm getting a Asrock AB350m Pro4

9 phases.. and have everything I need and a good layout.

But can it handle 3600 RAM "frequency"?

Based fucking Asrock

I have no clue, the highest you can set via divider/multiplier is 3200mhz (I'm guessing since it says "supports 3200mhz (oc)" on the site.)

But I whould think you can get higher via bclk overclocking..

I seriously dont know why people waste their money on "high speed" ram these days, unless your going for 3dmark world records or something.
It litterally gives you nothing more than a couple fps here and there. All else is pretty much limited by disk and cpu performance.. And gpu in games.

MSI X370 XPOWER, much more expensive then other x370, Are it that good

>MSI

lol

>ram doesn't matter meme
Kek.

RAM only doesn't matter if you have a xbox hueg LLC that it wouldn't even be necessary to have fast memory.

I don't understand your post.
A couple years back, I tested games with the ram at 1333mhz, and then at 2400mhz.

I got 2 fps more on 2400mhz in BF4.

I certainly wont stop you from buying $400 sets of ram, but I won't.

I have nothing against fast ram by any means if I can overclock some slow ass cheap sticks, but its only for the fun of it really.

Back in the socket 939 days, I remember having lower timings made the system more snappy in everyday applications, same with running higher FSB (now bclk). The ram speed didn't matter as much in that, but did give a little fps boost in some games.

But remember, back then you had bottlenecks all over.. now cpu/ram related bottlenecks are a thing of the past.

I have yet to find something my socket 1156 system from 2009/2010 cant handle.

He doesn't know.

Except in Ryzen the cache is separated between the two CCX and there's a bottleneck being created when information keeps being moved between the two, which is the reason it's having bad gaming performance right now.
But it's also the reason why Ryzen is having huge boost in performance with higher ram frequencies.

Kys

What the fuck, for real?

Is this internally in cpu, something that is likely to be fixed in later steppings/revisions?

I suddently felt less of an urge to give AMD a chance again..

Yes it's real, and yes it's the way it was designed.
That's why if you go in a 4 core configuration 4+0 vs 2+2 (a whole CCX disabled vs 2 cores on each) you get 15-20% better performances in games.
But it's also why everyone is hoping that Ryzen can improve a lot via software (windows scheduler) update by not moving data constantly between the CCX and sticking to each cache.

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Performance in 4+0 vs 2+2 has a negligible difference. Not 15-20%..

Like for all ryzen benches, it's very different from a reviewer to another. 10-20% here, and hardware.fr is pretty trustworthy.
Also yours uses 3200 vs this one 2400 RAM, which could be the reason behind the "negligible" difference as I explained earlier.

LEDS?

Well fuck.

Guess I'll get an upgrade anyway, coming from 1.gen i7 platform.

And a reason to really tweak my system :)

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