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Captain_Yuri said:

After watching the video, it doesn't exactly spark the highest of confidence going forward... Maybe I'll go with Intel this time around...

I didn't get most of what the video said, the constant back and forth between the different voltages confused me, but here's what I got, please correct me if I'm wrong:

• There is more than one problem with the voltages. In the video he talks about two of them: the one about EXPO and another one related to the voltage going to the IO die, especifically the iGPU.
• AMD send guidelines to its motherboard partners but didn't check or made sure that they followed them.
• All the different partners are at fault, but Asus is the worst.
• The problem with EXPO was that Asus went the easy route and applied unsafe amounts of voltages to ensure that EXPO worked.
• The protection systems that Asus boards should have don't work, even those that Asus advertises to offer greater protection.
• Gigabyte has a problem where it applies more voltage than what the system reports.
• There will be more videos detailing the other problems.

Did I miss something?

Mummelmann said:

Well, I'm back from the dead. Build went well, all in all. Great chassis, easy to work with and awesome layout for cable management. Now to the more boring parts; I'm having quite a bit of stability issues on desktop stuff and browsing, there's also a lot of trouble with certain games not finding my GPU, reverting instead to the onboard chip (my confusion at getting 15fps in Path of Exile was unmatched). I'm having audio sync issues on youtube, stutters in anything launched from the EA app, and every odd black screen - display reset blinks a couple of times a day. In gaming in general, it runs smoothly though, and quietly. I've yet to see anything go above 69 degrees Celsius (nice!).

For now, I have BIOS 4.10 installed, I haven't tampered with anything save for reducing pump/fan speed on the AIO cooler. RAM is running only at 4800 right now, it went down after the BIOS update, and I'm frankly afraid of raising it to its intended 6000 right now, pending more updates on the whole MOBO/AM5 situation. I think I'd gain some more performance with properly clocked RAM though, so there's might be a little bit of extra juice to extract here.

Congrats for having your system up and running! I sorry to find out that you're having troubles with your new system. I hope you manage to fix them soon.

Zen4 follows the path of previous Zen architectures and is quite dependent on RAM speed to get achieve its max performance, and so yes, setting the RAM at the proper 6000MHz will increase your performance. But I'd also leave it at nominal speed right now, until Asus and AMD sort out all the problems and it's safe to enable EXPO.