Turn into server at home
Use as htpc
Give to parents or siblings,especially if they got small kid

It's a gaming pc, there's better things to do with it than to just let it dust in a corner of your room

This is from which store?

If it's yours, please provide a link.

Had some time to try out CTR on a whim.

Found that the undervolt setting they recommended scored lower than the manual undervolt I've been running while the overclock setting wouldnt run due to reaching the temp limit. Perhaps the former is a difference between all-core setting in the BIOS while CTR is CCX based. The latter is due to running this in an ITX build.

I didnt find the CTR mission statement to be true for my build as the PPT and Voltage was higher; maybe those with ATX builds would find it useful, especially the custom loop crowd. I'll be sticking to manually setting the voltage and testing for now.

What's your thermals now?

60 idle sounds high
70 load is normal

3600 is the general recommendation but Id recommend you get this only if it's a good deal. Try used units, RAM has long/liftetime warranty. Else, go with the 3200 mhz since youre only gaming. Do you see yourself ever doing anything more intensive than gaming? If not get the 8GB x2 3200MHz.

Consider the Adata SX8200 NVME SSD lineup.

If it were me with that budget and my priorities were gaming above anything else, I'd get a B450 MSI Tomahawk with a 3700X, RAM & SSD mentioned above, sell off the 1070 and put the money towards a second hand 2070S.

This post has been edited by Current Events guy: Nov 4 2020, 09:41 AM

That shop is also known to charge a wee bit more than others so seems par for the course.

If shops arent taking preorders, where did the first batch disappear to?
Reviewers with shop/distro cable?

Most impressive.

Yes.

Get a monitoring software like MSI afterburner to observe the CPU temp peaks then set your fans to only ramp up at a temperature higher than the peaks.

That's one way to deal with the noise from the fan/cooler ramping up/down.

Another way would be to lock in the CPU speed and voltage.

If the temps go up then that means you set too low of a lower limit for the fan speed.

I prefer 60% max RPM when idling (<60'C) and 80% when on load (>60'C).

You can tune this accordingly to balance performance, temps and acoustics.

Heard that viewnet bundle was + mobo, now they want + RAM?

Here's to the next week stock not needing bundle.

What temps did you expect the CPU to reach during stress tests?
80'C sounds about right.

Worry when it hits the same temp while youre browsing.

Are the 5000 series considered okay to use at this point or are there still some elements of plugging in and praying everything works out?

I've got a giga x570 board.

Is there anything else besides the mobo bios updates causing issues at the moment?

Sounds like its safe to jump in with some nuances that need to be worked on.

Gotcha.

Which case are you thinking of getting? I've seen several builds with giga x570i with the c14s that fit fine but the case is the limitation, can't close top panel in the M1 for example.

I own two of these giga boards and they're alright. Never had to wrestle with it to get anything done. Oc/undervolt/fan/pump settings are straight forward, xmp sticks. Fan headers are limited but each header supports 24W which means you could power a ddc off one vs molex, not a big deal if you're thinking of doing air cooling though. The PCH fan is loud, but there's a BIOS update for that.

I've heard bad things about fusion, so might be best to avoid if you're into syncing rgb. I dont, so I just leave it the default orange.

This is all on ryzen 2 so I'm not sure if there's are issues with using ryzen 3.

This post has been edited by Current Events guy: Nov 23 2020, 05:36 PM

Any giga users on F31J?

That seems to be getting positive feedback in the small community I subscribe to. Was wondering if it's still broken for anyone else.

Here's input on the BIOS from one of the more accessible ones:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/..._the_f31j_bios/

Got it, thanks.

I'll probably just undervolt mine anyway.
Hope there's no problems with locking clocks and voltage.

I had the mobo lights stay on for a while, then it somehow resolved itself.
Are your mobo lights on as well or just the CPU fan?

Changed cooling setup in build, wanted to test thermals. Was looking for R20 which I had installed but saw that it was replaced with R23 instead.

Did Maxon push Cinebench upgrades in the back ground or did the windows store update the app? Surprised I didnt have the option of not upgrading.

Not sure what happened. I launched the Cinebench app, was greeted by an EULA which I just clicked accept/ok without reading as is tradition and then saw that it was R23.

Now I'm looking changing it back to R20.

EDIT: I think I found out what the issue was, I downloaded mine from the Windows store as an app so it updates whenever a new version on the store is available.

This post has been edited by Current Events guy: Nov 26 2020, 12:24 PM

In the middle of testing cooling setups, would like as many things to be constant and have the setup be the only variable.