I think I will wait it out if I only have to wait til October. I laughed a little too much at this comment....
@CPC_RedDawn that was a once in your life time opportunity - so I took it, hook, bait, sinker and all the line...
I'm a bit out of the loop, what's the major change in... ABBA? Boost clocks? I got so tired waiting for ABB from ASRock that I kind of phased out once it was "finally" available, heh.
I went from ABB to ABBA on my 3700X + ASUS X570-E Gaming combo last week and it's been good so far. Noticed no change in real life performance but at least now in games I am seeing few cores very occasionally hit the advertised 4.4GHz. Biggest difference though is my idle voltage which now properly goes down to 0.9-1.1V even with software such as Corsair iCue running in the background. Interestingly enough after ABBA update running older version of Ryzen Master idle voltage was sitting around 1.2V (which was still an improvement) but going to the newest version it now sits (as I mentioned earlier) 0.9-1.1V under peak reading and as low as 0.48V under average which makes me think they've changed the behaviour of Ryzen Master itself as well.
Mamma Mia! Just a heads up MSI have updated their Bios update pages with the ABBA bios (At least they have for my board that I don't have a CPU or any RAM to use yet... soon™)
Strange: Before the ABBA update the MSI B450 Mortar which I have in my HTPC booted just fine Linux OS. Now, the system broke down and pinpointed the error somewhere between MSI AGESA, and the AMD driver stack from the latest kernel. Will try to install a distro with a LTS kernel, see what happens.
Great stuff, flashed my board with one from there, voltages dropped dramatically, no affect on boost clocks. Superb, was sick of waiting for msi to release updated agesa.
That was a good video,shockingly bad for AMD and MSI plus all motherboard Manufactures.More people need to actually see these videos telling the truth on how it really is when your new system is useless. It is amazing how bad it can get on such high end gear,where you could expect some minor problems on new gear but not to that extent of this garbage. Kool64 Had troubles like these or similar ,must be the most frustrating thing ever. Not trying to be mean here but the video was also very funny in a sad way.
The BIOS with new AGESA 1003 ABBA that must improve boost for Ryzen 3000 available for download through the BIOS EZ-Flash utility for C7H. Not published on the website yet. Check if your motherboard has an update too. Share your results! HeroVI non wifi's accompanying version https://www.dropbox.com/s/38jvi3uuq1esnlt/CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO-ASUS-0075.rar?dl=0 C6h wifi bios to fix the random dram oc boot issues: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qx1w31xdasl5pgw/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO-WIFI-AC-ASUS-0075.rar?dl=0 Source -> https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?112279-X370-X470-AGESA-1003AB-Bioses/page88#post784979
Well, it seems that I also rushed to praise MSI and the latest ABBA AGESA. I'll explain: On the MSI B450 Mortar I had Linux installed and ran flawless. After I flashed the latest AGESA, in BIOS I was able to push the hardware more than before but didn't bothered to get into the system to test even more. After the microcode update, there is a stupid big for APUs and amdgpu which throws an error message and the system halts at a recovery console. The only way to circumvent this is by using Fedora and Wayland which bypassed the amdgpu error. This is what I tested until now, I haven't had too much time to dive deeper. Flashed back the previous BIOS version, but the CPU /mobo acts the same, no luck. So much for being on the edge.
Gigabyte just released ABBA now on most the 400 series boards it seems. Tried it on my b450 aorus m (with ryzen 3600x), not only the expected clock "fixed" but also the triggered pci-e whea errors are gone for me.
I installed the ABBA bios today. Been working great so far, no problems at all. Highest clock before being reported by afterburner polling every 2 seconds from a day of use was usually 4525-4575. It's showing 4625 today. Idle voltage seems good.