Ive got my moneys worth out of my i7 4770 which I will now pass on to my kids. Coming back to AMD since I last had a Phenom II BE. My build will be as follows once my CPU and Memory get here. Corsair 570x RGB Mirror Black (with 3 LL Series fans) EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 16GB G.Skill Flare X DDR4 3200 NVIDIA FE 1070ti Creative SoundblasterX AE-5 Pure Edition I’ve already been using the case with my current rig along with the PSU, GPU and Soundcard and my old trusty ASUS VG278H I’ll be using my old SSDs for now as well. I want to get an m.2 and am looking at XPG X8200, but that will have to wait until next month. I’m stoked about this new rig and I can’t stop checking the tracking of my CPU and memory even though the tracking numbers aren’t showing up in FedEx system yet lol. Does anyone else here have any experience with this motherboard and or memory or have other suggestions for an m.2 drive? The anticipation is real
Well, congrats on the new rig, love the smell of new hardware in the morning! Built a slight similar rig for a friend just yesterday, went with Ryzen 2600 and Asus X470 Pro. As an NVMe drive Samsung 970 EVO 250 GB. Installed W10 in 4 minutes, Linux Mint in less than that. Adata have good prices, but I keep hearing stories about their products not as reliable as they say. XPG X8200 has a 5 years warranty, I think you are covered.
Starting to put it together. One thing I never realized was that this stock prism cooler has 3 cables for it, so more wires to try and hide. Plus I have to back up all my games etc first since I have data caps on my internet.... such a drag.
You don't have to format. You can just install Windows and it should keep your files intact, moving the old install of Windows to C:\Windows.old.
Yea I realized that when I turned it on for the first time lol, that's cool. I went ahead and did it anyway out of habit especially as storage space is limited as is.
Well everything seems to be running good. One thing that is annoying is how Gigabyte requires having App Center installed in order to install any of their software and that the rgb fusion software will not work at all and I cant find any solution for it
Bios version F5 is available as well as updates to the App Center and RGB Fusion. Now everything is up and running exactly as it should be. So far I am very happy with this motherboard. One of these days I'll have to actually do some OCing. Next upgrade is going to be an NVMe drive
Ok so I just got my XPG SX8200 480GB installed yesterday. The drive shows as only like 447GB so it threw me off. I had to go in to my existing version of Windows and initialize the drive first before I could install Windows 10 on it as my boot drive from the Bios. After that it was pretty easy sailing though. For every day tasks and even system restarts it doesn't actually seem any faster than my 840 Pro but I haven't done any big file transfers on the drive itself either. After doing a system clean up and trim everything is running smooth as butter. I know I might seem crazy talking to myself, but I can't find any good informative posts about this board even though its Gigabytes top end x470 board (gigabyte forums are horrendous), so I'm just hoping anyone else out there that may own one or is on the fence about it can find this and feels free to chip in their experiences.
just bought an x470 Auros gaming 5. just like you @maikai i cannot find anything informative about these boards other than the reviews on the site i bought it from. i have not seen any post from you in the negative so i assume you are very happy with this board?
I am happy with it so far, yes. I've been using it for about 3 months now and have not had any big issues with it. Originally all of their software aka appcenter was bugged including the rgb fusion feature so being able to control that was a pain but they've since updated all of it and it seems to be working as it should. I had the bio revert back after updating one time (it didn't seem to take for some reason), but the second time it was fine. I wish their was an option in the bios to disable the wifi instead of having to do it in windows device manager. I've never overclocked any of my previous pc's and I'm hoping to one day get around to putting some kind of overclock on this current setup but I have not even attempted it so I can't speak for it's stability although all the reviews have it highly favored. Have you noticed any bugs in the bios or software? You have any cons/issues with your board?
I'm still in the build stage, this will take me a week or two as I'm doing the full closed loop again, so I'm just doing the preliminary fitment stage. Will advise asap.