Hi!
I own a Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4 motherboard. I'm using it with a R5 1600 processor with a CM Hyper 212 Evo cooler, G-Skill Ripjaws 16GB 3200 16CL 2x8GB kit running at 2933 because this board never allowed for more ( or I didn't know how to get more out of it), Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB, 256GB x4 PCI-E Samsung 960 Evo, Seasonic Focus+ 80+ Gold 850W PSU, a couple of 1TB HDDs in raid 0 for storage and a well ventilated CM case with 4 120mm fans.
Untill now I was running on the 4.80 BIOS version and thing were pretty smooth. I had stability problems with previous BIOS versions but they all seemed to go away with the 4.80 version. Recently I upgraded my mobo to the 5.40 version wich I hoped will allow me to take my ram kit to 3200. Sadly, this update made my life hell. The system would freeze at random times and I had to hard reset it. I searched around and found out that if I would disable C-States and only leave the first one turned on and on manual mode then the system would be a lot more stable. And so I did, now it won't freeze anymore. But when I start a game, it will run fine until a loading screen or something, then the whole game and system would start acting very choppy. From 100+ fps would drop down to sub 10 fps and I have no idea what could cause this. In World of Warcraft if I'm at an inn and quickly log out and back in, it would run again fine like nothing happend. And this is true of other games but due to their nature, you have to exit game and start it again and it's so annoying.
This 5.40 version didn't warn about compatibility issues with Ryzen 1 and 2 series so I assumed things will be fine since 4.80 was so damn good I thought they can only improve on things going further. They shortly released a newer 5.50 BIOS wich advises owners of these processors not to install it. Needless to say I would have refrained from installing it if there was any warning that it could cause problems.
My question is obviously: does anyone have any idea what's causing this and how can I fix it?
P.S. I wrote to ASRock support and I'm waiting for their answer but these take a good while. And there's no going back to a previous version of BIOS so I could be facing this problem so long as I keep using this processor in this board if nothing else can be done.
Thanx a lot in advance.
I own a Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4 motherboard. I'm using it with a R5 1600 processor with a CM Hyper 212 Evo cooler, G-Skill Ripjaws 16GB 3200 16CL 2x8GB kit running at 2933 because this board never allowed for more ( or I didn't know how to get more out of it), Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB, 256GB x4 PCI-E Samsung 960 Evo, Seasonic Focus+ 80+ Gold 850W PSU, a couple of 1TB HDDs in raid 0 for storage and a well ventilated CM case with 4 120mm fans.
Untill now I was running on the 4.80 BIOS version and thing were pretty smooth. I had stability problems with previous BIOS versions but they all seemed to go away with the 4.80 version. Recently I upgraded my mobo to the 5.40 version wich I hoped will allow me to take my ram kit to 3200. Sadly, this update made my life hell. The system would freeze at random times and I had to hard reset it. I searched around and found out that if I would disable C-States and only leave the first one turned on and on manual mode then the system would be a lot more stable. And so I did, now it won't freeze anymore. But when I start a game, it will run fine until a loading screen or something, then the whole game and system would start acting very choppy. From 100+ fps would drop down to sub 10 fps and I have no idea what could cause this. In World of Warcraft if I'm at an inn and quickly log out and back in, it would run again fine like nothing happend. And this is true of other games but due to their nature, you have to exit game and start it again and it's so annoying.
This 5.40 version didn't warn about compatibility issues with Ryzen 1 and 2 series so I assumed things will be fine since 4.80 was so damn good I thought they can only improve on things going further. They shortly released a newer 5.50 BIOS wich advises owners of these processors not to install it. Needless to say I would have refrained from installing it if there was any warning that it could cause problems.
My question is obviously: does anyone have any idea what's causing this and how can I fix it?
P.S. I wrote to ASRock support and I'm waiting for their answer but these take a good while. And there's no going back to a previous version of BIOS so I could be facing this problem so long as I keep using this processor in this board if nothing else can be done.
Thanx a lot in advance.
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