AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors

Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by hirvi74 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:17PM (#35730360)

I'm really considering just going with a 12th gen, and upgrading in a few years vs. trying to stretch the 13th gen 3-5 years. It's a fool's errand trying to keep up with everything, and I need to do more research from a price vs. value point of view.

What motherboard are you using for your 12th gen? It's honestly been the most difficult part of piecing together my build. It seems like all the decent motherboards are plagued with one or more issues e.g. poor VRMs, poor bios/supporting software [1], NIC disconnects randomly [2], coil whine, etc..

I'll admit, I have only seen benchmarks for DDR5 in regards to games which was not impressive. It's disappoint to see that other applications would only have a greater performance of around 3%. Maybe I will just go with DDR4 then...

[1] I have heard Gigabyte boards have a hell of a time getting RBG Fusion 2.0 to work/save settings.

[2] I have also read to stay far away from boards with Intel's I225/226 NICs or to get a secondary NIC.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by brokenmachine on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:57PM (#35737328)

Gigabyte Z690 AORUS PRO DDR4. I'm very happy with it. Stable and does the job. BIOS seems good to me, no complaints.

Can't comment on RGB stuff because mine's in a closed black box.

Not sure what NIC it has... specs online say "Intel 2.5GbE LAN chip", my router is only 1Gb but it works fine, no disconnects. PC is Windows only though.

I've mostly had Gigabytes over the years (some Asus as well), and haven't had a lemon motherboard yet, maybe I've been lucky. But I am pretty demanding and don't tolerate faulty stuff well.

I'm also quite annoyed by noise, system is set up to be as quiet as possible with passive PSU/140mm fans/etc. Haven't noticed any coil whine.

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