A friend of mine replaced their 120mm AIO with an NH-U14S, lowered noise and temperature.
As for TR, those Noctua air coolers did a surprisingly good job on them.
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Well kinda depends on what you expect from the board.
On the vrm side of things its slightlly better then your current AB350.
Its a 4+2 phase design with doubled up components on each phase.
But depending on which version of the board you get, and what they had on the supply line wenn it comes to the mosfets.
Because this board sometimes comes with 2x Niko PZ0902 or 2x Sinopower SM4337 on the high-side and 2x Niko PK618BA or SM4336 mosfets on the low-side.
Either of those mosfets aint that great, the Sino power fets are slightly better then the Nikoās.
IĀ“m not sure what the current price of this board is,
and what you expect from it?
I understand that you are looking for a cheap as possible reasonable good board.
Also the Master sli only has a single bios chip that isnt swappable,
and it lacks a debug led and or postcode readout.
Also the additional 4 pin cpu power connector is kinda missleading.
Because it doesnt has any purpose for it being on there.
Since a single 8 pin cpu power connector is allready good for like 480W.
And there is no chance in hell that the vrm on this board can even get close to handling that.
So an additional 240W 4pin cpu power connector is totally useless.
It would have made more sense if they had put a post code readout on the board instead but yeahā¦
Honestly I was happy with my B350 Pro4 before it pooped itself.
Debug postcode will be nice, dual bios will be nice, but honestly Iām quite fine without them as well.
My main issue is, I donāt want to give money to Asus or MSI and the store have nothing decent from Gigabyte so Iām kinda stuck with Asrockā¦
The cheapest option is to just replace it with the same model and they have the same model, so if it comes to that theyāll most likely do thatā¦
Dont they have the Asrock X470 gaming K4?
Because that board is basically pretty much similar to the master sli.
But it does has post code readout.
I think that this board would work fine really.
Of course if you want to trow a 2700X on it pinning all the cores to 4.4Ghz,
well then the vrm on the board will get pretty toasty.
If not fail at a certain given time.
But that basically counts for pretty much all entry level X470 boards and B450 boards in general.
If you want to run a 2700X on its max overclock potential,
then you pretty much would need a decent X470 board.
With the Asus X470 Strix F board being a good midrange choice.
But yeah Asus crosshair VII hereo, Asrock Taichi theratory would be better for that.
But those are out of your price league, which i do understand.
My dear, I am running 1700X stock until I finish my game and make a bijilion dollars our of it. Until such time comes I am not replacing my CPU.
Nopeā¦
Maybe they do and itās just out of stock ATM ā¦
Still, I have to wait for them to tell me whatās happening to my board.
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You mean this one?
https://shop.sky.bg/KOMPJUTARNI-KOMPONENTI/Danni-platki-za-AMD/Fatal1ty-X470-Gaming-K4-AMD-X470-DDR4-3466OC266724002133-HDMI-M2-Socket-USB-31-AM4
Yeah, they have itā¦
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The people from the warranty service just calledā¦ The board is working just fine hereā¦
We will update the BIOS just in case, but we canāt find any issue with it.
sh*t
I hope it just magically works when you get it back. Further troubleshooting would be a pain.
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I can test all ram sticks one by one.
I just hope itās not the CPUā¦ There is no way I can test thatā¦
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Why didnāt you send the cpu with the mobo?
What happened to the sata testing? I stopped following closely after you diagnosed the problem to be with the board.
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Cause the CPU isnāt bought from them and I havenāt thought of it ā¦
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From my experience companies donāt like to get other stuff sent to them when RMAing because itās more complicated for them to test and stuff randomly disappears which makes customers angry.
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Itās working fine on my old board, so itās not really a sata issue.
Also they have attached stuff to it, so itās not the ports either.
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sata cable ?
power and/or data
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Iām using the same cables and everything with the old motherboardā¦ No issuesā¦
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yeah, letās hop it magically works again
Lay a hammer as a threat near the PC when installing all the hardware.
Edit: a rock works too
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Well, I hope that the BIOS update will fix any incompatibility issues if there are anyā¦
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I thought that you allready did update the bios?
But yeah maybe it might fix some of the issues.
Wish me luck ā¦
After work tonight Iām putting my new old PC back together.
I found a buyer for my old old system, so I have to ship it tomorrow.
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