Experiences with the MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC motherboard with the Ryzen 2700X cpu

[os2wiz]

I received my Ryzen 2700X cpu last Friday and my MSI X470 Gaming M7 board on Saturday. First I installed the cpu in my old Titanium X370. It would shutoff in benchmarking even at the 3.825 GHZ frequency. I believe this was due to faulty Pinnacle Ridge bios code. Then Monday we installed the the cpu in the new X470 Gaming M7 board. No thermal shutoffs no issues at all. No need for windows reinstall, I just installed chipset drivers after booting into Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. Today on Tuesday I started testing the capabilities of the board. I ran cinebench at 4.3GHZ and cracked the 1900 mark for cpu multicore. My Aida 64 score was quite good as well but the report is too lengthy to fit in an upload.


This board has much improved power phase management over the X370 Titanium. 14 phase control. Elmor in a post on overclock.net went into the nitty gritty details of the hardware used and the manufacturers. He seemed to think this board and the Crosshair Vii have the best power phase management, better than the Asrock Taichi. I was surprised he was so generous with this, being an Asus engineer. I have still to tinker with the Killer NIC chip , not for gaming, but to see its performance and cpu overhead, since I have a gigabit connection with Verizon. I am very positive on the 2700X and this motherboard. One limitation I saw is the FP32 aand FP64 when ray tracing in AIDA 64 benchmarks do freeze the computer when run above 4.25 GHZ. That could be because I limited voltage at 1.45 cpu core voltage. I am seeking no world records and will only go as high as not to cause cpu degradation.But I do not believe additional voltage would do anything but to drive the thermals higher in this instance. I have a AlphaCool Eisbaer 360, which has done a credible cooling this cpu overall.

[elmor]

Please stop misquoting me.

[Charles Wirth]

The M7 is a solid board. MSI did a good job this round.

[os2wiz]

That was an error I regret it was a misinterpretation that I made of what you had written NOT a purposeful misrepresentation. My apologies.

[os2wiz]

I agree. Here is my AIDA 64 score. I just stripped out the debug code so the file size would be accepted here. I had just upgraded my memory yesterday. Now running at 3466mhz CL15-15-15-32-67. I have come under severe criticism on overclock.net AMD General/VRMs on new AM4 motherboards for disagreeing strongly with the charcterizations that this boards vrms are inadequate. My posted HWinfo64 temps on that thread prove otherwise.

[Charles Wirth]

Elmor is pure awesome, hope he doesn't mind me stating the fact.

[elmor]

That was an error I regret it was a misinterpretation that I made of what you had written NOT a purposeful misrepresentation. My apologies.

Please remove this statement: "Elmor in a post on overclock.net went into the nitty gritty details of the hardware used and the manufacturers. He seemed to think this board and the Crosshair Vii have the best power phase management, better than the Asrock Taichi. I was surprised he was so generous with this, being an Asus engineer."

I have never said anything like this.