AMD's High-End X670E Motherboards Limiting Gen5 SSDs To Gen1 Speeds, Users Unable To Boot Into Windows After Restart
https://wccftech.com/amd-x670e-motherboards-limiting-gen5-ssds-gen1-speeds-users-unable-to-boot-windows/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca158
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CPU manufacturers have a lot of say on what motherboard manufacturers can/must do.
Have a lot to say =/= have all to say.
Might be a floating point error
Aren't those just called specifications? As long as the manufacturer meets those then it's pretty much fair game what else they do.
Suppose those specifications are designed with the CPU maker's profits in mind. Maybe motherboard manufacturers lose perks if they misbehave beyond just specifications.
Heck, even GPU makers have managed to make motherboard manufacturers their bitch in the past: licensing chips to support their multi-GPU tech.
So Linux works fine or what?
i would guess that it wouldn't, as it seems that the motherboard is overusing the pci-e lanes
Sounds like some firmware updates are in order.
Found another windows-only issue with soundblaster PCI models the other day where the driver causes “an unstable overclock” on the cpu.
I think i read somewhere about the Linux kernel being more strict with some hacks the drivers get away with on Windows.
Kind of odd that some of these x650e boards are so extremely expensive (like MSI's MEG godlike and Asus ROG Cross hair) that you are better off with a threadripper workstation board and CPU.
Not if you want gaming performance.
I had a 1950X and 2950X, before my current cpu. It was fine, both barely even noticed that it was being taxed by games, like a 10-15% load where my 7800X3D is like 40-50%. Great for video rendering and stuff too, it wasn't uncommon to do both at the same time and the system was still responsive and quick.
Now I'm not about to drop the kind of cash required to upgrade to a 32-64 core chip, and yet another board, as the prices went out of prosumer/high end enthusiast with 3xxx and beyond. And the fact that TR4 only lasted 2 gens when we were promised much longer service/upgrade lives...
But TR for games is the tits. Financially moronic but it goes baby, it goes.
Could be a problem with the SSDs as well. AMD released the X670E last year after all. These aren't new chipsets.
Caught you on reading the title only. Your charge is to read the linked article in the future, before replying.
Taknow that’a a pretty respectable response to get, I can really hear the frustration from the support guy “yeah man I don’t know it’s broken but it’s not our shit I’m sorry”
Makes me feel positive about Crucial’s support, though
I thought the same thing. It's a full answer - it's not just "it's the motherboard", it's "this is what is happening, we've reproduced it, and this is how you'd go about fixing it"
Okay, maybe not everybody really needs Gen5 speeds, but gen1 is too extreme of an opposite.