What happened to Fatality X399 Bios 1.60?

JUANNY wrote: MisterJ wrote: JUANNY, we would love to see this.  I have an open ticket trying hard to determine if this is true.  We should hope it is not due to the really poor TR performance in the memory area.  Please see here: http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=6271&KW=agesa&PID=37551&title=amd-response-to-agesa-bios-query#37551 Enjoy, John. Ill try to backtrack the link for you but Im pretty sure it was accurate based on a reliable source. They used TR 1.0.0.3 which gets confused with the older regular and outdated Ryzen 1.0.0.3 It would have been idiotic if AMD had used an outdated memory compatibilty AGESA on their flagship Threadripper CPU. I ran into that info while researching memory compatibility cause Ill be spending big bucks on a 1950x + x399 Fatality Mobo + 128 gb 8 x 16gb (https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMK128GX4M8Z2933C16-Vengeance-PC4-23400-Threadripper/dp/B074PGSLX6 ) The ram alone is worth a ton.

Please be very careful about your memory choice for a Threadripper PC. Gven what we have seen so far with using 128GB of memory in X399 boards, don't expect it to be plug and play at the XMP over clocked speed. I'm not implying that this memory won't work, I truly do not know either way, just a general warning with this large of an investment.

I see that Corsair kit on Amazon and Newegg, among other retailers, but oddly a Corsair information page for that model number is not among the search results. It's on "sale" at Newegg as of 10/12/17 for $1375.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820236242

Even if Threadripper and Ryzen have equivalent AGESA memory compatibility, after all that I've seen and been through dealing with Ryzen and memory compatibility in this forum, and my own X370/1700X PC, I personally would not feel safe or confident about a memory OC with 128GB.

My point is if you expect to just select the XMP profile in the UEFI/BIOS, and the 128GB of memory will POST perfectly the first time, then you may be disappointed. Manual adjustment of the SOC voltages will be necessary, as that is not done via the XMP profile, at least it never has been so far with Ryzen.

Your X399 board will most likely not have the latest UEFI version from the factory. If you want to use the latest version, you can just use the BIOS Flashback feature which can be done without a CPU in the board. But be sure to study the procedure first, it is simple but has specific steps.

JUANNY, here is what I am waiting for (4x8 GB):

http://www.gskill.com/en/press/view/g-skill-announces-new-ddr4-specifications-for-amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-threadripper%E2%84%A2-processors

I do not expect to see these kits at retailers until AMD/board vendors release AGESA/BIOS capability of successfully running them.  This raises the question of how did the memory vendor test these kits before announcement.  I, obviously, do not know but I suspect they had/have access to Beta AGESA/BIOS under a NDA. 
Enjoy, John.


EDIT: From the latest response to my AMD ticket:

Regarding AGESA versions, there is not a shared code base between the AM4 platform and the SocketTR4 platform, i.e. Threadripper AGESA is not the same as Ryzen AGESA.

See here:

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=6271&PN=2&title=amd-response-to-agesa-bios-query


Edited by MisterJ - 14 Oct 2017 at 12:02am

Thanks, datonyb, will consider.  Looks like I need to wait for either.  Enjoy, John.