EU Gigabyte Mainboard MC12-LE0 Re1.0 AMD B550 AM4 Ryzen

[matt_garman]

FYI, the seller will ship to the USA if you email them. Shipping costs are kinda high though. I bought three units with the intent of keeping one and selling the other two. I'm doing firmware and BIOS upgrades on all three, and also doing some basic burn-in testing on them.

I'm halfway through testing of the second board, so far, everything just works as expected. These do seem to be surprisingly power efficient. My on-desk test setup:

• Gigabyte MC12-LE0 motherboard
• AMD Ryzen 7 5700x CPU
• 4x32GB ECC UDIMM Crucial MTA18ASF4G72AZ-3G2R OR 2x16GB ECC UDIMM Kingston 9965669-008.A03G
• Noctua NH-U9S cooler w/92mm fan
• Seasonic Focus SGX-500 80+ Gold SFX-L PSU
• Intel 320-series 80GB SATA SSD
• Proxmox 8.2 stock install
• One network cable attached to IPMI interface and a second attached to one of the on-board NICs

I am using a Kill-a-Watt meter for measuring power consumption, so these are unlikely to be precise numbers, but it seems similar to what others have posted. So this is "from the wall", i.e. total system power consumption.

At idle, power consumption seems to settle around 20-24 Watts. Surprisingly, the amount of RAM (128GB vs 32GB) did not seem to make much difference in power draw. I did similar testing a long time ago with a different board+CPU, but with RDIMMs, and it seems those are very power-hungry.

The first board I tested was with the 128GB of RAM. I ran over 24 hours of memtest86 with no errors. I then ran 12 or so hours of prime95 (also without issue). The second board did 12 hours of memtest86 and just started the prime95 test, so far so good.

I also have a picoPSU-160-xt and a 192 Watt 12v DC brick that I want to try with this, to see how its efficiency compares to the Seasonic.

If anyone is interested in taking one or two of the spares off my hands (when testing is done), feel free to PM me.

 

[Szala]

FYI, the seller will ship to the USA if you email them. Shipping costs are kinda high though. I bought three units with the intent of keeping one and selling the other two. I'm doing firmware and BIOS upgrades on all three, and also doing some basic burn-in testing on them.

I'm halfway through testing of the second board, so far, everything just works as expected. These do seem to be surprisingly power efficient. My on-desk test setup:

• Gigabyte MC12-LE0 motherboard
• AMD Ryzen 7 5700x CPU
• 4x32GB ECC UDIMM Crucial MTA18ASF4G72AZ-3G2R OR 2x16GB ECC UDIMM Kingston 9965669-008.A03G
• Noctua NH-U9S cooler w/92mm fan
• Seasonic Focus SGX-500 80+ Gold SFX-L PSU
• Intel 320-series 80GB SATA SSD
• Proxmox 8.2 stock install
• One network cable attached to IPMI interface and a second attached to one of the on-board NICs

I am using a Kill-a-Watt meter for measuring power consumption, so these are unlikely to be precise numbers, but it seems similar to what others have posted. So this is "from the wall", i.e. total system power consumption.

At idle, power consumption seems to settle around 20-24 Watts. Surprisingly, the amount of RAM (128GB vs 32GB) did not seem to make much difference in power draw. I did similar testing a long time ago with a different board+CPU, but with RDIMMs, and it seems those are very power-hungry.

The first board I tested was with the 128GB of RAM. I ran over 24 hours of memtest86 with no errors. I then ran 12 or so hours of prime95 (also without issue). The second board did 12 hours of memtest86 and just started the prime95 test, so far so good.

I also have a picoPSU-160-xt and a 192 Watt 12v DC brick that I want to try with this, to see how its efficiency compares to the Seasonic.

If anyone is interested in taking one or two of the spares off my hands (when testing is done), feel free to PM me.

I will be super interested to see comparison of supersonic Vs Pico on idle and load.

 

[hmartin]

FWIW I requested the GPL source code for the BMC running on this motherboard and Gigabyte are refusing to provide it:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/gigabyte-is-refusing-to-provide-gpl-source-code-for-bmc-firmware.44232/

 

[matt_garman]

Quick follow-up to my previous post regarding power consumption. Using the config mentioned in post #361 (the 32GB RAM profile), I did four tests: idle vs prime95, picoPSU vs Seasonic. I let the system run for about 12 hours in each profile, and took the total watt-hours divided by total hours to get average wattage over the measurement time. Results:

• Seasonic Focus SGX-500 idle: 19.7 Watts
• Seasonic Focus SGX-500 prime95: 104.2 Watts
• PicoPSU-160-XT idle: 18.1 Watts
• PicoPSU-160-XT idle: 106.4 Watts

So, Seasonic is slightly more efficient at load, and PicoPSU is slightly more efficient at idle. But in reality I'd call it a wash, given that my measurement tool (Kill-a-Watt) probably isn't that precise anyway.

Note that I ran the prime95 "Blend" test, which isn't fully cooking the CPU all the time. Just randomly glancing at the Kill-a-Watt while p95 was running, I'd often see 125 Watt readings.

Also, the big determinant of PicoPSU efficiency is the AC-DC 12V adapter that is used (as the 12V line is just passthrough on the Pico). Here I used the Mini-Box.com PWR-ACDC-12V-16A-192W (Model ATS200T-P120) adapter.

Although I couldn't watch it the whole time, the few times I spot-checked my test setup, I never saw the Seasonic's fan spin up.

 

[Yarik Dot]

Working memory modules:
- 4x Hynix HMA81GU7AFR8N-UH
- 4x Samsung M391A1G43EB1-CRC

Approximate power consumptions - loaded:
- 5950X 16C - 250W
- 5700X 8C - 150W

 

[Yarik Dot]

We hit an issue with 5950X with P_BIXBY_SOC_RUN voltage. Screen in the attachment.

We are unable to power off/on the system via ipmi.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

We hit an issue with 5950X with P_BIXBY_SOC_RUN voltage. Screen in the attachment.

We are unable to power off/on the system via ipmi.

Bixby is the X570 chipset AFAIK so start there.

 

[matt_garman]

Working memory modules:
- 4x Hynix HMA81GU7AFR8N-UH
- 4x Samsung M391A1G43EB1-CRC

Approximate power consumptions - loaded:
- 5950X 16C - 250W
- 5700X 8C - 150W

What power supply? How was the loading done? Any other peripherals attached (fans, drives, SSD, GPU, etc)?

 

[Yarik Dot]

What power supply? How was the loading done? Any other peripherals attached (fans, drives, SSD, GPU, etc)?

PWS-341P-1H.
for i in {1..128}; do yes > /dev/null & done
I know it's not the best test and in my experience mprime generates more heat due to different instructions, but it well represents our load.
2 1U fans if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Yarik Dot]

We will replace chassis and increase cooling in this setup. I was in the datacenter in the morning, unpluged and pluged the system and it worked for like 12 hours at 100% load and stable 90°C CPU temp. It crashed again.

 

[mackspain]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone that has successfully tested multiple CPU's could have a read.

I've had this board running very nicely on a Ryzen 5 PRO 5650G.

I've swapped in a Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE that will not post. The 3400GE works, I can put it back in an ASUS Prime B550M Pro4 and it starts functioning.

This GIGABYTE board only seems to like the 5650G I set it up on. What could the reason be for this? Are there any steps I should be taking when swapping the CPU. I've spent several hours reflashing/resetting/just about everything and no success.

All I can really see is, after putting the non-posting 3400GE in, the 'Inventory' in the BMC stops refreshing, and remains stuck on my last working config with the 5650G. What's interesting is, from the BMC, I can power on the machine, no error message, and the CPU fan will spin up. Which I did not expect.

I also have a Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G which does not even post in the B550M Pro4. In the GIGABYTE board, the BMC will not power the machine on with that CPU installed, there's an error message and no fan spin up, so to me that's how a non-functioning CPU behaves in this board. The 3400GE seems to be behaving somewhere in between the perfectly working 5650G and the 2200G that I know doesn't work.

I feel like the 3400GE should work, since it's still powering on? Hopefully I made sense of that explanation.

 

[Yarik Dot]

So I disabled turbo boost and the system seems to be stable. Issue probably is cooling, because CPU was stadily at 90°C.

 

[SlowmoDK]

I've swapped in a Ryzen 5 PRO 3400GE

There is no support for Picasso (ie. 3400GE) CPUs on this board. Matisse, Renoir and Vermeer only (Zen 2 and Zen 3).

Even though it's called 3400GE it's not Zen 2 but Zen+ same as the 2xxx series of chips

 

[sparkgap]

Small update for those facing the same issue(s):
Using a Ryzen 5 pro 4650ge: No cpu fan spin, BMC update succesfull, BIOS update not working (using BMC)
Since the 4650GE is not on the QVL I used a ryzen 3600, and all is well: cpu fans spins on power on, BIOS is now updating to F13 using the BMC....

Still hoping to get the 4650GE working since it's only 35W, anyone else have any luck with GE ryzens ?