To be fair I have no idea, let's hope it does. RDNA1 does have Win7 drivers though.Are windows 7 drivers definitely going to be available for the 6000 series cards...?
C8DH is fully passive, has a retardedly overbuilt VRM and some ASUS special sauce. X570 Taichi on the other hand is half the money, comes with a lesser but still overkill VRM and a chipset fan.Yeah I was happy to see the drivers come out with win7 support for the 6800 cards - means I'll likely be buying one of the mid-range jobs if and when the become available (I have an old win7 install I boot in to occasionally). They've finally fixed the multi-monitor power issue, excellent performance under linux already and perf/Watt is drastically improved over previous cards.
Board-wise I'd go with the ASRock board but that's mostly because I have a bias towards them. Having a board with a chipset fan would keep me up at night though so I'd be liable to go for the B550 Taichi instead. €500 for a motherboard seems fairly ludicrous though, does it lay golden eggs?
4x16 B-die is super hard to run on Zen 2, especially when you want to OC it to 3600. 2x32 is dual rank and significantly easier to run.TR would be a pretty huge step-up in terms of outlay, even the lowest-end 16-core chip will likely be considerably more expensive than the 5950X, and the accompanying motherboard twice the price of the B550/X570 models. IMHO unless you're planning a workload where either >16 cores or the huge amount of IO is a requirement, then threadripper is usually overkill. Unless you have a wheelbarrow full of money to burn of course
However, if you can't run your system stably with four DIMMs then doesn't that point to something wrong with the motherboard...? I'm only using two DIMMs (2x32GB Kingston DIMMs using Micron ECC) but there's plenty of people out there running their ryzen's with four DIMMs. Or do you mean you're trying to run them overclocked?
Were you able to get your hands on a radeon 6000 yet?
I can't confirm. B-Die is only needed when Zen1 or Zen+, but Zen2/3 memory OC is very easy, even with standard Micron / Hynix RAM.4x16 B-die is super hard to run on Zen 2, especially when you want to OC it to 3600. 2x32 is dual rank and significantly easier to run.
It doesn't help either that I am insanely impatient and the second my main system is unstable I want to throw it out of my bedroom window. Now that I have a C8DH en route I can tweak the living shit out of that one without downtime as I still have my current main system.I can't confirm. B-Die is only needed when Zen1 or Zen+, but Zen2/3 memory OC is very easy, even with standard Micron / Hynix RAM.