Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme X570 Ver1.1 and Driver Installation

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brachy33

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Hey All,

Recently walked into a Micro Center and they had a 5950X and Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme X570 in stock, so picked them up. Also grabbed (4x16GB) 64GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro PC3600 modules, and a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD. Will be reusing my EVGA RTX 2080 Super until I can come across a better GPU at Micro Center (or elsewhere) at regular retail pricing. I'm not paying for this overpriced horseshit/non-existent inventory and can wait on the GPU.

This is my first foray back into AMD land, at least since my DFI mobo and Athlon64 days! LOL. Also, this is my first Gigabyte board (always use ASUS) so hoping the brand isn't crap these days.

Was tooling around on the support page for the board and wondering what other AMD users are installing for their drivers. From what I can see, I only need:

1. AMD Chipset drivers (get from AMD site I think...for latest ver)
2. NIC drivers (from intel for latest)
3. GPU drivers from nVidia
4. BIOS file (ONLY thing to get from Gigabyte page)

Am I correct in that the only drivers for the board I need are the AMD Chipset drivers? On all previous intel boards, I always installed Intel Chipset, AHCI RAID drivers, NIC, Intel ME files,...probably some other driver I'm forgetting.

I hope its this easy. Appreciate any input!
 
yes and your list looks like my lists, though id do bios first to get it out of the way and it may be needed for the chipset. then run updates until it says no more.
 
brachy33 said:
Hey All,

Recently walked into a Micro Center and they had a 5950X and Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme X570 in stock, so picked them up. Also grabbed (4x16GB) 64GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro PC3600 modules, and a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD. Will be reusing my EVGA RTX 2080 Super until I can come across a better GPU at Micro Center (or elsewhere) at regular retail pricing. I'm not paying for this overpriced horseshit/non-existent inventory and can wait on the GPU.

This is my first foray back into AMD land, at least since my DFI mobo and Athlon64 days! LOL. Also, this is my first Gigabyte board (always use ASUS) so hoping the brand isn't crap these days.

Was tooling around on the support page for the board and wondering what other AMD users are installing for their drivers. From what I can see, I only need:

1. AMD Chipset drivers (get from AMD site I think...for latest ver)
2. NIC drivers (from intel for latest)
3. GPU drivers from nVidia
4. BIOS file (ONLY thing to get from Gigabyte page)

Am I correct in that the only drivers for the board I need are the AMD Chipset drivers? On all previous intel boards, I always installed Intel Chipset, AHCI RAID drivers, NIC, Intel ME files,...probably some other driver I'm forgetting.

I hope its this easy. Appreciate any input!
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That's all you will really need. The chipset drivers will cover most of what you need. Audio is normally built into Windows. While you can get newer drivers, I've almost NEVER needed it.
 
Awesome. Was hoping it was just that easy, thanks guys! Will definitely do BIOS first and Set Defaults before tweaking the BIOS to my liking and moving towards final OS/driver installs.
 
brachy33 said:
Awesome. Was hoping it was just that easy, thanks guys! Will definitely do BIOS first and Set Defaults before tweaking the BIOS to my liking and moving towards final OS/driver installs.
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windows 10 has made os installs stupid easy. one other thing i will mention, every single set of corsair ram i have ever used needed a bit more voltage. if you have any flakiness, up the ram voltage to 1.4v(its safe).
 
D-EJ915 said:
The realtek driver lets you adjust the output gain but it will work without it, not sure what mode it uses though.
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thats true BUT the last few realteks ive done, though older, windows update added the control software too.
 
pendragon1 said:
windows 10 has made os installs stupid easy. one other thing i will mention, every single set of corsair ram i have ever used needed a bit more voltage. if you have any flakiness, up the ram voltage to 1.4v(its safe).
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Good to know, thank for that! I usually always set my memory to its XMP profile within BIOS and typically (at least in ALL my Intel boards over the years) that has set the mem voltage the appropriate level. Will certainly double check that within the bios and Fluke RMS (if I can on this board) after first power on.
 
brachy33 said:
Good to know, thank for that! I usually always set my memory to its XMP profile within BIOS and typically (at least in ALL my Intel boards over the years) that has set the mem voltage the appropriate level. Will certainly double check that within the bios and Fluke RMS (if I can on this board) after first power on.
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It's an intel spec, and AMD is a bit... "fuzzy" at times on it. Corsair + AMD = add some volts. Heck, even on G.Skill I've had to do that if you're maxing it (I have 128G on my 3960X - 64G was stable at XMP, 128 was not until I bumped up the RAM voltage slightly and the SoC voltage slightly, then it's been rock solid). Just don't be surprised - it's fine, and AMD even recommends it at times, as they can be a bit too aggressive trying to tune it.
 
lopoetve said:
It's an intel spec, and AMD is a bit... "fuzzy" at times on it. Corsair + AMD = add some volts. Heck, even on G.Skill I've had to do that if you're maxing it (I have 128G on my 3960X - 64G was stable at XMP, 128 was not until I bumped up the RAM voltage slightly and the SoC voltage slightly, then it's been rock solid). Just don't be surprised - it's fine, and AMD even recommends it at times, as they can be a bit too aggressive trying to tune it.
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Is this just kinda unspoken rule about Corsair and G.skill? Just bump volts to 1.4 for XMP profiles?
 
Can anyone reach Gigabyte's support site now?
I have a rev 1.2 board (X570 Aorus Extreme) that needs a BIOS update for 5950X and it's hanging on livechat.gigabyte.com.tw,
Tried VPN, Verizon, Comcast, Armstrong (cable company in PA), Tmobile (hotspot I'm posting this from) and they all time out.
If I let the page load it eventually gets there HOWEVER all the dropdowns are not populated. It's been this way for days now.
WTF is going on?!
 
cpufrost said:
Can anyone reach Gigabyte's support site now?
I have a rev 1.2 board (X570 Aorus Extreme) that needs a BIOS update for 5950X and it's hanging on livechat.gigabyte.com.tw,
Tried VPN, Verizon, Comcast, Armstrong (cable company in PA), Tmobile (hotspot I'm posting this from) and they all time out.
If I let the page load it eventually gets there HOWEVER all the dropdowns are not populated. It's been this way for days now.
WTF is going on?!
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yeah its screwy here too. i can get to the boards page though. here a direct link to F34: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/BIOS/mb_bios_x570-aorus-xtreme_f34.zip
from: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-XTREME-rev-12/support#support-dl-bios
 
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