Your bitchin and crying about AMD Ryzen chips and ignoring that fact that the op is using the cheapest and crappiest board you could possibly use with an AMD Ryzen chip. That fact should be taken into account
NO ones bitchin and crying, just pointing out that AMD are producing crap hardware. The board [GA-A320M-S2] is a decent mid range board which has been built and maintained in collaboration with AMD, you say its a crappy board, back that statement up, all we get from you is your opinions, evidence a few of them. IF IT IS a crappy board its probably due to AMDs contribution, its their s**tty technology.
You can not get a lower grade board than the A320, for that cpu. That is not what I would consider mid range. Maybe a B series would be more like mid range
I stated way back in August that those A320 were crappy boards, see post #111. I think it must be the chipset or something similar with all of the A320's having a common buggy-ness
If you search online Ryzen/GSOD/Freezing issues, there are thousands of articles and posts on the subject with all sorts of combinations of hardware, the whole AMD thing is a deck of cards. I am not going to throw good money after bad trying to get to the bottom of the problem, its just not worth it. I have always bought the end of the old series, the tried and tested, never the latest/fastest [emperors new cloths] , I am kicking myself that I broke that rule.
I'm am happy that you using something that works for you Someone I know wants a new pc and today I just ordered the parts. I am going with an AMD 3200G cpu on this build. Here is the list I am going to use for this build: 1 – AMD 3200G Quad Core CPU 1 –Intel 512gb 660p NVMe drive 1 - ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard 1 - G.Skill Flare X 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory 1 - Thermaltake Versa H15 MicroATX Mid Tower Case 1 - SeaSonic S12III 500 Watt 80+ Bronze ATX Power Supply 3- 120mm OEM/Cooler Master Case Fans I will let you know how this build works out in a couple days after I get the parts shipped in. Although I am not to happy about using an ASRock mobo, I can't beat the price
Ive never been an early adopter so i get to sit back and watch those who are get problems galore, moan their arses off and wish they had bought something else, i laugh my tits off. My Coffee Lakes may be 14nm++++++++++++++++ but it is on a highly refined process. I dont care about which process a cpu is, my 880K is 28nm(i think) running on a Gigabyte(ultra durable) A88X board with Crucial Ballistix Elite 2133. Not the fastest but rock solid stable and i wont be getting rid of it even though i have 9th gen G5420s. My 8300 and G5400 are stable on the B360 and H310 boards, i only buy Gigabyte Ultra Durable boards and Crucial Ballistix ram(at whatever the maximum official cpu supported speeds are). Gigabyte UD and Crucial Ballistix have been very reliable.
I bought an AMD Phenom 550 dual-core when they came out and was able to unlock the other two cores to make it a quad. I'm not complaining about the number of cores I was charged for.. ------- Edit: unlocking the disabled cores was common practice on those CPUs and done through a setting in the BIOS. It was a matter of luck- some could only get one core unlocked with stability, some could get both and some couldn't get either unlocked reliably (remained a dual-core).
Today I have the case, power supply and cpu. Tomorrow, supposed to get the board, memory and the NVMe drive
Hope it all works good Joe. Now their must be some happy users out there, theres just gotta be. Problem is i have this thought/rule deep inside my head, i dont know where it came from though but it rules me with a rod of iron. Ignore all the good reviews/comments, look at the worst comments. I cant fight it.
Building your own helps, you know what your getting and how it is put together rather than expecting somebody else to do it for you. It also helps when you do not cut corners by using the cheapest crap they make and expect no issues when it doesn't work. A decent (but not great) B450 mobo, and Intel (yes, cheap too... but they will stand behind their products) 660P NVMe drive. A good quality power supply is always a must. Using the proper memory that is on the boards QL list assures no incompatibilities too. You need to do some homework when you build your own AM4 system when it comes to memory compatibility.
I rebuilt an old college viglen pc with a barton core xp2500 and ive built everything since then bar one, a donated sff dell.