The problem models are 2 very specific SKUs, they do not include any of the Aorus line. You should be fine.
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Here’s a review of the Mugen 5 Black if you are still looking at it.
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Eeeeeeeewwwwwww, Hardware Canucks. To be honest… I haven’t watched them in a long time. Eber kinda got that much on my bad side(back when he did the $700 AMD vs Intel videos). Can’t say I care too much for Mike’s style, but to each their own. It also may be that I’ve gotten too used to GN Steve to enjoy that kinda style. It also may be I enjoy the much harder look Tech Jesus gives. I just looked through, and the last one I watched all the way through was the NR200 review.
Mike doesn’t do a lot of videos, so he doesn’t get a lot of practice. And they are definitely a step behind GN when it comes to testing, but most others are. The numbers they showed seem to be about in line with what I remember from other coolers though, so the data for the Mugen 5 Black looks like it’s solid.
The problem is them cheaping out on the protection circuit.
OPP should trip at 20% overload at most, not at >30%
Decisions like that are rarely an engineering problem but a management problem.
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This presents a good chance to expand my knowledge. Where is the OPP at on units like the Seasonic FOCUS/PRIME series, or the Corsair HXi models?
The shady junk I was referring to was in management, or at least customer relations. In regards to the statement they put out and how they have been handling RMAs up to this point.
Any company can make a bad product, but how they handle the aftermath says more about the company then anything else.
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Overly high on both of them. Then again, they have OCP to kick in if just one rail gets overloaded.
The Prime Ultra for some reason only triggers on OPP for the 12V rail. I would expect OCP for the main rail…
The HX-series triggers OPP right where I would expect it to trigger (120%)
Having OPP or OCP trigger with a slight hysteresis to not get past extreme events (like power on when everything pulls full current for a few ms) is fine.
Running >120% load like it is nothing is bad.
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Hey guys, what do you think of the MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus? I heard good things about it and many of my acquaintances online are recommending to get that one. I am not getting a new CPU soon though, I just want to have a new motherboard so that in the near future, if there’s enough amount for a new one, I might be able to get a new CPU for my rig, also to help out my little brother to improve a lot of PC usage on his part.
It’s a pretty well reviewed board. Feature wise, it’s on par with the others that have been mentioned so you wouldn’t really be losing anything. I’m still not sure that I’d put a 5900X or 5950X into it, if you planned on getting one of those later. But other than that, I don’t have anything negative to say about it.
Back at it again. But with one that works properly this time!
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I finally said fuck it and started ordering parts for my build.
Parts so far:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
CORSAIR Vengeance DDR4 3600MHz 32GB CMK32GX4M4D3600C18
GIGABYTE B550 VISION D-P
Mostly went with Vision D, because of it’s looks, it should go together with Corsair 7000D nicely.
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tbh there is no way for me to get the 5900x or 5950x and I can accept that and say it is ok. I think a Ryzen 7 5800x is good enough for me and probably more realistic for me to get, factoring that life here on the place that I am living here has been hard lately and the PC prices here are in a bit of an influx of increasing, particularly the GPUs which I am not surprised.
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I wanna say good set of parts but I’m not a big fan of giigabyte personally hard for me to trust them these days,. but my opinion is purely anecdotal as guigabyte parts are the only ones to really ever give me issues.
The Vision D is fine. It’s overkill for a 5600X, but I’m not someone who would tell someone to not spend on a good motherboard. Personally, I’d go with the Strix-E or Unify, but aesthetics are being taken into account here, so I understand the choice.
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sim not gonna judge too heard Im currently using a msi b550 tomahawkjk for a 3600x llol. but I do plan to upgrade soon
I completely understand, I was a bit hesitant myself, considering the PSU fiasco. I was between MSI and Gigabyte, because of rear I/O and I was going to go with a cheaper board, but I saw the Vision D in one of Buildzoid’s videos and thought that it would fit my build perfectly. And both don’t have a great track record, when it comes to business practices lol.
yeah that is true . just anecdotal Ive never had an issue with any msi boards for any of the amd builds I have done,. but gigabte Ive had a few board failures. but the opposite is true when I flip teams where Ive had a few board failures from msi and gigabyte have been near perfect for intel (ive had one board failure on a 10 year old build recently). so based on my personal experience business practices aside I tend to avoid both depending on the platform
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I have had physical failures on MSI and ASrock. And firmware/software issues on ASUS and gigabyte. Only EVGA hasn’t given me any issues, but I have used so few of theirs that it might just be sample bias.
the thing that generally keeps me away from gigabyte is the RMA experience in Canada is pretty bad. MSI I can just drive it over to the building and get it later that same day. asus is pretty ok. asroock I ahvent had issues with but mainly cause Ive only had a few builds done with asrock boards.