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Yep it does say that on the spec sheet. Didn't think to look it up. Good to know though. Yeah not worried about the performance difference but it was more of a hassle trying to troubleshoot what's wrong. It would be good if they put a sticker on the riser cable to say "Dont forget to set your...

Howdy peeps, I think I may have discovered a small problem with the CONSOLE case. I'm building a HTPC based on it, and using the following parts: Ryzen 5600X GeForce 3080 FE GIGABYTE X570SI AORUS PRO AX Whenever I run this setup with the provided riser I get graphical instability and system...

I have. Temps were good, but I did liquid cool the CPU:

Tested in an X300

Yeah this is the challenge right now guys. Since the project has gone on hiatus, a lot of things have changed. Is there enough interest still in the case considering SLI is no longer possible ? Even the 2000 series cards would not theoretically be supported in this case as designing a new long...

I guess we'll have to wait for some 6000 series APU's for improved iGPU performance. Can't wait !

Looks like the 5700G isn't really 10% faster in GPU bound workloads:

5700G works on 1.60 bios. I've updated to 1.70 as thats the official firmware level that supports 5k CPU's. I must say the X300 with the 5700G is excellent. Paird with that 3800 RAM from Corsair im able to push the sticks to 4000 at 3800 timings and get a 1:1 fabric with the CPU & Mem. Excellent...

@EUA - I've already confirmed the 5600G works on 1.60 bios. Later today im getting a 5700G and I'll confirm if that works on 1.60 bios as well. And for the X300 desk mini bios make sure you're using bios from here: https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20X300%20Series/index.asp#BIOS

@HydrAxx747 - nice heatsinks and you got a steal on the ram sticks. I also bought 4 and I have 2 sitting in my drawer waiting for the next project :) I have other machines that could use them but none of them support these speeds. I also have a 5700G coming to see if there's a bigger difference...

Im using the or 3800MHz CL18. But you can easily run it at 4000MHz CL18. The 4000 kit wasn't available when I was looking to buy. And from my experience I can tell you the extra $200 isnt worth it to go to 4000 kit, as the 3800 kit can run at 4000 without issues. (at least my kit did)

I updated to 1.60 with a 4650

No. I tried editing the bios but couldn't get an 11th gen to boot. The best CPU you can get for the Magnus is 10600 (non-K) version. It will be the best balance of performance / cooling (noise)

Yep. And like @gazpl said, I got my 5600G by purchasing a prebuilt HP system with a 3070. So its not a pre-release chip or anything like that. Its a proper retail chip. Only negative being software like Ryzen Master doesn't work with it yet. I had to update firmware to 1.60 for it to work on the...