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Modified3019yesterday at 8:51 PM3 repliesview on HN

They’ve been doing a bunch of stuff in agesa updates regarding memory stability lately, and also recently broke and fixed setting manual speed on DDR5 memory with ECC enabled (basically any setting higher or lower than 5200mhz or something was ignored).

I wonder if this was also something they just accidentally broke, or if it was an incompetent attempt at larger segmentation.


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bpyetoday at 1:07 AM

> and also recently broke and fixed setting manual speed on DDR5 memory with ECC enabled (basically any setting higher or lower than 5200mhz or something was ignored).

Do you know when this was fixed? I recently updated my B650D4U and ended up stuck at 5200MHz instead of 5600MHz. Asrock Rack don't seem to take every update, but I have had luck getting beta releases in the past when I've asked about specific versions.

close04yesterday at 9:04 PM

> I wonder if this was also something they just accidentally broke

Their statement suggests it was a calculated decision, reversed after public backlash. I greatly appreciate they listened to user feedback, but they shouldn't have done it secretly to begin with.

> Based on valuable community feedback, we will reinstate this option in an upcoming BIOS release in July.

KennyBlankenyesterday at 10:31 PM

We're talking about a company that five generations into its processor family still hasn't been able to figure out how to have USB work properly and reliably.

AMD Adrenalin, their software that manages things video/GPU features like clip saving, performance settings, game optimizations, update monitoring, performance overlaying, etc - is so fucking bad that if your mouse is set to a refresh rate over 500hz, it is virtually unusable because the mouse cursor takes half a second to respond to inputs. This is running on a card one step down from the flagship, current generation.

Don't even get me started about ROCm on Windows.