Gigabyte 5500 Xt

[Jenn Smotherman]

Nota high-end computer, but it runs games fine. It's getting old so I bought what I intended to be a mid-life enhacement... a new AMD Ryzen 5 5500. Gigabyte says that this CPU is compatible after upgrading the board to BIOS version F52g. The board is running that version (and it should have the same version loaded as back-up BIOS... but how can I verify that?).

The thing is that the computer refuses to boot with the new CPU. It has four diagnosis leds (Boot, CPU, VGA, DRAM) that (according to the manual) signals that a component is failing. With the Ryzen 5, it goes CPU > DRAM > Boot (pauses for a second) > CPU > DRAM... and gets stuck with DRAM led light, no VGA output, no beeps.

AMD documentation is being very confusing. On some sites says that Ryzen 5 5000 CPUs are codenamed "Vermeer" and APUs are codenamed "Cezanne", but if you look into AMD website they says that Ryzen 5 5500 is a "Cezanne" processor.

Also, it seems that AGESA version says what CPUs are supported on a mainboard... but AMD don't release a changelog. Also, I've learned that AGESA 1.2.0.5 was some kind of fiasco (BTW, the AGESA versions included on my BIOS are 1.2.0.3B, 1.2.0.5 and 1.2.0.7).

likely a waste of time, stick to the 3000 series for your board, they should all work with no messing around, assuming you still have the latest BIOS update installed. (The 4500 might work but its likely to be the same hit and miss as the 5000 CPU you bought)

The 5000 series were never designed to run on the 300 series boards and it was only due to pressure from crazy customers that AMD let the FABs decide which boards got updates to allow them to run but as you have found out even with the BIOS updates some boards still cannot run the 5000 series CPUs.

OK, so I've returned that 5500 and got a Ryzen 5 3600 instead. It runs fine, so this will be (probably) the last update for that computer. The next step (in another 4 o 5 years) would be buying a new computer... if PC parts prices drop to a reasonable level.

amd long lasting cpu support is useless if you can upgrade mobo easily

and don't forget not only cpu doesn't have to work even if it suits

i have a new gpu that no longer works in old amd system...

The cezanne cpu family have major compatibility problems with the b350 / x370 chipsets (especially with gigabyte mainboards). I solved it by buying a new asus b450 mainboard. (From experience, no more Gigabytes). Very disappointed with amd tech support

Over the last couple of years, the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) has emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Intel's NUC and GIGABYTE's BRIX are the most popular lineups in this category. Intel's 14nm Broadwell family was introduced into the market with the fanless Core M-based systems. The excellent performance of units based on Core-M has evoked interest in the performance of the upcoming NUC and BRIX units based on Broadwell-U. Intel is taking its time bringing the NUCs to market after officially announcing them at CES 2015. However, GIGABYTE sent over their premium Broadwell BRIX s SKU, the GB-BXi7H-5500, earlier this week. In this piece, we present results from putting the unit through our mini-PC evaluation routine.

We covered the launch of the Broadwell BRIX units at CES. Similar to the Haswell-based lineup at the time of introduction, we have two chassis designs - one with support for a 2.5" drive slot as well as a mSATA port, and the other with a smaller height supporting only a mSATA port. The GB-BXi7H-5500 belongs to the former category and is part of the BRIX s family. The unit comes with a Core i7-5500U Broadwell-U processor and is the flagship SKU in the introductory lineup. Befitting its premium status, it is the only BRIX s model to come with NFC capabilities.

Similar to the BRIX units of the previous generation, the GB-BXi7H-5500 is also a barebones PC. The storage subsystem, DRAM and OS choices are all left to the end user. We opted for a powerful build, choosing the highest end Corsair Vengeance DDR3L memory SKU and a 120 GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO.

The GB-BXi7H-5500 will have a suggested retail price of $509, a very slight premium over the introductory price of the premium Haswell GB-BXi7-4500 model. Our high-end choices pushed the build cost upwards of $750. However, it is possible to bring down the cost with a judicious choice of DRAM and SSD. The specifications of our review configuration are summarized in the table below.

The GIGABYTE GB-BXi7H-5500 kit doesn't come with any pre-installed OS, but does come with a DVD containing the drivers. The read-only USB keys that came with some of the BRIX models last year seem to be missing this time around. In any case, we ended up installing the latest drivers downloaded off GIGABYTE's product support page. In addition to the main unit, the other components of the package include a 65 W (19V @ 3.42A) adapter, a US power cord, a VESA mount (along with the necessary screws), a driver DVD, screws for the installation of a 2.5" drive and a NFC tag. The gallery below takes us around the packaging and the hardware.

We had installed DDR3L sticks supporting overclocking up to 2133 MHz. Naturally curious about what rate the memory was running at actually, and in order to take a look at the various configuration options, we navigated into the BIOS. The gallery below shows some screenshots indicating the available BIOS options.

The system was able to configure itself without any intervention to run the memory at 1866 MHz. Considering that Intel only officially supports up to DDR3L-1600, this is pretty good. We modified a couple of other options - one related to the OS that we planned to install - Windows 8.x instead of the default Windows 7, and another related to the memory allocated to the iGPU. By default, the iGPU gets only 128 MB. Since the unit was built with 16 GB of memory, we decided to allocate the maximum possible memory to the iGPU in the BIOS - 2 GB. Within Windows, though, hardware monitoring tools reported only 1 GB of VRAM.

In the table below, we have an overview of the various systems that we are comparing the GIGABYTE GB-BXi7H-5500 against. Note that they may not belong to the same market segment. The relevant configuration details of the machines are provided so that readers have an understanding of why some benchmark numbers are skewed for or against the GIGABYTE GB-BXi7H-5500 when we come to those sections. The most important of these PCs is the GIGABYTE GB-BXi7-4500 - they are at similar price points, and the comparison will give us an idea of what Broadwell brings to the table when compared to Haswell.

Let's start in the idle and in the low-load range. AMD has been able to catch up properly and it is really a long time ago that an AMD graphics card has absorbed so little in the idle of performance when it has not turned off very cleverly. So this can happen before, even if the map of MSI measured in the launch test is once again approx. 3 watts was more economical. But once there's a little more 3D load, there's plenty of 145 watts in gaming. I measured this value in both Metro Exodus and Total War. Easier exercises, such as WoT, still hit with a more moderate 117 watts. If we compare the MSI GTX 1650 Super Gaming X 4GB, this is still up to 40 watts more when it comes to gaming.

If we now compare the voltages, then one can see very nicely, where above all the power explosion at the power supply comes from during the torture test. The gigabyte card delivers a constant 1,125 volts during gaming after warm-up without even shutting down once. In general, the card with the new driver does things again that I could not read out in the specifications.

Both cards are in the grass-green area when the motherboard slot is debited. Here, too, I have prepared a diagram for both maps: In the navigation card with the 6 phases, the load distribution is exemplary, whereby the two phases fed from the slot will never lead to an overload, even with the torture loop.

Peaks with intervals between 1 and 10 ms can lead to shutdowns with very fast-reacting protective circuits (OPP, OCP), especially for multi-rail power supplies, although the average power consumption is still in the norm. For the Gigabyte RX 5500 XT Gaming OC 8GB, I would therefore calculate the standard OC with 200 to 250 watts as a graphics card load proportionally to the secondary-sided total power consumption of the system and with the MSI GTX 1650 Super Gaming X 4GB with approx. 150 to 180 watts to have enough reserves in case of a case. A short excerpt with high resolution now shows us the 20 ms measurements (10 S intervals), how I run them automatically for valuation:

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Today, we have an 8GB variant on our test bench, the Gigabyte RX 5500 XT Gaming OC 8G. Compared to the Sapphire Pulse we tested previously, this card sports a larger heatsink with three fans and, of course, 8GB of GDDR6. Where the 4GB card struggled in some titles, we will see the 8GB card show the full potential of the Navi 14 XTX GPU powering the card. We saw significant performance improvements in Forza Horizon 4, Battlefield V, Far Cry 5, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Where previous frames per second (fps) results on the 4GB Sapphire model were abnormally low, with this 8GB model delivering decidedly better performance.

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