MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX
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General Specs
- Release Date: September 2019
- Socket: AM4
- Chipset: AMD® B450 Chipset
- Form Factor: m-ATX
Extras
- Storage: 1Tb NVMe SSD
- Memory: Crucial 16MB RAM [1]
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 6 core CPU [2]
- CDROM: Optiarc DVD RW AD-5280S optical drive [3]
Devices
Component | Name | HardwareID | Status | Driver |
---|---|---|---|---|
Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 6 core cpu | -- | ![]() |
ACPI |
HDD - SATA | AMD 400 Series Chipset SATA Controller | 1022:43C8 | ![]() |
OS2AHCI, DANIS506 |
HDD - SATA | AMD FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] | 1022:7901 | ![]() |
OS2AHCI, DANIS506 |
HDD - NVMe | Micron/Crucial Technology P2 NVMe PCIe SSD | C0A9:540A | ![]() |
NVME.ADD |
Audio | AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller | 1022:15E3 | ![]() |
Uniaud |
Network | Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller | 10EC:8168 | ![]() |
Multimac MMRE.OS2 |
Video | AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] | 1002:1638 | ![]() |
Panorama |
USB (xHCI) | AMD 400 Series Chipset USB 3.1 xHCI Compliant Host Controller | 1022:43D5 | ![]() |
AN USB Drivers. |
General Comments
- Report by Pete
- He reported that he installed ArcaOS 5.1 on a dual boot configuration with Windows 11. CSM needs to be enabled to boot from CD/DVD on this system.
- Installed 5.1.0 in UEFI Boot mode to GPT disk layout
- Note About Hyper Threading
- The AMD's version of Hyper Threading is called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) which can be Disabled in:
- BIOS -> Settings -> Advanced -> AMD Overclocking -> Manual CPU Overclocking -> CPU Core Count Control -> SMT Control [Auto] or [Disable]
- Pete have been using this mainboard with SMT set to Auto, resulting in ArcaOS reporting "Processors Intialized: 12" for his 6 core Ryzen 5 5600G CPU during boot for over 3 months and the system has been very stable. He did "Disable SMT" in the BIOS but did not see a lot of difference in system speed in general although Seamonkey and OpenOffice apps seemed to start just a little quicker when SMT is set to Auto so he reset SMT to Auto.
- The NVMe drive makes for a very fast boot and applications start more quickly.
- Onboard AMD/ATI graphics working fine with Panorama driver.
- Onboard Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 NIC working with MMRE.OS2.
- The above worked with the drivers included in 5.1.0.
- Onboard sound: Choice of 2 devices.
- I could not get any sound from speakers when booting with
DEVICE=H:\MMOS2\UNIAUD32.SYS /V
- or
DEVICE=H:\MMOS2\UNIAUD32.SYS /V /A:0
- /A:0 selected the AMD mixer device.
- Changing that to
DEVICE=H:\MMOS2\UNIAUD32.SYS /V /A:1
- /A:1 selected the Realtek ALC892 mixer device.
- Sound works using the Release build in this package [4]