It's not such a long time, in the end. When you run Memtest86, it takes ages, so there's always some time lost when building a new system, in any case.

Its gonna be a pain for overclocking.

I can see that being ok provided that It actually trains more reliably.

This is not good if true taking so long to train(does not apply to me as I would do not buy AsROck motherboards ). As someone who overclocks and needs to reset his motherboard maybe 100+ times and I actually setup a reset switch to the motherboard JBAT1 for easy clearing CMOS on fail attempts in overclocking. I just read the title and not the article,so I may be missing some information.

"DDR5 should fix all hassles of DDR4!"

I don't see it being much of a problem for 99% of people it might be a pain while initially overclocking but once you get there it stays there and typically write down the settings or save the BIOS config when you update the BIOS.

they wrote that on there like it was a feature.... yikes

Acutally, I don't mind, as long as they tell you... imagine buying a new rig, putting it all together, and ending up in a seemingly infinite boot loop where your rig never gets past RAM training. I'd be furious, distressed, and would go through a lot of emotional damage.

I don`t understand, what is "memory training"?

H83:

I don`t understand, what is "memory training"?

It's basically the CPU (or IMC) testing and setting the optimal calibration to work with your RAM, if I understood it correctly. Ironically, it's not training your RAM, it's training the rest of the system.

This literally is after a cmos clear. What is the big deal. Making something out of nothing. Yawn.

Agonist:

This literally is after a cmos clear. What is the big deal. Making something out of nothing. Yawn.

Yeah, the only real time this would be a pain, is when trying to stabilize your overclocked system with multiple cmos resets. Other than that not an issue.

Maddness:

Yeah, the only real time this would be a pain, is when trying to stabilize your overclocked system with multiple cmos resets. Other than that not an issue.

And no one should be rushing or worry about the boot time if overclocking or tweaking. I have spent days before tweaking and testing settings.

Doo you all update bios evry day 🙂

Agonist:

This literally is after a cmos clear.

aka every time your memory oc won't boot or system crashes due to ram instability. 400 secs to boot into default bios, change settings, another 400 sec to boot new ones.

Sempaii:

Doo you all update bios evry day 🙂

AMD BIOS updating has become a hobby of mine if that means anything......

Memory overclocking (which includes dozens of reboots and retraining memory) doesn't take hundreds of seconds until you clean CMOS.

Panic over.

Reminiscent of the 90s, where you had to wait for your PC to test your memory every time it POST'ed. But, at least [some?] you had the option to skip it. Thankfully, Asrock is only having you do this once. Hard to tell if you're allowed to skip this but I think it's well worth the time investment if it means getting the best possible experience.

fantaskarsef:

Ironically, it's not training your RAM, it's training the rest of the system.

Kind of like how a fire truck is used to put out fires rather than make them.

This issue has been fixed already with a new Bios update by ASRock , everything runs and boots with normal times.

welcome to the threadripper 3000 experience and if it's the same what they don't tell you is that this time is BEFORE you see the bios I was really scared when my 1500$ + 800$ motherboard showed a black screen for several minutes before I understood what was going on and before I 1st saw the bios 30 minutes had passed 😱 the upside of TR tough was that, and I tried for fun it was stable and booted with 8 different brand/model memory which is crazy if there's anyone here that has an old pc for example a 9000 intel or else you can forget your 15s cold boot speeds, that time is over (had that, from power switch+power on to desktop on z390 taichi ultimate with fast boot in 15s good times) threadripper trx40 was much slower to boot x570 slightly less and z690 asus extreme also slow (probably because of all the rgb crap on mine I think each display or rgb has it's own bios ><) all my pcs are heavily loaded with usb, sata,m.2 +1-2 pcie cards so you might have a better experience but still z390 was much much faster p.s. I don't know if it's specific to z690 or ddr5 but there's no memory temp on corsair dominators ddr5 which is annoying as I used them to get a general idea of my case air temp (I know I can plug a sensor I already have nearly 50 wires thx to rgb it's enough ><) p.s.2 this should only happen once when you change memory type or model, if you change clocks timings you don't have to redo it at least from what I remember, I don't think you have to redo it either if you swap sticks from 1 slot to the other once your MB "knows" the stick but I might be wrong I had TR 2+ years ago