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Maximus VII Impact is great ITX board and allows to clocks memories better than MATX/ATX boards due to shorter traces inside PCB. That's why with some great tuning, you can achieve best level of efficiency. But because of very small construction, PCB and all components on PCB are very cold and board mostly stops working with LN2 after 15-30 minutes unless you follow my guide. LN2 isolation guide What do you need: - plastic spray (I recommend Plastik 70, it's 100% removable but you have to use solvent NITRO) - armaflex + scissors - vaseline - paper towel - some tape for protection during spraying Plastik 70 Step 1 Remove all heat sinks, you don't need them on LN2 Step 2 Plastic spray only two sides of CPU power section, remember about protecting dimm slots, fan connectors etcetera with tape, we don't want to plastic spray all ports It's the most important step, cause when CPU PWM will be too cold, board won't power on at all. It's the biggest issue during benching Impact without proper isolation, boards tends to "freeze to death". Plastic spray protects it perfectly from getting too cold. Step 3 Put vaseline on the whole board, up and down, put some armaflex into USB 3.0 connector, we don't want water condensation during benching and risk health of our board Step 4 Prepare armaflex for the back of board (size of Maximus VII Impact) and cut correct form for socket area and rest of the board (one big piece). Don't put heatsinks on the board. During LN2 I use naked board, cause because of tiny construction, whole board is very cold (even PWM). Also remember to use Asus ROG OC Panel, especially for buttons Power ON/OFF and RESET, cause when we use memories cooled by LN2, buttons can't be used, cause they froze to deatch. Also note that Maximus VII Impact has special module with LN2 jumper on it, it's very handy, when you start cooling down cpu to around -20, you just plug in this module into motherboard and do ClearMOS (so LN2 mode will be enabled). Cut two pieces of armaflex for both sides of PWM. Put some paper towel in order to gather condensation. Also when on cold with memory LN2 pot, I use PSU +12V and ATX 24 pin cable extensions with proper isolation from water. Picture of my setup after 4 hours of benching, still rocking, stable with memories 2800+ C6! Memories at full pot all the time. TIPS 1. Always boot with 100.1 MHz baseclock, Asus boards have bug and 1 per 3 boots will start with lower baseclock (99.8 MHz), even when matching frequency in OS via OC Panel/TurboV Lite), efficiency won't be good. 2. Sometimes when settings are very tight and good, frequency is okay, but still board has very bad efficiency, just ClearMOS and put everything again. I got few times "slow mode boot". Origins from Maximus VI Impact, I haven't found other fix than ClearMOS. Important: don't use saved profile when you had this issue. 3. If you get 03 code, just warm up memories and when board starts training, start pouring LN2. 4. Sometimes you have to wait 4-6 minutes until board "trains" very high or tight settins. If it trains but shutdowns at some point of traning, just let her go for few more minutes. It gives some magic. 5. For Haswell refresh use Fully Manual mode, for old Haswell, I don't recommend it. PSC Tips Tight Latency Boundary A&B and Latency Compensation are your friends. On some PSC Dram Swizzling Bit 2 you have to put on DISABLE in order to get stability Not all PSC like ICS Optimizer To play with RTL firstly you have to find good RTL Initial Value And at the end some crazy scores: Golden CUP in XTU in 4790K category, crazy memory efficiency is the key to great score

Warm up

You know black surprises will be useful soon! Similar score (a bit worse though)you can get on Gene. I didn't mean to offend anyone, just telling that with crazy efficiency even potato cpu can you give nice points

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1353 Goddy

Great cpu

Crazy card, great result. Seems almost impossible to beat

Thx Ian! Yes Impact is alive and rocking, there are feeew tips to keep those boards alive and rocking long hours on LN2, I will post a guide tomorrow on HWBOT. Best Z97 ROG board imho

great score

congrats

Epic

LOVE IT

Hahaha epic clean, it's not real OC bro, sorry

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GJ

I preferred videos with Elmor

@Wizerty - 5 GHz, settings llike in XTU - 50 x 100.1 straight from bios

I thought no more AMD CPU in PRO CUP?

Great job

You did magic with MSI

It's always nice to see MSI kicking some ass