Rimmer

December 13, 2022

Hello. I have question. I have 10700k and RAM 4400Mhz CL19 patriot viper. on z 490 apex i need 1.2V LLC 5 for 5Ghz and VCCIO 1.21V and SA 1.23V and i didnt notice any instability and ram errors. but on Z590 Apex i need 1.440V LLC 6 for 5Ghz and 1.27V IO and 1.33V SA. when i run memtest z490 looks ok but on z590 insta errors. How can be so much difference on this platform using same CPU and RAM? and i notice VCCSA is weird i set 1.33V and HWinfo and board measuring point shows 1.29V but on default 1v is accurate on hwinfo and board points. is it BUG or board problem. i change z490 for z590 because pcie slot spacing. On z590 i can put 3-slot Gpu and have 1 slot space for air

December 8, 2022

So i tried that TPU bios and luckily it worked, So now i have working Lightning and that PCie issue is gone too so really don't know what happened there.

December 8, 2022

Hello. I have problem with this card, on card itself is lightning LE but according to Gpu-z bios is normal lightning because gpu clock shows 1080 Mhz and LE should have 1030 Mhz. if i run benchmark Pci-e shows that support pcie 3.0 x16 but card is running on pcie 1.1 x16. and gpu clock jump from 300Mhz (idle) to 576 Mhz which is weird. if i switch to Ln2 bios, gpu-z shows that gpu clock is 1000Mhz (which should be ok according to review of normal lightning) and if i run benchmark gpu clock jump to 1000mhz which is correct, but pcie shows pcie 3.0 x8. but card looks ok so i don't know why PCie act weird. And if LN2 bios clock work ok i think that standart bios might be broken so i would like to Flash it, but i can't find Bios for LE version only original Lightning so i don't know if i should try to flash it. Only LE bios i found is some unverified on TPU https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/166010/166010

Any idea? Thank you

December 24, 2021

So it is christmas so i decided to try some overclocking, with Maximus Extreme X38 , my second Rampage III Extreme with bent pin, Maximus V Formula Z77 and Z87 Mpower MAX where i fix MEM slot.

I did not write down 775 CPUs i started at 1366

I7-920, rev.D0, 3951A411 oc 1.39V, FSB 200 - 4208MHz

I7-950, rev.D0, 3029A962 oc 1.4V, FSB 195 - 4491MHz

I7-960, rev.D0, 3103B554 oc 1.41V, FSB 178, 4283MHz

2500K, rev.D2, 3144A911 4.7-1.4V

2500K, rev.D2, L046B079 4.7-1.45V

2600K, rev.D2, L101B554 4.2-1.35V

G3258, rev.C0, 3419B813 4.6GHZ-1.39V

G3258, rev.C0, L417B973 4.8 GHZ -1.4+V

4670K, rev.C0, 3338C439 4.7GHz - 1.4V

4690K, rev.C0, L331C514 4.8GHz- 1.3V/ 4.9 - 1.39V

4790K, rev.C0, L436C555 4.8-1.3V/ 4.9-1.35V

I don't know if it is because my R3E has that slightly bent pin but i can't fully screw my cooler or i lose 1 mem chanel. On z77 no problem and on z87 only 4690k did not want to boot and this was pain in the ass after fifth attempt i figure it out, dont screw it all the way down and bingo...boot.

I was hoping to achieve 5G on some CPU but nope. I don't have good enough CPU to do it on Air. The 2600k was absolutely worst didn't want to boot at 2133MHz like my 2500k, only 1866MHz works and 4.2G on 1.35V even after pumping 1.46V it will not do 4.3G such a bummer. But what pains me most i have 3770k and i couldn't use it. Because 3gen has 1 millimeter bigger IHS than 4-7gen so i couldn't use my delid tool...sad.

From all motherboards the Z87 Mpower MAX was best for me, simple to use i would even say better Bios than Asus. The Command center for in OS OC is really heavy tool but luckily i found Lite version and it work flawlessly. On other hand on Maximus Extreme x38 i didn't find any tool i could use from OS and getting TurboV work on R3E is easy its on website but Maximus V was chalenge it is not on website. There is so many version. TurboV, TurboV EVO, TurboV Core. Thanks Asus. So tried older version from Maximus IV-Z and it works but because it is older version maybe it could couse some issues?? Who knows. Initially i wanted Z77x-UP7 for testing but first time using GIGA Bios and not impressed. I couldn't figure out how set fans to 100% all the time, only in OS thru their software i could do only 90% better than nothing, but that software was piece of crap was heavy on resources and constant crashing. And all this was 4 days full of FUN

November 7, 2021

Hello. I would like to share my colection of hardware

I started colection as fun project to OC old hardware, but after cleaning and testing i put them back into box, because i'm scared of destroying them. ?

Down below list of my stuff + some photo.

MOBO

ASUS
Maximus Extreme (2)   X38
Rampage Extreme    x48
Rampage II Extreme    x58
Rampage III Extreme    x58
Rampage IV Extreme    x79
Rampage V Extreme    x99
Rampage VI Apex    x299
Maximus V Formula   z77
Maximus IX Apex (2)   z270
Maximus X Apex   z370
Maximus XI Apex   z390
Maximus XII Apex   z490
Maximus XIII Apex   z590

Crosshair       nForce 590 SLi
Crosshair II Formula   nForce 780a SLI
Crosshair III Formula (2)   790FX
Crosshair IV Extreme   890FX
Crosshair V Formula   990FX
Crosshair VIII Impact   x570

MSI
MSI P35 platinum
MSI Z87 Mpower Max (2)
MSI Z87 Xpower
MSI Z97 Mpower

Gigabyte
GA-X58A-UD5
GA-X58A-OC
GA-Z77x-UP7
GA-Z87X-OC Force
GA-Z97X-SOC Force
GA-X99-SOC Champion

EVGA nForce 780i SLI
X299 Dark
FOXCONN FLAMING BLADE X58

GPU

Asus
8800 GTS (320Mb)
9600GT (Lady)
9600GT Matrix
9800GT Matrix
9800GX2
GTX 260 3x Asus
GTX 260 MAtrix
GTX 285 Matrix 2x ok ,1x ded
GTX590 (x2)
GTX 760 Striker
Asus x1950 XT
HD4850 Matrix (2)
HD4850
HD5870 Matrix Plat (2)
HD 6990
HD7970 Matrix Plat
R9 290x Matrix Plat

GV-N26OC-896H-B
GA-6870-SOC
GA-460-SOC
GA-470-SOC
GA-GTX480
GA-GTX680-SOC

Sapphire X1950 Pro
Sapphire HD2600 XT Ultimate
Sapphire HD3870 Ultimate
Sapphire HD4850
Sapphire HD4850x2
Sapphire HD4870x2
Sapphire HD4870
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic
Sapphire Vapor-X 5770
Sapphire HD5970 (2)

Gainward 4870
Gainward Bliss GTX 260 GS 216SP
Gainward 9800GTX+

EVGA GTX 260
EVGA GTX 980 SC
EVGA GTX 690

N7600GT
MSI N260GTX TwinFrozr OC (2)
MSI GTX 295 (x2)
MSi NX7900 gto
Msi 6870 Hawk
msi 460 hawk
Msi 7950 OC/BE
MSI 5770 Hawk (x2)
GTX 750Ti

PALIT XpertVision GeForce 8800GTX

CPU

AMD
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+,
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+,
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+,
AMD Phenom X4 9650,
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE,
AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE,
AMD Phenom II X2 560 BE,
AMD Phenom II X4 960T, UNLOCK X6
FX8370

INTEL

Pentium D 915,
Pentium E5700,
C2D E6700,
C2D E6750,
C2D E6850,
C2D E8400,
C2D E8400,
Xeon x3430,
XEON X5570,
i3-530,
I7-920,
I7-920,
I7-950,
I7-960,
I7-960,
I7-975,
i7-4930K,
i7-5930K,
i7-7700K,
i7-8700K,
i7-8086K,
i7-9900K,
i7-9900KF,