Massman

- Asus Maximus V Extreme --- 0704: download - Asus Maximus V Formula --- 0095: download

Wait. I did not only eat her chips, but also her pizzas? No wonder she always looks angry when I arrive ... :-/

I'll update the thread title then. "K404 fails" seems more appropriate.

Our typical "pre-test" phase. Leeghoofd fighting with the OS installation while I'm being laid back doing nothing. My turn is later ... when the scores need to be set .

My other clothes are just more shit than the sponsored ones

Leeghoofd and me benching for the Team Cup. PCMark05 with pizza, ketchup and hidden drinks. 1:23AM right now and we're going LN2 for the first time!

Let's open a thread for sharing pics WHILE you are benching with your friends (or alone if you don't have friends). Funny pictures are encouraged! :D

Can you guess what we're benching here?

- Asus Maximus V Extreme --- 0020: download

Oh, sorry. No, I absolutely believe it's because of the CPU temperature. I was just wondering if this CPU temp issue was BIOS specific. Probably not, I guess, since it happened on 10.5 and 10.6b3. Has anyone reported this to MSI HQ? Anyone already tested on another Z77 board?

No idea

Thanks for the input, man! Much much appreciated! . I'll check for Vdimm and 'overvolting', although I have tried that before too. In the "'51' debug code - any fix or workaround?"-thread I also mentioned that I could work around the 51 problem by pumping 1.9V for POST and then lower it to 1.85V or 1.8V in OS for 32M stability. For now, I'm using what Leeghoofd says he used on the Gene to run 2600C8-11-8 32M. I do remember having to tighten up the Flares when looking for stability. Thanks for the reminder! Fyi, this is what I ran the Flare kit at when the UD5H would randomly boot up at 1300: http://i46.tinypic.com/24exjth.jpg Just tried the settings you suggested on F5b and anything above the DDR3-2200 divider would just return an overclocking failed warning. I'll give it another go later today

Whoah, Aris! Nice score!

It's not a BIOS version problem.

Agreeing with that! Clean PCB = :ws: Looking forward to the (real) OC results!

I assume you verified that 'just under 1300' is indeed the limit of the memory kit and not the board, right? Just set up my rig again to see how high the blue BBSE kit can go with the new F6x BIOS. Test settings: - DDR3-2400 divider - C8-11-8 - 1.85Vdimm - Vref all auto - loose 2nd/3rd subs - cpu around 4500 So, started testing: - 100 BCLK BIOS to OS-> 32M stable - 100 to 102 BCLK in OS -> fail after 1 loop - 102 BCLK BIOS to OS -> 32M stable - 102 to 104 BCLK in OS -> fail after 3 loops - 102 to 104 BCLK BIOS to OS -> fail after 5 loops - 104 to 100 to 104 BCLK BIOS to OS -> 32M stable - 104 to 106 BCLK in OS -> fail after 5 loops - 106 to 100 to 106 BCLK BIOS to OS -> can't boot/post After that I had to clear CMOS and lost all capability for running 2400/104. It's now crashing at the 1st loop. Same settings in BIOS, same methodology, same everything. Given that fiddling with memory timings does not change the stability grade (loose/tight all result in early crashes) and that a certain method of power cycling does help, I think it's an electrical compatibility problem rather than BIOS at this point. //edit: just a couple of minutes ago I was stuck at loop1 failure and after fiddling with auto/normal vref setting and power cycles, the memory is running 32M stable again . //edit2: soft reboot request in OS gave me a hard reboot instead; back in OS ... loop1 failure //edit3: did 104 -> 100 -> 104 in BIOS (including power cycles) and it's running 32M stable again. Did not change any voltage or timing. //edit4: soft reboot request in OS turned into hard reboot instead (again); back in OS ... loop3 failure.

Latest BIOS for the GD65 is 10.6b11: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/BIOS/Z77/E7751IMS.A6B Might wanna try that one to rule out specific BIOS version issue ?

I cannot remember seeing that type of behavior when benching with Elmor in MSI HQ. We tested both Ivy and SBE and on both platforms the clocks, performance and card behavior were quite similar. There were cold problems (-50°C CBB) with the cards and one time we had a GT2 slowdown, but both had a workaround. What mainboard BIOSes are you guys on? Anyone tested with a different Z77 board?

I'll put the competition up on frontpage after the Team Cup. Should attract more attention. Now it's kind of hidden in the forums.

Zen's are black PCB? Or green PCB?

I've compared the SPD with the ones I have here and they seems 100% identical. Your kit has a green PCB? If one type of PCB works better than the other, would that point to an electrical compatibility problem rather than SPD or weak mem IC? It would line up with the idea that you need to finetune the ref voltages?

Fixed