Massman Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Got the board in a couple of days ago, working my way through the BIOS now to get used to the board. It's the successor for the X58A-OC, so expectations are high. Setup - i7 3960X ES - X79-UD7 (bios F3k/F3n) - 4x 2GB Dominator GTX8 - GeForce 8400GS (for now) - Silent Pro M1000 PSU Pictures Just a few, there are far better pictures out on teh interw3bz already so you can check out those! Results - coming soon - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hondacity Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 what is that videocard? nice 90 angle on that videocard cable lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 XFX GF8400 GS with passive Zalman on it. Used to be for media center, but I switched it out for an i3 2300 + IGP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hondacity Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 sbe can't touch sb, with sp32m? can sbe match this http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?264837-SandyBridge-2D-madness-let-s-tweak-for-the-best-1m-32m-pifast-and-wprime!&p=4749690&viewfull=1#post4749690 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 It can, but you need to be smart I did a performance analysis between 2500k, 2600k, 3930k and 3960x at 5GHz here: http://lab501.ro/procesoare-chipseturi/studiu-de-overclocking-asus-rampage-iv-extreme-sandy-bridge-e/17 Also you can find out that tri-channel is much better than dual-channel or quad-channel on SB-E here: http://lab501.ro/procesoare-chipseturi/studiu-de-overclocking-asus-rampage-iv-extreme-sandy-bridge-e/18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 matose, can you also test 1Gb vs 2Gb modules on SBe and 4x2Gb vs 8x2Gb in 32M ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hondacity Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 thanks matose. good to see people sharing info time for me to study.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 matose, can you also test 1Gb vs 2Gb modules on SBe and 4x2Gb vs 8x2Gb in 32M ? I don't have 8 modules I will test single-sided vs double-sided when my PSC arrive next week. For me SPI32m on SB-E is pretty useless because I have 5950MHz 2500k but no time to mount 4x2GB Elpida Hyper and get a proper score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 The IMC on this chip is not too good, so DDR3-2400C10 seems to be the max so far. Bclk goes upto 106MHz, but couldn't get the 1.25x to work yet. A couple of other bugs are in the F3k bios at the moment, but I think those will be solved rather quickly. LN2 runs coming up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I think the MB is the problem, not the IMC. I tried more than one CPU and neither one did under 2550MHz RAM freq on R4E... 1.25x multiplier also don't work on ASRock X79 Extreme 4 but I managed close to 2500MHz MEM speed with the same CPU that did 2600MHz on R4E. Oh, and MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) was DOA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 How much chips you tested? I tested only the Sabertooth before and it had a similar MEMCLK wall as I experience now. DX79SI was even worse as it couldn't run DDR3-1200. I think I need that R4E to set baseline OC results with this chip. Interesting note about the MSI board. What were the DOA symptoms? No boot or just no power up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 It doesn’t boot, the LEDs light up but the Debug LED don’t show anything. It seems like a problem with CPU VRM, just one phase lights up and the CPU does not receive voltage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthdog Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Massman.. you having issues with voltage sticking on the Fn bios by chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 Massman.. you having issues with voltage sticking on the Fn bios by chance? Yeap. Same issue on F3k, by the way; happens everytime the system does a hard reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthdog Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I think the MB is the problem, not the IMC. I tried more than one CPU and neither one did under 2550MHz RAM freq on R4E...1.25x multiplier also don't work on ASRock X79 Extreme 4 but I managed close to 2500MHz MEM speed with the same CPU that did 2600MHz on R4E. Oh, and MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) was DOA If you CPU is C1 stepping, it seems those boards are not compatible...at least according to MSI. Our team leader has one for review and MSI is sending out another because of C1 incompatibility. Well, F2 wasnt bad for me (outside of the odd LLC that doesnt work at all) overclocking wise so I will stick with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Retail CPUs are C1, maybe you mean C0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin0822 Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 A bit higher than before, http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2106995 keep the improvements coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 Quicktest under LN2 to check if the CPU behaves in the same way. That high voltage wasn't necessary, set it just to be sure. Clocking is similar to the Sabertooth both in terms of temp range, memory issue and max clock. Not a good chip, in other words. Also trying to get both 1.25x and 1.67x BCLK multiplier working. So far, I can almost boot into windows with the 1.67x ... just need a little more hw tweaking. TBC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthdog Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) Retail CPUs are C1, maybe you mean C0?Retail C1 and it wouldnt boot from the get go. The bios he has I do not believe was the shipping bios and that was were the incompatibility lay. Massman - Any new beta bios in the works for this non sticking to settings thing in F3k/n or do we have to continue to use ET6 for voltage and overclocking (outside the buttons on board of course)? Edited November 21, 2011 by Earthdog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stasio Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Massman - Any new beta bios in the works for this non sticking to settings thing in F3k/n or do we have to continue to use ET6 for voltage and overclocking (outside the buttons on board of course)? Here you have F3i/j/m,but I think is same. Btw, on friday has been new release (I don't have yet). And today will be probably new beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin0822 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 hey try not setting the CPu PWM frequency, see if that allows the voltages to stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 Retail C1 and it wouldnt boot from the get go. The bios he has I do not believe was the shipping bios and that was were the incompatibility lay. Massman - Any new beta bios in the works for this non sticking to settings thing in F3k/n or do we have to continue to use ET6 for voltage and overclocking (outside the buttons on board of course)? Wtf about retail C1 incompatibility ... I think there are new BIOSes coming out. There should be ... need some other fixes too. Oh, hey, could we all complain with one big petition to give us more than 4 bios profiles and allow is to name them so we can see which one is loaded? hey try not setting the CPu PWM frequency, see if that allows the voltages to stick. I tried auto and setting them manually. No change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matose Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Retail C1 and it wouldnt boot from the get go. The bios he has I do not believe was the shipping bios and that was were the incompatibility lay. I tested with C0 and still the same... I think the problem is someplace else as I'm not the only one with this problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stasio Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I think there are new BIOSes coming out. Final BIOS is out today,anybody have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 Dino said the new BIOS would be uploaded tomorrow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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