MaximusIV-Extreme Thread

So MicroCenter didn't have any good 2600k batches I was willing to buy (only (2) 2600k in stock) but I did find one L041C123 2500k that I have read alot of good things about. Chip was only $179.99 so I said what the hell and bought it as I was dieing to play with something new. Well I have been testing it for the past 20 minutes and it seems its a 55X chip as I can boot into windows and run 1M and 32M no sweat but wont boot at 56X with vcore up to 1.58v. Here is a SuperPI 1M and 32M. I am off to test 5Ghz LinX stable vcore and will report back.

Sorry about 1M Mhz, I still had cstate enabled from offset vcore testing so it shows 1600Mhz since its idle, it ran at 5500Mhz though.
http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/s...0Mhz_6817s.jpg

http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/s...z_6m19331s.jpg

^^ nice... i bet it'll do 5Ghz@ around ~1.42v maybe lower

What's the best bios right now? 1850?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by deachus

So MicroCenter didn't have any good 2600k batches I was willing to buy (only (2) 2600k in stock) but I did find one L041C123 2500k that I have read alot of good things about. Chip was only $179.99 so I said what the hell and bought it as I was dieing to play with something new. Well I have been testing it for the past 20 minutes and it seems its a 55X chip as I can boot into windows and run 1M and 32M no sweat but wont boot at 56X with vcore up to 1.58v. Here is a SuperPI 1M and 32M. I am off to test 5Ghz LinX stable vcore and will report back

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Nice 2500K deachus:up:

Could you find the highest bclk/mhz with 55X with turbo V?

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Originally Posted by Devil_Dog

What's the best bios right now? 1850?

Thanks

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1850 very good and also 1409 was easy to boot 108x52

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Originally Posted by deachus

So MicroCenter didn't have any good 2600k batches I was willing to buy (only (2) 2600k in stock) but I did find one L041C123 2500k that I have read alot of good things about. Chip was only $179.99 so I said what the hell and bought it as I was dieing to play with something new. Well I have been testing it for the past 20 minutes and it seems its a 55X chip as I can boot into windows and run 1M and 32M no sweat but wont boot at 56X with vcore up to 1.58v. Here is a SuperPI 1M and 32M. I am off to test 5Ghz LinX stable vcore and will report back.

Sorry about 1M Mhz, I still had cstate enabled from offset vcore testing so it shows 1600Mhz since its idle, it ran at 5500Mhz though.
http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/s...0Mhz_6817s.jpg



http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/s...z_6m19331s.jpg

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grats mate !!! enjoy it !

ok after two days of Offset vcore mode, well i don't like it, i get random freeze at idle and low load and well if i want to eliminate those randoms freeze i need to put more vcore which puts more vcore than i need on load.

so back to normal vcore.

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Originally Posted by deachus

So MicroCenter didn't have any good 2600k batches I was willing to buy (only (2) 2600k in stock) but I did find one L041C123 2500k that I have read alot of good things about. Chip was only $179.99 so I said what the hell and bought it as I was dieing to play with something new. Well I have been testing it for the past 20 minutes and it seems its a 55X chip as I can boot into windows and run 1M and 32M no sweat but wont boot at 56X with vcore up to 1.58v. Here is a SuperPI 1M and 32M. I am off to test 5Ghz LinX stable vcore and will report back.

Sorry about 1M Mhz, I still had cstate enabled from offset vcore testing so it shows 1600Mhz since its idle, it ran at 5500Mhz though.

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nice chip, very lucky as well since the two 2500k's from that batch that I tested were no bueno.

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Originally Posted by deachus

If I understand what your asking, you want to know why use offset vcore vs just manually setting the vcore?

Ok, lets say you are using a 24/7 clock speed of 5Ghz that is LinX stable at 1.45vcore. The reason offset vcore is good is because if you enable cstate, speedstep and use offset vcore your processor speed at full load will be 5000Mhz at or damn close to 1.45vcore but if you setup offset vcore correctly when your processor is idle it will drop speed to 1600Mhz and will drop vcore to 1.00vcore or close to that depending on your offset therefore reducing temps and power usage when pc is not being loaded or in use. When you run a 5000Mhz 24/7 speed with 1.45vcore manually set not using offset vcore your processor will still run 5000Mhz at full load and drop to 1600Mhz at idle but your vcore will always stay at 1.45vcore at both full load and idle, so vcore doesn't dynamically adjust with CPU speed like when using offset vcore.

Hope I answered your question without going to in depth.

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Thanks for your reply and explanation.


Have a few more Q's if that's ok?

1: So we still need to have a max Vcore that we know will be stable in Prime/LinX set in the BIOS and NOT set as AUTO?
2: Then when we ramp down to 1600Mhz idle, how do I start to know what kind of voltage to head towards for idle 1600 Mhz?
3: Testing idle stability can only be done with general mild usage, since we cannot Prime it?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by MonsterDK

Thanks for your reply and explanation.


Have a few more Q's if that's ok?

1: So we still need to have a max Vcore that we know will be stable in Prime/LinX set in the BIOS and NOT set as AUTO?
2: Then when we ramp down to 1600Mhz idle, how do I start to know what kind of voltage to head towards for idle 1600 Mhz?
3: Testing idle stability can only be done with general mild usage, since we cannot Prime it?

Thanks

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you can't set a base Vcore... It sets by itself after two times you reboot... it's pretty bad imo, at least let us choose the base we want. Maybe my bios is just :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed up

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Originally Posted by l0ud_sil3nc3

nice chip, very lucky as well since the two 2500k's from that batch that I tested were no bueno.

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lol spanish l0ud :) were "muy malos" = "nada buenos"

cheers !
Sergio

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Originally Posted by andressergio

lol spanish l0ud :) were "muy malos" = "nada buenos"

cheers !
Sergio

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haha I know thank you sir. . . .

Yo tengo un Intel 2500k es muy malos

man I need to brush up on my spanish, it has been too many years

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Originally Posted by l0ud_sil3nc3

haha I know thank you sir. . . .

Yo tengo un Intel 2500k es muy malos

man I need to brush up on my spanish, it has been too many years

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wow thats nice

just 1 error its malo (Single) malos is plural ;)

;)

just got my x56 chip ... really lovin this mive

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Originally Posted by kagula323

just got my x56 chip ... really lovin this mive

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aint she a beauty :D

grats mate ! nice also on XP easy volts than on W7x64 SP1

cheers
Sergio

Ill receive my M4E on next week, paired with a 2600k. Lest Hope everything work flawless on arrival :)

I've been playing with the offset feature.

Phase = Optimised
LLC = 75% for the 4.8 OC.
All C States to ON.

So I started off Prime and the Max Vcore I hit was 1.592v.
Going in the 0.5 increments, I worked it out to be -140 to hit my stable 1.45v Vcore.

She did not like it though. I got a freeze booting into windows. So I removed some to make it -120.
The PC rebooted.

So hmm,, am some what confused :|

Its because the amount you are taking off the stable 4.8Ghz load vcore is too much coming off the idle vcore. You need to find the perfect middle ground. I am having the same problem on my end. Wish you could somehow set the starting vcore. How/why does the bios choose such a high starting vcore? My 5Ghz starting offset vcore is like 1.62vcore. If I take what I need off to get to my stable vcore at load then that is too much off my idle vcore.

Maybe I don't understand how it works?

Also, I just had a Prime95 small FFT's run blue screen 101 after 5 hours at 50x100.3 @ 1.42vcore so I bumped it up to 1.425v and will try again.

maybe will sound funny guys

but so much prime so much linx

i bet and of course from my experience if you can play BC2 for 1 hour you will be more than stable...believe me, no need to punish chips with linx or prime, in fact i passed linx and failed on BC2 with my SLI of GTX580 OC'd :) so now its my fav guide since im on SB, so CRYSIS the old one, specially if you use downsampling on the VGA's

cheers for all
Sergio

yes she is sergio :D
I'm having a lof of fun :)

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Originally Posted by kagula323

yes she is sergio :D
I'm having a lof of fun :)

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its great to have fun with a board and not to suffer it rite ?

today i received my second Patriot Viper xtreme 88 dollar 2000 9-11-9-27 2x4GB kit, as i said before amazing kits

runing 16GB at first boot without touching anything runing @ 2133 9-11-9-27 1T

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9...ot21339119.png

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9...ot21339119.png


cheers !
Sergio

But BC2 punkbuster is so bad, i get random freeze between 15min and 1hr because of afterburner or trixx... so sad

whats the best BIOS for the Maximus 4 Gene-Z?

qgshadow, open up the DPC latency checker program, its a free download, see if those programs produce DPC latency spikes. I have had programs that do that random freeze my BFBC2 on MP before.

Maybe we need to ask this Q and feed it back.
Im not on good enough cooling to allow a 1.5 vcore.

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Originally Posted by deachus

Its because the amount you are taking off the stable 4.8Ghz load vcore is too much coming off the idle vcore. You need to find the perfect middle ground. I am having the same problem on my end. Wish you could somehow set the starting vcore. How/why does the bios choose such a high starting vcore? My 5Ghz starting offset vcore is like 1.62vcore. If I take what I need off to get to my stable vcore at load then that is too much off my idle vcore.

Maybe I don't understand how it works?

Also, I just had a Prime95 small FFT's run blue screen 101 after 5 hours at 50x100.3 @ 1.42vcore so I bumped it up to 1.425v and will try again.

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