***ASRock x99 OC Formula Thread - Tips / Discussion / BIOS / Tools***
BIOS
X99OCF112a
X99OCF114f
Tools
AsrTCSetup(v3.0.5)
X99ocftools0910
PICS
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Board is fully coated and ready for 4-way :)
Memory Profiles are spot on :up:
Current CPU-Z Record for 5960x
http://i.imgur.com/jdF0LXA.jpg
Also Wprime 32
http://i.imgur.com/c1eoO4l.jpg
Some early testing all air cooled
32M
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XTU testing 4/4.5Ghz
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Nice, That is a monster chip
Just got one, Hope my retail is at least half decent
Looks good :)
looks amazing.
Seems there's a early gap in 32m efficiency compared to Asus, or just Asus start work earlier?
Just put together a new build with this board and that chip..., Looks great in the D-Frame. ...will be watching this thread for tips! Oooppps...also using Kingston DDR4 Hyperx Predator 16GB
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I'm still waiting.
Would arrive at middle of the week. :)
greeting
Heinrich
New bios
http://www.filedropper.com/x99ocf114f
and some wprime32
http://i.imgur.com/hqpwYov.png
3 of top 5 on asrock using lower frequency and better time :) Seems efficient to me
So how do you like that?
http://abload.de/img/extreme_tuningvlajs.jpg
what speed?
CPU speed at 4,5 GHz.
Is it :up: or :down: ?
Ok so... in fear of being labeled an idiot (which I am quite often by the way), I am going to let all know that I have never OC'd....having been tied up in my SSD world since O7. Having said that, how does this look? It is a straight pre-config'd OC with my system running ay 4.5 and I believe the memory is up to 2666... System is running smooth with no probs whatsoever.
Any ideas... would love to learn...shoot them my way and no...don't suggest something that will blow the system please eheh.
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Looks good for 6 core!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fritz_the_germ
Start again using 125 BCLK divider, then you can run you memory at 3000mhz easily. Using a lower multiplier on the CPU may allow you to lower voltage a tad as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by flamenko
Otherwise looks great, you must be very happy.
Just pm'd you...admittedly seeking assistance eheh.
Glad to help if I can :)
New bios here . improve memory training speed and 3Dmark performance
http://picx.xfastest.com/nickshih/asrock/X99OCF17b.rar
From the man himself...
Can I ask anyone a big favor? Can someone post a storage bench or two using Crystal Diskmark or AS SSD? I need the tests to be done with C states and Speedstep off...just for the benchmarks. Doing it with anything connected is fine but I am trying to determine whether it is the chipset or the fact that I migrated an old system that is causing consistent low 4K results, whether in NVMe, PCIe X4, X2 or SATA. IN all but NVMe I am getting around the 50MB/s mark, while my P3700 dropped way down to 90MB/s.
Update...new bios helps a bit...not much.
New BIOS XP does not register clocks ?
7 is fine ?
http://valid.x86.fr/wuah1z
My chip kinda blows
Ok so a bit of an update. We have done a fresh install of Win 8 and installed all new drivers and have noticed a few things:
1. storage benchmark performance is lower whether or not the system is optimized. Typically with an optimized system, one might get anywhere from 130-140MB/s for low 4K writes; the highest one can expect to reach now might be 115MB/s tops;
2. low 4K random writes with any M.2 drive (SATA/X2/X4) is horrid and tops out around 60MB/s;
3. NVMe is similar with low 4k randoms dropping from 300MB/s down to 211MB/s.
We found very little difference in our original build, compared to a new OS and driver installation and the newer BIOS that Nick supplied improved things markedly, but nowehere near what you might see in a Z97 system. WE haven't tried a Win 7 build but would be interested in anything anyone could post to assist.
The interesting part of this is the fact that I distinctly remember setting the X79 board aside for benchmark testing for the same problem. Can it be X series processors?
Bit of an update... Just went through every posted X99 motherboard review I could find, none of which had posted SSD benchmarks where the low 4K write performance could be identified through an AS SSD Bench, Crystal Diskmark score or Anvil result. There were tons that had charts made up to identify high sequential results but none that tackled these benchmarks...much like I had seen before. Is it possible everybody who has this board understands that SSD results are substandard to Z Series chips but has skated around it? Is this a common issue with all X-series chips (X58/X79/X99)?
My tests with X99 and some storage:Quote:
Originally Posted by flamenko
p3700 @ RVE X99
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2x samsung 850PRO R0 @ RVE X99
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Can you post with a single SSD, not the 3700?
Stock driver in win 8.1 :pQuote:
Originally Posted by flamenko
No new RST installed.
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Thessdreview:
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To me that 4k should be up in the area of 130MB/s or above if your system is tuned (c-states off/Speedstep/other optimizations)...no?
Looks like it depends on the OROM and RST used. Some are higher on high QD write, and some are higher on low qd. Who cares anyway. It is fast enough. 110 VS 130 4k rw is imposible to notice :)Quote:
Originally Posted by flamenko
I can try another RST later one day :)
Actually, in typical use, any difference in the transfer speeds is impossible to notice. I am working this from a bigger angle where I see fluctuations in all interfaces... Your NVMe high seq write result is significantly lower than what I would expect (about 600MB/s), although your end Total Score is close to the money. Your 4K is good there which makes me wonder as the 4K I am seeing everywhere is lower than the Z97....some significantly. On a M.2, I cannot get to 100MB/s low 4k random write speeds.
Is this board going to be available in the UK, the etailers I use never stocked the Z97 OC Formula, so I'm not holding out much hope for the X99 OC Formula.:confused:
Not having much luck so far with corsair 2800 Vengance LPX C16 kit even with the latest bios. Kit has 2800 and 3000mhz xmp profiles 2800 randomly works but anything over = no boot , only option is to stay around 2750 and tighten things up.
using 125 strap boosted ram voltage even for xmp and no luck to boot at 3000 or stability at 2800+
Any tips much appreciated.
Newest BIOS ? you try adding volts ? does 3000 on mine although it is a different kit
Anyone know what this debug means (bd)
not in the book ?
All of a sudden won't boot my 5.375 or 5.250 profiles that have been rock solid thus far
Yup latest bios tried adding volts also no luck. Guessing i'm not the only one having issues on the OCF not really seeing anyone posting a lot of mem results.
bd debug although not in the manual seems memory related only time I see it is when I try to push mem to far or run xmp
did you try running memtest close to where you have the issues to rule out your memory?
I can try but as I said memory randomly boots at 2800 say 2 out of 10 trys and 2666-2750 is rock solid so guessing it will pass memtest at the below rated freq no problem. But thanks for the suggestion i'll give it a try shortly and post back.
So running the latest memtest I can find v5.01 for a few minutes gives me 1000's and 1000's of errors. Can anyone confirm this version actually work with ddr4? If someone could try it on there system and post back i'd appreciate it.
Setting ram to xmp profile 1 2800mhz and then dropping speed back to 2666 gives no errors after 1 pass in Quad channel
Setting ram to xmp profile 1 2800mhz and running memtest @ 2800 gives lots of errors in Quad channel.
Removed one stick at a time and restested in tri channel at xmp prof 1 until I found the faulty stick looks like you where spot on
msimax good call man :up:
RMA time now :shakes:
Me to (bd) = bad dimm that leads to (bf) boot failure
looks like I am in the RMA gig as well :(
Ahw man that sux what sticks do you have hopefully this isn't a pattern emerging mine where 2800 Corsiar Vengance LPX C16.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witchdoctor
No doubt, mine were G.Skill 3000 cas 15
These only the black ones
http://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3000c15q-16grr
Applied for RMA last night, packed up and ready to go
Finally I have everything here.
That with the Ram was a never ending story. : D
So far it looks like this:
http://abload.de/img/5930k453530pgo52.jpg
Greetings
Heinrich
Just a bit of an update as I am now working on an ASRock X99 Extreme 11. I have spent the weekend testing the heck out of this new board, as I did with the OC Formula, and the same reigns true, storage transfer speeds are slightly lower, especially for low 4K write access. A perfect example of this is with the M.2 drives where they might reach a 4k write of 135MB/s formerly, but get about 70MB/s now. I have tested NVMe, SAS, SASx8RAID, N.2 PCIe x4 RAID x2, M.2 X4, and notebook....all with the same results.
On a positive light... I did reach 6.1GB/s with the 8 12gbps SAS drives. Full report to follow on The SSD Review
what kind of volts you guys usingQuote:
Originally Posted by Witchdoctor
Can't speak for the doctor but I had issues from day one with mem stability which is why I posted in here thinking it was me or maybe a bios setting turns out one stick was semi doa. (wont even do xmp 2800)Quote:
Originally Posted by Splave
Corsair RMA is a joke sent sticks on 12th Oct and was told sorry poor yield issues bla bla bla we have no stock how about we send you some in November if we have any. So much for there Express RMA service. :(
sorry to hear man, if you were in the usa I would lend u a stick
Hahaha your already more helpful than Corsair have been lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Splave
Not seen a lot of mem results so far Splave anything to share yet? Think Bullant is waiting on some kit as well can't wait to see what you guys can do.
I was just using stock volts 1.35 when I lost a stickQuote:
Originally Posted by Splave
A week before that i was running Nicks 1.65 3000 tight preset and was working nice
But that was just testing with the SS at 4.8 , cold could not get it to boot with those settings at 5.375 ???
Hope to get them back here any day now.
Hey guys, received my X99 OC Formula a while ago and as soon as I have some memory ill start posting results,thinking of going with some GSkill 3000 cl15 or the 3200 cl16 kit.The board looks great,looking forward to freezing memory on this board and trying all sorts of memory combinations as well as some 3D benching as funds come more available :up:
Would really like to thank Asrock,Nick,Splave and Loud for their support :)
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Just got my kit back from G.skill :)
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/a...&thumb=1&stc=1
How are they doing? Which kit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Witchdoctor
3000 CAS 15,
have not really checked them out close, doing a lot of 3D lately
Quick testing says they are not as strong as my first kit :(
Still going strong?