Asrock P67 Extreme4 UEFI & Drivers thread [Extreme6 & Pro3 owners welcome]

[Ket]

Looks alright. Heatsinks are rubbish though.

[radier]

Fatal1ty P67 Professional
L1.84

Modify EZ OC table.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Mo...20Professional

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Hey guys. Skimmed through the thread, read about the last 12 pages or so. I might be picking up an i7 so I wanted a little feedback...

There's really two options, Extreme4 or Extreme6. 4 seems to have all the bugs ironed out. Any reason to get Extreme6 (and spend an extra $40)?

One other question too, for highest OC, stick to air or move to water? (I can't really get good feedback on the WCing forum )

EDIT:

First question was basically answered by Ket in PM! Thanks!

Any opinions about cooling?

[Ket]

You have PM

ED - For cooling something like a modded CoolIT ECO or a Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus will get you good temps and probably enough for 4.6-4.8GHz 24/7. If you get a chip thats a hothead though like my 2500k you will need to put it under water.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I guess the best idea is to run it on the stock intel cooler (which looks fairly high end, amazing they didn't do that style before!) and see how my temps are.

Then descide where to go from there since I'll still have my main rig running.

[mean6]

Ok, I'm having the same problem as I did a couple weeks ago with the system not posting. I have tried the cmos clear using the proper method, and I have disconnected every piece of hardware. Now, when I turn on the pc, if I have the ram in slots 1 and 3, I get error code 2E. If the ram is in slots 2 and 4, I get error code 30. I have tried other ram, and it does the same thing. Is it time for an RMA?

[Martin.v.r]

was a little tired of my Asrock xtreme6/bios
so I'm working on a new motherboard, here's also a lot to learn. use watercooling
but for 24 / 7 use, I will not go into more a 5GHz with Asrock, so you can keep the problems away

but I've been happy with my Asrock, just it would be slightly more stable at high oc

[Ket]

This thread is about Asrock boards. SS from other boards are irrelivent, and not helpful.

[BranFB]

For that kind of buck and load - yeah. It can clock better!

[mean6]

Ok, I'm having the same problem as I did a couple weeks ago with the system not posting. I have tried the cmos clear using the proper method, and I have disconnected every piece of hardware. Now, when I turn on the pc, if I have the ram in slots 1 and 3, I get error code 2E. If the ram is in slots 2 and 4, I get error code 30. I have tried other ram, and it does the same thing. Is it time for an RMA?

It ended up being the cpu. I had it oc. to 4.8 with offset of .100 v, and pll disabled and at Level 4. Everything else was left on auto. Temps maxed at 64 degrees. Did I push it too far? Or just a bad chip?

[Ket]

Only 64c? Was that while running IBT with AVX? My 2500k hits about 78c @ 4.6GHz running that friggin stability test. I never saw any benefits when raising VTT to help keep high memory clocks stable, but VTT has helped me keep a pretty high OC at low Vcore. Its a recent development for my chip, VTT used to do nothing at all when I last tested it.

VTT @ 1.1v... needed 1.36v for 4.6GHz
VTT @ 1.25v... 1.32v for 4.6GHz.

[Ket]

Good news people! I've just got some info off of one of my Asrock contacts regarding the USB3 BSOD issues. R&D have managed to duplicate some of the problems and are looking further into the matter, some devices have also been sent to Etron for them to look at the problems as well.

Slowly but surely, progress is being made toward the cure

[BranFB]

Good job and thanks

[Ket]

All I've done is thoroughly test, bring bugs to Asrocks attention and provide detailed info to Asrock. While I aknowledge what I've done is important Asrock deserve equal kudos for doing their all to fix the problems and not simply trying to brush them under the rug

[mean6]

Well, the new 2500k chip I got is one of the costa rica batches, and it has to be up there with the worst of chips. Anything over 4.2 requires PLL enabled, and will not come out of sleep with anything over stock.

[Ket]

Thats super pants... even makes my hothead 2500k look good.

[iwbs]

What's bad about PLL enabled apart from the sleep thing? Btw my Costa Rica 2500K would do 4.4ghz @ ~1.19V under load (1.24V LLC lvl4) with PLL enabled

[mean6]

My old chip would do 4.8 with PLL disabled @ 1.34V

[mean6]

Hey Ket, I know you have been asking about whether the IHS on the new SandyBridge are soldered. Since I had this dead cpu sitting here, I figured why not. Well, I popped it off, and the answer to your question is..........(drum roll), YES they are.

[miguecasla]

What about the L1.85 beta BIOS? Someone probe it?

[pythonse]

i had my costa rica up to 5.0 ghz..updated my bios to 1.61 and now i cant get it to boot at 5 ghz.....stuck at 4.7..i can only guess im missing a setting somewhere in my bios

[pythonse]

never mind i fixed it....running at 5gz...processor is costa rica (as if that matters) batch number is 3052a185

[mean6]

never mind i fixed it....running at 5gz...processor is costa rica (as if that matters) batch number is 3052a185

What settings are you using? I can't get mine stable at 4.8

[BranFB]

never mind i fixed it....running at 5gz...processor is costa rica (as if that matters) batch number is 3052a185

Please share your error/fix!

[Ket]

Hey Ket, I know you have been asking about whether the IHS on the new SandyBridge are soldered. Since I had this dead cpu sitting here, I figured why not. Well, I popped it off, and the answer to your question is..........(drum roll), YES they are.

Can we get pics?