**Official** Asrock Z68 Gen3 Extreme7 & Extreme4 thread

[icedtea]

I'm out of ideas with the Hauppauge card, though I'm talking with Hauppauge tech support. Unknown devices show up in Device Manager, but their install routine doesn't detect the card.

I dont have a capture card (I do but its so old there arent any drivers for W7 x64), but since I do have a PCI sound card, an X-Fi Platinum, I put it in to see if there were any problems. Well, when I put the X-Fi in the lower PCI slot I too ran into problems, the driver couldnt find the sound card! Also noticed that the onboard sound, Realtek, was missing from the system when I put the X-Fi in that slot.

Could it be that there is some kind of conflict problem with this PCI slot? When I put the X-Fi in the upper PCI slot (the one closer to the CPU) the X-Fi was recognized by the driver and I could install it without a problem so it seems like its only with the lower slot. I also tried disabling the onboard sound to see if it would help, but it didnt do anything.

[tinjuko]

Have you tried removing the vid cards and just using onboard Intel graphics temporarily to see if it comes up that way?

I figured it out bud, thanks for the reply. The onboard power button needed to needed to be pressed. Im use to having a motherboard giving light indication that its getting power. Since I didnt see any lights kick in, I assumed it wasn't getting any power and never tried the ON button. Once that was pressed, lights, fans and all of the good stuff kicked in. Yes. I'm sad, disappointed and happy all at the same time.

[MacClipper]

I figured it out bud, thanks for the reply. The onboard power button needed to needed to be pressed. Im use to having a motherboard giving light indication that its getting power. Since I didnt see any lights kick in, I assumed it wasn't getting any power and never tried the ON button...

Yup, exactly what I wrote in my feedback to Asrock hoping they would implement a lit Power button once power is applied but I think they are trying hard to distinguish themselves from the old parent company...

[LoneWolf]

I dont have a capture card (I do but its so old there arent any drivers for W7 x64), but since I do have a PCI sound card, an X-Fi Platinum, I put it in to see if there were any problems. Well, when I put the X-Fi in the lower PCI slot I too ran into problems, the driver couldnt find the sound card! Also noticed that the onboard sound, Realtek, was missing from the system when I put the X-Fi in that slot.

Could it be that there is some kind of conflict problem with this PCI slot? When I put the X-Fi in the upper PCI slot (the one closer to the CPU) the X-Fi was recognized by the driver and I could install it without a problem so it seems like its only with the lower slot. I also tried disabling the onboard sound to see if it would help, but it didnt do anything.

I've had my X-Fi in the lower PCIe slot all along. One thing about the PCIe X-Fi cards; Creative has a downloadable patch on their site for this, but they aren't auto-detected on a lot of system boards. Creative seemed to hint this was a Windows 7 thing; I think it is probably something on their end. Once the patch is run though, installing the drivers picks up the card. I had this happen on my previous Gigabyte board.

Maybe I'll try putting the X-Fi in the middle slot and the Hauppauge in the bottom though, just in case.

[tinjuko]

How do you guys take screen shots of UEFI? I've tried googling, youtube, and looking through the manual but can't seem to find anything on how to do it.

[icedtea]

How do you guys take screen shots of UEFI? I've tried googling, youtube, and looking through the manual but can't seem to find anything on how to do it.

Use a USB memory stick. Pressing F12 in UEFI will record a screen shot to the stick.

[tinjuko]

Use a USB memory stick. Pressing F12 in UEFI will record a screen shot to the stick.

Thanks a lot bud.

Ran prime95 for 8 - 9 hours:







Next, I ran LinX for about 8.5 hours:



I left throttling on. My core speed will drop to 1600 while idling as seen in the above pic.









I used offset rather than fixed mode in the 3rd pic because, while under load, the voltage drops down to 1.21 when the voltage was set at 1.36.

Wonder if I should drop the voltage a little more and keep on testing or start tightning my timings.

edit:

[KILLER_K]

Do you think they will raise the ram limit? As 2,133mhz is just to low for me. Hopefully they will up it in a new bios release.

[icedtea]

My Silver Arrow has arrived and man is it huge. Hate the fan color but it does cool down the CPU nicely. Since I'm using really cheap mem sticks without heatsinks mem height wasnt a problem, but it was close since my case is also cheap and not really wide. Need to get a larger wider better case next time.

[Arise]

Hi guys!!

Anybody knows if the Asrock z68 extreme7 gen3 is already on sale in France?
I WANT THIS MOTHERBOARD!!

[RealTelstar]

I saw it in germany but not in italy. Dunno about france, I dont buy from there usually.

[davefran]

My Silver Arrow has arrived and man is it huge. Hate the fan color but it does cool down the CPU nicely. Since I'm using really cheap mem sticks without heatsinks mem height wasnt a problem, but it was close since my case is also cheap and not really wide. Need to get a larger wider better case next time.

You do have the option of moving the right hand fan to the left side of the cooler to give your ram some clearance, just make sure the air flow is directed towards the rear of the case.

[KILLER_K]

Having some bad luck with this board. From random no booting to anything other then using the load optimized cpu oc setting. If i set it to 4.8Ghz there, it will boot fine and pass intel burn test. If i try to set it manual and pick anything over a 46x multi. The board doesn't boot, it just sits there. Plus i am having issues with my g19 keyboard with this board also. If i hit "del" more then once the boot screen freezes. I then have to hit reset or power off. Also have to hit the "num lock" twice to get it to activate while int he bios to use the keypad on the right side of the board. Scroll doesn't work with the keyboard or the mouse. When it does happen to boot i get two screens. So it actually cycles two times before going into windows.

Next would be the ram speed. On the website it says this board does 2,400mhz. There isn't even a setting in the bios for 2,400mhz ram. The max it has is 2,133mhz. I'm honestly a long ways from being even remotely impressed with this board right now. The features are good for the price. But i would actually like to get a stable working board though.

So if anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know. As of right now i feel like using this board fro a frisbee. Just honestly not impressed with it. It could just be me, since i am coming from a 1366 to the 1155 socket. Thanks

[RealTelstar]

Having some bad luck with this board.

Which board did u get? the z68 extreme4 or 7?

[KILLER_K]

I got the Extreme4 Gen3. And i found out what the issues are now. Seems it really doesn't like my logitech g19 keyboard. Now here comes the good part. If i leave in the add on video card, i can only overclock to 4.6ghz. If i remove it and use the igp, i can hit 5.2 with no issues. Now figure that one out.

[RealTelstar]

I'm probably going with the p67 extreme4 gen3 - it has everything I need and nothing that i dont (like some issues that sometimes virtu still has, hotter northbridge), and stick with ps/2 keyboard - the latter is what I recommend you to do too.

About oc with and without discrete graphic card... it's weird. I hope Ket chime in, a new bios should fix it.

[badatgames18]

Having some bad luck with this board. From random no booting to anything other then using the load optimized cpu oc setting. If i set it to 4.8Ghz there, it will boot fine and pass intel burn test. If i try to set it manual and pick anything over a 46x multi. The board doesn't boot, it just sits there. Plus i am having issues with my g19 keyboard with this board also. If i hit "del" more then once the boot screen freezes. I then have to hit reset or power off. Also have to hit the "num lock" twice to get it to activate while int he bios to use the keypad on the right side of the board. Scroll doesn't work with the keyboard or the mouse. When it does happen to boot i get two screens. So it actually cycles two times before going into windows.

Next would be the ram speed. On the website it says this board does 2,400mhz. There isn't even a setting in the bios for 2,400mhz ram. The max it has is 2,133mhz. I'm honestly a long ways from being even remotely impressed with this board right now. The features are good for the price. But i would actually like to get a stable working board though.

So if anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know. As of right now i feel like using this board fro a frisbee. Just honestly not impressed with it. It could just be me, since i am coming from a 1366 to the 1155 socket. Thanks

afaik... 1155, even with boards that have the x24 ram multi... it just doesn't work and will give you a black screen (as i've been told.. have a MIVE tomorrow coming in so i'll check)

See how it handles blck changes... set it to 108 blck and use the 2133 strap to get 2400MHz

[icedtea]

Having some bad luck with this board.

About the 2400MHz ram, I dont see it on ASRock's website. I do see a 2400 stick on the support list but reads that the 2400 stick will work at 2133. Dont know about the USB problem, mine does seem to freeze ( I have a nobrand Cherry MX black switch USB keyboard ) if I hit DEL too many times, but if I wait for a while; like 10 seconds; it eventually does go into UEFI.

I've also tried setting my board to a 48x multi and it did boot, although having Internal PLL overvoltage, VCore voltages and other settings to default resulted in an obvious crash running LinX. Even though it ran for only a minute or two I saw temps hit 80deg C with a SilverArrow, so 4.5GHz is the liimit for me unless I get some liquid cooling.

[Ket]

- Do not plug USB 2 mice or keyboards into a USB3 port
- The idea of higher RAM dividers has already been looked at. 2133 is your lot, the rest is up to BCLK.

[KILLER_K]

Mine isn't on the usb 3.0 ports. Mine is plugged in right above the ps/2 port. I think i am going to try the extra 12 volt molex for the pci-express lanes. I know it is for sli/crossfire but i would like to see if it is a power draw issue with my gpu. I will report back and see what i find. Thanks for all the ideas.

Thank you Ket for your time also.

[RealTelstar]

Took the plunge and ordered the p67 ex4 gen3 with some other key components so that i can start mounting in 7-10 days.
Hope everything will be fine.

[Ket]

Things should be pretty simple. Doesn't seem to have any serious issues, but at the same time I can't test any Gen3 boards, so there may well be some issues nobody knows about yet.

[KILLER_K]

Okay, here is what i need. Someone that has either a 470 gpu on up or a 580 gpu. And you also need a 2600k for this test. Let me know if your board will do over a 46x multi with either of those cards installed. As it seems to not be able to support the draw with the overclocking along with the pci-e lane. So i just want to make 100% sure that is just not me. I will go borrow a asrock fatality tomorrow and see if it does it on that one also. But i am leaning towards this board not being able to handle the power draw. Thanks

EDIT: I also tried a molex 12 volt straight into the pci-express to see if that would solve the issue. But the issue is still there. But i will know tomorrow without a doubt if it is a board issue.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Having some bad luck with this board. From random no booting to anything other then using the load optimized cpu oc setting. If i set it to 4.8Ghz there, it will boot fine and pass intel burn test. If i try to set it manual and pick anything over a 46x multi. The board doesn't boot, it just sits there. Plus i am having issues with my g19 keyboard with this board also. If i hit "del" more then once the boot screen freezes. I then have to hit reset or power off. Also have to hit the "num lock" twice to get it to activate while int he bios to use the keypad on the right side of the board. Scroll doesn't work with the keyboard or the mouse. When it does happen to boot i get two screens. So it actually cycles two times before going into windows.

Next would be the ram speed. On the website it says this board does 2,400mhz. There isn't even a setting in the bios for 2,400mhz ram. The max it has is 2,133mhz. I'm honestly a long ways from being even remotely impressed with this board right now. The features are good for the price. But i would actually like to get a stable working board though.

So if anyone has any ideas, feel free to let me know. As of right now i feel like using this board fro a frisbee. Just honestly not impressed with it. It could just be me, since i am coming from a 1366 to the 1155 socket. Thanks

get a MIVE, MIVE-Z, or the Gene if you want a stable board with exceptional bios support, Newegg had some open box ones for $250 earlier today.

as for 2400 ram, the divider simply does not work on any of the P67/Z68 boards hence why you see no ram rated at those speeds. GSkill has a 2300 9-11-9 2x4 kit that is all but vaporware but that is the highest clocked ram that I have seen that is designated as sb specific.

[RealTelstar]

Things should be pretty simple. Doesn't seem to have any serious issues, but at the same time I can't test any Gen3 boards, so there may well be some issues nobody knows about yet.

oww, no gen3 boards @ your place?