Asus CHV Formula overclocking

[Dumo]

Nothing special in case of cpu- and memory-clock, but a decent ref-clock:

Really nice Bus speed there Music

I'm thinking about this one for BD... I really like the MIVE with SB.

I will test 990FX UD7/UD5 too. So far this board is good PR

Cross V Formula, 1100T, G.Skill Flare

I'm still looking for a decent Flare ram Hokie

Thanks Backlash

The only complain so far is no post code reader on board. I have to stick my reader card in the middle of 2 GPUs when run 2X 16Xs



Testing Bios 0506 with X4 955 1134APM

[FlanK3r]

what cooling do u used?

[Dumo]

Single stage

[hokiealumnus]

I will test 990FX UD7/UD5 too. So far this board is good PR

I'm working with Giga on a UD7 I'm reviewing right now. It is a great board with a ton of features..... except for Vdroop. You can see the problem I'm having here. Needless to say that's unacceptable. We'll see what Giga has to say / do about it before I finish the review.

The only complain so far is no post code reader on board. I have to stick my reader card in the middle of 2 GPUs when run 2X 16Xs

I used to be hung up on that, but the Q-LEDs have really grown on me. How often do you need more info than "it's your RAM" or "it's your storage", etc, etc? Going from the Cross V to the UD7, I thought I'd be ecstatic, but find myself missing the LEDs.

I'm still looking for a decent Flare ram Hokie

I can't vouch for the vendor (indeed I've never heard of them before), but I found a set of Pi sticks rated for 2000 / 7-9-7-24. FWIW.

[Dumo]

I'm working with Giga on a UD7 I'm reviewing right now.

Nice. Pls post your review

I got a bunch of retail 955 to bin

[tbone8ty]

Nice Dumo! How do u like the 0506 bios? I think it's more stable gonna try 0709 bios soon

[Dumo]

0506 seems better in term of clocking up ram TBone.

I will try 0709 on BD...If it ever get released. Lol

[hema]

I try to get 3000 of HT without any succ.
can you put ur voltage setting (bios screen shoot if it possible) or at least the voltage setting to get ur bus speed and ur HT (3000)
I use the same bios version

[mav2000]

I can't vouch for the vendor (indeed I've never heard of them before), but I found a set of Pi sticks rated for 2000 / 7-9-7-24. FWIW.

Have bought about 3 kits from him till date...shipping is slow, but there is no issue with the vendor. I am running around looking for flares....but no luck till now.

[hokiealumnus]

Have bought about 3 kits from him till date...shipping is slow, but there is no issue with the vendor. I am running around looking for flares....but no luck till now.

Good to know, thanks!

I don't know if those Pis are equal to the Flare 7-9-7-24 kit I have (i.e. sub-timings), but Flare & Pi are both G.Skill's higher-end sets so it's reasonable to assume they'll perform similarly.

[PatRaceTin]

wow i will try 0506 too

[Dumo]

Got pretty bad feeling about this platform

[tbone8ty]

^ what?

[hokiealumnus]

Why the change of heart? Your screenshot above is just plain awesome.

[tbone8ty]

yeah i updating to new bios 0705 and im having severe problems booting with AHCI enabled, i dunno what happened but i cant boot with AHCI on... had to revert to IDE.

any ideas? i had everything working with 0506 and had Amd AHCI drivers loaded and working fine, not sure how it got screwed up. checked device manger. is there a way i can make it load into windows wit ahci? it gives me bootmgr is missing error or the other please insert boot disc or whatever.

man everything was working fine...there goes the saying if it aint broke dont fix it.

[Devil_Dog]

Got pretty bad feeling about this platform

Do tell.

[mav2000]

Damn your scaring us dumo.........

[Dumo]

Board is fine guys, just been turn off by all the arguments about BD on the other threads

All my 955s seem to max out @ 5.45Ghz with an old SS...no time for LN2 test.

Will try a few 980s today

[hokiealumnus]

Oh, that? I'd recommend either a) ignoring them, or b) do what I do - treat it as a massive train wreck that you can't stop watching.

People always argue about hardware to come, you've been here long enough to know that. It will come eventually and we shall have a lot of fun overclocking them on these Cross V's. That's all we need to know.

[tbone8ty]

Would it help OC if I connected up the extra 4-pin CPU power just above the am3+ socket?

Or is that just ment for liquid helium?

[hema]

I try to get 3000 of HT without any succ.
can you put ur voltage setting (bios screen shoot if it possible) or at least the voltage setting to get ur bus speed and ur HT (3000)
I use the same bios version

any one can help me with setting to get 3000 ht and nb freq.
any help will be apro.

[tbone8ty]

Try 1.3v ....maybe a little more dont go over 1.35v....for CPU/nb setting in bios.

1.25v for ht but no need for ht to be 3ghz lower multi down to 2.2ghz

[hema]

Try 1.3v ....maybe a little more dont go over 1.35v....for CPU/nb setting in bios.

1.25v for ht but no need for ht to be 3ghz lower multi down to 2.2ghz

thanks for reply
feedback soon with screen results

[EniGmA1987]

any one can help me with setting to get 3000 ht and nb freq.
any help will be apro.

As the guy above said. But the reason why you dont want your HTT up at 3GHz is because testing has shown that right around 2GHz is the perfect spot for fps in gaming. As you go up in speed, fps goes down. Odd I know, but thats how it goes. 2GHz is still plenty fast and no where near maxing the bandwidth of it.

[tbone8ty]

yes focus on keeping HTT around 2ghz(from what ive learned it doesnt do much)...but main focus and main performance gains come from 3ghz NB

the multi's in the bios will help you target this speed.

what cpu do you have again?

good luck

ill try and post bios screenies later this weekend or monday.

but if anybody has them handy please post em or you can refer to a couple other threads in this forum


chew and flankr have done good reviews
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=crosshair+v