ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS - Dual Socket 2011

[stevecs]

oh, now that's purdy! what kind of monitor setup are you planing on driving with it?

[blindbox]

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Tease us with benchmarks too please.

By the way, Chris Roberts (guy making Star Citizen) said he received a 4 R9 290x setup from AMD. Sounds like an indication tha they're trying to push multi-GPU optimizations through Mantle. It'll be awesome to see.

[tiro_uspsss]

double TRUE Copper = EPIC WIN!!!

[kromosto]

omg.................

[NapalmV5]

thanks yall

@stevecs - just a 1080p mits laservue 75" hdtv for 1080p-1440p for now




just overclock no overvolt

[aussie-revhead]

napalm - what can you clock all 16 cores to? What does it pull in 3D11 physics?

[stevecs]

Looks like asus just released a new bios update (5304) that's supposed to help compatibility with VGA's and the V2 chips.

[NapalmV5]

napalm - what can you clock all 16 cores to? What does it pull in 3D11 physics?

what you see above at cinebench but that disables 2 gpus/cards.. default/auto settings the mobo runs the cpus up to 3600

nothing spectacular: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7557266

it does better at 3dmark will post on that

Looks like asus just released a new bios update (5304) that's supposed to help compatibility with VGA's and the V2 chips.

nice to see them improving but they are gonna have to do even better.. i had to remove cpu2 just to get tomb raider and other games to work

still pcie3 training issues.. tomb raider/witcher 2/just cause 2/portal 2 - so far cause i spent all my time reinstalling windows/steam redownloading games to no avail

i installed all 4x 290s on the gigabyte x58a oc running at 4x 8x pcie2 - no issues everything runs fine

sure its a workstation mobo but everything thrown at it should just plainly work

its all about this pcie3 bubonic plague and neither intel asus amd nvidia are on the same page

[stevecs]

I agree that there is some serious communication issues here with PCIe v3 implementation. I've opened issues myself with nvidia, evga, asus, and intel but to no avail really and no real help/pointers.

I wouldn't however classify asus as a 'workstation' motherboard vendor. They use the term a bit more loosly for marketing reasons. Generally I think of Supermicro, Tyan, and to some extent intel. They seem to understand the stability items better, but they have their own problems in not understanding the market of multiple graphics cards. Gigabyte/Asus/MSI/Evga all are mainly supped up prosumer boards, but they also seem to not hit the mark in the bullseye.

Here's hoping that they can get it 'right enough' to be a functional board for the next 3-5 years.

BTW/ how high can you get your base clock? I'm running into issues here (not able to run memtest & mprime for 24 hours each) when >105.

[NapalmV5]

i can only dream of 105 lol 102 max at least all 4 gpus enabled this is the max on this latest 5304 bios.. the system boots up and wants to boot into windows even at higher bus but above 102 i lose video - pcie preventing any higher

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1761366

[NapalmV5]

octal channel ram power lol 109GB/s coming from 15-20GB/s x58a hahaha

would love to see what you guys are getting.. no idea how it compares

[NEOAethyr]

octal channel ram power lol 109GB/s coming from 15-20GB/s x58a hahaha

would love to see what you guys are getting.. no idea how it compares

Nah I don't think so, I could be wrong though.
I don't think Intel has NUMA support...

But from that screenshot it kinda looks like it does...

Oh and nice setup btw

[NapalmV5]

thanks numa enabled


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[felix_w]

Wow!!! How did you manage to run 112bclk ? Is it only one graphics card ? Is that the limiting factor ?

[NapalmV5]

i removed the 290s and got a single 580 on

like i said pcie3 is the bubonic plague on pc

[NapalmV5]

well this is encouraging.. 580 sli at 111x36 unigine doent include the turbo clock hence the 3773 (111x34)

580 @ cpu1 - pcie #1
580 @ cpu2 - pcie #5

[NapalmV5]

114 bus

[lowfat]

How the eff are you able to take the bclk so high w/o instability?

I finally got off my ass and setup my Z9PE-D8 WS for the first time this year.

[stevecs]

[QUOTE=lowfat;5219444]How the eff are you able to take the bclk so high w/o instability?

That's my question as well. When I push it to 107 I start getting issues here (can't run > 24 hours w/ mprime and/or memtest86). How long of a burn-in test are you doing at each bclk setting?

[lowfat]

I haven't even been able to boot past 105. And even then 105 was only possible w/ the memory ratio @ 800.

[NapalmV5]

guys the answer is right there above^ gtx 580 - asus mustve properly tested and they properly support 580 otherwise i wouldnt be able to do 114 bus

get on the phone with asus with the right peep/s and dont get off the phone until you get a list of all the gpus/cards theyve properly tested they properly support - 580 is one of those i guarantee you

also i let the mobo run auto timings and i kept "force ddr 1866" instead of lowering to "force 1600" the timings were too low and wasnt stable

what codes do you guys get above 105 106 bus ? i get a double 00 at 115 and no post

do your systems keep on posting but you dont get any video ?

[NEOAethyr]

Pretty much any nvidia card will clock up on the pcie bus btw...

I don't know the details of clocking up the pcie bus on intel systems though.
After 115mhz you might need a step up in voltage on whatever is handling the pcie bus in that cpu.
And sometimes you might need a step up in the pcie voltage it's self too for the card, but that's usual only when it doesn't have it's own power connectors.
The vga's mem might eat more voltage and can be system timing sensitive too.

For example on my amd I need a step up in voltage on the chipset-nb, which handles the pcie bandwith from my card.
If were to stick in a smaller card with no external power plugs on it, one that draws all it's power form the board, to get a higher speed I would need a step up in pcie voltage as well.

This should be similar on the intel rigs, I don't know what the equ of the chipset-nb voltage would be though in the intel cpu it's self.
I don't know if you have access to any skew controls for your bclk and pcie clocks either though, but I think they could help if you had them.

I'm getting my 2011 rig together (if everythign goes right) on thursday.
I'll eventually try to figure out how to clock the pcie bus up on my own.
If I can figure it out I'll let you know.
Because I think you're not going to beable to get passed 115mhz unless you're lucky (but then again, it's a completely diff pcie setup from mine).

But I can say one thing, any nvidia card will clock on it's bus speed.
Pcie ones at least 150mhz, agp 105-115mhz, "pci"... 200mhz or so at least.
Minus the ones with crappy ram, those won't clock good...

[lowfat]

I get 00 or 01 if I try to go above 105MHz. Even if I remove the GPU and use the onboard non-existent VGA it will not post.

[NapalmV5]

sandys ? try different/better ram + gtx 580


114 bus + 580 sli




i went back to the first z9 and got the same limits same results

2x z9
2x 2687w v2
2x 4x4gb crucial blp 1600
2x true copper
2x gtx 580

114 bus max

[ocvn]

I tried Napalmv5 and only stable at 107, more than that, post but can't access to Windows. Graphic card is Hd5770