CPU: Core I7 920 DO
Mainboard: Giga-Byte X58a-UD7
Ram: 6GB Corsair Dominator TR3X6G1600C8D
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD5870 vapourx
PSU: Silverstone DA850
Storage: Intel X25 M G2 80GB x 2 Raid 0
Seagate 750+500 drives for storage
Quickest is not always best may be true, but having to wait 9 months more for the board to launch and then perhaps the same time for any needed driver updates was not workable for us. When a game does not work right, you try telling the hordes that it was "the better option" or that fastest is not always best :P
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Like I said,
I don't want to put card into slot 1 (which I can do on all mobos) because I will have not enough space to make connection ram -> gpu 1.
It's all about tube routing for my liquid cooling build...
And according to article comparing x8 vs x16 it's just few percents/few fps on single card but I still want them, it can be more in SLI.
dose it really take them almost a year for a driver from c-media. that would explain why they were supposed to have tapped out a new chip for native pci-e months ago, but it is not out yet in anything. what about via are they still viable for sound or are they just making integrated systems for atms again.
what audio chip is in the thunderfx external box?
running fake 16x16 dose not offer more than native 8x8, the only time it shows that is running a higher end board with tighter defaults over a loose cheap board or back in the day when the g80 would not work on an 8x buss. and for 1 card there is the blackish slot that comes from the chipset. or you could go with the 2nd and bottom slot on the plx and have it be useful and split the bandwidth so the gpu stays at about 16x all day. the formula looks like it has more space with the ram so maybe go with that? it also has 1x slots.
5930k, R5E, samsung 8GBx4 d-die, vega 56, wd gold 8TB, wd 4TB red, 2TB raid1 wd blue 5400
samsung 840 evo 500GB, HP EX 1TB NVME , CM690II, swiftech h220, corsair 750hxi
Hi Raja,
I was only really teasing you - but it is always a compromise between getting to market in reasonable time to satisfy - or taking too long in
an effort to get everything spot on. In some ways this is the problem with our ultra competitive world we have today. We are always treading that fine line.
Keep up the good work Raja - it is appreciated - at least by me anyway. Lol.
Mark
CPU: Core I7 920 DO
Mainboard: Giga-Byte X58a-UD7
Ram: 6GB Corsair Dominator TR3X6G1600C8D
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD5870 vapourx
PSU: Silverstone DA850
Storage: Intel X25 M G2 80GB x 2 Raid 0
Seagate 750+500 drives for storage
No other solution was viable for onboard - none of them had the packages we needed ready on time for the motherboard chipsets we could use (they quoted us 9 months+). We even tried Wolfson, I have an early MVF sample board here with the chipset and it did not work out, unfortunately. That just goes to showhow hard we tried.
For ThunderFX we got C-Media as we'd already put the work in on the Phoebus. Had C-Media of been able to deliver what we needed for the onboard we would have used them there, too.
Last edited by Raja@ASUS; 08-14-2012 at 01:20 PM.
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i cannot wait to get my board and try the onboard, i really like that there is spdif in and a headphone amp, that was getting me thinking that i should not need a sound card (and since there are no pci i am looking forward to retiring my sba2 plat pro, it lasted 10 years but the drivers just did not work well with the mic in 64bit.)
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samsung 840 evo 500GB, HP EX 1TB NVME , CM690II, swiftech h220, corsair 750hxi
Loving this Extreme board, G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-1700CL9 4x4gb at 2800mhz 1.75vdimm. 0020 bios is working well, much easier getting back into bios using delete key.
Last edited by OC Nub; 08-20-2012 at 07:18 PM.
Another try today at 2900mhz 4x4gb RipjawsZ F3-1700cl9 @1452c11 1.85vdimm, real loose subtimings, w7-64
Transcend 2x2g 1200c10 at 1417mhz, w7-6
Awesome run with 0020 bios OC
The transcends finally wake up
Thanks!
All my kits are waking up tonight lol. Still playing with memory, its become addictive.
A quick question for you Raja: Will the 11.2 Intel RST driver allow for TRIM passthrough with RAID0 on this board? If not it will be a dealbreaker for me.
If I'm a danger to myself just think what I could do to you.
From what I have been reading it will. The new RST drivers was only for the Z77 chipset until 24 hours ago when it was announced that they will be made available for the x79. Unless someone else knows any different.
Also I recently upgraded to the new 704 bios and now my 2700 is no longer stable past 4.8ghz, where as on the 604 bios it was stable at 5.0ghz. Anyone else having this issue? Needless to say im now back on the 604 @ 5.0ghz
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(Board) Asus Maximus V Extreme (Case) Corsair 800D (CPU) i7 3770k @ 5.0 ghz w/Watercool Heatkiller Nickle Plating(GPU) 3x EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper with Backplates (SSD) 2 x 256gb Samsung Raid 0, 2 x 240gb Corsair Neutron GTX Raid 0 (RAM) 4 x 8gig Crucial Ballistix Elites (Rad/Pump) 1 x XSPC RX360, 1 XSPC RX120 and Dual MCP655's with Bitspower Matte Black Dress Kit & Mod Top and 150mm Bitspower Reservoir / Bitspower Compression Fittings and Pass Throughs (Sound) Asus Phoebus
In order to change BCLK with RCtweakit - I remember reading that somethng in bios needs to be enabled - C1E ?
mike, you need to install 'rog connect plus' on the pc to be tweaked for bclk changes.
Hey guys are both Formulas using the same bios?
3770k @4.9ghz | ASUS Maximus V Forumla | Mushkin 994008 16gb @2133mhz | Zotac GTX 680
0020 with psc air
CPU i7 950 D0 @ 4200mhz (183*23) HT on @ vcore 1,30000v/uncore 1,32500v | Cooler Noctua NH-D14 | MoBo Asus Rampage II Extreme rev. 2.01G (X58+ICH10R) | DDRIII 3*4096mb PC3-17000 Corsair DOMINATOR GT CMT16GX3M4X2133C9 @ 1830mhz 8-9-9-24-1T @ 1.53v | Video Gigabyte Radeon HD7970 3gb reference @ 1125mhz | Raid controller LSI MegaRAID SAS 9265-8i PCI-E 2.0x8 SAS 2.0 1gb | HDD 6 x 300gb SAS 2.0 Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 ST3300657SS 15000rpm 16mb @ all in Raid0 | HDD 2000gb SATAIII Hitachi HD723020BLA642 7200rpm 64mb | Sound Creative X-Fi Titanium HD | BD-RW SATA LITE-ON iHBS212 | Case Cooler Master HAF X | PSU Enermax Platimax EPM1500EGT 1500wt | LCD ASUS PA246Q 24'' P-IPS 1920*1200 | Mouse Logitech G500 | LinX 64-bit 24 hours stable | Prime95 64-bit 24 hours stable
Since I'm waiting for my MVF today, does anyone know what OROM the board has with the latest BIOS?
Thanks in advance
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