ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

[andressergio]

bit tighter 1.8volts will lower more

[nacho_arroyo]

Good work Sergio! Keep pushing !!

[andressergio]

Good work Sergio! Keep pushing !!

Thanks nacho m6e goes very good with CFR i booted 3000CL11-13-13-35 1T but after entering OS rebooted have to tweak more

Cheers !
Sergio

[Leeghoofd]

Do you have any useful suggestion to make 3000 faster?

Nope, technology isn't there, subs need to be too loose to be anywhere near efficient... hence why it's like pimping an engine to 1000HP, then put monster truck tires on the car and it hardly accelerates coz the transmission and gearing weren't adjusted...

With Haswell and most other recent Intel platforms, super high ram clocks are too inefficient and are pure for bragging rights and E-peen. To some very valuable to achieve, but absolute not worthwhile for 24/7 use, nor benching action at all (besides suicide ram clocks). 2400-2600 is the sweetspot for most setups, tight tighter tightest subs usually do the trick... you know your hardware too Owik84

but that's just my 5 cents...


Try more volts Sergio and 11-14-14-35, did 3100ish 32M stable here on the Formula board... lousy subs as everybody :p

[Olivon]

Leeghoofd is really a wise guy

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Nope, technology isn't there, subs need to be too loose to be anywhere near efficient... hence why it's like pimping an engine to 1000HP, then put monster truck tires on the car and it hardly accelerates coz the transmission and gearing weren't adjusted...

With Haswell and most other recent Intel platforms, super high ram clocks are too inefficient and are pure for bragging rights and E-peen. To some very valuable to achieve, but absolute not worthwhile for 24/7 use, nor benching action at all (besides suicide ram clocks). 2400-2600 is the sweetspot for most setups, tight tighter tightest subs usually do the trick... you know your hardware too Owik84

If that's the case, why bother with anything other than X79? Quad channel DDR3-1600 bandwidth often is higher than even Haswell tweaked setups.

but that's just my 5 cents...


Try more volts Sergio and 11-14-14-35, did 3100ish 32M stable here on the Formula board... lousy subs as everybody :p

If that's the case, why bother with anything other than quad-channel DDR3-1600 on X79 Everything isn't about efficiency...

[Leeghoofd]

As long as it scales in performance, I will run it. take note that you can't compare different platforms... though Ivy and haswell need to be properly dialed in for maximum performancewhen running higher ram clocks... Now everything in my world turns around efficiency :p

I did test the dividers on SB-E and Ivy-E and it scales with increased ram frequency. Now SB-E is a wuss and some CPUs don't even do 2400... IVY-E is something else

plz run 2600 10-12-12-24 1T tRDRD 5 and tWRWR at 4 versus 2933C11-13-13-35 2T on your Haswell rig... you will be amased how performance goes down in certain tests if you can't tighten up the sec and tertiary subs man...

Some extract of my Haswell article:

Take note that the 2933MHz run was highly tweaked in the bios, adjusting all the secondary and tertiary timings manually to maximise the performance. With the bios auto adjusting all the settings, the performance was far worse and even slower then the 2400C10 results.

Read more: http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/ar...#ixzz2dBIsOAOm

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I guess I should run quad 2666C10 since my 3820 is capable and the RIVE is actually a great board and easy to work with.

[andressergio]

Nope, technology isn't there, subs need to be too loose to be anywhere near efficient... hence why it's like pimping an engine to 1000HP, then put monster truck tires on the car and it hardly accelerates coz the transmission and gearing weren't adjusted...

With Haswell and most other recent Intel platforms, super high ram clocks are too inefficient and are pure for bragging rights and E-peen. To some very valuable to achieve, but absolute not worthwhile for 24/7 use, nor benching action at all (besides suicide ram clocks). 2400-2600 is the sweetspot for most setups, tight tighter tightest subs usually do the trick... you know your hardware too Owik84

but that's just my 5 cents...


Try more volts Sergio and 11-14-14-35, did 3100ish 32M stable here on the Formula board... lousy subs as everybody :p

yes i can do that also but im seeking 24/7

i maxed my teamX at 3400CL13

just testing and posting

[Eldonko]

Can do close to 3k (2996) with 4 sticks on Hero but for me the sweet spot for performance is 2600-2800 with tight secondaries.

[Darknight]

I with Avexir 2800 CL12 (4x4Gb Hynix CFR) i cant even 2933 with M6E.

with 1.74V
the TRAS can get a 17/18 slightly increasing the voltage.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

It's really hard to clock CFR higher than 2800 on this board. MFR is much easier, even double-sided 8GB sticks.

[Splave]

Impact is a little beast, 1.65v on air just getting my bearings before it goes cold.

[XBrytanX]

anyone knows where I can buy Asus OC Panel for Maximus VI ??

[nacho_arroyo]

Here some run with the M6E:

Scores:










Photos:










Cheers!

[idahosurge]

RMA'ed my M6E for a store credit at Newegg, replaced it with a Sabertooth Z87 and I was finally able to get a decent stable OC. Next I will try for 47/44.

[andressergio]

Here some run with the M6E:

Cheers!

GREAT work Nacho !!!

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

from the OC Main Event in SF:



Great to meet everyone once again

[Splave]

award for tallest goes to...... lmao

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I have no idea why this was so hard to do on the Extreme, but it was easy on the Formula.

Dominator Platinum 2800C11@2933 12-14-14-35-2T 1.75v Super Pi 32M


Dominator Platinum 2800C11@3000 12-14-14-35-2T 1.75v Super Pi 32M

[andressergio]

I have no idea why this was so hard to do on the Extreme, but it was easy on the Formula.

Dominator Platinum 2800C11@2933 12-14-14-35-2T 1.75v Super Pi 32M


Dominator Platinum 2800C11@3000 12-14-14-35-2T 1.75v Super Pi 32M

nice Shiranu the formula series for me always where better on mem even my maximus 5 do thing that the extreme dont, each one has its strong parts

[christefan]

Sorry I was so panicked I put this in the x79 thread not the z87 thread--

New Topic--I need some help asap. My Maximus VI won't boot in the allotted 300 second timeout for an Areca 1882 raid card as long as drives are connected to most of the ports, this wasn't happening when I was testing the same card on a z87 ASRock board. If I have 2 ssds attached it boots somewhat quickly, and it was booting with drvies attached but took around 120 seconds when it booted on an ASRock in like 45 seconds. About a week ago suddenly it starting taking the entire 500 seconds and would maybe come up just before a restart warning from the controller and other times it goes all the way through the time and the controller forces a restart. I've had Areca problems with other Asus boards what is the bios issue and these raid cards? I tried gen 2, gen 3, auto, connecting one array and connecting all drives---the only thing that I can get to boot right now is just an array of 2 ssds, running Areca 1.51 firmware and previous Asus bios, not 0804. what's my solution? I need these drives up to access my files and mail--help Raj

[bluewhale1]

Does anyone know if/when there will be Windows 8.1 drivers available? I know officially it isn't released until October. Just wondering if they will be available sooner or the day of its official release.

[Raja@ASUS]

Sorry I was so panicked I put this in the x79 thread not the z87 thread--

New Topic--I need some help asap. My Maximus VI won't boot in the allotted 300 second timeout for an Areca 1882 raid card as long as drives are connected to most of the ports, this wasn't happening when I was testing the same card on a z87 ASRock board. If I have 2 ssds attached it boots somewhat quickly, and it was booting with drvies attached but took around 120 seconds when it booted on an ASRock in like 45 seconds. About a week ago suddenly it starting taking the entire 500 seconds and would maybe come up just before a restart warning from the controller and other times it goes all the way through the time and the controller forces a restart. I've had Areca problems with other Asus boards what is the bios issue and these raid cards? I tried gen 2, gen 3, auto, connecting one array and connecting all drives---the only thing that I can get to boot right now is just an array of 2 ssds, running Areca 1.51 firmware and previous Asus bios, not 0804. what's my solution? I need these drives up to access my files and mail--help Raj

Contact ASUS support for this one. I will push from my end, but as you are out of my region, most of the onus falls on your local support.