Asrock P67 Extreme4 UEFI & Drivers thread [Extreme6 & Pro3 owners welcome]

[Ket]

Thanks for the heads-up!

On a slightly different note, has anyone else run into the odd situation of only one of the Extreme4's front USB 3.0 ports responding to devices (even with this latest set of drivers?)

I had a similar issue when testing drivers, use the 101 Etron drivers when in doubt. Thus far in my tests they are deffinately the "go to" driver.

Yes, another user had this problem with older drivers. He found that the Etron controller was causing extremely high latency and the issue was present with several types of sound cards:



See this thread, search for Etron:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/pax-dr...d-crashes.html

Ask him to use the Etron 101 drivers to see if he has the same problem.

this is with 0.111 driver... no difference at all, if i disable the upper back usb (the best performance according to asrock..) the dpc has way lower latency.. (the "spikes" are rare and up to 900-1000μs)

Holy hell thats bad. I've been trying to diagnose this problem for weeks without much joy. Have you tried the Etron 101 driver? Theres a reason why I keep telling people to use it

I'm not using any of the ASRock "extras." Personally, I treat them like I treat all bloatware. Anything that tinkers with Windows to improve boot or internet speed = marketing hax. From what I've read, I'm not the only one who feels this way. All I want are the bare-bones, unadulterated drivers for the "Keep It Simple, Stupid" benefits.

Edit: I could wish that manufacturers would instead spend that time on the drivers themselves; I think they have a tendency to underestimate just how critical they are to the overall stability and efficiency of a system. In ASRock's favor, they do seem to be updating their drivers pretty frequently--my hat's off to them for that! I know marketing would never agree, but IMO fewer mobo models = more time/resources for QA = better hardware and drivers.

I agree. Simple straightforward reliable drivers is all that anyone wants, although this MAGIX thing Asrock has going is very nice.

BTW, I'm back people At least for now.