Quote Originally Posted by tipes View Post
Looking good m8. How are you finding the F5c bios - stable? problems?

Just curious as I have not used the F5c yet.

Mark
No new problems with F5c. Still gets unhappy with soft reboot (hang) after long priming at borderline too low voltage. I finally got that sorted out with more voltage. However it still does the repeated 'C1' state on bootup and occasionally dies and restarts right after being powered up.

4.0 ghz with HT @ vCore: 1.40625 bios, 1.360 load, 1.376 idle, vQPI: 1.3750, 83c max real-temp LinX, 6 hours prime blend.

I enjoy overclocking this board on the table because of the lights and power/reset/clear-cmos buttons. I also enjoyed how the F5c BIOS version was retained after my main BIOS chip was corrupted from an undervolt boot crash loop and the dual-BIOS feature restored from backup. I dialed in the same settings I was using with those small changes and have been stable ever since. I did some gaming and 3dmark2006 with 4870 crossfire. The next thing I need to do is test the 19x multi and see if I can get even lower volts. Then, finally I will test with one fan (still using the other a bit) and all 3 ram sticks.