Crosshair IV on the bench!

[ridney]

dave, if you change your coolant to blood red, you might as well change the tubing to something clear so that we can see it flowing but your rig is already beautiful

will be waiting for your results on the crosshair IV, it definitely is a very good board

[bingo13]

bingo13: It's not really a big deal, but after I flashed 0707 the "Core Unlocker" button on the mobo quit functioning on the 555.
It still works fine if I set it in bios though.

Umm, still working here. Let me try a retail 555 today.

[charged3800z24]

Hey Dave, what are your work hours...? Looking forward to some test... I am real close to buying one

[Daveburt714]

Hey Jay,

I work 2nd Shift (3pm-11pm). I took a floating holiday tommorow to watch the Black-Ops feed and hopefully get a little time to put the rig through it's paces now that I have it under water.

I'd really love to have an X6, but I've been using mid range boards for quite awhile and I've been waiting for the 890FX's, so it was one or the other...

I'm testing stability some tonight, I'll try and post a CB11.5 run at least.

[charged3800z24]

Yeah, I am looking at the x6's on newegg everyday. Been trying to resist. I have a shopping cart beeing done this afternoon. I have a group buy of part. The asus might go on that order, My cousins are upgrading there rigs finally . I look forward to the test, wonder if you'll be able to squeze any more out of your chips.

[initialised]

0707 is the latest bios, running 8gb of corsair gtx2 at 2000 7-8-7-24 here. Pm me your dominator part number please.

cmg4gx3m2a2000c8

[initialised]

Besides the two extra SATA ports, and the different PCI-E slot placement, does anyone know what difference there will be for the Crosshair IV Extreme?

Overclocking by Bluetooth on smart phones, rumours of SLi support but nothing concrete yet.

[Zeus]

Nice board Dave! Will be getting one for my bithday soon. Have fun with yours, a Thuban will complement the fun.

[Daveburt714]

Watching the BlackOps feed got me in an OC frenzy, and since I finally have a day off I decided to push this Crosshair a little...

Heres a SS of what I've got so far:


Thats my best WPrime score ever!
I'm impressed with this boards ability to clock RAM, almost 1800 @ reasonable voltages and clocks.

Not too shaby on the Cores either considering I'm only @ 1.5v.

Oh well, I'm sure everyone is watching the BigDogs, but I'm pretty happy with this...

[Daveburt714]

One really nice thing about this board is the fact that the 1600 Mem divider actually works!...

I've had a few boards and always had to set Mem @ 1333 and clock the HTRef up to get 1600. At least with the C4F I can set the mem divider properly (@ 1600) and clock the HTRef up from there.
It may not sound like much, but for all you folks who OC it takes one more thing out of the equation on BE chips....
I can push my memory without worrying about the HTREf being too high.

Good Job, Asus and Bingo13...

[Titan7171]

Watching the BlackOps feed got me in an OC frenzy, and since I finally have a day off I decided to push this Crosshair a little...

Heres a SS of what I've got so far:


Thats my best WPrime score ever!
I'm impressed with this boards ability to clock RAM, almost 1800 @ reasonable voltages and clocks.

Not too shaby on the Cores either considering I'm only @ 1.5v.

Oh well, I'm sure everyone is watching the BigDogs, but I'm pretty happy with this...

good job man congrats on breaking your own high

Did you do any comparison between the 0505 and 0707 bios? is there an increase in performance?

[Daveburt714]

good job man congrats on breaking your own high

Did you do any comparison between the 0505 and 0707 bios? is there an increase in performance?

Wassup Titan7171...

Personally, I would highly recommend flashing the 0707 Bios. My board came with something wierd (0602?) and it didn't work right at all, 0707 is much better!

It's always cool beating your own personal best and that one fell already...


I've been working so much, I really haven't gotten a chance to play with this board, but I took the day off from work, and all I can say is I'm loving this puppy!!

You know me bro, I'm a wimp when it comes to voltage (I really hate to break Sh*t)... The C4F lets ya take baby steps on voltage.
This is turning out to be a good thing!

[Titan7171]

Wassup Titan7171...

Personally, I would highly recommend flashing the 0707 Bios. My board came with something wierd (0602?) and it didn't work right at all, 0707 is much better!

It's always cool beating your own personal best and that one fell already...


I've been working so much, I really haven't gotten a chance to play with this board, but I took the day off from work, and all I can say is I'm loving this puppy!!

You know me bro, I'm a wimp when it comes to voltage (I really hate to break Sh*t)... The C4F lets ya take baby steps on voltage.
This is turning out to be a good thing!

believe me when I say you will not break anything

this is what ive benched with without a problem so if you wanna use this as a guide of voltage safe up to.?? unless you already passed these settingsthen disregard.



I doubt I can touch my 4.5ghz Wprime with this mobo itd be a struggle to get a few milleseconds so Ill just wait for thuban

[charged3800z24]

Nice dave, and you to titan... I will hopefully have mine Monday. I hope to have just as much fun. It shipped this morning and I did over night. Dave, do you see the board being better efficient compared to your old board at same clocks?

[Daveburt714]

Titan7171:, Thanks for the BIOS Screen Bro....

I'm still a fricken wimp! Those voltages kind of scare me man...

I've been going real easy all day/night, taking baby steps if you will..

I've tested most clocks (except CPU Core) pretty extensively tonight and I've found (as always) cranking voltages ain't always the answer...

Your WPrime score frikkin ROCKS, but I'm not really ready push voltages that far...

Call me a wuss, but I'm still looking for best clocks @ reasonable voltages.. A 24/7 kind of thing...

[charged3800z24]

Hey Dave, I think me, you and oldtimer (he is from the big O) need to do an XS OCing weekend Really get that board broke in. I'll bring the LN2

[Titan7171]

Titan7171:, Thanks for the BIOS Screen Bro....

I'm still a fricken wimp! Those voltages kind of scare me man...

I've been going real easy all day/night, taking baby steps if you will..

I've tested most clocks (except CPU Core) pretty extensively tonight and I've found (as always) cranking voltages ain't always the answer...

Your WPrime score frikkin ROCKS, but I'm not really ready push voltages that far...

Call me a wuss, but I'm still looking for best clocks @ reasonable voltages.. A 24/7 kind of thing...

I dont use those settings for 24/7 that is the highest Ive put them for benching prolly ran like that for 3-4 hours. They all lower now. I did that basically to set a threashold for future reference. So if I do need to raise them for any reason I can go back and see my limit and that its been done before.

That Wprime is on my M3A79-T not this mobo. Do you have a link for the 0707 bios? I think Im ready to try it out and see if it makes a difference.

[nanohead]

Hey, where did you guys get that board? I can't find it anywhere.....

Been busy as *&^% for the past year or so, and haven't been here that much (former XS addict )

But now that we have all new stuff, argh.. the bug is back. Has Chew* beaten one of these things yet?

[Daveburt714]

Here's a link for the bios Titan:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=134

If you can't get it from the link it's posted over in the review section/Crosshair pictures.

Nanohead: I bought mine from ZZF, I think Titan got his from New Egg. JUst google Crosshair IV Formula and look under shopping.

[charged3800z24]

Nano, yeeah it has been a while. I got mine from newegg also.

[Cele303]

Here's a link for the bios Titan:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=134

If you can't get it from the link it's posted over in the review section/Crosshair pictures.

Nanohead: I bought mine from ZZF, I think Titan got his from New Egg. JUst google Crosshair IV Formula and look under shopping.

Thanks for the link! Do you know what are the changes?

[Daveburt714]

Thanks for the link! Do you know what are the changes?

I really didn't test the original BIOS long enough to be able to notice changes... I'm pretty sure it was mostly for stability though, maybe a few cosmetic changes.

Like I mentioned to Bingo13, the onboard "Core Unlocker" button quit working on my 555 (testing settup), but it still worked fine when set in Bios.

[Leeghoofd]

Doesn't the core unlocker work when pressing 4 at boot ?

[Yancey]

Hey guys help me make up my mine I wont to build a new 1090T RIG WHAT MOBO WOULD YOU USE FOR 100% 24/7 STABLE OPERATION. I have always been a MSI guy until now the asus looks good. Asus has always had a issue with bios is that true now? The new MSI GD70 looks nice but I have not found anybody running one yet. Help me out here..

[Daveburt714]

I've had problems with early Asus bios in the past myself Yancey (especially with new chipsets (785G comes to mind))...

But I don't think you'll have any problems with the Crosshair IV. Stability hasn't been a problem for me at all with this board and it seems like the bios team is putting alot of effort in to make it even better! WTG Asus...