ASrock 890GX Extreme3

[biohead]

Can somebody post their oc settings for a 1055t around 4ghz. I have just moved my 1055t from my Asus M4A785D-M PRO where it was stable at 1.5v 14x286 nb 2860 ht 2860 4gb ram nb 1.3v. On the asrock running 4gb ram fails instantly at 14x286 1.52v nb 1.4v tried bios 1.95/1.80

^ try the other ram slots, and maybe drop the vcore since it's probably overvolting to 1.6v.

my NB needs way too many volts past 2.5ghz and i'm starting to believe it's not my NB but rather the board.

also, i was priming once at 3900mhz 1.45v (1.5v cpu-z) and it shut down, upping the volts toward 1.485v didn't help. i have a strong PSU so it isn't that, and the VRM should be adequate right? seems like some sort of over current protection still. could be that 1.4125v NB is just way too much.

[Sodapopjones]

yeah some things still feel a bit "off" but i'm just getting to know this new platform. how is it buggy for you?

I still have the voltage issue, where it seems like CnQ is kicking in, even though I have everything set to not make it so. It either gets better (Less often) or worse depending on what I have Vcore set at, which is kind of odd...

^ try the other ram slots, and maybe drop the vcore since it's probably overvolting to 1.6v.

my NB needs way too many volts past 2.5ghz and i'm starting to believe it's not my NB but rather the board.

also, i was priming once at 3900mhz 1.45v (1.5v cpu-z) and it shut down, upping the volts toward 1.485v didn't help. i have a strong PSU so it isn't that, and the VRM should be adequate right? seems like some sort of over current protection still. could be that 1.4125v NB is just way too much.

This board seems to love voltage, you would think it would at least benefit from it

[xdan]

htt @ 334
cpu @ 3840 (x11.5) 1.43v
nb @ 2672 (x8) 1.41v
ht @ 2000 (x6)
ram @ 1333 6-6-6-18-24-2T 1.62v
windows 7 pro x64... prime95 some 40 minutes in.

Why you use such a high fsb, 334 and such a low multiplier, you just increase the effort on cpu and mb when you can use a higher multiplier and a lower base.
I recomand you to use
cpu @ 4ghz (286 x 14) 1.5v
NB 2288 (x8) 1.25v
HTT 2288(x8)
Try this and if it works than you can raise the NB to x10 to 2860.
I think than the motherboard becames unstable at more than 300 FSB, base clock.

[vandiesel]

I still have the voltage issue, where it seems like CnQ is kicking in, even though I have everything set to not make it so. It either gets better (Less often) or worse depending on what I have Vcore set at, which is kind of odd...



This board seems to love voltage, you would think it would at least benefit from it

My 1055t would throttle in my asus, the pwm was getting way to hot and would drop until cooler, if I did not work out the problem it would have looked if cnq was kicking in

[Sodapopjones]

My 1055t would throttle in my asus, the pwm was getting way to hot and would drop until cooler, if I did not work out the problem it would have looked if cnq was kicking in

Heres the thing, I have vcore set at 1.4 *which oddly enough is their default* I don't have this problem at all now, its when I try to run anything lower.

If it were a heat issue, it would be happening at the higher voltage and not vice versa.

There are a lot of things I wish I could change with the board, mainly the bios, and the finicky "ASRock OC Tuner" but hey.

[biohead]

Heres the thing, I have vcore set at 1.4 *which oddly enough is their default* I don't have this problem at all now, its when I try to run anything lower.

If it were a heat issue, it would be happening at the higher voltage and not vice versa.

There are a lot of things I wish I could change with the board, mainly the bios, and the finicky "ASRock OC Tuner" but hey.

aha, i'm in the same boat. i never had CnQ kick in until i was running 1.35v 3500mhz. Disabling Cool n Quiet in bios does nothing.

running a 8+ hour prime blend stable 258*14 now (3600 mhz), 1.3625 vcore, but i have to force the p-state table with K10stat so it doesn't jump up and down all the time. at 3500 mhz CnQ wasn't an issue (so it didn't matter in windows/idling) but at 3600 it causes stability problems (clock interrupt BSODs), i guess when the frequency jumps up faster than the vcore that goes with it, and causes instability for a fraction of a millisecond.

this 880G needs some work now that i've gone to know it. unbootable HTT@ 290-300, high vcore jumps under load causing load stability but idling the vcore is too low and the system locks up (imagine that :/ ). CnQ issues as noted. also i tried the gimmicky "instant boot" utlity but i don't think the board is supported yet, it doesn't instant boot anything. the OC tuner is unstable clocking the HTT bus and applying multies doesn't work (K10stat does work for multies/vcore). also, AMD overdrive doesnt load and hardlocks the system, same goes for AMD fusion utility.

list goes on. hopefully it all comes down to a BIOS update.

[Sodapopjones]

aha, i'm in the same boat. i never had CnQ kick in until i was running 1.35v 3500mhz. Disabling Cool n Quiet in bios does nothing.

running a 8+ hour prime blend stable 258*14 now (3600 mhz), 1.3625 vcore, but i have to force the p-state table with K10stat so it doesn't jump up and down all the time. at 3500 mhz CnQ wasn't an issue (so it didn't matter in windows/idling) but at 3600 it causes stability problems (clock interrupt BSODs), i guess when the frequency jumps up faster than the vcore that goes with it, and causes instability for a fraction of a millisecond.

this 880G needs some work now that i've gone to know it. unbootable HTT@ 290-300, high vcore jumps under load causing load stability but idling the vcore is too low and the system locks up (imagine that :/ ). CnQ issues as noted. also i tried the gimmicky "instant boot" utlity but i don't think the board is supported yet, it doesn't instant boot anything. the OC tuner is unstable clocking the HTT bus and applying multies doesn't work (K10stat does work for multies/vcore). also, AMD overdrive doesnt load and hardlocks the system, same goes for AMD fusion utility.

list goes on. hopefully it all comes down to a BIOS update.

Yes, I'm glad you posted that, everyone thinks I'm crazy

I'm running 3430mhz, 245x14 @ 1.4v vcore, HT and FSB at 2450 @ 1.3v 24/7 stable.

I really should be able to go higher, but keeping the idle OC stable is the problem, it takes way more volts than it should, and under load you gain .04 to .06 volts making it to high resulting in unnessary heat.

I still have a week and a half to get my board back to Newegg, which I might do and just poney up and try something else.

[tkxmoe]

Anyone know how to change chipset voltage on this thing?

It only has 'NB Voltage' just below CPU Vcore but this is actually CPU NB voltage not chipset nb voltage.

Going nuts trying to find it.

[biohead]

Yes, I'm glad you posted that, everyone thinks I'm crazy

I'm running 3430mhz, 245x14 @ 1.4v vcore, HT and FSB at 2450 @ 1.3v 24/7 stable.

I really should be able to go higher, but keeping the idle OC stable is the problem, it takes way more volts than it should, and under load you gain .04 to .06 volts making it to high resulting in unnessary heat.

I still have a week and a half to get my board back to Newegg, which I might do and just poney up and try something else.

3600 mhz here, 258*14*10*10, with turbo to 3870 mhz (not sure if it works all the time though, sometimes tmonitor (realtime core freq meter) doesn't budge while it should). turbo DISABLED in bios, otherwise it won't boot since the stock turbo (without k10stat loaded) is 16.5x multi which results in 4.25ghz.

if you haven't yet tried k10stat i recommend you do. on the fly p-states changes etc, it's quite handy. and if you enable turbo (in k10stat not in bios) hopefully you can let the turbo multies kick in (i.e it kicks in 16x on a 1, 2 or 3 threaded app, it doesn't when all cores are utilised).

otherwise i won't blame you for swithing to an asus or similar. i'm gonna have to deal with this one. i have the money but won't spend a dime on this system for the time being. i hope future bios updates will resolve most of the issues, but i don't think the vcore jump is gonna change. it's probably "hardcoded" in the VRM or whatever. so i'll have to compensate the lower idle vcore with CnQ for lower idle clocks.

last thing i'll say is that i haven't tried remounting my HSF. i think maybe i have a bad mount or the IHS is concave which gives me +10°C load temps. i have primed some cores individually at 4ghz with 1.3750v bios (1.43v load?) and it seemed to do okay which is a good sign.

[Exia]

[vandiesel]

^ try the other ram slots, and maybe drop the vcore since it's probably overvolting to 1.6v.

my NB needs way too many volts past 2.5ghz and i'm starting to believe it's not my NB but rather the board.

I was in the white slots, and yes when at 1.52 HW monitor was showing 1.6v, I dropped the 1055t back into the asus where it currently sits at 4ghz spent enough time on this for now, not impressed with the board at all.