ASrock 890GX Extreme3

[Valg]

I have the fx board and the fan is quiet. This board is very good and stable, May not have all the options as the big boys in the bios. It has all you need plus floppy and ide if you still need them. Running 1090t at 4.0 MHz and volts are very stable on this board.( prime95 x 6). This board is a sleeper or should i say a keeper.

Thanks. Nice clock BTW:

I have the 890GX, and love the layout... FX layout is realy not as good for me,
890GX/880G rocks...

But the FX gives You more for OC-ing...
BTW - Im so happy that the GX doesnt have the IDE and FLOPPY connector,
because it is dead for me.

@ elpibe10 - Nice picture, more please...

[vandiesel]

Anybody having trouble posting after a cmos clear using a graphics card, try cmos clear pull the card and boot from the onboard

[Jarek_135]

About this 40mm fan - It doesnt matter, if he is loud or not. FX have bigger radiator than GX, + 40mm fan. If that 40mm is loud, take him out. GX is running on lower rad, so FX goes well with out the fan.

But I have GX and I think, on GX the rad should be bigger.

[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.

[FXT]

U can change it in OC Tuner. Default seems to be 1.15V.

[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.

[FXT]

New bios is out: http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/amd_m...3_13518.0.html

[hpv500]

New bios is out: http://www.pctreiber.net/forum/amd_m...3_13518.0.html

what's new for this version?

[Leeghoofd]

Changelog:
Raid ROM 3.2.1540.15

[FXT]

Some overclocking results:

http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291556.jpg
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291569.jpg
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291573.jpg
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291586.jpg

All done by air (Mugen 2A),

More later.

[hsn]

Some overclocking results:

http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291556.jpg
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291569.jpg
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291573.jpg
http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6291586.jpg

All done by air (Mugen 2A),

More later.

What version bios??????

[FXT]

1.95

[FXT]

Added signature about my setup.

[Leeghoofd]

more = LN2 ?

[FXT]

I meant more overclocking results later.

[FXT]

Here is one:http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6293142.jpg

[Peter Burg]

do some prime man

[duron]

nice clocks you have there FXT
keep on pushing to the xtreme

[Sodapopjones]

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.

I decided to keep my board, I haven't messed with k10stat yet, I haven't had time, work etc. Plus trying to find a board with the kind of layout that the 890/880G share for the price is nearly impossible, sigh.

I need to RMA my video card now, its giving me GSOD's and some other issues, once I get my new card in I will piss around with the board some more.

With your push/pull setup on the cooler, did you order a second set of fan clips, or just use zip-ties?

[FXT]

do some prime man

Here is my quick test: http://www.aijaa.com/v.php?i=6299955.jpg

Using quite loose timings, but fix that later...

[FXT]

Priming now NB:2288 and 1525MHz 8.8.8.20 2T.

[FXT]

All my tests are in small FFTs.