***Official***Z68X/P67A-UD7 Club/Discussion/Info**

[Lanek]

Agreed, I know the main thing I would like to see in a comparo is if one board can get any extra Mhz or mem speed over the other. Were there any differences there? That is the main reason why I would buy 1 board over another if they were in the same class. I did find the 3d comparos interesting however. I really didnt expect MIVE to do any better in 3D.

Yes, + get infos on how the bios and voltage ( vdrop? etc ) are working in OC situation... Anyway high end motherboard are closer of each other now, i remember buying DFI NF4 SLI DR and CFX3200 just cause they was the only board where BH5 have enough Voltage for work. ( good old time )

[sin0822]

I know it can never be perfect, but that is why I also don't like to judge boards like that. You can have baseline benchmarks(with everything the same, down to the SSD/hdd and OS), but that shouldn't be the significant part of judging the boards performance. personally even in my reviews, i don't like running bechmarks on a board. I feel as if you OC the board and then compare the percent improvments with the overclocks ont he same board is a much better guage of the boards performance. i feel they give the user a number dependant on the CPU, RAM, GPU not the board. Its not like one board uses different material for the traces and transfer data differently, nto yet at least. I know its how boards are reviewed, and that is why i feel as though motherboard reviews should be done differently, with more emphasis on features and overclocking, and less on benchmarks.

I also feel as though BLCK has everything to do with the CPU, and not the board. That OC guide for Sb that originally came out said that BLCk was dependent on the board, ASUS themselves said its dependant on the CPU, and i agree with the CPu dependance, after testing more than one CPU, i found that one CPu does 107.5blck and the other does 106.5 the 107.5 has a 4.8ghz limit and the 106.5 has a 5.2ghz limit. Kinda struck me as odd.

i remember the BH5 days, i still have my sticks

[btdvox]

The bios has problems with all 4 RAM slots full. Running 4 X 4 GB is much different than 2 X 4 GB. I think the bios does not like anything above 1333 with 16 Gigs of ram.

Gonna test more today though.

[bassplayer]

The bios has problems with all 4 RAM slots full. Running 4 X 4 GB is much different than 2 X 4 GB. I think the bios does not like anything above 1333 with 16 Gigs of ram.

Gonna test more today though.

16GB of memory is going to be a huge stress on the IMC. What kind of QPI are you running?

[btdvox]

16GB of memory is going to be a huge stress on the IMC. What kind of QPI are you running?

Ive tried increments from 1.05 - 1.16
Not going to go higher than that. I've decided to return one kit, and admit that 16GB vs 8GB is prob overkill, seeing as I was fine with 6GB on my X58 lol

Decided to buy a C300 to take advantage of SATA 3!

[sin0822]

c300 is a great decision, i have one and it rocks! make sure to install RST 10 drivers, as they are better for 4k speeds than the stock msahci.sys, make sure you use Intel ports if you aren't already!

Yea i agree 16 gigs is a huge stress ont eh IMC, I am going to test 4 sticks at 1600 to see if its a 4 stick problem or 16 gigs problem. Also QPI upto 1.25 should be ok for benching.

[btdvox]

c300 is a great decision, i have one and it rocks! make sure to install RST 10 drivers, as they are better for 4k speeds than the stock msahci.sys, make sure you use Intel ports if you aren't already!

Yea i agree 16 gigs is a huge stress ont eh IMC, I am going to test 4 sticks at 1600 to see if its a 4 stick problem or 16 gigs problem. Also QPI upto 1.25 should be ok for benching.

Thanks Sin,

Yeah i think it's a 4 stick problems, I tried 2 different g skill sets and 1 corsair set. Might be my bios, but this is in fact the first time I have ever filled up all my memory slots. It's pretty much a rule in the book that occupying all slots means loss in performance (overclock wise).

Decided to go 8 GB, 7-8-7-24-1t DDR3-1600.

Thanks for the tips.

[jackbrennan2008]

Ok I've been doing a little research now. I think (running LinX now) i've found the culprit.

My ram:

Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz CL8 8-8-8-24 1T 1.50v

Overclocked to 1866Mhz 9-9-9-24 1T 1.56v

I mentioned earlier that i kept getting the 0x000000124 BSOD. Anyhow after raising the QPI/VTT it has finally gone away. LinX has been going for 3 minutes now without crashing which it didn't do before raising QPI. Lets hope it holds out the full 20 runs with Maximum ram usage. If it does at least i know what kept crashing my PC. Cheers for the help earlier people.

[sin0822]

i see, how are those vengance doing? I just exchanged my dominator 1600mhz 4gb kit for some patriot vipers or whatever, same timings, same grade all i need from them is 1866 at 9,9,9,24

[jackbrennan2008]

i see, how are those vengance doing? I just exchanged my dominator 1600mhz 4gb kit for some patriot vipers or whatever, same timings, same grade all i need from them is 1866 at 9,9,9,24

LinX still running, 55 minutes and all is well. qpi/vtt increase has stabilized the system . i love my vengeance they were also a bargain.

i'd say 99% stable @ 1866Mhz 9-9-9-24 1T. i cant say 100% stable, but its passing LinX

[stasio]

New BIOS released.

[sin0822]

updating now! thanks!

[GLENBOY]

New BIOS released.

where where

[stasio]

where where

Links in my sig.

[Eldonko]

Sweet thanks, updating as well.

[jackbrennan2008]

New BIOS released.

Fantatic i'll give it a go right now. About to goto bed, but i can at least flash it



Also i have to admit to being a complete moron. I have been so annoyed that my CMOS reset button on the motherboard hasn't been working. I've been so frustrated. But then i got a flash light and saw there was another button right beneath it.

I've been pressing the reset button

[GLENBOY]

got it stasio you da man

[jackbrennan2008]

Any chance of a changelog? It would be nice to know what has been updated?

[TheHardCase]

Don't update, the bios is garbage won't even boot at 4.5.
Going back to F7e

[sin0822]

hmm let me see

[C-N]

Don't update, the bios is garbage won't even boot at 4.5.
Going back to F7e

You sure the chip is getting enough vcore, maybe GB have adjusted the voltaged to eliminate the drop & level out the overshoot with loadline

[jackbrennan2008]

hmm let me see

Let us know how you go

[sin0822]

i see they removed CPU PLL Overvoltage... so that is probably his concern.

Doesn't affect my OC but I have D1 stepping so cpu pll overvotlage doesn't help. I am check LLC i doubt they did anything for LLC.

[OC Nub]

Mine boots fine at 4600, pass hyper pi no issues on F7, same voltages as before.

[TheHardCase]

I was 5.0 100% stable now I'm having a hard time getting back there...
Even going back to F7e