Quote Originally Posted by Alien Grey View Post
Running MSR consistency test suite

(MSR 0x0 consistent): FAIL
(MSR 0x2a consistent): FAIL
(MSR 0x39 consistent): FAIL
(MSR 0x118 consistent): FAIL
(MSR 0x19e consistent): FAIL
(MSR 0x400 consistent): FAIL

Summary: 4687 passed, 6 failed


SMI Frequency and latency

Summary of impact: observed maximum latency = 511us
Risk of OS timeouts exists with this observed latency (ideal is < 150us)


It's very bad but it could be worse. These test were done at 4.05GHz. The maximum latency is +600us at stock speed and BIOS Defaults.
I have the same failings on my Rampage Extreme!
See here for more details

From what Zailbird and nn_step are saying ASUS could quite easily code a fix for the MSR failings and the option of HPET ON/OFF would help considerably with the latency.

John