Asrock P67 Extreme4 UEFI & Drivers thread [Extreme6 & Pro3 owners welcome]

[Ket]

Is this thread followed by Asrock?

Lets just say I can neither deny or confirm that but Asrock do know I have made this thread.

Ket-

Ya it seems that the bios for extreme 6 is still kinda buggywish i had the contacts you have. Im not the only one with this problem iv post other fourms with kids who have the same problem honest listen to your computer next tme you boot it up if overvoltage is enabled its more of a video card fan double boot the fan boots twice. spins like it normally does then it spins down and spins back up like its double posting and its only when overvoltage is enabled

I might try and see if Asrock want to give me a Extreme6 to bug test, but I'm going to need good reasons. I think its clear to see my bug testing is pretty unrivalled by all the bugs I uncovered with the Extreme4 but the fact remains I'm just a guy whos done R&D for some high profile name manufacturers before, been asked to design certain things for other manufacturers in the past, but I am not a Asrock rep and the decision is entirely up to them if they would find my services useful.

[blacksun1942]

Ket,
I sincerely hope Asrock takes you up on your offer. It seems to me that the Extreme6 has more bugs/issues than the Extreme4.

I'm still at a 45x multi wall. Still get double-boot problem with PLL Overvoltage enabled. I'm very intrigued by Radier's ~5ghz settings, but they just cause a black screen with blinking cursor on my end...

[Strike@ps3]

after using the extreme4 for 2 weeks.. I would said the board is cool and able to perform well. so far it didn't gave me any problems at all... im glad that i had chosen this board. so far this got to be one of the brand choice i would consider and picked next time if I happen upgrade to another chipset.

my concern for now is the Asrock Z68 extreme 4 and 6 will be coming out .. will asrock be forgotten those users like us who are on the P67 chipset motherboard whether on extreme4 or extreme6 ... any continued support ?

[radier]

Ket
I'm very intrigued by Radier's ~5ghz settings, but they just cause a black screen with blinking cursor on my end...

Don't worry. My settings are universal exept multi and vCore. I was very lucky with my CPU batch because as it can run 4,5GHz effortlessly with default vCore and 5GHz with very low vCore (1,336V).



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[trees415]

after using the extreme4 for 2 weeks.. I would said the board is cool and able to perform well. so far it didn't gave me any problems at all... im glad that i had chosen this board. so far this got to be one of the brand choice i would consider and picked next time if I happen upgrade to another chipset.

my concern for now is the Asrock Z68 extreme 4 and 6 will be coming out .. will asrock be forgotten those users like us who are on the P67 chipset motherboard whether on extreme4 or extreme6 ... any continued support ?

Of course they will continue to offer support, ASRock p67 UD3 mobo's were only released just a couple months ago. While the release of the new chipset is not expected until mid-may at the earliest, the p67 boards will continue to receive support as long as it's needed.

[Sync0r]

Just been doing a little more testing. My max multi seems to be 55, I can only achieve this with HT turned off, otherwise chip gets too hot.

Now is it better to run slower with HT turned on or faster with HT turned off?

I'm guessing the later, do many games/applications actually take advantage of HT?

[bat4]

Now is it better to run slower with HT turned on or faster with HT turned off?

I'm guessing the later, do many games/applications actually take advantage of HT?

Games are not using HT. Therefor for gaming it is enough a I5 2500K processor which has no HT.

HT is needed for example in case of video editing or industrial process simulator applications.

[Ket]

Its better to leave HT on. While games won't really get any advantages theres a lot of other software that will. It depends what you mainly use your system for though.

[Redbill]

For those having trouble with PCIE controllers the below beta bios might do the trick.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Model=P67%20Extreme4
http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...rollers-2.html


EDIT:
My testing seems to show that the adaptec cards now work correctly with the BIOS L1.64a, (at least when they're placed in the 4X slot).

[blacksun1942]

Just an update:
I'm finally stable @ 4500ghz and DDR3-2133
My settings:
- All c-state stuff disabled
- EIST/Speedstep disabled
- PLL Overvoltage disabled
- Spread spectrum disabled
- DRAM timings: 9-11-9-28-2N (the rest auto)
- DRAM voltage: 1.635v
- Wattage limits: 250/250/250
- Power saving mod: disabled
- Vcore: 1.375 (fixed)
- LLC: Lvl 3
- PCH Voltage: 1.059v
- PLL Voltage: 1.832v

The key was upping the VTT and VCCSA:
VTT: 1.155v
VCCSA: 1.107v

Increasing those last two was *the* solution to make my 45x+2133 clocks stable. I'll try lowering each voltage a bit at a time to see how low I can go, but 100% stable for now.
...What I'd *really* like is 46 or 47x... How much of a difference would that make in gaming anyway?

[piquadrat]

For those having trouble with PCIE controllers the below beta bios might do the trick.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/beta.asp?Model=P67%20Extreme4
http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/4...rollers-2.html

EDIT:
My testing seems to show that the adaptec cards now work correctly with the BIOS L1.64a, (at least when they're placed in the 4X slot).

Very good to hear, that Asrock thinks about storage systems users.

Now give me ATA password support in UEFI, Asrock!
Just be the first! Be the first who fully supports intel G3 ssds with hardware encryption or SandForce SF-1200 and upcoming SF-2xxx ssd drives which require ATA Security Extension implemented.

[Ket]

Just an update:
I'm finally stable @ 4500ghz and DDR3-2133
My settings:
- All c-state stuff disabled
- EIST/Speedstep disabled
- PLL Overvoltage disabled
- Spread spectrum disabled
- DRAM timings: 9-11-9-28-2N (the rest auto)
- DRAM voltage: 1.635v
- Wattage limits: 250/250/250
- Power saving mod: disabled
- Vcore: 1.375 (fixed)
- LLC: Lvl 3
- PCH Voltage: 1.059v
- PLL Voltage: 1.832v

The key was upping the VTT and VCCSA:
VTT: 1.155v
VCCSA: 1.107v

Increasing those last two was *the* solution to make my 45x+2133 clocks stable. I'll try lowering each voltage a bit at a time to see how low I can go, but 100% stable for now.
...What I'd *really* like is 46 or 47x... How much of a difference would that make in gaming anyway?

Absolutely zip. 100MHz is bugger all. You might want to leave speedstep enabled. I disabled it along with all other power saving options and my CPU really didn't like me doing that. Turned speedstep back on and.. everything is fine again. Very odd.

[blacksun1942]

Absolutely zip. 100MHz is bugger all. You might want to leave speedstep enabled. I disabled it along with all other power saving options and my CPU really didn't like me doing that. Turned speedstep back on and.. everything is fine again. Very odd.

Excellent advice.
Odd thing is that my "100% stable" settings actually failed Prime95 last night on a second test after initially passing ~12 hours.

Now I'm running everything with the C states/Speedstep enabled since this morning and so far so good....

[Ket]

You can leave a lot of the CPU power saving stuff off, just not speedstep. Dunno why thats such a big deal, maybe the CPU tries to apply "turbo" speeds on top of the already OCd CPU and it just makes it unstable.

[nanoprobe]

Didn't go through this whole thread but I had to return my Pro3. Would BSOD with any thing above stock settings. No amount of voltage or settings changes helped. Latest bios didn't help. Putting my meter on it found that even though the voltage would remain constant, the wattage would slowly drop until it crashed. It would drop at stock also but never enough to crash. Swapped out everything 1 part at a time including PSU. Nothing helped. Too bad. I've had other ASRock boards and really liked this one.

[Ket]

I think its probably just best to avoid the B3 Pro3 boards, nobody seems to have any success with them.

[pythonse]

ok i just bought this board..i2500k batch number 3052A185 and 2 4gb sticks of gskill 1600 F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM 1.5 VOLTS....any recommendations on what bios to use and if my batch cpu is any good? any replies with any info is much appreciated..thanks in advance to all of u

[radier]

Give a try to the latest beta 1.64a from ASRock website.

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[Ket]

At the very least use UEFI 1.6A. IMO 1.6A is probably the best, has a few bugs but nothing serious and seems to be the most stable in my testing.

[pythonse]

ok ty!

[Sailindawg]

At the very least use UEFI 1.6A. IMO 1.6A is probably the best, has a few bugs but nothing serious and seems to be the most stable in my testing.

Ket, does 1.6A solve the problem of removing saved BIOS profiles when clearing CMOS or is it just 1.61?

I'm currently running 1.6, the shipping BIOS, aside from the double post bug , it seems pretty stable.

I'm currently running 100.9x46 @ 1.375Vcore, 2133 XMP profile on the RAM and HT / SpeedStep / CiE / C states all enabled. Pretty cool chip & board so far. Seems to run more smoothly than my QX9650! The board is on my tech bench for the time being. I'm pretty much at the max of my air cooling though. I'm dusted off my Big Typhoon and it does ok. With 1.375Vcore, 4c/4T Linx, I see temps just touching 80C. I will eventually put use water cooling for the system once I move it to my Stacker.

[Ket]

If you want the fix for saved profiles being wiped you need to use UEFI 1.61 and newer. If the saved profiles being wiped aren't a big issue for you though, UEFI 1.6A in all my testing by some distance has been the most stable and has the double POST bug fixed. I do wish Asrock would look at that, AFAIK the only thing fixed with UEFI 1.61 was the saved profiles bug but stability somehow decreased when the system gets OC'd. Bad omen.

[pythonse]

ok so i got all hardware installed but i cant get to desktop
says it cant detect harddrive
sata3 operation mode:ide mode
marvell sata3 bootable:yes
sata mode:ide
sata controller 0:compatible
sata controller 1:enabled
hard disk smart:enabled

sata3_0 st3250310as
sata3_1 not detected
sata2_2 my dvd rom

[radier]

After fresh install of OS ?

[pythonse]

i cant even get windows to install..says i need to make sure my boot drive is enabled in bios