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

[Olivon]

Extreme 6 works really well from my side. A very good card for the price

[Ket]

Everybody finished with with their handbags? Good.

[pythonse]

ok good...as i dont want any conflicts here,i come here to get knowledge and at the same time shed some as well...thx bro

[pythonse]

*looks in handbag...no more toys!

[Nw0rb]

Extreme 6 works really well from my side. A very good card for the price

Your right its a great board just seems they havnt gotten all the bugs out yet

[Martin.v.r]

how many have used turbo voltsett, I just did it for the first time.
and could run my cpu at low Vcore.

[BranFB]

low

exact settings ?

[dpante1s]

So, now I have an Intel Xeon E3-1230 running on my Extreme4 without any problems and with prompt identitification of the CPU at Bios start

[Olivon]

how many have used turbo voltsett, I just did it for the first time.
and could run my cpu at low Vcore.

I use Offset voltage for H24 now. I will not come back to fixed mode H24 for sure, Offset mode is really cool

Fixed mode works better for strong OC though ...

[Sailindawg]

how many have used turbo voltsett, I just did it for the first time.
and could run my cpu at low Vcore.

I'm running the Additional Turbo Voltage at 0.23 V with a Vcore setting of 1.375. I found that it helped maintain stability. I have not tried lowering the Vcore voltage and then tried to compensate with the Additional Turbo Voltage to achieve the same voltage at stress. I have wanted to try overclocking using just voltage offsets, but have not had the time to play around with it. I'm currently running my 2600K on my test bench at 4.6 GHz with RAM @ 2137. I'm on air cooling using a Big Typhoon , recycled cooler I've had since my AMD days. I want to get this chip on my water cooling loop as I have time.

[Sailindawg]

I use Offset voltage for H24 now. I will not come back to fixed mode H24 for sure, Offset mode is really cool

Fixed mode works better for strong OC though ...

Olivon, what clocks are you running, which cpu & motherboard?

[Olivon]

Extreme 6 - BIOS P1.60
2600K - L042B074
Offset mode +0.95 - LLC4
4800MHz - No PLL Overvoltage
1.06v idle - 1.32v semi load - 1.37v full load

[Sailindawg]

That's great settings! I just set my 2600k & Extreme4 back to stock settings to try using voltage offset. I'd like to see how I can do.

EDIT:
So far at 105X40 using voltage offset of 0.25V VCore. Idle is silly at 1.05V or there about. Halfway through a Linx run (20 iterations). Max CPU temp=65C Ave = 55-57C across all 4 cores. PLL Over Voltage is off. All else at stock settings, but all voltages are set in BIOS rather than
on auto. RAM @ auto, defaults to 999, 1600.

[Ket]

Ugh... I really shouldn't be reading tech stuff after the night out I had. But what else is there to do when recovering?

[iwbs]

Have anyone experienced a minor graphic bug during BIOS post? I got my hands on an extreme4 (1.6 shipped) and it seems it change the resolution itself randomly. The resolution will down to like 640x480 after restart and texts get really blurry. Is there any way to adjust the resolution or fix this problem? Thanks in advance

[pythonse]

thats strange....i have 1.61 and its stable as can br...sorry

[BranFB]

I'm with E4 1.62 24/7stable at4.7GHz

soon will be upgrading the cooling system!

[Ket]

No graphical problem like that here. Sounds like a monitor related problem. Tried a factory recall and a different cable?

[radier]

I have perception that the pace of publication BIOS updates recently has slowed. I hope that the constructions on the P67 has not been abandoned in favor of new models based on the Z68 chipset.

[Sailindawg]

I understand your point of view Radier I'm running the 1.6 ship BIOS. I'm running a very simple, minimal hardware setup at the moment, but outside of the double post when overclocking, the 1.6 ship BIOS seems pretty stable. I'd like to see more features added like being able to adjust multis & full RAM settings/timings from within the operating system environment using their tweak program. But the basic stability seems good. I'm not seeing anything that's real buggy or not working. Clocking these CPUs is more CPU dependent than board dependent. Either the CPU will scale with voltage or just clock very high with lower voltage. Unfortunately, my stepping scales with voltage.

[Ket]

AFAIK, theres really not any problems worth speaking of with the Extreme4 now so I wouldn't expect UEFI updates beyond firmware updates for on-board hardware or CPU ID table updates.

[burebista]

1.70 for Extreme4 is on the way but I dunno when.

[radier]

Apart from problems associated with Extreme 4 (which mostly are gone) I am little worried about Pro3 users still suffering from dualboot or disappering LLC option when using offset mode.
I really wish for every ASRock P67 user to have polished UEFI on their mobo.

BR,

[Ket]

If you want that, try asking Asrock to send me any boards that need attention and I'll run the same fine-toothed comb over them as I have with the Extreme4. Otherwise my part is done really.

[xdan]

Guess what mb is coming now...
Fatal1ty for the budget
It doesn't suport SLI but it looks damn nice.
I hope that it's at a price a little under Extreme 4 or equal.
I don't need SLI.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...%20Performance