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

[Tunagoblin]

Try lowering VTT with 1.5v
1.051 probably.
And check that again.

I remember one lower gave me BSOD before but I'll try with the new dram voltage.
* yup, I just tried it and gave me BSOD in 3 min.
Just in case I tried it with one below 1.116 and gave me BSOD, too.


"tRRD from 6>7, and tFAW from 28>33" gave me one notch down on DRAM voltage.
At least one hour prime stable with 1.575v. Anything lower will help at this point.
So I guess I need VTT=1.116, DRAM=1.575 to get 5GHz 1866.
I'll update the UEFI settings, too.

[Tunagoblin]

I got it up to 5.4GHz@1.584 last night...Of course it is far from stable...nor I'm trying to..
After this, windows crashed and took me while to get it back so I'm not doing this any higher...




btw, look at this guy....it is called suicide run




Also here is the healthy GFlops I'm getting on LinX w/AVX at 4.8GHz 1866. Of course with unhealthy temp...But hey...It's AVX.
During and after the test.

[BranFB]

Man you are killing your chip soon
How's the ambient temp around you

[Tunagoblin]

Man you are killing your chip soon
How's the ambient temp around you

I found the most important setting for OC.
Turn AC to "High"

My AC is close to my comp so the ambient stays pretty cool even it's blasting hot out side.
My 24/7 is @ 4.8 so it'll be fine.
Idles at 32~40c at atm. IBT/LinX w/AVX is the only app that gives me 80c+.

[radier]

Donth bother about RAM with high frequency and tight timmings:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/s...-the-best-ddr3

[burebista]

Yeah, XBit shows this too.

[trees415]

I got it up to 5.4GHz@1.584 last night...Of course it is far from stable...nor I'm trying to..
After this, windows crashed and took me while to get it back so I'm not doing this any higher...

Also here is the healthy GFlops I'm getting on LinX w/AVX at 4.8GHz 1866. Of course with unhealthy temp...But hey...It's AVX.
During and after the test.

Yeah, that's great, so are you done now? As in no more useless pictures, no more taking up thread space talking about insignificant benchmark results when others are trying to get questions answered, etc.? I hope so...

[Tunagoblin]

Donth bother about RAM with high frequency and tight timmings:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/s...-the-best-ddr3

I backed it down at stock RAM timings at 5.0 since I really wanted to run LinX somehow.
I made the 1024 run but anything higher will still gives me BSOD so I gave up...
Can't make it under 90c anyway... time to stop now..

Yeah, that's great, so are you done now? As in no more useless pictures, no more taking up thread space talking about insignificant benchmark results when others are trying to get questions answered, etc.? I hope so...

Sorry I'm almost done lol. But if it's useless then just skip. It's only been a page or 2, isn't it?
Also some people can compare the BIOS, LinX score, etc.
Just ignore me if you don't wanna see, please. Easy enough, right?

[Ket]

If nothing else, all the settings you posted up Tuna should stop everybody asking me what timings / settings / voltage to use I'll say it for the last time though, every system is different and even guide settings could be way off. A OC which should be easy to reach with a minimum of fiddling and still give good performance is;

4.5GHz CPU (around 1.33v on average)
1866MHz RAM (timings and voltage vary depending on your RAM) if you do a lot of archiving or things along those lines faster memory will shave a decent time off archiving times.
IGPU: Probably not a good idea to mess with OCing the IGPU if you use it, its strength is video encoding and thats it.

[Tunagoblin]

If nothing else, all the settings you posted up Tuna should stop everybody asking me what timings / settings / voltage to use I'll say it for the last time though, every system is different and even guide settings could be way off. A OC which should be easy to reach with a minimum of fiddling and still give good performance is;

4.5GHz CPU (around 1.33v on average)
1866MHz RAM (timings and voltage vary depending on your RAM) if you do a lot of archiving or things along those lines faster memory will shave a decent time off archiving times.
IGPU: Probably not a good idea to mess with OCing the IGPU if you use it, its strength is video encoding and thats it.

I've noticed that, though.
For average SB, about 4.5~4.6 is still easy to get and gives you great gain for not so much of vcore/heat.
But after that you need lots of voltage not just the vcore and also gives you not much of real world gain.
3.3~4.5 is easy to get and gives you lots of performance gain, 4.6~5.0 gets harder to make it stable also needs lots of voltage/heat with minimum gain.

[emueyes]

Many apologies, this is OT but this forum is alive and kickin' with enthusiastic people, whereas the proper places to ask are a bit moribund.

I bought my Xonar D2/PM a few years ago and have loved it ever since.

Now, though, I've been getting into Blurays. My music collection is still all flac and unaffected, but decoding DTS/MA or TrueHD are things the Xonar can't do.

How am I best to arrange things? The onboard sound chips are at least a little better now, and Intel in particular seem to be pushing the quality of their audio.

I'm quite happy with a stereo or a stereo + centre system, and have some nice Dittons and an old Yamaha amp, and aren't so interested in surround for the time being, so I need something that will downmix and do a good job of it. Also, I can't afford a decent receiver.

Is my beloved Xonar obsolete? The whole PCI bus is rapidly disappearing, and, on Intel systems at least, take up valuable PCIe lanes.

The Xonar driver situation hasn't changed much either it seems, some very dedicated and very talented people giving us drivers. But not Asus.

So, I'm wondering if there'd be any tangible benefit in using the Xonar? I know even on the crappy machine I'm writing this on that a plain old Audigy made a big difference.

Apologies again for being OT

Rob

[Ket]

You would be better off asking most of those questions in the audio forum here on XS. From a purely hardware based level though, onboard audio with all the equalizer tweaking in the world still can't hold a candle to a good dedicated audio card such as the Xonar. Slap as many fancy badges as you want onto onboard audio CODECs, they are still just that - onboard audio CODECs. If you haven't tried them already, you could give the uni xonar drivers a go. I use them with my DX 7.1 and they are very good indeed

[Retrolock]

Any ideas what the dr debug code "00" means? Is the board dead? Oh yeah, I've stupidly bent some pins and one pin particularly is loose.

[GripS]

My motherboard died last weekend. Decided to jump on the i5 2500K bandwagon with this board.

4.5ghz with simply adjusting the multiplier. OCCT stable for 1 hour so far.

Overclocking my Q6600 was so much harder than this.

[GripS]

Any ideas what the dr debug code "00" means? Is the board dead? Oh yeah, I've stupidly bent some pins and one pin particularly is loose.

So you bent a pin and then bent it back but the pin itself is loose in the socket? Sorry man but I think your board is toast.

edited for poor grammar

[Ket]

I would need to see a picture, but yep, board is likely toast.

[Retrolock]

Yeah guys, it is toast. I can't even RMA this now-paperweight. Got an Asus Maximus IV Gene-z now but my wallet is hurting.

[Tunagoblin]

Be aware of the new Asrock XfastLan software which made my internet soooooo slow..
Maybe I wasn't set it up right but gave me 0.03mbps upload and 0.9mbps download no matter what I did.
Uninstalled it and the speed came back.

[MacClipper]

Yeah guys, it is toast. I can't even RMA this now-paperweight. Got an Asus Maximus IV Gene-z now but my wallet is hurting.

Never hurts to ask for a quote, some mobo makers actually do repair/replace the CPU socket for a fee.

So good luck.

[BranFB]

Cannot install THX TruStudio pro driver.
Or if I can - it won;t recognize any device?! Any help ?

[Volkswagen]

Ket- what is the sequence for the full CMOS Clear again. I want to flash to the latest BIOS and want to make sure that it is flashed/cleared 100%.

I know its something like this but I am missing the part with loading defaults etc

Set CMOS jumper to "clear"
Remove CMOS battery
Remove PSU cord
Press power button 2-3 times (discharges capacitors)
Wait 1 min

[Tunagoblin]

Ket- what is the sequence for the full CMOS Clear again. I want to flash to the latest BIOS and want to make sure that it is flashed/cleared 100%.

I know its something like this but I am missing the part with loading defaults etc

Set CMOS jumper to "clear"
Remove CMOS battery
Remove PSU cord
Press power button 2-3 times (discharges capacitors)
Wait 1 min

I'm not Ket obviously but you got it right.

[Nw0rb]

So installed some 2 x4gb gskill blue ripX i installed it but it only runs xmp profile doesnt wanna overclock at all just locks up and gives me error 45 on the little lcd i then have to reset bios. im wondering if i should do a full bios reset cause all i did was reset to deafults then turned comp off installed mem hit the clear cmos button again and went into bios were it was id fine. Still thogh i have tried 8-9-8 and 9-10-9 at 1.5 and 1.65 and neither lets me overclock reboots and gives the error 45 on the onboard lcd

[Nw0rb]

Found this http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28...ty-mobo-issues

Seems im not the only one having the problems could it be a bad kit of ram?? because i dont get that code with my other gskill ram and i can overclock it without it happening as well. but for the cl 8 blue gskill its not likng manual settings like if i were to just reboot now and just change it to 2133 and put the voltage on 1.65 it will reboot give me the 45 error or if im lucky it will boot but hang when loading windows

Pretty much word for what some of the post in that link is whats going on

[BranFB]

What kit exactly are they?!