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

[papatsonis]

just an observation..
with 0.110 i get crackling sound on realtek.... which got resolved either uninstalling realtek drivers and using intergrated win7 drivers(unacceptable..), or reverting to 0.109 which sounds ok...

[GripS]

just an observation..
with 0.110 i get crackling sound on realtek.... which got resolved either uninstalling realtek drivers and using intergrated win7 drivers(unacceptable..), or reverting to 0.109 which sounds ok...

I highly recommend getting a dedicated sound card. On-board is garbage.

How is it with .111?

[GripS]

Is this still an issue when using .111?

[GripS]

Been bored the past few days so I've been trying to overclock my setup beyond the 4.2ghz on all auto settings that I have been running to this point.

Radier,

I have seen your posts from earlier in this thread and my question is what bios settings are you currently running for your 5ghz OC? Are they the same from your posts earlier? If I remember correctly you recommend the following:

Turbo power limits:

255
255
300

VTT: .986
VCCSA: .925
CPU PLL: 1.709

Are you still leaving the C states to all enabled?

[papatsonis]

Is this still an issue when using .111?

this is with 0.111 driver... no difference at all, if i disable the upper back usb (the best performance according to asrock..) the dpc has way lower latency.. (the "spikes" are rare and up to 900-1000μs)

[bat4]

just an observation..
with 0.110 i get crackling sound on realtek....

Yes, another user had this problem with older drivers. He found that the Etron controller was causing extremely high latency and the issue was present with several types of sound cards:

I may have solved the problem. I had problems with all my audio devices (though only the two creative cards needed reboot), but mostly while playing games:
- Realtek onBoard Sound - bad sound / heavy distortions
- Asus Xonar DX (PCIe) - bad sound / heavy distortions
- nVidia Audio (HDMI) - bad sound / heavy distortions
- Creative X-Fi Titanium (PCIe) - bad sound / heavy distortions / sound crash (need reboot)
- Creative Audigy 2 ZS (PCI) / bad sound / heavy distortions / system crash (need reset)

I found out that I have very high DPC latencys (sometimes >100000 µs) and that the problem is the onboard Etron USB 3.0 controller. I left a game running in the background and deinstalled the Etron drivers while monitoring the DPC latency. The latency fell from red (more than 50% off the values were above 10000µs) to normal green just as the unistaller finished.

See this thread, search for Etron:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/pax-dr...d-crashes.html