ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

[Dumo]

Btw whats swizzling bit 4 for?? Not on the rog guide.

Disabled helps for 2900+

[cstkl1]

Ty Dumo.



Ok now to down the vcore or get 4.5ghz uncore and cpu core.

this is damn fast.

[Pants-Of-Fire]

Can anyone tell me exactly what the "Hybrid Hard Disk Support" in the UEFI does? Should I enable it if I use a SSD to cache the array running under Intel's RST?

There's doesn't seem to be any information about this that I can find, and the manual/UEFI just says "enables you to enable or disable the hybrid hard disk support". Do they mean special support for true hybrid drives like the Seagate Momentus, or does it mean when you use a SSD and hard drive together? Does that include or exclude drives running under RSR rather than without RST?

Thanks for any info.

[ChongL]

I think it's more for the hybrid drives like the Seagate you mentioned that have small solid state mated to a larger disk. But not 100% sure

[aussie-revhead]

Guys, is there a trick to getting HCH9 to run on Z87? I have five sticks that have been working fine on x79 and Ivy but I cn only get two sticks to run on my Gene VI. If I try any of the other three sticks I get code 55 no ram installed or 00 reboot loop, take the one stick out again and it's back to 2666c11. I have other rams so this isn't critical, I was just hoping to find a use for this spare 16gb of ram.

Cheers

[Pants-Of-Fire]

Guys, is there a trick to getting HCH9 to run on Z87? I have five sticks that have been working fine on x79 and Ivy but I cn only get two sticks to run on my Gene VI. If I try any of the other three sticks I get code 55 no ram installed or 00 reboot loop, take the one stick out again and it's back to 2666c11. I have other rams so this isn't critical, I was just hoping to find a use for this spare 16gb of ram.

Cheers

Have you tried the MEMOK button? That usually sorts out the RAM to at least get you a bootup.

[aussie-revhead]

Yes it does a few reboots then code 55 again. I have not retested these rams in another rig since this issue surfaced but I assume they all still work.

:/

[Alex-Ro]

set manual tertiary_dd timings looser,such as try this when 4 sticks: trdrd_dd=7 twrrd_dd=7 twrwr_dd=7 rrdwr_dd= 13 .

[cstkl1]

Guys, is there a trick to getting HCH9 to run on Z87? I have five sticks that have been working fine on x79 and Ivy but I cn only get two sticks to run on my Gene VI. If I try any of the other three sticks I get code 55 no ram installed or 00 reboot loop, take the one stick out again and it's back to 2666c11. I have other rams so this isn't critical, I was just hoping to find a use for this spare 16gb of ram.

Cheers

Get the latest bios. It solves the issue ure saying. The beta one at kp shamino lair.

[Dumo]

Test cfr

[andressergio]

Test cfr

Thats really nice thanks for testing mate !

[Dumo]

0035 for M6E

http://www.mediafire.com/download/yb...SUS-0035aa.rar

Adds Samsung 1t under ic optimizer

Adds psc 1t under ic optimizer

Adds 2x4GB 2.0v 2800 samsung preset

updates psc 2600 1.85v preset

Take note ic optimzer may change sweetspot for your customized skews

Thanks Sham

[owikh84]

Managed to revive the bios chip #1 of M6E.

Suspect debug code 00 happened after i backflash from BIOS 0013 or newer to 0006.
What i did was taking out the bios chip for a few seconds then put it back.
backflash to 0013 or later. (0006 will give code 00, downloaded many times already so it's not corrupted)
bios chip is working again without code 00.

[Pants-Of-Fire]

Has anyone managed to get Intel Rapid start working properly under any of the Z87 boards? I find that on a Samsung 840 Pro most of the time instead of dropping to deep sleep mode, the system wakes up and complains that the "operating system was not cleanly shut down", and then boots me back into Windows. I am running Intel Rapid Start and Intel Smart Response off the same drive on different partition, and AFAICT, it's quite a bit slower than normal sleep.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get it working?

[idahosurge]

I downloaded BIOS 711 for my M6E off the Asus website and unzipped it. Using EZ Flash 2 my computer sees the USB drive and sees the BIOS, it asks me if I want to read it, I press enter and then UEFI says read failed. Do you have to do anything to the BIOS after you download it and unzip it before the UEFI will load it?

[Praz]

I downloaded BIOS 711 for my M6E off the Asus website and unzipped it. Using EZ Flash 2 my computer sees the USB drive and sees the BIOS, it asks me if I want to read it, I press enter and then UEFI says read failed. Do you have to do anything to the BIOS after you download it and unzip it before the UEFI will load it?

Connect the USB stick to the same USB port used for BIOS Flashback. Also format the USB stick as FAT32. If still unable to read the file try downloading it again.

[cstkl1]

[@Praz][@Dumo][@owikh]

At what ram speed u have to up the tRDRD from perfect 4.

[cstkl1]

Whatever sham did.. the unclockable BFRs are clocking now.

[idahosurge]

I have the M6E OC panel mounted in my tower and the cable that plugs into the back of the M6E OC panel does not have a positive lock and just falls out. Anyone else have this problem?

Considering what I paid for this I think that there should have been a positive lock on the cable. I also do not think that I should have to tape and/or tywrap the cable to the OC to get the cable to stay in place.

[cstkl1]

here is the final 2600 10-12-11-30 2T @ 1.625v. Gskill BFRs'

Now to get to the hard part of running 1T. And maybe reduce that 30 .



This rams are really sweet. Thanks owikh.

Getting greedy to get 40k read/write/copy on a 24/7 basis.

[LardArse]

I have the M6E OC panel mounted in my tower and the cable that plugs into the back of the M6E OC panel does not have a positive lock and just falls out. Anyone else have this problem?

Considering what I paid for this I think that there should have been a positive lock on the cable. I also do not think that I should have to tape and/or tywrap the cable to the OC to get the cable to stay in place.

there is a aim notch but not lock, is the connector fully in? When it is , it is usually very tight such that i can even hang the panel up just by the cable. with the cover on you cannot tell sometimes so uncover it and see that it is fully inserted. i had times when i thought it was but it wasn't.

[idahosurge]

Connect the USB stick to the same USB port used for BIOS Flashback. Also format the USB stick as FAT32. If still unable to read the file try downloading it again.

Thanks, I got it loaded!

[idahosurge]

there is a aim notch but not lock, is the connector fully in? When it is , it is usually very tight such that i can even hang the panel up just by the cable. with the cover on you cannot tell sometimes so uncover it and see that it is fully inserted. i had times when i thought it was but it wasn't.

Thanks, you really have to jam it in there, but I got it to stay!

[RPGWiZaRD]

I'm really considering swapping mobo from ASRock Extreme6 to Maximus VI Hero or Gene but what I'm wondering is are the boards exactly the same minus PCI-E 2 slots vs 3 slots? What about the audio, ASUS touts Gene having 115dB SNR (very high for onboard) on their homepage but it says nothing about the Hero. I'd prefer whichever has better sound or less EMI interfearence if there's any difference (probably not but doesn't hurt to ask if any1 would happen to know more). :p

Reason I'm asking is that mATX often gets used as "HTPC" whereas audio might be slightly more in the focus than a bigger sized board...

Newegg comments has 3 positive comments on audio for VI Gene, one including that appearently used a socket 1155 board before and had some EMI issues but zero with the new Gene. With my ASRock Z87 Extreme6 with ALC1150 there's actually more noise than with my old Gigabyte P55 UD5 that used an ALC889A chip despite ALC889A had no shielding and the ASRock board has shielding + excluded PCB space...

The size of the board has no importance to me, if features are the same on Hero and Gene (same power config etc that matters for OCing) then I could consider both.

[cadaveca]

I'm really considering swapping mobo from ASRock Extreme6 to Maximus VI Hero or Gene but what I'm wondering is are the boards exactly the same minus PCI-E 2 slots vs 3 slots? What about the audio, ASUS touts Gene having 115dB SNR (very high for onboard) on their homepage but it says nothing about the Hero. I'd prefer whichever has better sound or less EMI interfearence if there's any difference (probably not but doesn't hurt to ask if any1 would happen to know more). :p

Reason I'm asking is that mATX often gets used as "HTPC" whereas audio might be slightly more in the focus than a bigger sized board...

Newegg comments has 3 positive comments on audio for VI Gene, one including that appearently used a socket 1155 board before and had some EMI issues but zero with the new Gene. With my ASRock Z87 Extreme6 with ALC1150 there's actually more noise than with my old Gigabyte P55 UD5 that used an ALC889A chip despite ALC889A had no shielding and the ASRock board has shielding + excluded PCB space...

The size of the board has no importance to me, if features are the same on Hero and Gene (same power config etc that matters for OCing) then I could consider both.

HERO has amazing audio, better than Extreme6 in my testing. Working on my review of the Extreme6 right now, actually. I have some performance issues with EX6 I am trying to figure out, OC isn't holding what I set and I see multi drop about 300 MHz like it's running default Intel Turbo with raised multis. Could be a cooling thing for the board since I pulled VRM coolers for VRM pics, but I replaced and contact seems good. Still trying to figure it out, honestly, but today is the last day I spend on it. See anything like that with yours?

My HERO review is here, so you can check RMAA results for HERO:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...XIMUS_VI_HERO/

RMAA results for EX6 has high SNR, but also, more noise.