ASUS Z87 Motherboards - Overview, Guides and Official Support

[filmbot]

My Hero review is live:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...rd-review.html

Spent many hours with this board so if anyone has questions LMK!

Haven't found many thoughts on the Gene from this series, mostly just Hero and Impact (which I understand since new to the series). Do you think performance and BIOS options are on par for Gene with Hero? Same board just less features and size?

[Eldonko]

Pretty close, few minor differences. Off the top of my head, I know Gene has mPCIe, Hero does not. You have to get the Extreme to get the mem profiles and such.

Haven't found many thoughts on the Gene from this series, mostly just Hero and Impact (which I understand since new to the series). Do you think performance and BIOS options are on par for Gene with Hero? Same board just less features and size?

[andressergio]

just did this Boot straight from BIOS

i was tweaking the wrong way now it boots awesome !!!

http://valid.canardpc.com/2894199



Cheers !
Sergio

[Shiranui Gen-An]

For the guys that managed CFR at 3000C12...what tricks, if any, did you use? I'm trying 125 strap but the board just gets into a reboot loop, no go with 102.3BCLK either. The sticks have it in em; I managed to run all 4 of my Trident X 2666C11 sticks at 3000C12 on a different board.

[andressergio]

For the guys that managed CFR at 3000C12...what tricks, if any, did you use? I'm trying 125 strap but the board just gets into a reboot loop, no go with 102.3BCLK either. The sticks have it in em; I managed to run all 4 of my Trident X 2666C11 sticks at 3000C12 on a different board.

It just happens my friend i can do 3250CL13 with my Gskill TX 2800CL11 CFR no tricks, today i received high binned TeamX MFR 2800CL12 and wont do as close as the TeamX 2666CL11 MFR, its very weird

what you should try is

1) initial BCLK lower than the BLCK you are using for ex if you using 125 bclk put initial bclk (tweak paradise) on 124.5 for ex
2) enable all bits on mem timmings
3) enable fast boot
4) use latency compensator

i spent 2 days tweaking and i finally booted 3350Mhz with the 2666 mem, thing that i cannot do with the higher binned

here my video



Cheers !!!
Sergio

[Shiranui Gen-An]

It's weird, I have little to no issues booting double-sided MFR at 3000, just CFR. I'll try your suggestions.

[andressergio]

It's weird, I have little to no issues booting double-sided MFR at 3000, just CFR. I'll try your suggestions.

CFR is double MFR is single or exists MFR double also ?

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Double-sided MFR. 8GB sticks.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

It's weird, it doesn't hang on a code like 55 or anything like that, it goes through several codes and reboots on 03, and keeps cycling until I hard power down. Even with one stick of CFR, and setting the timings loose like 13-15-15-45, makes no difference.

[andressergio]

i just made this

straight from BIOS 2666 TeamX MFR@ 3400CL13

http://valid.canardpc.com/2894686

[andressergio]

Boot straigth from BIOS G.Skill 2800CL11-13-13@ 3250CL13 CFR

[andressergio]

Im using nothing special just what mobo provides and YES i had those horrible bootloops but can be avoided tuning

runing BIOS 0038

1) initial BCLK lower than the BLCK you are using for ex if you using 125 bclk put initial bclk (tweak paradise) on 124.5 for ex
2) enable all bits on mem timmings
3) enable fast boot
4) use latency compensator
5) use the OC profiles on first page and put the mem at the speed you want

This was my method
Cheers to all !!!
Sergio

[nacho_arroyo]

Strong work Sergio, you are doing great !!!

Keep moving!

Cheers!

[andressergio]

Strong work Sergio, you are doing great !!!

Keep moving!

Cheers!

Thanks buddy !!! would love to help all with problems but i have same mem, same board as them but seems to be something different i aint doing magic

[Shiranui Gen-An]

It doesn't make sense to me either, especially since I know my CPU and RAM are up to it. And I've seen on a Taiwanese forum where a user managed to run 4x4GB double-sided CFR sticks at 3000 on about every divider possible HCI Memtest stable, so I know the board can do this stuff. I'm at a total loss.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I got it to boot once on 102.3BCLK at DDR3-3000 but couldn't get it 32M stable. After restarting I could never get it back. I still haven't gotten 125BCLK with the 24x divider to boot once (all with CFR). MFR boots fine. There seems to be some kind of compatibility issue with CFR going higher than 2800.

[andressergio]

I got it to boot once on 102.3BCLK at DDR3-3000 but couldn't get it 32M stable. After restarting I could never get it back. I still haven't gotten 125BCLK with the 24x divider to boot once (all with CFR). MFR boots fine. There seems to be some kind of compatibility issue with CFR going higher than 2800.

check here shiranu

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...65V-MFR-on-M6E

theres a crazy bug i found already reported to Peter, happened the same on a boot at 3000 its the hard nr...after 2933...i did boot i started SPI32 passed...then couldnt boot anymore, so what i did was take out the 2 sticks swap them but put only one first...passed SPI32 then i put the other and passed again, so i saved the OC profile and now boots as a charm...See in some point something werid happens that BIOS stays with some wrong settings and ONLY the change of sticks solve it.

at least this works for me on CFR or MFR

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I just wonder what the M6E is doing with the RAM training that the Gigabyte OC isn't, or vice versa. I had similar issues with Asrock OC Formula. Things just boot on the Gigabyte, though they might be really loose. I think all the additional settings on the Asus and Asrock boards are overcomplicating things.

[christefan]

I fired up my m6e 2 days ago and moved over a 4 disk raid 0 array from a ASRock extreme9 I had been testing and while the drives worked fine on the ASRock I have had one dropped drive after another since the move. Ran in new firmware,cleared drives and redid the array but as soon as I move anything big onto it, one of the drives fails,can't be recovered and I sstart over. Has happened 4 times now, anyone having problems with these drive on Asus z87 boards? I know there is suppose to be a problem with sandforce drives but I had no problem on the ASRock for several weeks of testing, any help

[Raja@ASUS]

SF1200 drives have issues with Z87. As do some generic SATA cables.

[christefan]

Is there a patch for this problem? I wasn't having any issues on a couple other brand boards, yes it could just be a fluke that it is giving me a problem now but seems like there could be a bios difference, thanks for your super fast response

[Raja@ASUS]

There is no patch for the Z87 SSD issue. The drives are outside spec on start up and Intel is not supporting them.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

I'm beginning to think the RTLs are the issue on the M6E, is there a way to force the board to set them as loose as possible?

[Dumo]

Thres no issue with rtls. We just need to find sweet spot for each settings of particular ram

[Shiranui Gen-An]

What determines the sweet spot then, if I have already confirmed my sticks can do, say, 4x4GB DDR3-3000 C12 1.8v Super Pi 32M on a different Z87 platform? I'm stubborn, I want to get this to work, the IMC and the memory is up to it, and I'm sure the Asus can do it with better performance than the Gigabyte. I'm just trying to figure out how.