asus P8 Z68-V pro problems

[eidairaman1]

Man. I must be pretty lucky to not suffer from the same problems you guys are suffering from. I do get the occasional bsod and crash but that's usually down to bad graphics drivers from amd

Run the machine stock and say that, if it dont crash then it tells me the overclock is not stable.

And tell you truth Fullinfusion Id get your money back and go with a different board or Maker

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Lol. Well strike that. Just had a hard lock in BF3. Gonna try turning off HT and playing some more. Don't wanna up the voltage any more.

Yeah the idle issue is supposed to be remedied with LLC settings but I don't want to go to extreme, although I may try it to get some more stability. Temps start getting risky though.

EDIT: @ Freedom, care to share some voltages and bios settings. I'm still working on complete stability and I'd really like to keep my 5ghz for bragging rights obviously.

Sure but later as I've just got into bed. It's 4am here but I thought I'd cruise by on my arc s before hitting the hay

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well....the template i kinda used for my overclocking was this one

Obviously i didnt follow every step but it explained enough to me that i didnt need to ask how to OC in the forums.

I think I OC'd my rig straight away as soon as i had everything put together. the only time it was running at stock was while it was installing W7

 

[kciaccio]

Mine does the same dam thing at times. not all the time but sum times

I figured out my problem. I installed my two memory modules in Dinn A1 and B1.

 

[fullinfusion]

mobo is being returned to NCIX and I'm getting my money back and going to a different company that don't charge an arm and a leg for the ASUS Maximus IV EXTREME-Z Rog LGA1155 Z68

 

[FreedomEclipse]

try some of the higher end AsRock boards perhaps??

 

[fullinfusion]

try some of the higher end AsRock boards perhaps??

We are kinda limited on the Asrack boards here. When i was running AMD I always used the ROG boards and had nothing but great luck with all of them plus the color scheme is exactly what im looking for. Alot of reviews give this board nice remarks and its Ivy bridge ready sense the 2nd last bios.

 

[fullinfusion]

Got a new Maximus IV Extreme-Z68 Now!
Ncix can shove the P8 board up there arse. Im loving this board.

 

[eidairaman1]

Got a new Maximus IV Extreme-Z68 Now!
Ncix can shove the P8 board up there arse. Im loving this board.

Lets just hope this one outlasts the one you had previously...

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Got a new Maximus IV Extreme-Z68 Now!
Ncix can shove the P8 board up there arse. Im loving this board.

Have you ever met Esther from NCIX????? She is one mighty fine woman if i say so myself...

I would do what many geeks can only dream of doing which somewhat goes along the lines of her touching some of my hardware.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


definitely recommend looking her up on youtube.

 

[eidairaman1]

oy the names parents give their children -_-'

 

[fullinfusion]

Lets just hope this one outlasts the one you had previously...

That P8 board was weird period!

Have you ever met Esther from NCIX????? She is one mighty fine woman if i say so myself...
Yup I'm subscribed to her YT channel

I would do what many geeks can only dream of doing which somewhat goes along the lines of her touching some of my hardware.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


definitely recommend looking her up on youtube.

LOL your a blast FE!

oy the names parents give their children -_-'

and down the rabbit hole they go!

going to upload some pix of the new board in the morning....

 

[Slizzo]

Thanks Dave. It's book marked.

Na its like Dave was saying, some boards are being limited to x46... x47 is a no boot unless you reset the bios and do the windows repair. It cant be windows because I've installed it twice already... It's something in the bios thats fucking with the windows boot loader im thinking. I was saying a few posts back that the 1101 bios was the shits just for the fact I couldnt boot @ x47 or higher... I was finally able to put 2 n 2 together and it is ASUS playing god with this bios. Im going to let these asses know that i payed good money for a product! I own the hardware so I should be able to do what I want with it. Just like my big truck being goverened,, the factory govern it for the break in and warrenty period. If you change a setting and the engine poops out its on the owners hands..

Sorry for the big loud typing but it pisses me off!!!!

Im going to try something and will let you all know what happens... just need a bit of time.

I was able to boot 46x multi on my P8Z68-V Pro just fine, has the same uEFI version on it that shipped with it early December. Haven't tried 47x yet.

 

[OneMoar]

@lol at expecting X amount of overclock just because you paid X amount of money
no your cpu has hit its wall ... thats all shes got and there aint no more a lot of SB chips hit the wall at between x45 x48 ... either due to silicon limitation or the cpu own mythical TDPXmuli throttling you can throw a ton of PLl voltage or blast the core with 1.4v and that MIGHT get you to 4.8
and as for WHY a clearcmos seems to help perhaps its using a different voltage profile .. sometimes they have hidden-fall back profiles that get applied on first boot after a cmos clear

 

[FreedomEclipse]

strangely enough I have my PL set to Auto - I retested my OC the other day and it passed about 10hrs prime95@4.9Ghz so its still all gravy.

for a short period of time i was running it at 4.5Ghz because of the crashing in arma - but everythings fine

 

[kciaccio]

I figured out my problem. I installed my two memory modules in Dimm A1 and B1.

I am still having a shutdown problem every 24 to 48 hours. I am using a 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 kit. It is not on the approved list from the motherboard manual.

I am going to install a 4GB set of Crucial Ballistic sport sticks I have laying around and see if the problem goes away.

 

[Chicken Patty]

That P8 board was weird period!


LOL your a blast FE!

and down the rabbit hole they go!

going to upload some pix of the new board in the morning....

She does indeed look mighty good.

I see you went Intel Brad, what made you do that? Wanted to try something new? Anyhow, glad you got a replacement for that crap board. Still waiting on the pics you promised.

 

[fullinfusion]

@lol at expecting X amount of overclock just because you paid X amount of money
no your cpu has hit its wall ... thats all shes got and there aint no more a lot of SB chips hit the wall at between x45 x48 ... either due to silicon limitation or the cpu own mythical TDPXmuli throttling you can throw a ton of PLl voltage or blast the core with 1.4v and that MIGHT get you to 4.8
and as for WHY a clearcmos seems to help perhaps its using a different voltage profile .. sometimes they have hidden-fall back profiles that get applied on first boot after a cmos clear

You were missing my point, I dont expect a X amount I expect a board that works. Funny I can use 1.40v to the core and hit 5.2GHz.... Its a weird thing though. I enable LN2 mode on this new mobo and I have zero problems hitting x52 and stable... I understand Intel have some strange cold bug and I do keep my room on the cool side.

She does indeed look mighty good.

I see you went Intel Brad, what made you do that? Wanted to try something new? Anyhow, glad you got a replacement for that crap board. Still waiting on the pics you promised.

What made me go Intel David? let me tell ya... I got the 8150 x8 bulldozer cpu and It stank to high heaven! My x6 stomped the BD in every thing I tossed at it and after seeing AMD saying they are NOT going to compete against Intel anymore for the enthusiast.. That pissed me off more then you could ever imagine!

Im loving this 2700k and the new Maximus -z board... I'll post some pictures when I get back home off the road.. I ended up getting my money back after asus told me they didnt have any cross trade boards to exchange... I know this new mobo is over kill but what a sweet over kill it is

 

[Chicken Patty]

Yeah man AMD has just let me down over and over. I'm glad you are enjoying your new setup man. Stay in touch, looking forward to those pictures of the rig.

 

[fullinfusion]

Yeah heys some photos, not the best but it'll do for now.

Dual Bios chips are fun

A shot of my New Vertex 3 SSD using the Z-68 chip set vs the Marvel shitset that only gives me about half the performance being pluged into the sata 6/GB's

 

[FreedomEclipse]

nice speeds you got there on your SSD - My M4's not far behind, think it tops out at around 520 or 530mb/s read.

 

[fullinfusion]

nice speeds you got there on your SSD - My M4's not far behind, think it tops out at around 520 or 530mb/s read.

Thanks Freedom. What driver you using for the ssd?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Im using the Intel Chipset's Sata III controller - I heard that the Marvell one only maxs out around 500-512mb/s

Ignore that, I just re-read your post

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Like i said, Im using the Intel controller. but the result is probably cuz youre on an ROG board instead of a cheaper board like mine. Plus Vertex 3's with the sandforce controller was always a little faster then the Marvells on Crucial SSDs

 

[fullinfusion]

Im using the Intel Chipset's Sata III controller - I heard that the Marvell one only maxs out around 500-512mb/s

Ignore that, I just re-read your post

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Like i said, Im using the Intel controller. but the result is probably cuz youre on an ROG board instead of a cheaper board like mine. Plus Vertex 3's with the sandforce controller was always a little faster then the Marvells on Crucial SSDs

Didnt Crucial ssd's get a firmware update that made them and faster?

Yeah this mobo is nice but just one thing the erks me... its lower power state... sure the cpu will idle around 1.6ghz but the voltage if left on auto sits around 1.26v lol soo If I change the voltage to 1.20v then thats where it sits during Idle and under load. I have all the power states enabled but wonder why the volts dont move around like the old mobo I was using.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

yeah they did, the first lot of M4's topped out at 415mb/s - you will still see this being advertised with some retailers online, most of them have already got the batches with new firmware installed but just havent updated their website.

have you tried checking for bios updates for that board?? Ive never owned an ROG board before so I probably wont be able to help you but I suggest maybe playing about with the power phases and stuff.