AMD FX OC'ers Club

[os2wiz]

theres not many people that have gone far with this mobo, im waiting on asrock to see if there is an extreme bios. ive searched the user manual and bios many times. its lame lol

it doesn't like the volts at all and its a battle.

when I get some spare cash I may even buy a CHVF to see what the difference is.

thank you for helping tho

#edit: ive been doing some reading and seems people keep their LLC disabled to and adjust volts from there, ive always kept it 25% to keep voltage equal to bios set

ill test it out tonight

Save some cash. You'' get a higher overclock (slightly) for less money with a Sabertooth release 2.0 than with the Crosshair V Formula Z. It has some new gizmos that give it a slight advantage over the crosshair 5 formula Z. Documented by Red1776 in his motherboard review on overclock.net

 

[os2wiz]

Wasn't that expensive. $350 isn't awful for a CPU IMO

http://img.techpowerup.org/130912/Capture023.jpg

On air with my CM V10, just playing with it.

I am sure you will admit you won't get it stable on air with that fan at that clock.

 

[suraswami]

Have you set the ram manually?? Some of us have noticed that the newer BIOS don't always set the ram up very well. Try the recommended settings and give it about .05 extra volts. I would also try setting the LLC manually to high on both the NB and CPU.
I don't think urine is covered under warranty either.

ha ha don't care about the warranty

nah I wanted more OC and hope this board will help my 8320 shine better. I was planning to pick up a water cooling kit too.

Anyway I have tried all the LLC settings on highest allowed. I have over volted the ram too. Only thing I didn't try is setting the timings manually. I remember having similar issue with my MSI 790FX board, have to setup ram timings manually to do any OCing.

I will try it tonight.

 

[Johan45]

ha ha don't care about the warranty

nah I wanted more OC and hope this board will help my 8320 shine better. I was planning to pick up a water cooling kit too.

Anyway I have tried all the LLC settings on highest allowed. I have over volted the ram too. Only thing I didn't try is setting the timings manually. I remember having similar issue with my MSI 790FX board, have to setup ram timings manually to do any OCing.

I will try it tonight.

Good Luck. It would be a shame on ASUS if you can't get this working right. But like I said I only seen a few and they all had problems save one that was able to make it go.

 

[d1nky]

yooo johan how be?!

i still havent had chance to bench like before! im selling my rig as well, hopefully get a decentish rig and LN2 on the go next year

 

[Johan45]

yooo johan how be?!

i still havent had chance to bench like before! im selling my rig as well, hopefully get a decentish rig and LN2 on the go next year

Things are good D1nky. Been banging my head with PCM05 lately what a bit*h of a bench that one is.
Bummer you're selling off, you were just getting into it!! Now who am I gonna compete with? You gonna drop in now and then?

 

[suraswami]

Good Luck. It would be a shame on ASUS if you can't get this working right. But like I said I only seen a few and they all had problems save one that was able to make it go.

I think its not setting up the voltages for the cpu properly. If I set up the voltage to 1.425 for some reason after saving and going back into the bios it shows the cpu volts as 1.2v.

After booting into windows and setting the voltages manually using AOD, 3.4 Ghz is good.

So this bios is f...d up.

 

[suraswami]

I think the board is whacky, everytime I set the voltage and boot it reverts back to 1.2v on the cpu. no wonder its not stable!

This board goes back. Gigabyte stays lol.

 

[Johan45]

I think the board is whacky, everytime I set the voltage and boot it reverts back to 1.2v on the cpu. no wonder its not stable!

This board goes back. Gigabyte stays lol.

If you're comfortabl with it you could try flashing an older BIOS onto the board and give it one more try. Maybe ver.0305 it was the first rev. after the release bios. Not saying it'll fix anything but you never know. I tried many different versions when I first got my board and have stuck with ver.0803 it just worked the best for my set-up.

 

[suraswami]

If you're comfortabl with it you could try flashing an older BIOS onto the board and give it one more try. Maybe ver.0305 it was the first rev. after the release bios. Not saying it'll fix anything but you never know. I tried many different versions when I first got my board and have stuck with ver.0803 it just worked the best for my set-up.

Just curious u have the Gen3 R2.0 or regular R2.0 board? Mine is a Gen 3 board. I tried 1802 bios and still the same.

 

[Johan45]

The R2 Gen2, it's been a great board. I don't know if it'll be the same for your set-up but I found the older BIOS worked much better. I had some strange goings on when I used the newer ones. Mostly I think it wasn't setting the ram correctly in the lower end timings. Couldn't get my SLI set-up to work either.

 

[suraswami]

The R2 Gen2, it's been a great board. I don't know if it'll be the same for your set-up but I found the older BIOS worked much better. I had some strange goings on when I used the newer ones. Mostly I think it wasn't setting the ram correctly in the lower end timings. Couldn't get my SLI set-up to work either.

Ok I tried couple of older bios, still the same issue. I can setup the voltage manually to 1.4v but you save and get back into the bios it goes back to 1.2v. I even tried the AI suite, I can slide the slider to 1.4, hit apply and the voltage goes back to 1.2v immediately. Something is wrong with this board.

Only thing I can think of is the coolermaster 500W PSU is kind of old and only has 4Pin CPU power plug, I use a 4 to 8 pin. On all the boards that I have tried this has worked properly and even allowed to OC except on this board. Don't have a spare one that has a 8 pin native one.

Ordered the Chieftec 850W from MC(I listed this in the hot deals section today), will try to pick it up today and try that one.

 

[d1nky]

to all tpu'rs remember the bench comp starts tomorrow. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191333

just have to be a member of tpu hwbot

im off work for a few days, got bronchitis and messed my foot up. so might be coming for those scores if I can bench like before (that means you johan)

 

[Johan45]

im off work for a few days, got bronchitis and messed my foot up. so might be coming for those scores if I can bench like before (that means you johan)

Good luck D1nky too bad about the health issues. Hop to it big guy. Pun intended

 

[os2wiz]

to all tpu'rs remember the bench comp starts tomorrow. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191333

just have to be a member of tpu hwbot

im off work for a few days, got bronchitis and messed my foot up. so might be coming for those scores if I can bench like before (that means you johan)

Take care of yourself man. I have chronic bronchitis. I had 3 episodes of it last winter. the worst 3 months of my life. I just came out of hospital 2 1/2 weeks ago. I had surgery for aortic valve replacement and aortic aneurysm. They had to crack my sternum got an 8 inch scar on my chest. But I'm getting better every day. Keep the chin up. Hip, hip.

 

[d1nky]

Take care of yourself man. I have chronic bronchitis. I had 3 episodes of it last winter. the worst 3 months of my life. I just came out of hospital 2 1/2 weeks ago. I had surgery for aortic valve replacement and aortic aneurysm. They had to crack my sternum got an 8 inch scar on my chest. But I'm getting better every day. Keep the chin up. Hip, hip.

its the scariest illness ive had, especially the choking and gagging. still need antibiotics from the GP but its getting better, not so much coughing or choking.

I think im on the mend, I hope you are too.

 

[suraswami]

Yeah Cold weather is good for Overclocking hardware but not good for degrading human parts!

Try to stay warm and listen to the body when its on strike.

Anyway I give up on the Sabertooth Gen 3 board, its a f..ked up board, no matter what I do it will revert back to 1.2v, no idea why it likes that 1.2v so much that it doesn't want to let go.

So either I pee on it or command the dog to pee on it!

 

[Random Murderer]

Yeah Cold weather is good for Overclocking hardware but not good for degrading human parts!

Try to stay warm and listen to the body when its on strike.

Anyway I give up on the Sabertooth Gen 3 board, its a f..ked up board, no matter what I do it will revert back to 1.2v, no idea why it likes that 1.2v so much that it doesn't want to let go.

So either I pee on it or command the dog to pee on it!

Err, RMA it?

 

[d1nky]

Yeah Cold weather is good for Overclocking hardware but not good for degrading human parts!

Try to stay warm and listen to the body when its on strike.

Anyway I give up on the Sabertooth Gen 3 board, its a f..ked up board, no matter what I do it will revert back to 1.2v, no idea why it likes that 1.2v so much that it doesn't want to let go.

So either I pee on it or command the dog to pee on it!

when I swapped cpu's from 4100 to 8350, my motherboard done that. any kind of overvolt and it went back to 1.2v no matter how many bios flashes!

I think a bit of cotton or something was in the pins, took it out reseated it and it was fine! also check the caps on the or near the 12v in.

well went to the doctors again, im off for xrays tomorrow and couldn't get antibiotics because my temperature was normal!

FML!

 

[suraswami]

Err, RMA it?

I am still in the 15 day return only period, so I will just return it.

when I swapped cpu's from 4100 to 8350, my motherboard done that. any kind of overvolt and it went back to 1.2v no matter how many bios flashes!

I think a bit of cotton or something was in the pins, took it out reseated it and it was fine! also check the caps on the or near the 12v in.

well went to the doctors again, im off for xrays tomorrow and couldn't get antibiotics because my temperature was normal!

FML!

Ok, I will pull out the CPU and check the socket and the mobo thorughly.

 

[Johan45]

That's a pity about the board suraswami. At least you can exchange it for an R2 I have no complaints with this board, None!
@D1nky hope it isn't pneumonia, that can take a while to get over.

 

[d1nky]

the doc said my throats red and really swollen, symptoms are the same as bronchitis. but my temps are normal. choking and not being able to breath is a crazy illness!

its getting better slowly tho!

 

[Johan45]

the doc said my throats red and really swollen, symptoms are the same as bronchitis. but my temps are normal. choking and not being able to breath is a crazy illness!

its getting better slowly tho!

Our whole house has the flu right now, it's been soo much fun.

 

[Random Murderer]

Our whole house has the flu right now, it's been soo much fun.

At least you have time to bench. Just finished a paper for uni and it's time for bed so I can go to work tomorrow
Maybe I should get the flu?

 

[v12dock]

I would say that it's your Mobo throttling the CPU because of the underpowered VRM for an 8 core CPU. I'm pretty sure that's a 4 phase board, more than likely from heat. That 65c reading was that the core or socket. If that's your core temp the socket is likely in the 80s

Not sure I was using occt, I don't think its heat related because I got new thermal paste and it dropped to 60c and its still throttling.