5820K Instability, Too Noob to solve

[cadaveca]

1.3v seems aweful high for only 4.3

Stock is 3.4 GHz on all cores, 2 cores @ 3.6 GHz. So 900 MHz OC...1.3V...meh, may be normal. Haswell-E took a clock drop, but still performs really well vs the past generation, considering.

 

[OneMoar]

Stock is 3.4 GHz on all cores, 2 cores @ 3.6 GHz. So 900 MHz OC...1.3V...meh, may be normal.

yea but on LGA 2011 ?
could be just a awful chip ... but dam

 

[cadaveca]

yea but on LGA 2011 ?
could be just a awful chip ... but dam

Like I said, Haswell-E took a dump on clockspeeds. So, being the lowest-bin chip, and seeing 4.6 GHz is still the norm for Intel high-end on normal cooling, it might actually be within expectations.


The cost of DDR4 right now has had few users making the upgrade so far, but as time moves on, we might get a more clear picture of how these chips OC, but 4.3 on regular Haswell (ie 4770K), was kinda normal, too, so to me, to get 2 more cores, roughly same price, and same clocks...makes that within expectations? 4960X, 4.0 GHz on one core, 5960X, 3.5 GHz on two, 3.3 on all, 5930K 3.6-3.7 GHz...

 

[OneMoar]

bleh I hope broad-well is better how ever unlikely that is ...

 

[cadaveca]

bleh I hope broad-well is better how ever unlikely that is ...

I say that opinion is rather misplaced, since Haswell-E does have performance to offset that clock loss. I mean, clock is but a number, really, what matters is the end performance, right?

 

[OneMoar]

I say that opinion is rather misplaced, since Haswell-E does have performance to offset that clock loss. I mean, clock is but a number, really, what matters is the end performance, right?

but dat Ghz

 

[Wireline]

OK update again The RMA is in progress, but the supplier started being super weird, so rather than go replacement, and what with ASUS Customer Service also being awful (send an email into the ether and get a one sentence reply back that may partially relate to what you asked 2 days later. No you can't phone, component buyers), I am going to refund it and go and look for a better X99 platform. Any ideas? The MSI SLI X99S looks nice. ASUS is out as I don't really like the prospect of ever needing their help.

 

[Wireline]

OK so, after a pretty horrible run-in with amazon's usually good customer service system, looks like I will be getting a replacement or repaired board this week, so i will be back to trying to get my 5820K up to some nifty speeds

Word of advice - always ask amazon a question three times. You will get three people answering with three different answers. Hopefully two of them will vaguely agree.

 

[OneMoar]

odd they should't be giving you any qubbil over a refund
tho I never go though customer dis-service todo it i just request a return on the order history page

 

[Wireline]

odd they should't be giving you any qubbil over a refund
tho I never go though customer dis-service todo it i just request a return on the order history page

Loooong story, basically if you buy through a seller in the UK you only have 14 days if its arrived faulty to send it back. Amazon fugged up and told me otherwise. One failed claim and lots of stress that could have been avoided later, I'm getting a replacement. Amazon are very nice, however they are also idiots.

 

[Wireline]

Lol well turns out amazon may have not been entirely ... right after all, and I got a full refund! The board WAS faulty, and its gone back to ASUS in shame The seller initiated the refund.

I may well just go for another deluxe, there's not much else out there that seems significantly more reliable or feature complete, not to mention most of the boards IIRC cannot yet take RAM above 2666MHz (may have this wrong though).

 

[EarthDog]

not to mention most of the boards IIRC cannot yet take RAM above 2666MHz (may have this wrong though).

Every board we touched and reviewed at OCF ( about 7 boards now) could all reach 3K... though is there a point in that.... (no).

 

[Wireline]

Every board we touched and reviewed at OCF ( about 7 boards now) could all reach 3K... though is there a point in that.... (no).

Thanks man. I can't remember where I read it, but there was a note somewhere that other mobo makers were lagging behind ASUS in XMP profiles and would be rectified later. Ive been reading so much crap on X99 lately though its entirely possible it was from august or something. I dunno.

Anyways, shortly I hope to transform my computer from expensive paperweight in corner of room into .. a computer. Whoo.

 

[eidairaman1]

Watch as it remains a pw

 

[Wireline]

OK, so Back up and running, after a fashion.

I have started with a very mild manual overclock to 3.8GHz, and chose a VCore of 1.28V. Eveything else on the Deluxe is Auto.

I am going to leave it like this for a few days, run stability tests and ensure the boot problem isn't coming back, and then play with pushing her up. So far seems quite happy, but want to take it slow and smooth this time. Will keep you guys updated and probably start a new thread

 

[Wireline]

Just adding an update to this. I had the chip running at 4.0GHz for a while, but it seemed to degrade gradually, so that it was unstable even at lower multipliers. I had a tuning plan for it, and have just put my exchange chip in the machine. I followed the ASUS OC guidelines, put it to 1.3V and 45 multiplier, and its nice and happy. So looks like that last chip was just a really nasty one, or my faulty Deluxe did something to it.

If anyone wants to know, the batch number of the old chip was L427C525. It was a MALAY chip.

Now I just need to figure out how to get adaptive voltage to work.