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The 4790K engineering sample reviews that have popped up over the past few weeks have not shown anything special. They all basically got to 4.7GHz (stable enough for their benchmarks, who knows if gaming stable or 24/7 stable) with fairly high voltages (high 1.2 to low 1.3). But, the new TIM...

I noticed the new BIOS as well, I'm staying on 1707 though. I still haven't bluescreened on it yet. Before 1707 I usually experienced 1 bsod per month. I'm glad I went with an Asus, it's great getting frequent BIOS updates.

I haven't yet bluescreened on the 1707 bios, although it happened so rarely with 1405 that I'll need more time to be sure. I'm using auto/defaults on pretty much everything- I just set XMP mode up for the DDR 2133, set max core/cache ratios to 47/45, and crank up the adaptive voltage to 1.28v on...

To control TDP in ASUS BIOS, we're talking about the Short/Long Duration Package Power Limits? You set both to 250W?

I did notice that the CPU microcode patch changed from 0x9 to 0x12 when I moved from 1405 to 1707. Everything seems normal, I plugged in my settings from before and off I went. I tried to install the new chipset drivers, but the installer doesn't seem to find anything to upgrade. Strange, but...

Heh, been a while for me too. I'm about to catch up on the latest BIOS and drivers, decided to check-in here. I'm still on the 1405 BIOS. Any verdict on the new 1707 BIOS? I ran into a couple more random BSOD over the past 4 months, and each time bumped up my core and cache voltages. I'm at...

I want to go after some lower voltages for 4.8GHz. I'm concerned by some people's reports of degradation after playing around with 1.35-1.4v, although since all of them delidded, I'll blame that first. Right now, my known good for 4.8GHz is 1.34v, which in adaptive mode means 1.45v if an AVX...

What CPU clock are you able to do at 1.241v? Cool, so maybe that BIOS update did help me get 1.34v adaptive working. Now the question is whether 1.34v adaptive is too dangerous. I don't plan on running hardcore AVX workloads, so how bad is the occasional jump to 1.45v if a game has a few AVX...

Personally, I haven't noticed any impact from tweaking the Digi settings. You might need to go over your memory's timings in the BIOS and set them to what the RAM is actually rated for. Maybe you can toss the memory into a different computer and run Memtest to make sure they haven't gone bad?

Ran through some configs last night, and so far I haven't noticed any difference. 4.9 and 5.0 GHz still require the same voltages to boot, so no magic there. I was not able to drop voltage on my 24/7 either. I was able to run 4.8GHz @ 1.34v adaptive, but it is unclear if that's due to the new...

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=45&m=Z87-PRO&os=8&ft=3&f_name=Z87-PRO-ASUS-1405.zip#Z87-PRO-ASUS-1405.zip Correct, Intel XTU does not use AVX instructions. That happened to me sometimes also. You probably aren't 24/7 stable for AVX instructions. Awesome dude...

Increase cache voltage, try 1.25v adaptive or add more offset. Increase VCCin to 1.85-1.89. And remember, a 1.332v adaptive voltage means your chip will be at 1.45v during AVX workloads. If you plan on encountering AVX stuff, then you will probably need to increase VCCin to the 1.9v range...

Glad to hear this chip is more promising! That first one was definitely sad. Looking forward to more data points as you get time to test!

Thanks for sharing your data points! And yeah, maybe we should call it Haswall instead of Haswell. Ya, 2133MHz seemed to be the sweet spot. In some benchmarks I remember it beat out the next notch up. Turns out Haswell overlocking likes slower memory, so even more reason.

I was just about to ask the same thing, I'm running 101.2MHz right now. Also, does anyone know about this microcode stuff for the 4770k? I'm on microcode 9, but some people on hardforum got microcode 12 in a beta BIOS and seem to think it makes a difference with overclocking. Edit: Didn't last...