Hey, thanks for all the info, it's appreciated. Well now I remember looking at that QVL list from the Deluxe manual a few days ago and noticing the board could support 8x8GB@2133mhz from a few brands, but had forgotten about reading that, so I shouldn't have been that surprised reading your first post about the board working with high frequencies. Anyway... About time I remembered. However I had run across a few articles that led me thinking it might not be as easy as it sounds populating the 8 slots with 8gigs : see
https://vi-control.net/community/threads/my-recent-4930k-build-and-some-lessons-learned.36170/ (mid page the author relates the ram issues they encountered), see also
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...g-with-i7-4930k-asus-deluxe-x79-mobo.1850358/ and numerous other examples like these one will find using google.
I got the Deluxe for a very very reasonnable price, it's shipping atm; got the 3x8GB 2400mhz at a reasonnable price too, shipping too, now I'm hunting for that 4th stick at a decent price. It's out there for sale on ebay but prices are too high, gotta keep an eye on new listings. And I don't want to swap my current motherboard (asus formula) until I don't have that 4th stick, so results will not come after some time I guess.
Anyway good job at finding ram modules with agressive timings like yours, no wonder why they come across hard to find. I thought the G Skill Trident X series were the only ones with such aggressive timings and low voltage (relatively speaking), with the Crucial Tactical series coming close behind (the Elite series is same as Tactical but with temp probes on it and the Tactical series stops at 1866Mhz). Then comes the Corsair Dominator Platinum series. Interestingly enough, Corsair only surpasses Gskill @2133mhz in terms of timings with 4GB sticks (9-11-10-30 @1.65; no 4GB sticks exist in TridentX flavour @2133mhz anyway), 8GB sticks have the same timings for both brands (9-11-11-31, but @1.65v for Corsair, @1.6v for GSkill) Anyway getting quite off topic here..
Check these out : G.Skill TridentX @2400mhz :
Designed for performance, G.SKILL desktop memory is engineered from hand-selected components and rigorously tested for stability and compatibility.
www.gskill.com
By the way I ordered one GSkill Turbulence fan II (will buy a second one later when I find the remaining 32GB of TridentX @2400mhz for my 64GB total), and as you can see on the link the 2400mhz models sold with the fans have even more aggressive timings than those sold without!
Now image 8x8GB blowing air on it @2400mhz @9-11-11-31 1.65v. Now imagine once I OC the blck@107mhz as I'm used to (my mistake I said '108mhz' in my previous post, I'll edit) with a slight bump in cpu core voltage. What would that be, 64Gb of DDR3 @2568mhz 9-11-11-31 1.65v? Will the voltage be enough? We'll see. Good fun testing 64GB of ram with MemTest : it takes one day. Each run of testing gonna block my work station for 24 hours. I realise I'll need a test bench for all this...
Yeah good luck maintaining stable high frequencies with different modules fully populating your board..., considering even across a same series you can't have the guarantee you'll have the exact same model because of fluctuations in components across batches, on the matter :
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/794031-ram-issues-3930k-x79-lga2011.html. Good thing you ordered a new pair though.
Finally, if you want to learn more about timings and overclocking the ram taking timings into consideration, here's a very good start :
http://www.gskill.us/forum/forum/ge...1-64gb-2133-1-6v-kits-able-to-run-undervolted
PS : I've just checked, in the manual Asus calls "Hyper DIMM support" what we call going beyond Intel specs. Putting this here for the google robot.
Best,
JP