i7 6700k show always 4.2Ghz when using XMP profile for RAM

[cadaveca]

lol, what? makes zero sense how that would happen...

Tried updating your bios to the latest version? I know when I had a Ranger for a short time it sure didn't do that..

going form per-core/power saving to all-core and full power might do that. IT is ASUS board, after all.

 

[EarthDog]

I've run all my asus boards full out at one time on a test bench (watercooled, no airflow)... the VRMs get warm, but not hot.

 

[cadaveca]

I've run all my asus boards full out at one time on a test bench (watercooled, no airflow)... the VRMs get warm, but not hot.

Depends on how good of a CPU you get, and how good your board is, and what VRM settings you use. I'd mostly agree with you on this, but I've had some poopy ASUS boards and expect every brand to have some issues from time to time.

 

[BiggieShady]

the VRMs get warm, but not hot.

but I've had some poopy ASUS boards

He has a mini itx z97 board with all of it's vrm on a daughterboard, cramped for space ... it is a ROG line product so I suspect VRM is not exactly poopy and bios twiddling should help ... maybe enable XMP, disable multi core enhancement thingy, pull down load line calibration to lower settings and manually set all turbo multipliers and minimal voltage offset

 

[EarthDog]

Depends on how good of a CPU you get, and how good your board is, and what VRM settings you use. I'd mostly agree with you on this, but I've had some poopy ASUS boards and expect every brand to have some issues from time to time.

let's see... yesterday I ran 1.6v at 5.2 ghz with ambient cooling (water) and they got warm on my airflow less test bench. Now, that's on the MVEIII... but I've run upper 4 ghz on z170-a without issue. There shouldnt be any reason it roasts those vrms at stock.