**Official Gigabyte Z87X-OC Discussion Thread**

stulid said:
Good stuff, the X series BIOS are great.
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Agreed! It's funny how hours of stability testing were shown up in a few seconds on sleeping dogs but that was the case! Another point to add for those overclocking is that a bump on Vrin can yield as much of a stability gain as bumping Vcore so try that out first before resorting to Vcore increases. The absolute max on air is 2.4v according to the Z87 haswell overclocking thread over at overclock.net

I'm happy with [email protected] I'm sure I could push for 4.8 but to be honest performance scaling at the top end compared to volts needed doesn't appeal to me.
 
Quick q for y'all.

I'm currently on F3 bios but looking to update...

1) Which bios is the currently recommded? X02?
2) When you updated the bios, does it retain all your settings??

Loving this board btw.. :D
 
lukext said:
Quick q for y'all.

I'm currently on F3 bios but looking to update...

1) Which bios is the currently recommded? X02?
2) When you updated the bios, does it retain all your settings??

Loving this board btw.. :D
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1) X05 is the shiznit.

2) It wipes everything.
 
Very tempted to grab one of these, but it will be primarily to make a super stable gaming pc rather than something to overclock to the limits.

From what I've read it appears that only the first PCIe slot is 16x (electrically I mean), and all the reviews have commented on how close a large heatsink gets to a graphics card in the first slot.

Has anyone had any clearance issues between the cpu heatsink and their graphics cards? Being that close couldn't be good for heat dissipation either, which worries me.
 
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Thats a K2 cooler, the top orange slot is the 16X one, the third is the one that would normally be used for 2way SLI/Crossfire and takes 8X lanes away from the 16X slot for itself giving you 8X/8X.

Use a water cooler? or a slightly smaller heatsink?
 
stulid said:
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Thats a K2 cooler, the top orange slot is the 16X one, the third is the one that would normally be used for 2way SLI/Crossfire and takes 8X lanes away from the 16X slot for itself giving you 8X/8X.

Use a water cooler? or a slightly smaller heatsink?
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Call meweird , but I'm still paranoid of water cooling and much prefer the simplicity of air cooling. Especially as my PC does get moved and taken to friends houses etc, and a knock that caused a leak would be very expensive.
 
Those H100i, Antec Kulers, NZXT krakens etc are all sealed so you arent meant to take them apart.

The coolermaster one which the OcUK Fathom is based on are designed to come apart and so maybe more likely to potentially leak.
 
X bioses are ln2 overclocking bios, they have a wider range of options as well as higher limits in places.

X02 is a god send for tweaking memory.
 
Hey Guys, trying to follow the guide here;

An Easy 4.4/4.5/4.6GHz Template:
Here are the settings I used; you can use them as a template for your settings:
Profile #1 Basic Profile:
CPU VRIN Override LLC: Set to Extreme (this is to make sure VIN doesn’t droop)
CPU VRIN Override Voltage: 1.7-2.0v (reduce if temperatures too high is causing instability, increase if temperatures are fine and you are unstable)
VCore: 1.24-1.34v
Ring Voltage: 1.15 or 1.2v
CPU Multiplier: 44x-46x
BCLK: Auto
Turbo: Auto
C1E, C3, C6/C7, and EIST: All Disabled (There is a table in Step #1 which describes the behavior or different power saving features and what to enable/disable to get the behavior you want.)


But I can't find 'CPU VRIN Override Voltage' on the F6 bios. Has it been deleted? Or name changed?

thanks

Si
 
JediFragger said:
Hey Guys, trying to follow the guide here;

An Easy 4.4/4.5/4.6GHz Template:
Here are the settings I used; you can use them as a template for your settings:
Profile #1 Basic Profile:
CPU VRIN Override LLC: Set to Extreme (this is to make sure VIN doesn’t droop)
CPU VRIN Override Voltage: 1.7-2.0v (reduce if temperatures too high is causing instability, increase if temperatures are fine and you are unstable)
VCore: 1.24-1.34v
Ring Voltage: 1.15 or 1.2v
CPU Multiplier: 44x-46x
BCLK: Auto
Turbo: Auto
C1E, C3, C6/C7, and EIST: All Disabled (There is a table in Step #1 which describes the behavior or different power saving features and what to enable/disable to get the behavior you want.)


But I can't find 'CPU VRIN Override Voltage' on the F6 bios. Has it been deleted? Or name changed?

thanks

Si
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Is it not in,

"Performance" then "Voltage" then "CPU Core Voltage Control" and the top option?
 
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