8Pack super fast smash the rest i5 Skylake Overclocked, Discounted killer GAMING bundle.

Jumper118 · 31 Dec 2015 at 15:49

good work orb0! its good to do a comparision. seems like some decent jumps to go from sandy to skylake.

8 Pack · 31 Dec 2015 at 15:51

Jumper118 said:
good work orb0! its good to do a comparision. seems like some decent jumps to go from sandy to skylake.

For sure.

orb0 · 31 Dec 2015 at 16:17

Reality|Bites said:
Well all problems sorted apart from SATA ports 1 and 2 not working, Orbo did you have any problems with them?

Didn't try them as planning an M.2 SSD soon, used normal ports 3+ instead.
May be worth further investigation.

Reality|Bites · 31 Dec 2015 at 17:02

8 Pack said:
I never saw this issue in testing. But if the issue remains at stock the issue could be ram or MB. Any other symptoms seen?? I am back in work Monday to test this out and try to replicate.

No other issues now, when no drives are installed all ports appear in the bios though, Once SATA 3 in used the bios only shows the used ports. Ports 3-6 are working fine. I'm thinking it has something to do with it being a SATA express ports as well and maybe I have to change something in the bios?

8 Pack · 31 Dec 2015 at 17:07

I will try this out Monday see if I can replicate. I have two or three boards and several CPU. Maybe pch voltage or DMI will help. Let me test and report back.

wam7 · 31 Dec 2015 at 17:19

8 Pack said:
I ran it when I tested power draw. But did not upload the screens. Can do that tomorrow. I am sure it was 730-740pts.

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orb0 said:
Decided to replace venerable 2500K @4.4 with this bundle (+Thermal Grizzly
Kryonaut, Fractal Design Define R5), did some benches before and after (avg of 5 runs).

Thanks for some empirical data!

Reality|Bites · 31 Dec 2015 at 17:23

ok thanks

Reality|Bites · 4 Jan 2016 at 14:38

So have you been able to test things out today?

8 Pack · 4 Jan 2016 at 15:47

Cine R15 benches. For those who asked.

8 Pack · 4 Jan 2016 at 15:48

Reality|Bites said:
So have you been able to test things out today?

Testing several things for both bundles all day. Give me a little more time to report back.

8 Pack · 4 Jan 2016 at 16:52

For me all SSD ports and M2 working just tried no issues at all.

Those having issues overclocking this bundle. Flash 050 Bios.

Then if you wish use this profile by placing on USB stick and applying in Advanced Bios setting / OC tools / OC profiles.

https://img.overclockers.co.uk/media/unknown/i54400.cmo

Reality|Bites · 4 Jan 2016 at 17:09

So what do you suggest I do? Will I have to RMA the motherboard?

8 Pack · 4 Jan 2016 at 21:33

^ save your OC profile to usb drive.

Flash BIOS to any official from Asus site. Check the ports. If not working then at defaults u can either RMA or if port's not needed run with other 4 ports.

If the ports are working report back and I explore further. Difficult if I can't replicate the issue.

Do devices attached show in BIOS? Are all the ports controllers enabled in BIOS.

8 Pack · 6 Jan 2016 at 13:16

Some performance benches running Sleeping Dogs and Bioshock Infinite maxed out 1080P on 980 Ti. I chose 980 Ti to shift the bottleneck away from the GPu and back to the CPU and system.

No problem to play these games at serious FPS. 112 and 132 FPS avg respectively!!

tribz · 8 Jan 2016 at 17:53

What would this be like at 1440p / 100Hz Display with a 980Ti compared to a 4690k at 4.5GHz ?

Reality|Bites · 8 Jan 2016 at 17:56

a little better but pretty much the same I would imagine.

8 Pack · 8 Jan 2016 at 20:36

About 5%-7% faster.

tribz · 8 Jan 2016 at 20:58

Thanks

Reality|Bites · 10 Jan 2016 at 17:55

Is there a reason why the memory has to run at 2T and not 1T was it unstable during your tests?

8 Pack · 10 Jan 2016 at 18:13

No reason why it has to run 2T. I was testing OC stability for CPU in the main so did not try memory timings. Remember the idea of this bundle is to keep it simple. 1T I am almost certain will be fine too and give a small boost to perf.