ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition: The Ultimate LGA2011 Motherboard

Had no real issues since build in December however board has started showing a Qcode of 40 all of a sudden - up until now always shows AA after finishing boot .

Looking this up it is the code to show resume from s4 sleep - however why has it changed to that from AA when I haven't altered anything.
Suggesting a problem maybe ?
 
Cosimo - thx for that link.

However - it doesn't really explain why it now shows 40 when up until now it has always shown AA.

More worryingly - the system now seems to hang when booting just before the windows screen - I now have to open the case and reset before it will boot to windows - which maybe explains the code 40 rather than AA. Maybe going straight to a hibernate state ??? Just as a side note: I kill all power to the board when I am not using it so the S4 state can not be correct ?

So I am thinking there is an issue but haven't found what it is yet (everything is seated/plugged in okay)

I am using the latest bios - and have been for some weeks without problem.
 
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Hey guys

I have this question.
I have a 4770k, which I had overclocked only for few days and reverted it quickly.
It looked like I have a bad chip, the voltage was so high (at 4.3 ghz).
Right now I am about to start building a new rig and was wondering, is it worth trading 4770k which I suspect to be bad to get a 4820k instead, with RIVBE?
I would be building it over few months so maybe 4930k would be better idea.

Appreciate your thoughts :)
 
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I am tempted to buy an high capacity SSD for all my games/apps and use one of the ASM1061 SATA ports (using two for RAID on Intel controller). Reviews shows this to achieve average speeds of only read: 380MB/s, write: 348MB/s.

If true it looks like the 1TB EVO would be good money wasted. There's options for lower capacities at reduced performance but even the M500 is faster than the ASM controller.

Has anyone else tested ASMedia port with SSD and what SSD did you use? Thanks :)
 
FMTopfan said:
I am tempted to buy an high capacity SSD for all my games/apps and use one of the ASM1061 SATA ports (using two for RAID on Intel controller). Reviews shows this to achieve average speeds of only read: 380MB/s, write: 348MB/s.

If true it looks like the 1TB EVO would be good money wasted. There's options for lower capacities at reduced performance but even the M500 is faster than the ASM controller.

Has anyone else tested ASMedia port with SSD and what SSD did you use? Thanks :)
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This was an for OCZ Vertex 4:

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I read that the controller can be 15% -20% slower than the Intel one. I use my two Intel ones for raid.
 
Appreciate that Cosimo :)

The writes are a bit better than I thought and overall not too bad. Still not sure which SSD to buy!

In general a SSD in a ASM port sees a 28% drop in performance compared to Intel controller....

Intel/ASM - MB/s
Seq Read - 468.3/368.7 (-21.26%)
Seq Write - 457.0/378.3 (-17.22%)
512K Read- 352.3/279.3 (-20.72%)
512K Write - 465.9/365.9 (-21.46%)
4K Read - 31.52/26.53 (-15.83%)
4K Write - 131.7/55.39 (-57.94%)
4K QD32 Read - 359.8/261.6 (-27.29%)
4K QD32 Write - 341.9/195.5 (-42.81%)
 
The Guru said:
How does that stuff work? Is it like one of those balloons that you can make a dog out of? You just bend it into shape:)
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Heat gun and a bending rod to go internally to keep its shape.

A bit of practice and your there. Frustrating stuff though especially when fitting it all together
 
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