and you would run that day to day in an itx system?
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and you would run that day to day in an itx system?
so for his use.... the number you listed are fine yes?
if you want to use a system for benching you got the wrong board, thats your fault no the fault of asrock
he asked me personally what would I keep. I would take the Asus since it performs day to day just like the Asrock (well apart from 2T memory and 4.9Ghz cache) but also it has the options if I want to test some rams. Locking the ram voltage to 1.5v effectively locks the option to test any ram. I am just comparing between the 2 boards the Asus seems to bring me more utility.
He also didn't ask me for his use.
TBF i would not buy X299 but look at the amount of stuff asrock is jammed into an ITX board and you have to understand it will have a few limits.
but i think the limits your talking about will not bother a day to day user.
it got quad channel ram, 3 x m.2, onboard wifi i mean look at it. i am impressed what the amount of stuff they have got on it..
but i think the limits your talking about will not bother a day to day user.
it got quad channel ram, 3 x m.2, onboard wifi i mean look at it. i am impressed what the amount of stuff they have got on it..
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@BTVA I received my Asrock earlier and I'm not best pleased. Everything about it feels a bit budget, the I/o shield feels nasty, even opening the box did compared to the Strix. The bios in particular is horrendous in my opinion.
Anyway more importantly, I set a vcore in the bios of 1.2 but cpu-z shows it as much lower (1.168), is that the same for you? I'm also not keen on the fact you can't set a 0 offset, it's either Auto or negative offset.
The voltage is bugging me, I'm on the 1.11 bios. I don't know whether Cpu-Z is wrong or the bios is. To be fair on the latest bios with the strix there are no such issues, I set 1.2 in bios and it shows 1.2 in windows, and with load line calibration on level 6 there's only 0.016 vdroop.
I'm not keen on having to select more voltage in the bios to get the actual voltage I want.
Oh and I've definitely taken Asus showing changes on the bios before exiting for granted, I hate how it just saves and exits. Normally I know what I've changed but it's nice to be shown it before saving and exiting.
The only positive so far is the m.2 temps, it's actually lower on the rear than it was on the front of the Strix under the heatsink. Oh and the clear cmos button on the I/o.
I've definitely got serious buyers remorse now lol, and not sure I've got it in me to re-install my whole rig, I've done 3 builds in 2 days swapping the Strix motherboard for the replacement and now the Asrock.
Anyway more importantly, I set a vcore in the bios of 1.2 but cpu-z shows it as much lower (1.168), is that the same for you? I'm also not keen on the fact you can't set a 0 offset, it's either Auto or negative offset.
The voltage is bugging me, I'm on the 1.11 bios. I don't know whether Cpu-Z is wrong or the bios is. To be fair on the latest bios with the strix there are no such issues, I set 1.2 in bios and it shows 1.2 in windows, and with load line calibration on level 6 there's only 0.016 vdroop.
I'm not keen on having to select more voltage in the bios to get the actual voltage I want.
Oh and I've definitely taken Asus showing changes on the bios before exiting for granted, I hate how it just saves and exits. Normally I know what I've changed but it's nice to be shown it before saving and exiting.
The only positive so far is the m.2 temps, it's actually lower on the rear than it was on the front of the Strix under the heatsink. Oh and the clear cmos button on the I/o.
I've definitely got serious buyers remorse now lol, and not sure I've got it in me to re-install my whole rig, I've done 3 builds in 2 days swapping the Strix motherboard for the replacement and now the Asrock.
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@Jay343434 Have you tried LLC level 1?
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I have but that doesn't solve the issue of the vcore not being what I set in the bios.
With llc set to 1 I get vdroop of 0.016 which is good.
With vcore set to fixed mode at 1.2 even the bios shows it lower in the monitoring tab. If you get a chance I'd appreciate you telling me if you have similar, if you could set it to 1.2 in fixed and tell me what it shows in the bios under monitoring and in cpu-z in windows.
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@Jay343434 you should always set to LLC1 in both fixed or offset mode. This weekend I won't be home.