Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Owners Thread.

[stulid]

You certain you have the chipset drivers installed?

I just double clicked the executable again and it brings up this for me,

 

[stulid]

I'm using the the exact same corsair kit as you, and mine refuses to post when the xmp profile is enabled. Any ideas? I'm using the F7 bios, btw.

What colour slots are you using? try the other pair.

 

[stulid]

i was using the black slots. Moved them to the reds, and that fixed the problem. Thanks.

Update the BIOS to f8l

Then try the black slots again.

 

[stulid]

BIOS F8l seems to be ok so far.

 

[stulid]

You dont need ME, but you two must have done something odd for it not to install.

In other news I've bought these

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Xtreem 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-31200C18 3866MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TXD48G3866HC18ADC0= £38.99

Total: £38.99
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Will see if the board will post at XMP.

And at that price I doubt I will lose much money selling on.

 

[stulid]

75c in what use? cinebench/3dmark/realbench etc?

 

[stulid]

Urggghhh dont use that.

Use ASUS Realbench or at most XTU.

 

[stulid]

I would expect that ram to work 100%.

 

[stulid]

Well my 3866MHz kit is here now.

Will it work or wont it?

 

[stulid]

We in like finn,


Teamgroup Xtreem DDR4 3866
OcUK Product Page

 

[stulid]

You've done a fresh install and are on the latest BIOS?

Your temps are fine and the RAM is stable (maybe try memtest or even ASUS Realbench as they are demanding tests)

 

[stulid]

The HDD clicking off mine does and has done on previous boards, it must be a setting somewhere in Windows.

80C aint bad for that test.


What is the rest of your spec?

 

[stulid]

As per the 1st post im using Samsung M.2 Nvme drive.

Very happy with the board

 

[stulid]

That all looks fine, only thing I can suggest is to make sure you have the latest BIOS+drivers.

 

[stulid]

Bare with me on that.

Im going to try and get some images of the BIOS to explain it.

 

[stulid]

Right then.

If you set the Vcore to 1.35V,

The voltage remains 1.35V even when Speedstep kicks in and slows the CPU down to 800MHz at idle,

Not everyone wants that, they also want the Vcore to reduce at idle saving heat/power/CPU wear.

Instead.

Set Vcore to Normal,

Then add the extra amount needed to get a stable system.

So in the example above its 1.3V normally, and I have set the DVID to +0.05V (it starts off in negative values so you have to cycle through in positive values)

So when under load its going to add that extra on top of the 1.3V

At idle Speedstep will also work correctly and reduce this value down to under a volt.



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Then the other thing called loadline calibration, there are only 3 settings in the BIOS and this can help reduce whats known as vdroop under load, so instead of the CPU getting 1.35V it may end up being roughly 1.345V, setting the LLC to high for example can increase that and stop it dipping under 1.35V when the CPU is under load.

 

[stulid]

Setting LLC to high will send Vcore higher than you think you've set.

For example if I set Vcore to 1.35V and LLC to high, CPU-Z reckons its 1.39V under load.

 

[stulid]

I would expect the sound card to still be superior.

But the Creative onboard sound of this board may just satisfy you.

 

[stulid]

Nope, still looks like the pictures in the opening post.

 

[stulid]

Check the boot order etc and set it to only what has windows on.

Any other boot devices in the options maybe try disabling them so it only goes to the boot drive 1st.