Maximus V Gene Preview/Review 8 Pack style

TwsT said:
Got me sold mate got me sold some great clocks there you have a pretty sweet chip by the looks of it.

waiting for the ivy bridge cpu's to launch then I will popping my Gene and 2500k onto the members market and switching over :)

I've had no problems with my Gene-z and 2500k at 4.4 1.34V 16gb ddr3 1600 @ 1.55V and sli 460's (now a single 680)

I just couldn't clock my 2500k to 5 under 1.5 with so 16gb memory so i didn't bother and settled for a cool and quiet 4.4
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The Chip is a good one yes. It does nearly 6ghz benchable on Single Stage Phase with 4gb GSkill Pi mem at 2133+ cas 7-8-7-24-2T. I tested a 2500K on this board the other day for a Linx stable challenge on XS. They clock well on it too believe me. This was with 16gb of RAM at 2133 9-11-10-28-1T.

I will be posting up my Ivy results on lifting of NDA :)
 
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8 Pack thanks for the results so far. Looks promising. I know you can't give figures as the NDA isn't lifted but with Ivybridge are you having issues with the CPUs overheating when OCing?

Various rumours going around that Ivybridge CPUs (3770K and 3570K) require ridiculously powerful cooling to OC in a stable manner. Would be good if you could give some results with high end air cooling and basic water cooling (e.g Noctua vs H100).

Thanks!
 
8 Pack said:
The Chip is a good one yes. It does nearly 6ghz benchable on Single Stage Phase with 4gb GSkill Pi mem at 2133+ cas 7-8-7-24-2T. I tested a 2500K on this board the other day for a Linx stable challenge on XS. They clock well on it too believe me. This was with 16gb of RAM at 2133 9-11-10-28-1T.

I will be posting up my Ivy results on lifting of NDA :)
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Yeah I am expecting good things from what i've seen :) ;););)
 
alex_123_fra said:
8 Pack thanks for the results so far. Looks promising. I know you can't give figures as the NDA isn't lifted but with Ivybridge are you having issues with the CPUs overheating when OCing?

Various rumours going around that Ivybridge CPUs (3770K and 3570K) require ridiculously powerful cooling to OC in a stable manner. Would be good if you could give some results with high end air cooling and basic water cooling (e.g Noctua vs H100).

Thanks!
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I dont have basic water cooling sadly or any air to test with. My cooling is very high end water i.e chiller set at 16c tops, 2 x D5 pumps and both Koolance 370 and EK Supreme HF blocks. The other coolers I have are evan more powerful. So I can say I don't have issues no at getting good and very good clocks.

I am not allowed to post temps or clocks I acheived at this moment, however I will quote a user on another forum who said if you cant keep the Ivy CPU around 10c loaded stick with sandy.
 
Lord_ZED said:
On few forums i heard that rumor about temperatures. Do ivy run hotter @5ghz than sandy ??
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As you know each CPU be it Ivy, Sandy, SB-E etc etc will need different Vcore to run at a given frequency. Vcore effects heat in the Ivy. This is because it has a very high transistor amount in a very small 22nm package with most of the core area being taken up by the GPU. i.e little area for the CPU heat to be dissipated into.

I cant comment on 5ghz figures at the moment or compare like that sorry.
 
I did not say that no. But others have I am merely quoting what they have said. Search around other forums many are talking about this who have chips. You must understand I have to be careful what I say.
 
I understand, you seem to know enough people who have used the chip to be able to give us your impression of what they think.

Not long to wait now for the NDA to be lifted. I imagine that most users who want a modest overclock may still find Ivy interesting - after all, the increase in general performance means you don't have to hit the same clocks as Sandy to get the same performance.

Thanks for getting back to me.
 
the_director said:
I understand, you seem to know enough people who have used the chip to be able to give us your impression of what they think.

Not long to wait now for the NDA to be lifted. I imagine that most users who want a modest overclock may still find Ivy interesting - after all, the increase in general performance means you don't have to hit the same clocks as Sandy to get the same performance.

Thanks for getting back to me.
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Ye but whats the point of having ivy at 4.8 as fast as sandy at 5. When temperatures will be the same ??? And I assume it will cost more to.
All i want to see is 2500k vs 3570k at 5ghz. I got external watercooling atm so i dont rl care about temps :P
 
the_director said:
I understand, you seem to know enough people who have used the chip to be able to give us your impression of what they think.

Not long to wait now for the NDA to be lifted. I imagine that most users who want a modest overclock may still find Ivy interesting - after all, the increase in general performance means you don't have to hit the same clocks as Sandy to get the same performance.

Thanks for getting back to me.
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No problem ask anything you wish where I can I will answer as fully as possible and show bechmarks etc to prove points made.
 
Lord_ZED said:
Ye but whats the point of having ivy at 4.8 as fast as sandy at 5. When temperatures will be the same ??? And I assume it will cost more to.
All i want to see is 2500k vs 3570k at 5ghz. I got external watercooling atm so i dont rl care about temps :P
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I can show you this no problems when NDA lifts. I have both those chips so tell me what you wanna see the day it lifts you get the results!!! I have both 3770K and 3570K in ES versions. Oh and with that cooling you may well still care at that frequency range.
 
I just ordered one of these boards today, looks like it's got everything in such a small package and I knew it was at my budget for a mother board purchase, hope I made a good choice as I would like to go IB but if the gains are so little for much more expense I will be a little bit disappointed.
 
Have you used the onboard audio at all on the Gene? If so, care to comment on the sound quality? I haven't used any onboard audio for years now (currently using a Xonar DG with a Sandy P67) and was wondering if, with the additional shielding supposedly on the Gene, it might finally be on par with a budget card like the DG?

Thanks.
 
Good thread dude, you sure you don't work for Asus or something? You seem REALLY passionate!

Saying the I'm running the Z68 version of this board and it is pretty good, apart from it doesn't seem to run my CPU fan at anything other than 100% regardless of bios settings.
 
Ye can you comment on Audio on that board ??? TBH its one of selling points for me :P Other interesting one is Gigabyte Sniper g3 :P
So Would be cool if you could do us some Audio tests :P
 
Hi, finished my build yesterday and I'm using a Maximus V Gene + 2500K with 16 GB 1866MHz G Skill Ram (PC 14900 quad channel memory in dual channel here), 2x GTX 560 Tis and H100 CPU push/pull cooler.

The board is great with lots of overclocking options although strangely seems harder to adjust than my old maximus formula board (as it is too complex for me). I used the CPU level up option just to see what it can do. It easily clocked itself to 4.85 GHz stable with max load temps on prime of 50 C using partly multiplier and partly BCLK increases.

8-pack, do you have any tips on manual overclocking of this? I feel I should be easily able to get stable and thermally acceptable 5+ GHz clocks on this but I'm not sure what to fiddle with in the bios. I know about multipliers, BCLK and CPU voltage but should I be adjusting anything else to help stability? Also not so sure about how to OC the RAM, I'm just sort of going with what the system recommends.

Any tips would be great. Amazing board.
 
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durnelln said:
Have you used the onboard audio at all on the Gene? If so, care to comment on the sound quality? I haven't used any onboard audio for years now (currently using a Xonar DG with a Sandy P67) and was wondering if, with the additional shielding supposedly on the Gene, it might finally be on par with a budget card like the DG?

Thanks.
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I have used it yes. With both drivers installed its excellent.
 
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