Maximus V Gene Preview/Review 8 Pack style

alex_123_fra said:
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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I can help you mate yes. This board rocks with RAM. What RAM is it exactly??? Part number etc could you send me your e-mail and I will help you with everything upto 5ghz stable no problem. Added you as a friend mate!!
 
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kitch9 said:
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.
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I dont work for ASUS no!!! I just like the board. I am very active on there forums thats about my only link.
 
Yes Samsung based IC's clock well on this platform and on this board. It all depends on IMC on CPU and which CPU you go for to how far you can push. With Sandy 2133+ 9-11-10-1T probable. 9-11-10-2T easy. On IVY much much more, the board has some very good profiles for Samsung dimms allready in Bios you can tweak from that.
 
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So here you go!!! as promised I have done some testing with the Maximus V Gene and the Ivybridge 3570K to show what this board is capable with the 3rd Gen Intel Core CPU. All tests are on WIndows 7 64 Bit. All DRAM overclocking apart from max frequency has been tested memtest stable before booting into windows at that frequency.

Firstly some BLK clocking results with CPU at stock and memory controller at stock so we can see what the board can do BLK wise. Almost 112 blk.



These are the max pi1mb and stable into windows clocks I achieved.



Now Some DRAM overclocking Max mem frequency DDR 2920. These GSkill Trident may go higher at these timings but this was the limit of the CPU's IMC



Some Gskill Pi low latency DRAM clocking (2 x 2gb). These DIMMS default is DDR1600mhz 7-8-7-24 -2T. These benches are all using the PSC profiles from within Bios and are tuned for performance with 1T command rate.





Cas 8 with 1T






Using Max memory profile for PSC to test High BLK with these DIMMS 111 achieved and stable.

 
GSkill DDR2400 (4x4gb) DRAM overclocking at Cas 11 did not go any higher as for max memory frequency I had the higher Binned Trident sticks. With this I wanted to show stable overclocking on the Gene of DDR3 rated at 2400mhz 4 x 4gb (All slots populated) all the way up to 2826mhz. is possible. Showing its flexibility with DRAM types and amounts, whilst remaining stable.






GSkill Trident DRAM overclocking these are 2666mhz 11-13-13-35-2T ,1.65v dimms. These DIMMS achieved 2920mhz as I showed earlier in my Maximum memory frequency screen shot and may well be capable of more just my CPU IMC was not.

They also achieved DDR 2875 stock timings XMP loaded stable.



Stability testing next CPU 5100mhz, DDR2800 Gskill Trident XMP. (This would be my 24/7 setting)

Prime



Hyper Pi amd Wprime



Aida system stability.

 
2D next with CPU at 5250mhz and GSkill Trident at 2800mhz XMP. The CPU would clock higher but only by trimming back the memory frequency which I wanted to keep high to show what the board could do in terms of high CPU frequency and high memory frequency which is much more demanding on the board than just one or the other. These are the highest stable CPU and RAM at the same time overclocks I achieved and infact in most benchmarks produced a better score than RAW CPU mhz with lower frequency but very tight Timings DRAM. The DRAM frequency and bandwidth more than making up for higher CPU MHZ.

32mb Pi and UC Bench 2011



Cinebench



AIDA and Maxx MEM



PC Mark 07 with one 7970



PC mark Vantage 64 bit single 7970

 
Some higher CPU mhz Benchmarks with tight timings GSKill PSC based dimm modules using the tight PSC profile from BIOS.








As you can see from the results this Board is simply superb with Ivy Bridge offering a comprehensive Bios and feature. Its truly stable with several RAM configurations and types and overclocks RAM very well obviously CPU IMC does make a difference here. Its also totally stable with all PCI Ex slots populated running two card crossfire. I can say for all the gamers that the cards worked very well in Crossfire and at Gen 3.0 which is supported by the Ivy Bridge CPU and was confirmed to be enabled by GPU -Z. I intend to next try a retail CPU which are supposed to have stronger IMC to test and post further results. Any questions you may have please do ask, or anything you think needs clarifying again please ask. Thanks to GSkill for providing the RAM for this review which performs very stable and clocks fantastically on this board.
 
At 16C the best clock possible was 4.8 stable with memory at 2666 Totally stable, Prime etc. WIth 16c the IMC got flacky above this. I could acheive 5.0ghz stable but only with 1600mhz memory and temps where very high. I pulled the temps down a lot for the later posts. I have pics of the 16C stuff I will put them up when I get home, they have core temp values too for you to see. It seems the memory controller heavily overclocked gets unstable above 70C and certainly any higher you really have to trim back but these CPU love bandwidth. I am currently runing 5.2ghz DDR2800 stable in my everyday system which required another bit of tweaking. With the Ivy CPU several settings in Bios are more important than they used to be. Something that requires more testing than ever but you can gain performance from time spent. Sadly I dont have air or standard water to test with for those requesting this. I could take the water temp up though and trial that.
 
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The board performs great your correct on that one. As far as looks goes its all personal tastes mate. I had it on a massive bench table that will fit an EVGA SR board for ages and to me it looked fine but its your rig and your tastes so you need to decide on this.

Hmmmm as far as SLI goes yes the slots are close and the top card is gpnna be warmer for sure. a lot depends on air flow through your case and which cards your running really. If your running heat churning monsters then it becomes more prevalent e.g GTX480 SLI for example. I ran both Nvidia and ATI in multi GPU on the board but mine are water cooled so its not an issue then.

What cards you on????
 
Sythe Typhoons are the best fans for both static pressure, low noise and Overall Airflow at that specific RPM Speed. I have 16 on my water cooling loop. They are worth every penny in my view.
 
I have 1150's and 1450. The 1450 I think is the best for output and low noise. I know they are expensive but they do last several builds. Mine are on 24/7 for years and not one has failed ever.
 
the_director said:
Just installing Asus motherboard drivers now. Not an overly pleasant experience so far. Installation in general with Windows 7 has been a nightmare so far.

No matter how good the components just an hour or so installing Windows is enough to make me want to throw it out the window.
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Yeah what is the Issue?? I have XP, Vista -64 and 7 64 on mine and all installed fine. Its probably a driver issue with Intel SATA controller.
 
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