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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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!!
I dont work for ASUS no!!! I just like the board. I am very active on there forums thats about my only link.
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Talking of ram, I was thinking of getting hold of a kit of this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-002-SA to pair with my gene build when IB comes (dependent on performance versus heat), do you think it's a good choice?
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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I will wait in anticipation for the varying boards performance with Ivybridge, I would hope that they were built to optimise IB and accomodate SB, rather than the opposite way around. Be it for RAM also.
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Thanks 8-pack! I'm using F3-14900CL9Q-16GBZL G-skill RipJawsZ DDR3-1866. Tried to send you a private message on overclockers but it doesn't allow it. Are you on another forum which supports private messages and I can send you my email address.
Yes ASUS ROG forum mate.
Alex tried to PM you back on ROG but your mail box is full apparently. Delete some and I have some settings for you to try.
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Can you make any sense of this for me on the Asus website:
Due to Intel® chipset limitation, P8Z77, P8H77 and P8B75 series motherboards do not support Windows® Vista operating system.
Does this mean (this might be a stupid question) that my Asus V Gene Z77 will not work with Vista? It is on its way and I planned on a retail install of Vista 64 on it, then to stick an upgrade copy of Windows 7 on it immediately.
Due to Intel® chipset limitation, P8Z77, P8H77 and P8B75 series motherboards do not support Windows® Vista operating system.
Does this mean (this might be a stupid question) that my Asus V Gene Z77 will not work with Vista? It is on its way and I planned on a retail install of Vista 64 on it, then to stick an upgrade copy of Windows 7 on it immediately.
It says only P8Z77, P8H77 and P8B75 series boards. However they may of just excluded the sabertooth and maximus series from that list so it's hard to say.
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I guess I'll find out. My board should be arriving today. I then have everything but a CPU.
Works fine with Vista I use Vista for certain bench marks as it performs better than 7. I have had no issues at all with Vista Ult 64 Bit
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Cheers for that. I have Vista 64 Ultimate retail edition which I upgraded to Win 7 on my current PC which will be stripped for parts. I'm hoping I can install the Win 7 upgrade on my new PC as well - Vista was so slow.
If the upgrade is retail you should be completely fine yes.
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.
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.
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
32mb Pi and UC Bench 2011
Cinebench
AIDA and Maxx MEM
PC Mark 07 with one 7970
PC mark Vantage 64 bit single 7970
3D benches single 7970
2 x 7970 Xfire
2 x 7970 Xfire
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.
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.