Official Gigabyte Z87X-OC Discussion Thread

Karathez · 20 Mar 2014 at 19:34

Anyone managed to fit an Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler on this board? I was reading somewhere that on some GB boards the socket was too close to the graphics slot.

There was someone posted earlier in this thread asking, but he never said if he fitted one in the end

stulid · 20 Mar 2014 at 21:10

Karathez said:
Anyone managed to fit an Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler on this board? I was reading somewhere that on some GB boards the socket was too close to the graphics slot.

There was someone posted earlier in this thread asking, but he never said if he fitted one in the end

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25116070&postcount=286

Its really tight, maybe some electrical tape on the fan clips will help in sure theres no contact with the back of a gfx card.

Karathez · 20 Mar 2014 at 21:26

Ouch that looks like it wont work then as the central (140mm) fan sticks out of the sides:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-020-AL

Can anyone recommend a diiferent hs that would be good to push a 4670k on air?.

8 Pack · 20 Mar 2014 at 21:52

Just use Megahelms I do for all air testing. Does not obscure RAM slots either.

stasio · 21 Mar 2014 at 13:38

F8 is out.......

Karathez · 21 Mar 2014 at 13:42

8 Pack said:
Just use Megahelms I do for all air testing. Does not obscure RAM slots either.

Thanks, any recommendations on fans for it? (120mm)

Allnamestaken · 21 Mar 2014 at 14:26

Hopfully F8 solves my problems -_-

robertchalmers1 · 24 Mar 2014 at 11:42

Allnamestaken said:
Hopfully F8 solves my problems -_-

i cant flash to f8 regardless. qflash tells me its out of date and to update to a new one and stulid i think it was recommended making a dos bootable usb but wont flash to f8 that way either. i calso cant do it thru the GB windows based program either

stasio · 25 Mar 2014 at 13:06

Try with this:
EfiFlash

or latest @BIOS B13.1112.1.

Jay Blizzay · 1 Apr 2014 at 07:33

Just updated from F3 to F8.

Had the problems others had with the flash utility being out of date.

I used rufus to create a bootable msdos usb disk - it's easy to do

Then I just copy pasta'd the 3 files from the BIOS zip to the disk (overwriting the autoexec file)

Then booted from the USB and it did the rest.

I unplugged 24pin/cleared CMOS after it was complete.

It then asked to load optimised defaults and then done.

Jay Blizzay · 1 Apr 2014 at 09:42

A few things i've noticed since upgrade:

Boot up times have severely increased (from a fewq seconds to a couple of minutes) - it seems windows spends ages trying to log in, when it does it displays a black screen for a while, before bringing up my desktop

When im in BIOS and press F2 for classic, when i switch back after a few seconds, the USB keyboard stops working completely

App Center tool needed a few goes to get everything up to date. I think that maybe some its updates could be interfering with my computer. The intel storage thingy comes to mind.

I was running F3 using default settings (no overclock or anything, never changed a single thing in BIOS) and doing same with F8 (assuming optimised defaults are the same thing)

Jay Blizzay · 1 Apr 2014 at 10:52

I have created a link to a boot trace if anyone can spot what the issue is

Link

koldphuzion · 7 Apr 2014 at 15:08

Hmmmmm, my 4770k is in turbo mode and im getting 4.3ghz @1.392v.

Ive never OC'd an Intel CPU before so Im a complete n00b.

Dirk Diggler · 7 Apr 2014 at 15:28

koldphuzion said:
Hmmmmm, my 4770k is in turbo mode and im getting 4.3ghz @1.392v.

Ive never OC'd an Intel CPU before so Im a complete n00b.

Vcore looking high. What temps under load?

koldphuzion · 7 Apr 2014 at 15:32

String said:
Vcore looking high. What temps under load?

so far 64degress. not looking good! and thats with a H100i cooler!

wazza300 · 7 Apr 2014 at 15:33

try a lower level loadline calibration and set cpu v to normal

Dirk Diggler · 7 Apr 2014 at 16:20

koldphuzion said:
so far 64degress. not looking good! and thats with a H100i cooler!

Is that CPU loaded to 100%? If so, I wouldn't say that was too high at all. I'm actually surprised at that temp with vcore so high.

koldphuzion · 7 Apr 2014 at 16:30

String said:
Is that CPU loaded to 100%? If so, I wouldn't say that was too high at all. I'm actually surprised at that temp with vcore so high.

ive just run a Prime95 torture test.....!!

89 degress c!!! :eek:

I stopped it when it reached that......

Im taking it off turbo mode and going to try and OC from the bios, which I have never done before with Intel....

koldphuzion · 7 Apr 2014 at 16:42

as you can see here!

atomic7431 · 7 Apr 2014 at 16:42

dont use prime to test!!!
it will heat the cpu, use your games to test temps and anything else you would normally use!

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