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What I didnt like about Asus boards, (although only experienced it with mine) is that despite being a x48 board, they dropped driver support for windows 7.:confused:

They never updated them.... to this day some of my mobo driver are still beta releases with no updates.

Gigabyte on the other hand with a crappy G41 board, are still bringing up driver updates for the latest o.s's....

So I thought I would punish Asus and go Gigabyte.

I could probably stretch this this board (ASUS MVG Z77) but does it offer anything that the gigabyte Z77X-UD3H does not?
 
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On my DFI X48... I always just installed the drivers from Intel, I never actually went to DFI's site :p

Maybe Asus assumed there was no need to update as Intel were the ones updating?

Just playing devils advocate... fair enough if you've lost faith in the brand, I know what that feels like.

Back when I was building an early Athlon 64 system I had a nightmare of a time with 3x top of the range Asus boards... all three were faulty!

I still think of ASRock as budget **** too... so that always puts me off... but this time, I'm wishing I'd bought the ASRock instead of the MSI. Now it's in my system though - I can't be bothered for only a little improvement in o/c capability.
 
crinkleshoes said:
Looking at the pics of that board though - seems it could be a tight fit for full-size graphics cards in crossfire/SLI?
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Crossfire/SLI will work fine as both PCIE slots are the standard double-width apart. However, I would prefer more space in-between to allow better airflow for the top card. If you are serious about multi-card setups and want to overclock them, get a full sized mobo.
 
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That could be exactly it mate the MVG is built for clocking RAM and has had many bios revisions to do so. Also remember I am estimating settings as I dont have four sticks of that RAM (yet) I am gonna get some more to try it soon. Finally each CPU has a different memory controller and likes slightly different settings. Keep going I am sure you will get somewhere. When I get more sticks I will post back some settings. A friend of me had some Team DDR based on Samsung IC I got this to 2875 stable on my board with 4 Dimms installed. The Team dimms are selected IC's though.
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Yep you guys were right. I have 1 1207 pair and 1 1210 pair. Its a little annoying because I bought them as 16GB from OC you would think they would try and give you the same batches...

O well. So options are to run just 8GB or not OC so much and use 16GB I guess. :mad:
 
KyleOC said:
Yep you guys were right. I have 1 1207 pair and 1 1210 pair. Its a little annoying because I bought them as 16GB from OC you would think they would try and give you the same batches...

O well. So options are to run just 8GB or not OC so much and use 16GB I guess. :mad:
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Or return them under the 14 day warranty if your not happy.
 
2000MHz @ 9-9-9-22-124-1T @ 1.55v

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Can't seem to get 2333MHz stable unless using loose timings (11-12), so sticking with 2000MHz, next step is 8 CAS.
 
have you actually tested with less dram voltage? someone i know said on z77 hes finding around 1.4v dram voltage to be better results and thats at 2133mhz cas 9 timings
 
wazza300 said:
have you actually tested with less dram voltage? someone i know said on z77 hes finding around 1.4v dram voltage to be better results and thats at 2133mhz cas 9 timings
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At 2333 I've tried 1.45v (can't boot) to 1.65v (max I'm willing to go). And it's not stable unless I use 11-12-12-24 @ 1.575v~
 
So actually managed to get 2400Mhz 11-11-11-28 1T last night but couldn't really get it stable using both pairs with different batches. It booted from 1.60v and i went up to 1.65v to try and get it stable with no luck. I'm thinking its more to do with the more detailed timings and settings that I'm not too experienced with.

Think I will go back to my 2133Mhz @1.45V and work on tightening the timings a bit. At least until maybe 8pack has worked on ivy a bit more! :) I think 2133Mhz is still pretty good for the price of this RAM though.
 
At 2133 I can run 16GB @ CAS 9 (9-10-10-24 1T) with 1.6v, but I prefer staying below 1.5v, so CAS 10 for 24/7. This is with an MVG and 2500K.

I can almost get 2400MHz stable with slack timings, but not quite. It doesn't like test 6 of memtest, although Prime95 runs fine. I must have a good IMC on my 2500K. With a 2500K there is very little performance difference going from 1600MHz to 2400MHz. 2133MHz is the sweet spot, but there really is just a gnats todger in it.
 
im still looking for a 1150 or 1205 batch to swap with someone:D

Please keep swap requests to the members market Wanted/Trade section - w3bbo
 
A couple more results.
DRAM Overclocking DDR3 2666mhz



Tuned DDR2400 mhz Cas 9

 
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Thank you guys I am at 1.64 with slack sub-timings. VCCSA 1.25, VCCIO 1.20. PLL 1.70 data ref A/B 0.495. CPU at stock. Just trying to get maximum frequency possible. Its not tuned for benching at these frequency's but is mem-test stable 2 passes 100% coverage.
 
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Well I had 2600 mhz stable in seconds really. But I have a lot of experience with the board I am using and clocking RAM on it. It depends I suppose on your experience at clocking RAM on the format your using. Most have got 2133 straight up with auto type settings I think. a lot have 2200mhz also really easy.I am going to get a couple more sticks and try on X79 as well as Z77.
 
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