TheFocusElf said:
I have got to say that I LOVE this board. Post time is excellent compared to EVGA x58 boards in my experience (and as Rob can attest, EVGA has released a fair share of x58 boards!). That and it always boots (another factor that prevails this board over my EVGAs. I got about 4 EVGAs returned/RMAd due to a 'FF' code on the LCD that appeared before the system posted. Now I am no engineer but FF is supposed to occur pretty late in the boot cycle.
Whoa, what? I know of someone who had a similar issue (not sure of the LED code), but it was a P55 board. Do you know if it's a problem with EVGA's boards in general, or just a fluke with a certain batch?
TheFocusElf said:
Great work Rob, I buy most of the stuff you review! =D
Just not that 30" gateway 2000 monitor. Just couldn't do it.
You really seem to, haha. As for the monitor, I don't blame you. I don't at all regret my purchase, but some really nice models came out months later, and Gateway's ended up going
way down in price a mere six months later (from $1,700 to $999). Such is the way of technology, though. My Dell 2408WFP is over two years old, but I know some people would consider it ancient by today's standards (maybe, it's still a damn sweet monitor).
Unregistered said:
I have the exact same MB, 980X, 12GB Corsair CMP6GX3M3A 1600C7 @ 1600Mhz C7, with 0703 BIOS. However, I'm running it stable at 4Ghz (30 * 133) at 1.2V (default voltage). The article's OC of the processor: 4.14GHz at 1.36V is a bit disappointing since it induces a lot more electromigration at the cost of a measly .14Ghz. I'd try your tests again at my settings to see if you can make them work.
First off, that's a great setup you have! Second, I can't easily test since I've already unhooked everything in order to do other testing (the room I have here to work only allows me two benchmarking PCs to be set up at once), but I did test with both 0808 and whatever BIOS the board had on it when I received it, and didn't see any real differences in the top overclocks I could achieve. I admit that I didn't try the second-to-last BIOS, though, so that
could have an effect on it.
With the 0808, I had to go to 1.36V in order for complete stability. I simply had it on that overclock, and then kept raising the voltage until I hit something stable. Chances are good that I could have had an even more impressive overclock, but there's only so much time I can dedicate to one aspect of one review.
I'll put more time into it in the future to see if the chip is capable of more of a push. We always receive pre-launch silicon, and
usually it's not up to the standards of retail chips. So as odd as it might sound, sometimes ES isn't better (that didn't used to be the case... it was a vice versa situation).
