I had a quick look at it, but as soon as I saw it was made by a third party I didn't bother with it. When I am gaming, there is nobody else using the bandwidth, and I have no other programs running in the background, so I thought I wouldn't need it as my gaming was fine with my Rampage Formula and that had no gaming first software.

What settings did you change in your bios?

And list the drivers you have installed.

When you did this build did you do a clean install of Windows?

Original BIOS 402, flashed to 1604, reverted back to 804, all with USB stick and EZ flash.

Tweaker page :
AI O/C tuner to XMP,
Ratio Sync to enabled
Core ratio to 42
mem frequency to 1600
Spi booster to enabled
CPU manual volt to 1.100
DRAM volt to 1.50000
CPU spread spectrum to disabled

Advanced page
Primary display to PCIE
render standby to disabled
iGPU multi monitor to disabled.

PCIEX_1 tried Auto, Gen 2 and Gen 3

HD audio disabled
Blue tooth disabled
WI-FI disabled
Asmedia USB 3.0 controller disabled.

Chip set drivers tried the latest from the ASUS website, and the drivers off the disk, with a format and clean install in between
LAN drivers, tried the latest from the ASUS website, and the drivers off the disk, with a format and clean install in between
IME firmware, with and without.

When I first built it I did a format and clean install, in the 4 or 5 weeks since I built it I have formatted and clean installed windows 4 times to try the drivers off the disk and the latest form the ASUS website. I have tried the latest LAN drivers from the ASUS website, from the intel website and now am using the drivers off the supplied disk. Also did the NVM update before installing the latest LAN drivers as per ASUS website.

Tomorrow I am going to revert back to the 402 BIOS, format, clean windows install and use the ASUS supplied CD to install all the drivers and see how I go with it set up without all the newer drivers and chip sets.

What really sticks out on your list i these things.

CPU manual volt to 1.100
Core ratio to 42

How stable is it with those low cpu volts? As it would seem you would need a bit more to even be stable. What stress test are you using to test it for being stable? Need a bit more information. What are your 100% load temps on the cpu and gpu?

I havent done any stress tests KILLER_K, I just play BF3 and ARMA 2 to test if it is stable. Load temps with real temp running BF3 are between 58 and 60 degrees, and idle temps range from 21 to 27. ON air with a artic freezer pro 7.

GPU load temps are around 56 degrees @ 99% with BF3. 772 core stock @ 870. 2004 mem stock, running @ 2200.

Preacher wrote:
My frames per second never drop below 80, I have a ping of 5 but the game is like in slow motion..

is that all the time or it's only intermitant, I ask because some BF3 servers lag like hell. With frame over 80 and ping at 5 ms, it should not lag unless it's the server that lag imself. But for sure I will reset the BIOS at default.

Right thank you for the information.

Could you please do the following download bios versin 1408

Unpack to a fat formatted usb stick.

Use the EZflash2 utility found in tools menu of the bios to flash your board.

Then one the entire flash has completed and any firmware update has run its course and you are back in bios.

Shut down and clear CMOS

Now at stock - defaults nothing changed at all except for your RAID mode for SATA if needed.

Post to OS and play your game.

Tell me something the slow mo toggle, what is that set to. Use your user manual if you are not sure where or what the settings are.


I will check back later.