Crosshair VI Hero: UEFI build update thread

[SIMONHANDLEY1]

Yes I did that last night, D.O.C.P. standard, target frequency 3200mhz, but when I restarted the PC, it was still saying 2133mhz?

[sbakic]

Yes I did that last night, D.O.C.P. standard, target frequency 3200mhz, but when I restarted the PC, it was still saying 2133mhz?

Try to add next settings.

Set CPU SoC Voltage to Auto (with 'Auto' it should be set to 1.15V, but AMD recommend for 3200Mhz mannual 1.1V). But first try to set to 'Auto' and see if it is 1.15V if it isn't set to between [1.1V, 1.2V]. Set DRAM Voltage to 1.35V, set in DRAM Timing Control -> DRAM CAS# Latency to 15 or 14(lower is better but first get it stable so go with 15 or 16) and Cmd2T to 2T. Try this first. I just started to learn about OCing RAM so I don't know much about it.

I don't know anymore what is SoC voltage, I though it was for RAM but I can ran AIDA64 RAM stress test with 2x16GB @3000Mhz CAS15 with Soc 0.935V, which for now I think it is too low, because all they recommend SoC 1.1V.

[SIMONHANDLEY1]

Thanks will try that tonight. Cheers Simon.

[Syaoran]

Thanks will try that tonight. Cheers Simon.

Personally, I would try 1.4v to 1.42v for your RAM if you can't get stability at 1.35v. Which BIOS are you running? Each BIOS reacts differently and the more recent BIOS's require more voltage than I personally think they should to obtain stability.

[Maximusst]

This is probably true. I didn't even try to overclock RAM yet. Basically, when you want to overclock PC, you first overclock separately CPU and RAM, and then you try both. I am finishing CPU overclock and strating RAM overclock. I have 3000Mhz 2x16GB RAM and for starting test I run CinebenchR15 and it works with SoC 1.087V. I can't say it is stable because it passed only CinebenchR15 and I just started testing. You need to learn about voltage at idle and at load. For example I set manual SoC to 1.1V in BIOS and monitoring with HWiNFO64 SoC at idle is 1.096V and at load SoC is 1.086V. Which means 2x16GB @3000Mhz is stable at SoC of 1.086V for CinebenchR15.

Good news sbakic, i've jumped up a few steps in memory speed ! Thanks to the Ryzen DRAM Calculator. Not sure if i filled out all the values correctly ,but when i set the ram according to the Voltage Block, Termination Block and CAD_Bus Block reccommended settings it finally booted @ 3200mhz, unfortunately , getting a bsod about storahci.sys (maybe driver related, i will try updating the chipset drivers). For now i'm scaled back one tick above the rated speed to 3133, which is now working like a charm !

specs:

Crosshair VI Hero 6
Ryzen 1700 @ 3.88Ghz
2x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z ( F4-3200C16D-32GTZKY)

[sbakic]

Good news sbakic, i've jumped up a few steps in memory speed ! Thanks to the Ryzen DRAM Calculator. Not sure if i filled out all the values correctly ,but when i set the ram according to the Voltage Block, Termination Block and CAD_Bus Block reccommended settings it finally booted @ 3200mhz, unfortunately , getting a bsod about storahci.sys (maybe driver related, i will try updating the chipset drivers). For now i'm scaled back one tick above the rated speed to 3133, which is now working like a charm !

specs:

Crosshair VI Hero 6
Ryzen 1700 @ 3.88Ghz
2x 16GB G.Skill Trident Z ( F4-3200C16D-32GTZKY)

You can check your current and recommended RAM settings with this tool http://www.softnology.biz/files.html too. And you can check VDD Voltage and SoC voltage with HWiNFO64 too, this is the best tool monitoring.

You can try to rise BCLK to 100.2MHz or 100.4MHz, to get RAM @3200Mhz, but I would recommend to set in DRAM Timing Control -> DRAM CAS# Latency to 15 and Cmd2T to 2T, and everything other to auto. Values with 'Auto' should be higher than you set and you will lose little speed which you will not see, but you will get more stability. You could even try to set CAS Latency to 'Auto' only Cmd2T to 2T. From my experience everything you set to 'Auto' will go to more than needed, which is good starting point.

And that tRC setting that you have at '51', for my RAM it is recommended that value too, but I got my stable at '71' value. So you can try that too.

[JohnnyKurzschluss]

geeeez, I can finally run 3200MHz on my 4 sticks!
I haven't enough time to test stuff, but what i tested: nothing above 3200 will POST with set timmings, no matter what CLDO_VDDP or SoC voltages mean (seemed very important to me ).

But didn't test that much for 3200MHz. It wen't stable with cldo_vddp values from 900 to 980 mV, so I didn't expect it would help testing more of them (I wonder what's being used for a default...).
However using stock CPU clock, things (apps or even the whole os) froze pretty soon, sometimes even before completing boot.

I like the low voltages for it's stock clock - changing it seems to have only one new value, no matter how far the clock really changed (I still don't need 4GHz on a 8 core system).
But expecting something weird, i changed it to 3.875GHz and gave it a -0.04V offset on core voltage rendering it running around 1.3V: no freeze so far.

I like my system unfrozen. Have been using the ram's given (XMP) timmings and 1.35V to 1.38V on it.

I think it should be able to go slightly over 3200 or at least get fully stable - if anyone can help: please

[Riekopo]

EZUpdate is not seeing or downloading the new BIOS 1701 to my Crosshair VI Extreme motherboard. I've never had this problem before. My CPU is a Ryzen 7 1800X.

[Red Core]

EZUpdate is not seeing or downloading the new BIOS 1701 to my Crosshair VI Extreme motherboard. I've never had this problem before. My CPU is a Ryzen 7 1800X.

You should go there and click on bios:
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/RO...Desk_Download/

If u want the latest bios, version 6001.

[SIMONHANDLEY1]

Well I updated to the latest Bios and now my system is stable at 4ghz and ram 14-16-16-36 at 3.1mhz! I don't know why but my motherboard seems to like Bios updates, before I could not even post past 2666mhz on my memory, running temps even under load no higher that 55, idle at 40 degrees, so I am pretty chuffed!