Crosshair VI Hero: UEFI build update thread

[SIMONHANDLEY1]

hey guy's I said that last week, I went back to 3008 and I am getting 3.85Ghz with Corsair dominator 32gb at 3.1Mhz. Also the bios causes the CPU to throttle back which makes it unstable!

[Clouseau]

Okay, i ran the 6001 bios for a while, the ram speeds that i previously mentioned are a lot better, but the bios causes a lot of crashes and BSODs and instability, so i've switched back to 3008 for now. Once a more stable version of the 6001i will definately upgrade though.

6001 changed a few things. Here is what I needed to change to get the same timings stable:

DRAM Voltage
3008: 1.39000
6001: 1.38000
ProcODT
3008: 60ohms
6001: 48ohms
RttNom
3008: Disabled
6001: RZQ/7
RttWr
3008: Off
6001: RZQ/3
RttPark
3008: RZQ/5
6001: RZQ/4
VTTDDR Voltage
3008: 0.69300
6001: 0.69300
VPP_MEM Voltage
3008: 2.4950
6001: 2.4900
VDDP Voltage
3008: 0.9150
6001: 0.9000
VDDP Standby Voltage
3008: 0.9150
6001: 0.9000
2.5V SB Voltage
3008: 2.5400
6001: 2.5200

Was able to play with the RttPark setting for the first time to see how it influenced performance. It is a great step in the right direction. Just need to get the right ram data bus settings for your setup and all will fall into place. Corona Renderer bench mark improved from 4,054,xxx to 4,060,xxx rays processed. So there is a slight improvement in that case. Running a BCLK of 100.6 and a cpu multiplier of 39.25 and ram at 3487 C15 (15-15-15-15-35-50-4-4-16-4-8-12-Auto-3-3-262-192-132-11-5-12-2-1-4-4-1-4-4-8).

[jbasemoine]

Check the stability ram running @ 3600 and it's not stable at this time.
When playing games or doing anything that stresses the RAM windows or the program will crash, tried the same thing with ram tuned back to 3466 and all was stable with no crashes what so ever!

It pleases me to see that i can boot with ram @3600 (finaly) and so far did not have had any problems with cold booting, though some more tweaking they wil iron out the stability!
Even though it took +/- 1 year for this board to cold boot on 3600 i'm verry pleased at this moment to see that 3600Mhz is achieveble!

[jbasemoine]

p.s. Note that i run my 1800x at Stock clock, i have only set Ram timings and set volt to 1.40!
I'm going to try to run ram @3600 with ram set to 1.45volts to see if this bring more stability!

[Red Core]

p.s. Note that i run my 1800x at Stock clock, i have only set Ram timings and set volt to 1.40!
I'm going to try to run ram @3600 with ram set to 1.45volts to see if this bring more stability!

It makes not much sense to go above 3200 with the ram.
There r many test results in the internet, everything above 3200 cl14 is just a tiny improvement about +0% - 3% and only if its the best ram with lowest cl.
If you reached more than 3200, then tighten ur timings of the ram, that would increase the performance aswell.

And if u didnt done it, use ur ram in dualchannel.

[Clouseau]

It makes not much sense to go above 3200 with the ram.
There r many test results in the internet, everything above 3200 cl14 is just a tiny improvement about +0% - 3% and only if its the best ram with lowest cl.
If you reached more than 3200, then tighten ur timings of the ram, that would increase the performance aswell.

And if u didnt done it, use ur ram in dualchannel.

Would beg to differ about performance above 3200. Those tests can say whatever they want. Ryzen starts to wake up above 3200 with tight timings. Actual FPS may only improve by ~ 3% but everything outside of that is noticeably far more responsive. Gaming, currently, diminishing returns starts to kick in after 3200. Raw cpu GHz is not as important as how the ram is set. Just the few Mhz above 3466 with the timings from my post above made noticeable improvements. Performance is not shabby with ram at 3200 but the combination of tight timings and 3466 or above, feels like the whole system is just beginning to stretch its legs. Setting up the CBS section, in particular the DF Common Settings, has noticeable impact on performance; not just talking gaming. Each interleaving discipline has its advantages and disadvantages along with the interleaving size. Personally have found that an interleaving size of 512 ended up being a decent compromise. Plus did not purchase this board to not push the limits no matter how small the gains end up being. Right wrong, or indifferent; just my opinion.

[Syaoran]

Would beg to differ about performance above 3200. Those tests can say whatever they want. Ryzen starts to wake up above 3200 with tight timings. Actual FPS may only improve by ~ 3% but everything outside of that is noticeably far more responsive. Gaming, currently, diminishing returns starts to kick in after 3200. Raw cpu GHz is not as important as how the ram is set. Just the few Mhz above 3466 with the timings from my post above made noticeable improvements. Performance is not shabby with ram at 3200 but the combination of tight timings and 3466 or above, feels like the whole system is just beginning to stretch its legs. Setting up the CBS section, in particular the DF Common Settings, has noticeable impact on performance; not just talking gaming. Each interleaving discipline has its advantages and disadvantages along with the interleaving size. Personally have found that an interleaving size of 512 ended up being a decent compromise. Plus did not purchase this board to not push the limits no matter how small the gains end up being. Right wrong, or indifferent; just my opinion.

The snappy response of every click and program opening when RAM speeds are above 3466 is a noticeable difference as well.

[Darth Ender]

If people are doubting the truth of what you are saying, throw some phoronix or similar benchmarks up that test the system instead of just graphics or one subsystem and it should be pretty clear when all you change is the ram speed that performance is improved significantly.

No need to rely on feelings and it shuts everyone up.

[Mace ya face]

Just dropping to say that both the 3502 and 6001 lock my 1700 CPU to 2.25GHz/2.7GHz. The 2.2GHz lock happens if the CPU multiplier or CPU voltage is changed from Auto, the 2.7GHz lock occurs if the multiplier and voltage are left on Auto.

• RYZEN 1700
• G.Skill TRIDENT Z RGB 2x8GB
• ASUS CROSSHAIR VI HERO
• ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080TI OC Edition
• SAMSUNG 960 EVO 250GB (Windows 10 Pro 64-bit)
• AMD chipset drivers are up-to-date (17.80 package)

[Red Core]

Would beg to differ about performance above 3200. Those tests can say whatever they want. Ryzen starts to wake up above 3200 with tight timings. Actual FPS may only improve by ~ 3% but everything outside of that is noticeably far more responsive. Gaming, currently, diminishing returns starts to kick in after 3200. Raw cpu GHz is not as important as how the ram is set. Just the few Mhz above 3466 with the timings from my post above made noticeable improvements. Performance is not shabby with ram at 3200 but the combination of tight timings and 3466 or above, feels like the whole system is just beginning to stretch its legs. Setting up the CBS section, in particular the DF Common Settings, has noticeable impact on performance; not just talking gaming. Each interleaving discipline has its advantages and disadvantages along with the interleaving size. Personally have found that an interleaving size of 512 ended up being a decent compromise. Plus did not purchase this board to not push the limits no matter how small the gains end up being. Right wrong, or indifferent; just my opinion.

But the most common question is about the gaming performance, because this board stands for ROG.
You r right, in non-gaming scenarios its performance increase noticeable with the faster ram.