most boring 3 hours of my life. Seriously lol.
It took a little doing and some tweaks but I am finally to where at least -I- am comfortable with everything. If you are going to say "well you gotta run X stress test overnight or it ain't stable" then I guess I'll just declare I'm not stable according to you, guy who says this. :cool:
~1 hour of Intel Stress incl additional ~5 minutes on extreme setting (I was crazy bored but I wasn't sure if "standard" was normal so I ran this for a short bit just to see if I would make it through a couple passes)
~30 minutes of Realbench
~15 minutes AIDA64 Stress
1 Full 100% pass on HCI memtest @ 8GB (4 instances)
Another 10 passes of Intel for a screen snip of results
during the memtest I was using the computer as well, in notepad anyway just typing some things in.
Here are the changes I made and also I guess a more detailed list of my settings:
-120 Bclk / 34.5X
-3360mhz DDR4 w/ 14, 14, 14, 14, 35, 55 (yes I moved up one from 34)
-Gen 2 PCIe
-1.38675v Vcore
-1.1v SOC
-4.1v DRAM and Boot voltage
-1.8v PLL
-CPU LLC Level 2
-Spread Spectrum Disabled
-Super I/O Clock skew disabled
-no other LLC or other changes in digi+ made
-Windows Fast boot disabled
-High performance power mode
-For GPU AIDA bench I overclocked the Asus Strix (non OC edition) to 150/250
(If I left anything out that anyone wants to know just ask)
No weird behaviors so far although it will take a few days for me to see sleep resumes, heavy gaming, etc results. Mouse cursor lags a bit during startup while all my apps get brought in but it always does that. In fact, I've not been very happy with boot times since my CHVI formula - my ITX build uses an AsRock board and it boots like lightening on an SSD, but on my NvMe even it still takes 20 seconds plus some time on the end if you count app loading in background that slows things down for a little while longer. BUT, my ASUS boards are always rock solid and stable so I don't mind.
I didn't think to take snips of everything so I ran Intel Stress again for just 10 passes to snip the results for naysayers
😛 The other pics are benches
Final max temp I recorded was 49.7 celsius so I am pretty happy with that - this was after nearly an hour of stressing so the water had plenty of time to stabilize at that temp and not go any higher! Some pics below and I thought I'd go ahead and o/c the GPU and test it in AIDA just to show.
So that's it! If I run into issues I'll come back and say whoops. Also, I've never really done any posting like this before, and I've never shown off my rig online before I don't think, so I though maybe I would get some feedback as I am rather proud of this one. Also, I've always like the ROG stickers I get but I never use them - I did this time, so tell me do you think they are tastefully applied? lol
Sorry about the last pic, it won't upload straight up for some reason. Later all! :cool: