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[kbrady1979]

Were they all similar problems, or were they different?

 

[Britton30]

Different issues, don't ask which had what though. No POST unless defaults set, on chip video not working, dead PCIe Slot, BIOS settings reverting back, unable to run RAM at stock speeds, I think that covers them.

This was all high end equipment and I won't accept less than perfect. Either BIOSes need to catch or maybe the Z87 chipset has some inherent flaws that Intel isn't admitting to yet.

 

[kbrady1979]

That's a shame. Of all the problems Haswell had right out of the gate, and then issues with the platform itself cropping up......you have to wonder if Intel has anything they want to say for themselves. With all the advancements Haswell had to offer, I wondered if it would cause problems in the long run. I think you'll have a good experience with Ivy Bridge.....unless you have the worst luck in the world lol.

 

[Britton30]

I may be wrong, but I think they had some issues with early Z68 boards and paid for a huge recall of them. Between me and Steve's pissy luck all the rest of you should be safe.

Paul I would like to try one of the Ivy E CPUs, if I can use your money. I reckon they should do at least as well as the Sandy E's.

 

[kbrady1979]

Yeah, there were some early Sandy Bridge boards with problems that Intel came out and owned up to. Intel isn't flawless, but you can always bet that they try to make it right as soon as it's feasible....I'll give them that. Also, I wouldn't step up to IB-E unless I was going with the 6-core CPU.

 

[Britton30]

Agreed Kelly, but I need a 6 figure income.

 

[kbrady1979]

Me and you both Gary! There's only a handful of reasons to go with the -Extreme platform, and I don't have any of those reasons lol.

 

[NoN]

NoN, you mentioned WHEA Errors. Some people don't worry about them, others do. But if you would like to get an alert when you get one, this is a very good way to do it. Basically to get out of the WHEA errors, raise the Vcore. But to set up the alert, this is an excellent way to know when you get them, it will automatically put an alert on your screen.
WHEA Error Alert Guide (or "How I got out of WHEAville")

Thank you essenbe, i bookmarked the thread for the long reading.

I'm actually able to low the Vcore a bit (4.2MHz => 1.128v) with no Whea-logger warnings & BSOD since 24h.

I'm expecting a lot of those stable settings that would permit my Cpu & Card to reach higher OC'ing.

 

[paulpicks21]

Here is my latest I.O The joys of editing :roflmao:

 

[essenbe]

A lot of people don't pay any attention to them.And I know software will give you false readings. My P67 Asrock board had slews of them. It took me a couple of months of trying everything until I finally figured out real Temp gave WHEA errors and insisted that all cores shut down, which never happened. But, if you are legitmately having them, keep raising the Vcore.

I got a new 3770K today and want to know what you guys think.

 

[essenbe]

Paul, you could at least edit it to where the numbers work out right. :busted:

 

[kbrady1979]

Steve, I'm not sure about that CPU.......I guess you'll have to send it to me for further analysis. I'll send you my address

 

[essenbe]

I may be wrong, but I think they had some issues with early Z68 boards and paid for a huge recall of them. Between me and Steve's pissy luck all the rest of you should be safe.

Paul I would like to try one of the Ivy E CPUs, if I can use your money. I reckon they should do at least as well as the Sandy E's.

Gary, I would wait until some decent user reviews come out. Even the professional reviewers use engineering samples, not what we end up getting, but even with them expect some tech glitches. Even with this Ivy board, I had problems and ended up RMAing it, when I shouldn't have. Asus had a bad bios update, or rather 3 in a row. It took them a while before they could reproduce it, which enabled them to fix it. We went through a lot of problems for several months before it was finally fixed. The problem was it did not affect everyone and the ones it did, affected them in different ways. But, eventually it was fixed. I guess it was just life in the fast lane. But new tech always has it's problems. There's long threads on the ROG forum about it.

 

[essenbe]

Steve, I'm not sure about that CPU.......I guess you'll have to send it to me for further analysis. I'll send you my address

When you send it, send a round trip plane ticket with it.

EDIT: Truthfully, I have no idea whether it is stable, good or what. I put it in late today and have only played with it for an hour or so. I'll probably know more in a few days. But, so far it looks like a keeper. But, I will sell you the other one.

 

[kbrady1979]

Preliminary numbers look great Steve! CPU voltage looks great, and so does the VID and the temps. Looks on par with the new batch of chips some of the guys have...which is much better than ours.

 

[essenbe]

Same thing I thought. My other one took 1.256V to run AIDA or Prime @ 4.5.

 

[kbrady1979]

Lowest I can get 4.5GHz at stable is 1.240-1.248v. These guys are getting 4.5GHz or better @ less than 1.2xxv

 

[Dude]

Looks really good Steve


Paul what did you do, it should have blown up

 

[essenbe]

Dude, he used GIMP.

 

[Dude]

Dude, he used GIMP.

:roflmao:

Oh I see