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Board seems stable with F4 UEFI and XMP settings (EDIT: NopeGA-B350-GAMING 3 quick thoughts
More to come
- not full width ATX so it does not use right most MB standoffs. It also has an intermediate hole on the right middle that my case (CM690 1) does not have a location for but I have a plastic standoff from the AT days that I use for extra support
- IO shield is awesome - has a padded dust seal and the outside is black with labels you can actually see
- front panel quick connect header - where has this been all my life?!?
- UEFI - seems nice enough, allows disabling SMT and has very granular core disable that is CCX aware (IE two 4 core modes: 4+0 and 2+2, so might be fun to play with and test theories)
- UEFI - cant figure out where to turn off the Realtek NIC
- Locked up when I tried using XMP memory settings but that was with F3 UEFI, haven't got around to retrying since I applied F4
- Lighting is kinda neat actually. I tuned it to match my CPU fan's LED color. With the stylized glowing lines all over the place it looks like Tron is having a rave in there.
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IMPORTANT EDIT: I just had a lightbulb go off in my head! I had, after recommendations from literally all the people, set my power profile in Windows set to high performance to avoid core parking. Now, that came back to my mind, and I thought to myself: If the OS doesn't park any cores, maybe that's why the processor doesn't recognize the ST workload correctly...
And that seems to be it. With 'balanced' profile, I reach 4.1 on AT LEAST one core in Cinebench ST. Sometimes even two at a time.
So there you go, nothing wrong with our thermals, just shenanigans
I have my 1700X at 3.925 Ghz overclocked and 1.4125v and it is very fast. Not going to reach 4 GHz though, it would require way to much voltage. (This is with a Noctua NH-D15 on an Asus Prime X370 Pro.)This is typically because the user doesnt know the difference between a CPU test and a system test.
Core I7 2700K 4.4GHz +0.030v 4.4GHz +0.20v 4.5GHz +0.20v 4.5GHz +0.20v
Status temp Power Status temp Power Status temp Power Status temp Power
Asus RealBench OK 79-84 318w* OK 80-85 318w OK 80-87 303-319/326 C 0:22 76-83 xxx/325
PRime95 28.5 (8-8-30) OK 84-93 217w C 0:40 82-93 xxx/218
Prime95 28.5 (small) OK 79-89 212w OK 80-90 211w C 1:52 xxx/219
Prime95 28.5 (Blend OK 82-92 215w OK 84-94 201w C 2:26 83-93 xxx/2267-zip OK 68-71 124-173 OK 68-72 126-171w OK 9:20 70-74 126-175/178
Something to add that you can try.Genius!
Of course I had switched to High Performance mode like everyone else, because we were told this improves performance by disabling core parking.
Well:
(sorry for the Swedish, I don't know how to change it)
I'm running Cinebench Single Threaded in the background. I used Task Manager (details tab, right-click the process and select Change Process Affinity), to lock Cinebench to one core (otherwise it keeps jumping between cores, which makes it harder to analyze cores speeds/usage).
For the first third of the graph, I'm in Balanced mode. Then I switched to High Performance, then back to Balanced for the final third.
-In Balanced mode, it downclocks the inactive cores (and probably parks them, too), and overclocks the active core to ~4.1 GHz. (it varies between 4.1 and ~4.075). Occasionally, Windows background processes cause another core (the yellow line) to "spin up", without it affecting the first core (red line). This is because XFR works with up to two cores active.
-In performance mode, you can see all cores settle at 3.7 GHz, which is the highest "all cores" boost frequency of the 1800X.
So it seems what we were told about disabling core parking isn't entirely true. In one way, it improves performance, because parked cores don't have to "spin up". On the other hand, it seems High Performance completely disables XFR, at least with some motherboards. Maybe a BIOS bug?
This information could have saved me about 8 hours of testing and troubleshooting, but oh well..
No problem. I have HWiNFO64 up 24/7 and noticed it was loading both cores in a module before loading any others, a huge NONO. Was curious if that made any difference with some of these new CPUs.
Which chip and can you list the options you changed in your BIOS to hit 4.05Ghz using 1.344v? I have the same board and a 1800x on the way.
