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I hope this post helps folks with GPT, UEFI, M2 drives, sata express, multi sockets, Sata raid, VM, Cuda, and some gaming...
Time for a new build
Expect sexy hardware, new record benchies, some crying, some laughing, some sobbing etc
…and the customary pound of flesh.
Time for a new build
Expect sexy hardware, new record benchies, some crying, some laughing, some sobbing etc
…and the customary pound of flesh.
New Asus Z10PE-D8 WD dual socket motherboard
2x Intel E5-2697 v3 processors (28 cores/ 56 HT, 2.6ghz/3.6ghz Turbo)
256GB Ecc RAM DDR4 2133mhz
1 Samsung XP941 pcie 4x drive 512 (boot drive)
2 Titan Z SC evga video cards (Quad SLI)
8 Samsung 850 1TB SSD in RAID 0
1 corsair aix1500 PSU
Case labs Mercury case
1 Asus pq321qe 4k monitor
On Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate (tweaked) and Hackintosh
Pics
This is my usb stick, 256GB with built in sata controller
I had it made custom, then after I got it, I modified it the rest of the way from a Corsair usb 3 drive
This will be in the display of the case window and is used for the instant recovery part/Macrium reflect
The Russian tube changes display characters and rate based on access and fullness, controlled by two microprocessors
Here you go
I like the Frank Herbert Dune look
and it will match the heat-sinks on the board
(Its the size of a nice fountain pen)
Here are some of the other build pics so far:
Started tweaking bios
There is a plethora of optimization menus in the bios
Here is just one example
I also started playing with just some low level minor tweaks and look at a jump in benchies:
Up around 4143 so far, my highest was 4179
This test has scores that are so inconsistent variations of 1-2% what the heck???
I did my first back up of a configured windows partition (that includes utilities and all my office files, all mail, all the windows os files)
Backup took about 3 minutes using Macrium
the reported speed is Read 10.4 Gb/s - Write 7.2 Gb/s
And here is a partial of the Aida64 snapshot of lite load temps, the room temp was 73.5 F'
Just tried the motherboard bios setting for auto tune
Result when measured in windows with Aida64
Compared to old stock clock of 99.98, mem clock 1064.9 and cpu clock rest 1101, 3143, turbo 3596
new optimized clock of 103.7, mem clock 1107.2and cpu clock rest 1183, 3197, turbo 3774
Side note, I only got turbo frequencies in Aida64 of 3362 up from base of 2.6ghz per the v3 e5-2697 so this occurs because I have Aida using all cores (56) so all cores can lift to 3362
To get the single core frequency for turbo I ran the doom3 built in benchmark (time demo demo 1 1)
Then the logging on Aida shows a turbo of 3774ghz - you have to provoke 2 cores to run at max turbo
So almost 3.8ghz isn't bad at all !!!!
So quite an interesting on bios auto tune. No stability issues, even did two extended back to back burn tests in Aida64
I'm really impressed with the Asus bios auto tune, seems stable and predictable.
It's the first dual cup board with an auto tune utility that I have owned. The z9 did not have one that was usable. The z10 seems rock stable on all it does, and we are still in the early bioses from the recen board release.
In addition, the board has a growing in bios list of turnings for specific applications as shown in the first picture.
Well, can't wait to get into some over-clocking experiments
So here are a few samples taken with my cell phone
Res is 3849x2160
All games run at over 100fps
All eye candy on
Physics max
Havoc at 6 thread minimum
mods and optimizations of course
Enjoy the pics
But please forgive the cheesy cell phone shots
Crysis 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoEpHFwRGYU
Doom3
Unreal Tournament 3
Wolfenstein 2009
Almost there on the tweaking:
with the Asus Z10PE-D8 WS bios I was able to configure full UEFI.
(make sure you installed the UEFI firmware/bios on yer video cards)
On boot the normal storage, raid, devices screens, summary screens and the like...are skipped!
within a few seconds on the monitor MS loading symbol and green wave bar, no logos, no 4 colour window etc.
Remember that to do this you can't use MBR, all your drives, especially the boot drive, must be GPT!
So from power to desktop cut down to feels like nuthin' on load time
UEFI !!!!
here is bios screen shot
Yes, in windows all devices are there, no errors
Now for the interesting:
When you go to uefi as in the storage network video PCI etc - all the normal boot pop up menus for raid etc disappear - which left me wondering for config if I'd have to go from time to time to disable efi to get to those menus
Well, surprisingly no:
All those device menus now newly appear in the bios settings!!
ALSO
after all settings are marked UEFI, you can disable the CSM menu completely!!!!
So cool, so clean!
Speaking of clean, I lowered my ram temps about 8'F with these ram heat spreaders, I took the time to find good heat datasets that also matched the Titans Z and SLI bridge in looks:
...OCD
TEMPS after several hours of mundane email, excel, surfing porn, etc
When not busy doing much the CPUs generally are are 2 to 5'F above ambient
Time for a new build
Expect sexy hardware, new record benchies, some crying, some laughing, some sobbing etc
…and the customary pound of flesh.
Time for a new build
Expect sexy hardware, new record benchies, some crying, some laughing, some sobbing etc
…and the customary pound of flesh.
New Asus Z10PE-D8 WD dual socket motherboard
2x Intel E5-2697 v3 processors (28 cores/ 56 HT, 2.6ghz/3.6ghz Turbo)
256GB Ecc RAM DDR4 2133mhz
1 Samsung XP941 pcie 4x drive 512 (boot drive)
2 Titan Z SC evga video cards (Quad SLI)
8 Samsung 850 1TB SSD in RAID 0
1 corsair aix1500 PSU
Case labs Mercury case
1 Asus pq321qe 4k monitor
On Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate (tweaked) and Hackintosh
Pics
This is my usb stick, 256GB with built in sata controller
I had it made custom, then after I got it, I modified it the rest of the way from a Corsair usb 3 drive
This will be in the display of the case window and is used for the instant recovery part/Macrium reflect
The Russian tube changes display characters and rate based on access and fullness, controlled by two microprocessors
Here you go
I like the Frank Herbert Dune look
and it will match the heat-sinks on the board
(Its the size of a nice fountain pen)
Here are some of the other build pics so far:
Started tweaking bios
There is a plethora of optimization menus in the bios
Here is just one example
I also started playing with just some low level minor tweaks and look at a jump in benchies:
Up around 4143 so far, my highest was 4179
This test has scores that are so inconsistent variations of 1-2% what the heck???
I did my first back up of a configured windows partition (that includes utilities and all my office files, all mail, all the windows os files)
Backup took about 3 minutes using Macrium
the reported speed is Read 10.4 Gb/s - Write 7.2 Gb/s
And here is a partial of the Aida64 snapshot of lite load temps, the room temp was 73.5 F'
Just tried the motherboard bios setting for auto tune
Result when measured in windows with Aida64
Compared to old stock clock of 99.98, mem clock 1064.9 and cpu clock rest 1101, 3143, turbo 3596
new optimized clock of 103.7, mem clock 1107.2and cpu clock rest 1183, 3197, turbo 3774
Side note, I only got turbo frequencies in Aida64 of 3362 up from base of 2.6ghz per the v3 e5-2697 so this occurs because I have Aida using all cores (56) so all cores can lift to 3362
To get the single core frequency for turbo I ran the doom3 built in benchmark (time demo demo 1 1)
Then the logging on Aida shows a turbo of 3774ghz - you have to provoke 2 cores to run at max turbo
So almost 3.8ghz isn't bad at all !!!!
So quite an interesting on bios auto tune. No stability issues, even did two extended back to back burn tests in Aida64
I'm really impressed with the Asus bios auto tune, seems stable and predictable.
It's the first dual cup board with an auto tune utility that I have owned. The z9 did not have one that was usable. The z10 seems rock stable on all it does, and we are still in the early bioses from the recen board release.
In addition, the board has a growing in bios list of turnings for specific applications as shown in the first picture.
Well, can't wait to get into some over-clocking experiments
So here are a few samples taken with my cell phone
Res is 3849x2160
All games run at over 100fps
All eye candy on
Physics max
Havoc at 6 thread minimum
mods and optimizations of course
Enjoy the pics
But please forgive the cheesy cell phone shots
Crysis 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoEpHFwRGYU
Doom3
Unreal Tournament 3
Wolfenstein 2009
Almost there on the tweaking:
with the Asus Z10PE-D8 WS bios I was able to configure full UEFI.
(make sure you installed the UEFI firmware/bios on yer video cards)
On boot the normal storage, raid, devices screens, summary screens and the like...are skipped!
within a few seconds on the monitor MS loading symbol and green wave bar, no logos, no 4 colour window etc.
Remember that to do this you can't use MBR, all your drives, especially the boot drive, must be GPT!
So from power to desktop cut down to feels like nuthin' on load time
UEFI !!!!
here is bios screen shot
Yes, in windows all devices are there, no errors
Now for the interesting:
When you go to uefi as in the storage network video PCI etc - all the normal boot pop up menus for raid etc disappear - which left me wondering for config if I'd have to go from time to time to disable efi to get to those menus
Well, surprisingly no:
All those device menus now newly appear in the bios settings!!
ALSO
after all settings are marked UEFI, you can disable the CSM menu completely!!!!
So cool, so clean!
Speaking of clean, I lowered my ram temps about 8'F with these ram heat spreaders, I took the time to find good heat datasets that also matched the Titans Z and SLI bridge in looks:
...OCD
TEMPS after several hours of mundane email, excel, surfing porn, etc
When not busy doing much the CPUs generally are are 2 to 5'F above ambient
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