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runit3

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  1. 3 minutes ago, Father Dougal said:

    I needed it to update the BIOS. Can't use the BIOS itself for anything at present. Its only just half way through and its been well over an hour now. Something is not right here.

    How did you update it? USB BIOS Flashback is the easiest way. Download the .cap, put in root of FAT32 formatted USB, plug into the designated port on the I/O and hold down the flashback button until it starts flashing, when it's done flashing it's done.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Father Dougal said:

    What I meant was, if I installed a program, say AI Suite 3, the system upon restart would take forever to boot. I don't know its corrupted but you can't actually do anything in it. It just hangs, mouse doesn't move, none of the temp, voltage or fan speed readouts move or adjust like they should do.

    AI Suite 3 is cancer. Ruined all my fan profiles on my X99-Deluxe, painfully slow, wrote over BIOS settings when launched, etc. etc. You sited the only example I can think of for software hosing your BIOS settings unless you really try in Intel XTU.

     

    Uninstall AIS3, flash the BIOS if things aren't better, don't install it again.

  3. 12 hours ago, thekeemo said:

    That is like 5 entries today

    Anyway one person had his standards substantially lowered by HP to the point where a 4.75 was "the best experience ever" and G.Skill seems solid

    regarding your comment @runit3 there is no "not sure" answer because the score cant be "this or this".

    Makes sense, I just went with my best educated guess. I was surprised that no one else had a G.Skill experience, although with the quality of their products and the service I got, I don't think there's too many people out there motivated (in a bad way) to tell about their experience.

  4. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

    CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($369.99 @ SuperBiiz)
    CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($56.60 @ Amazon)
    Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($225.99 @ Amazon)
    Memory: G.Skill Value 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($64.99 @ Newegg)
    Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($179.99 @ SuperBiiz)
    Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
    Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
    Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case  ($99.99 @ Amazon)
    Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX US)
    Total: $1162.52
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-11 01:59 EDT-0400

     

    Leaves ~$400 for a GPU, which I honestly would hold out on buying. Slot in your old card if you have one, or buy a cheap used 280X or 290 until the 1070 gets better availability, or the RX 480 benchmarks come out. 950 pro drive for the OS with a separate ~50GB partition for a scratch disk. Dual WD 1TB's for RAID backup of your finished products.

  5. 1 hour ago, Catalonia said:

    Thanks for the info! I just don't understand why is needed to increase the FSB if RAM voltage goes up to 1.35v

    It's not a correlation beween FSB and RAM voltage, it's the strap necessary to run RAM over 2666MHz. The weak IMC on X99 CPU's contributes to the difficulty in running higher speeds of DDR4, increasing BCLK stabilizes the set-up to a certain degree (along with voltage increases). If you don't want your CPU to run at an OC'd freq. (I don't know why you wouldn't) just lower the multiplier.

  6. If they were selling it as an OEM chip they're just careless and didn't clean off the thermal paste. OEM would mean they had a batch of Dell/HP/OEM supplier machines, stripped them for parts, and took the CPU's to resell. The CPU's were once mounted in the machines, which is why there would be thermal paste.

     

    If you pulled that out of a genuine Intel box that came with a factory fan, manual, etc. it should definitely not have any marks or leftover TIM.

  7. Life is much easier with keeping the original boxes, as you have already figured out, don't get rid of the Xeon packaging.

     

    If I was buying a used CPU w/out the original packaging I would want to receive it in a foam set crush resistant case. Shouldn't be too difficult (or expensive) to spend a few bucks on something like floral foam and use an old cellphone box. Anti-static bag is a plus, but CPU's aren't as vulnerable as bare PCB GPU's or MOBO's.

  8. Why would you take the time to RMA most of your components when you have no idea why it's happening? How did the RMA's even get approved if you have no evidence of a product failure (physical or otherwise)?

     

    Also, what are the actual symptoms? "stuttering like crazy" is an abstract way of stating a potential problem with any component. You need to be way more specific. Does the OS hang when doing certain tasks? Can you reproduce the problem consistently? How do you reproduce it?

     

    If I had to place a bet on what is wrong with the system my first guess would be HDD/SSD misconfiguration, failure, or OS corruption based on "stuttering like crazy" symptoms. Of course that assumes your CPU isn't downclocking due to thermal throttling, improper C-states, voltage droop, etc. etc.

     

    Do some due-diligence in trying to reproduce the problem and get some metrics on the system status when it is happening (clock speed, temps, active software, etc.). No one is going to take the time to try and help if you can't take the time to provide details of the problem.

  9. I killed my old 5960X with 1.78v Vcore under DICE (repeated runs, probably hit 1.85v at one point). VCCIN over 2.0v is not likely to gain you any more stability than leaving it at a respectable 1.85-1.9v (it's a moot point). If you really wanted to fry something pushing 1.5v+ through the IMC via VCCIO/SA is a nice way to kill the usability of a chip.

     

    The new 5960X runs at 1.395v daily (under water) and I have had no degradation over the last 6 months. The only chip I've ever gotten to degrade was a 2550k at 1.525-1.5v for around a month of use (had to notch back the clock by 200MHz and eventually dropped it to 1.45v -no issues ATM reported from the person I gave the build to). This was also coupled with multiple sprints to 1.7v, so take that for what it's worth.

     

    If you really want to get into the nitty-gritty of voltage limits no manufacturer flat out tells people where the maximums are. Mass trial and error reporting is really the only usable metrics we get, and outside of a few people on this forum who regularly push DICE/LN2, overclock.net is the place you will want to go for that type of information.

    http://www.overclock.net/t/1510388/haswell-e-overclock-leaderboard-owners-club

     

    For warranty info there's really no way to prove your CPU was running at a certain voltage, or for how long it was running that voltage. Many people regularly do warranty claims on chips they've killed with voltage, if there's no immediate physical signs of abuse (toasted pin platforms or deformed IHS's) there's not much they can do to refute the claim. This is obviously less than savory, but you can purchase Intel's PTPP for your chip ($25-35 depending on the chip) and blast it with voltage to your heart's content. This is what I did for my 5960X and told the warranty rep that I killed it under voltage. New chip arrived in less than 2 weeks (US shipping) -not sure if that plan is offered in Germany, or how long it would take to get a replacement.

     

     

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