AlexKelly

Thanks @entropic remnants, I cleared my CMOS and applied the same settings but using offset voltage. And yes, my voltage is now ramping down along with the frequency. Thanks!!

I'm using manual voltage rather than offset. Would that break it? I will try offset tonight and report back. Otherwise, we have the same settings except I leave my SOC voltage at auto. EDIT; sorry to post so late in the conversation, didn't notice there was a page 2. faded haha was in response to you, @entropic remnants

great guide, getting good results so far at 3.8Ghz on my 1700 using the same board (CH6 Hero BIOS 1107). some things I have noticed so far; - 1.5ghz at idle with occasional spikes to 3.8. - voltage is still reported at a constant 1.35 - 1.37V. - reported CPU power draw in hwinfo64 down to 5-8W from 15-25W. - my 1700 crashes in prime95 at 3.8Ghz using 1.381V, LLC level 2. ;(

Thanks, you've convinced me.. Looking forward to having it improve with age. Such a nice, solid looking board too. The Gigabyte board is tempting as it's $55 cheaper, but sounds like the Crosshair will be worth it. Cheers!

@tom_w141 Hey, was also just wondering if you've found any weird boot/POST issues with the Crosshair? I've found a couple of treads about it regarding MSI and Gigabyte boards, if the Crosshair doesn't have any real issues I'll pick it up tomorrow, otherwise I'll wait for more boards to come out. Cheers

I've always wanted a high end ASUS board so it is tempting! It's $130AUD more than what I paid for the SLI Plus though. Regardless I'm going to follow your guide, I've already looked through it I feel you. Just finished work a few hours ago

Hello again! So I'm returning the mobo tomorrow, so happy my local store will allow for it. @tom_w141 I notice you wrote your OC guide with a Crosshair 6, yet you say still a 30 sec boot time? I get about 45sec on mine, I guess I can't hope for a POST as quick as an Intel mobo. It's either the Crosshair 6 or the Gigabyte AUROS Gaming 5 that I'll be picking up

Thanks heaps guys. I thought MSI had their stuff together with their AM4 boards. I must have been watching & reading sponsored content... Calling the store I bought the motherboard from tomorrow and seeing if I can get it exchanged on the spot, hopefully for a Gigabyte Gaming 5. Thanks again

Now at 3.6Ghz, stable so far. Very frustrating how long the board takes to POST. I'd like to exchange it but I guess it's not a 'fault'.

So I made a single change from optimised defaults, CPU frequency 2700. That's the lowest it can go. So I thought I'd see if I could post with that. No luck. Same issue as earlier. This is enough to warrant returning the motherboard yes? Makes no sense Thanks again EDIT; have booted into windows with at 3200mhz, only this time I disabled 'auto performance boost' in the BIOS

I'm so happy to be able to POST again, but if I can't OC at all I'll be pissed I'll run some stress tests just to make sure everything is okay at stock again.

feeling like such a moron... I was shorting the chassis intrusion jumper, not the CMOS jumper... I'm now in the BIOS, but the CPU debug light still showed for 5 seconds upon boot. Thank you for the advice Mike & Damascus

Didn't take it out yet, I will try that now. I was trying to short the jumper pins with a small metal object... I remove the battery after unplugging power yes? Sorry - can't be bothered researching if you know the answer & can't find anything about the battery in the manual. the board requires power for shorting the CMOS pins, but I feel that wouldn't be the case with the battery right?

This is what I'm thinking, I guess I'll try and return the motherboard after checking the CPU pins. When I was installing the CPU, three corners of the chip would sorta slide into place but the bottom right was sticking up a bit. I tried taking it out and dropping the CPU back in but the same thing kept happening.. I ended up putting very slight pressure on the side that wasn't going in, it clicked but I'm not sure if that was a 'good' click or a 'bad' click.. Given I was running benchmarks fine surely I couldn't have bent the pins though....

That's what I thought I might have done- however When I tried to select 30, it automatically changed itself to 3000. Happened multiple times so I assume that's just how it works