Crosshair V dropping Ethernet and other issues.
 

well guys....been testing the Crosshair V formula...
the issue is whenever i raise the FSB/HT link it starts to drop stuffs...most of the times its the ethernet ports....
also the ASUS AI suite doesn't work :(

so...any suggestions?

deactivate the ethernet ports :P

lol...deactivation is the only way?

Maybe try latest bios for the board. If you are going for pure performance measurements you should be disabling these features while overclocking to afford more clock cycles to your tests anyway. If you are testing for maximum 24/7 overclock stability, leave enabled and stay under the ht/fsb that causes problems and test from there.

I'm not familiar with the motherboard and its voltages but maybe there is a voltage that when raised allows for higher clocks without the usb/ethernet drop out.

How high are you pushing the HTREF? I usually raise PCIE freq to 101 when bus clocking. Been doing so from back when multiplier locks were not always effective, no idea if it still needs to be done

I still do it. Usually more than 101 also. More like 105-110.

I'm hoping you are not getting the USB overvolt error message upon booting sometimes.

The original board I had would throw that one sometimes and eventually wound up with a "Input out of range" error effectively making that one defective. Sent it in for RMA and the replacement was doing the USB error right from the start with all USB ports dead = It never made it past the POST screen.
I'm waiting for the next one to arrive and see how that one does.