Picked up an Asrock Extreme6, total fail sauce,
so saw a EVGA X79 SLI for cheap and grabbed that (little did I know...)
However, it has been solidish.. corrupted my HDD pretty bad and had some wicked 5 minute boot times (it did boot though ) and every time I set a memory clock in BIOS I hit save and reset and the PC just shuts down. Hit power button though and it works.
Read about 2400 MHZ mem multiplier, okay I used 1.25X bclck in BIOS
Noticed some other things.
I already knew about Intels EXTREMELY forgiving IMC. I had a dead stick of RAM on X58 and took me a while to figure it out since the system ran fine just at less memory total. what I do not recall from that or sandy, was how much you have to fine tune the voltages.
I see people posting "I can run at X.XX voltage" and I am like? Wow that is low, then again I can do it to. It just is not stable or produces lower benchmarks scores if I use those lower voltages.
I am only running 40x for memory testing which works fine at 1.2v, I have increased to 1.35 volts for 2133+ memory testing, because. it was necessary for stability.
IO/SA 1.05 and 1.1 respectively.
Increasing IO/SA at lower vdimms improves performance (IE at 1.55vDIMM I can superpi and stuff but need 1.1/1.2 on io/sa), until it gets to a point it reduces performance (1.2/1.25 which is default XMP voltage), increasing vDIMM allows me to reduce those, again increasing performance.
Marginal increases but every little bit helps nes pas? Wondering if anyone else noticed this, is it an SB-E thing, cuz I never noticed it on SB. Still have not gone IB either. Not interested in a spastic colon.
Oh I am running a c2 stepping chip if that matters.
Am I crazy? (dont answer that)