Asus Z370 Maximus X Motherboards

OldMike65 said:

Well we seem to have our cpu's running at same speed, 5.0 Cliff. My vcore is 1.264, and my temps unless I am benchmarking are pretty low in normal use.

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I need to set mine to 1.400 to run at 1.392v(power hungry little turd), to remain stable for a couple of hours on Prime95(version 26.6) at:

custom
min & max FFT-1344
run in place

essenbe said:

Cliff, I can't use SVID on this board. It causes dangerously high Vcore spikes. I have to use a negative offset to enable SVID.

I was just trying to show you adaptive is still in the BIOS, not to use it, heavens NO when overclocked

It may be. But it used to be here with these settings. So some things have been changed.

I can use offset and run 4.8 at 1.152V, perfectly stable. If I do nothing but enable SVID save and exit, I will boot into windows at around 1.535V. SVID won't be enabled on this board.

Cliff S said:

I used to use it on my MSI Z170 board and it worked great, never going over my Vcore setting, but on this board, the Vcore would jump to dangerous levels(>1.52v), so I went right back to manual. So I just use all the C States instead on this board for daily use, to use less energy and keep the CPU a bit cooler.

There are some settings that will prevent your adaptive vcore from overshooting, I'll have to check my settings. I have adaptive voltage with a turbo vcore of 1.300v and a - offset set to auto, my vcore overshoots to 1.310v max.

These chips have Intel Speedshift which the chip itself handles vs the older OS handled Speedstep, it works kinda strange though. For example just a few apps using a total of 5% CPU on average results in average idle clock speeds of 3600-4000Mhz. When I listen to music with a few more apps running in the background the clocks average almost 4500Mhz - 1.100-1.200v while the actual CPU usage is still very low!! I still manage to average 90-100W idle total system load but if I cut some apps I can get average clocks of 2500Mhz - 0.900v and 80W total idle system load. I don't understand why Speedshift idles the clocks so high but I believe it may be because the cores can be more responsive when kept slightly higher...

OldMike65 said:

Well we seem to have our cpu's running at same speed, 5.0 Cliff. My vcore is 1.264, and my temps unless I am benchmarking are pretty low in normal use.

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5Ghz stable with 1.264v - do you have a magic chip or something? Most people with 5Ghz I've heard need at least 1.3v

Kol12 said:

5Ghz stable with 1.264v - do you have a magic chip or something? Most people with 5Ghz I've heard need at least 1.3v

I bought this chip from the Silicon lottery site, delidded and binned. Was not cheap either. It is a very special chip for me, Yes :)

Note: Just looked at their site this morning, and the chip I bought, they can't find one that was OC'd as high as this one anymore, or at least for now, as its not even listed anymore.

OldMike65 said:

I bought this chip from the Silicone lottery site, delidded and binned. Was not cheap either. It is a very special chip for me, Yes :)

That's great! It was very expensive for me to order from Silicon Lottery into NZ so I had to pass. Does the reduced thermals seem to allow the chip to reach higher clocks with less voltage do you think? I thought this might have been hard coded in Intel's voltage table as to how much voltage is required for various clock speeds.

Kol12 said:

That's great! Does the reduced thermals seem to allow the chip to reach higher clocks with less voltage do you think? I thought this might have been hard coded in Intel's voltage as to how much voltage is required for various clock speeds.

Its just the "luck of the draw" as every 8700k chip is different, as far as its overclocking abilities. I just got a dam good chip.

Kol12 said:

5Ghz stable with 1.264v - do you have a magic chip or something? Most people with 5Ghz I've heard need at least 1.3v

Not everyone. It's not that unusual.

essenbe said:

Not everyone. It's not that unusual.

Good morning Steve :) Nice pic.....looks just like mine...LoL
Except for the bios version.....