ShockTheMonky

As it stands right now with 44 or 49 I have to disable cxe because system is setup for folding. Load level is not consistant on every core. Using affinity to run multi iterations is where problem kicks. When running at consistant load multi stays at 21x but if load drops on any core then cxe will kick in which kicks core upto 22x instead of dropping multi like cxe should do. This is when turbo performace is disabled and turbo mode enabled.

shamino

ShockTheMonky

As it stands right now with 44 or 49 I have to disable cxe because system is setup for folding. Load level is not consistant on every core. Using affinity to run multi iterations is where problem kicks. When running at consistant load multi stays at 21x but if load drops on any core then cxe will kick in which kicks core upto 22x instead of dropping multi like cxe should do. This is when turbo performace is disabled and turbo mode enabled.

What do you have in mind, CXE was not designed to work with overclocking, everyone who values overclocking disables CXE.

firerx

yeah,
I'm on c6 with the gulfy, and not having any issues, Monkey. Strange! Clocks are right where I set them at on all cores.

shamino

the bold is to repeatedly indicate that turbo performance is not relevant which i have been posting tonnes of times thorughout this thread - you can see for yourself how many times

shamino

why are you looping turbo performance into the story again? it has nothing to do with CXE, 2x turbo multi and what wever you are talking about - just because it came together with a bios that has micro code updates etc does not mean that it has anything to do with those.


then go back to 1J, or shock what would u do in this case?

use old microcodes, make new cpus not work, make 'default setting users not fully able to use 2x multi single core feature?

shamino

so the thing is the cpu micro-code updates - which is needed for all these new cpus. the solution i can see is not to use the newer bios

Mr. Dave

    I updated my BIOS today as I've just fitted a new i7 930.Just exactly as when I tried an update last September, I've now lost the 'LOGO' feature in the 'Advanced' menu.  I've decided to overlook that as I don't use it anyway.   Also this update doesn't seem to have made the total mess the last update did, what a nightmare.   I'm not an experienced overlclocker but I put my Vcore to 1.30v , added 100Mv on theCPU VTT - the Multiplier is at 20 and the BCLK is at 191 and I've got just over 3.8GHz and it took me about 2 minutes, everytihg else is pretty much on 'Auto'.   I don't bother withours of testing, if it runs all my applications without crashing, then as far as I'm concerned it's stable; life's too short.  I'm not trying to overclock to the limit either - I've got an extra 1000Mhz for free and I'm happy with that. 
However I'm begining to think I'm somewhat underwhelmed with this motherboard, especially given it's exorbitant price ($521 at todays rate if you want to have this board where I live)  This is the first manufacturer whose BIOS updates I have had any issues with.  Although only a small detail too, but still oddly annoying, the 'standby' LED is permanently illuminated - I'm also pretty sure that it now takes a slightly longer time to boot since I did this BIOS update too.  Again considering the price I paid, where's the Dolby Pro II surround sound al the others appear to have? the choice of audio seems very basic for such an expensive board.   I also find that 2-digit numerical display totally pointless - it spends most of it's time displaying 'reserved' numbers and it just seems to lack any real usefulness, I am in no way whatsoever any better off for seeing those numbers whizzing around. Why on earth no floppy drive controller? don't you realise what a pain in the arse it is to set up RAID on Windows XP?  I've no idea if the VTe is functioning properly as I ditched the totally awful Windows 7-64 ultimate less than a month after install to return to the 32-bit XP I know & love, and I'm not planning to run any virtual operating systems.  When looking at other manufacturers' higher-end offerings - and many of these have a price tag of around 40-45% cheaper - in fact almost half the money, they seem to be better-featured and equally competent when it comes to overclocking. Looking at some of the forums 4.0-4.2GHz with an i7 920 appears to be pretty easy to achieve with just about any of them.  I bought this board ( mainly to edit photographs with Photoshop CS2 and transcode video, mainly with Virtual Dub) based on the reviews I read, but I really can't see what all the fuss was about.  I can't say I've found a single thing about it that says to me  'this board really is worth the best part of twice the price of similarly-specified products from other established & popular manufacturers - it's obvious to see where that extra money went, and without any doubt it's head and shoulders above the competition'.  Because of that price -funny how I'm having trouble getting away from that price, isn't it? It should work faultlessly, but I can't say it does.  Neither should I be apprehensive of installing a BIOS upgrade, but I am.   
Anyhow there we go, I didn't want to seem negative but I can't see myself being in a hurry to buy another EVGA motherboard in the future.

Dancop

Hey guys,

when I instal that BIOS, my boards just boots up until the win 7 sign appears, then it gives me a bsod. Tried it several times, back to 44 or 60, the issue is flown away. What could that be?