Definitely sounds odd, I hope they can help. I didn't think to ask, but and couldn't see if you said somewhere, but what CPU are you using? What steps (from scratch) are you going through to enable gear1 and how is it failing? What voltage is your memory set to run at? We may be able to offer more help, but I'll at least need some more info other than "this is garbage". That's not a dig at you, I just need more information to try and help. I've been running 3733MHz gear 1 the whole time and others have too unless they run 64GB. It seems 2x16gb is the best setup so far, which you have. It should definitely work.

Using an 11700k. I know for a fact the processor and RAM can handle it. Basically with a stock BIOS, I'll change to XMP profile 1 then change to gear 1. It will just boot loop and eventually get stuck. If I leave on auto gears, it will boot in gear 2. That's basically it. Voltage that is sets to in XMP is correct per G.Skill; 1.35.

Yea, I'll try that and see what they say. Thanks.

This will be a useful data pool.

Well, if the board won't let me run 3600MHz for some reason then at least I can reduce the timings! But that credit goes to the memory. Need to fine-tune it some more.

Ok..  Another question (or two...) for the Hive Mind. 

I'm looking at RAM for the new Z590.  The kit I'm looking at currently is the F4-4000C18D-64GTRS GSkill.  I was reading the article that rblaes_99 linked a while back, and saw the F4-4000C18D-64GTES kit.  Specs on both appear to be identical, but in looking at the listings on Newegg, the first kit is listed as being ideal for Z490, while the second is listed as Z490 and Z590.

I'm not particularly excited by the funky heat spreader on the GTES/Elite kit, preferring the cleaner look of the GTRS, but got to wondering about the info on the Newegg site.  At first blush, it appears to me that it's just a function of the GTRS kit being older by a year, and thus no Z590 mentioned (as it didn't exist at the time), rather than it being 'outdated' and not a good match for the Z590.

Prices are about the same, with roughly $25 difference between them (on Newegg at least), so that's not an issue.  Is there much, if any, difference in performance between them at this point? I know the GTES was 'designed for Z590', but to my (admittedly) inexperienced eye, I'm not seeing anything that jumps out at me that says the GTRS wouldn't run just as well as the GTES on the Z590 FTW.

I tried to do a Google search to see if there was any info that would help clarify things, but only succeeded in confusing the search engine, given the myriad of unrelated results it shot back at me.

This will be my first run at trying my hand at overclocking, etc..  so I don't expect miracles. But if the difference in performance is enough to be noteworthy for the extra $25, I'll learn to live with the funky look of the heat spreaders on the Elite.

i have 8 sticks of ram here.  gskill Bdie 4000mhz and 5333mhz.
 
not stable at all.  come on with the bios update already.

rblaes_99
i have 8 sticks of ram here.  gskill Bdie 4000mhz and 5333mhz.
 
not stable at all.  come on with the bios update already.

Just curious and I couldn't find out if you posted it or not. If I remember correctly, you got 2 sticks to run at 3733MHz gear 1, but couldn't get 4 sticks to do it. Did you try that with your 5333MHz kit at gear2? I know you said 4 sticks wouldn't run it. I'm not going to tell you how much memory you need lol, but I'm wondering if 2 sticks work and unless EVGA can come with a BIOS fix that takes care of it we should just be telling everyone to run 2 sticks lol. 

Hey guys, so I thought I'd post in here now since I feel like I am all dialed in.
 
I got the email from EVGA to purchase my Z590 FTW in late June.
 
I am running an 11900K at 5.2 all core at 1.375v and Crucial Ballistix 3733MHz in Gear 1, 14-17-17-35-1, with 1.45v. GPU is an RTX 3090 FE, which I run OC to +135 on the core, and +800mhz on the memory.
 
I've attached some photos of my BIOS, CBR23, AIDA64 & TimeSpy Extreme scores.
 
Cheers!
 






 

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Awesome stuff, grechie!
 
I'm jealous of your timings! I tried to go even to 15-16-36 and it wouldn't get 5 seconds into a stability test before crashing. So I end up with a pinch higher latency than you, oh well. Good job!
 
I feel like I have my voltage on the core set much higher than others. I see you have a lower setting, but with override, and then a -50% droop. Can you explain why you did that or what it does? Every time I try to read about that, the verbiage they use sounds like circular logic and doesn't make sense...and I am someone that fully understands what voltage droop is lol. I just can't figure out what setting does what I'd like it to do.

Yep no worries, so I'll be perfectly honest when I say this, I didn't really come up with the idea, it was when I watched the EVGA "overcluck" event on Twitch and Jacob said that Kingpin mentioned to him "you always want to have a little bit of droop" and then proceeds to set his board to -50% droop, so I took this advice and set mine to the same, ... but in saying that, I did test with auto droop, and I get BSOD at 1.375v (the voltage droops down to low in CBR23) so -50 is needed to keep it stable.
 
I also watched a YouTube video of Luumi and he also set his EVGA 590 DARK to -50%, so that also backed up that claim!

morning y'all, anyone have a suggestion on how to get posting permissions in the marketplace here? i have a NIB z590 FTW wifi that i'll offer up below msrp since I was able to snag a z590 Dark last week and won't be using both. if anyone is interested, i'm asking $425 shipped.