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You can use the mouse because the board has UEFI BIOS technology.
Ohhh! Makes sense. My old BIOS was not UEFI
What are we talking about? For CPU power, only one is needed unless you are going extreme cooling. If we are talking supplemental power to the PCIe slots, and you are mining or running multiple GPUs, then yes, plug it in.
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Since no one else mentioned it, I would shy away from going crazy upping the BCLK. Upping the BCLK overclockers everything including PCI-E busses for your video card and SATA ports for your hard drives. Going higher than stock increases the risk of frying your video card, losing a hard drive, or corrupting your RAID controller. Keep the BCLK at stock (or no higher than 103) and go with your multiplier or RAM timings for overclock.
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Yes we are. So I only need the 1 Power pin for CPU?
Okay thanks. What about 103 BCLK? If I go 103.5 I can get 3.4 Ghz
It's still alive and stable at 102 BLCK (it running that now)
EDIT: Yes RAM timings are going to be tightened tonight. I'll defs need advice/help on that.
Any tips/stickyes for me??
For the CPU (8 pin around socket area), just one. With un powered risers, if the board has supplemental power lead for multi gpu setup (sometimes sata/pcie/or even molex), use it. With powered risers, you would not need to.
EDIT: That said, your HD4 has NONE of those options even available.....Im confused...
EDIT: That said, your HD4 has NONE of those options even available.....Im confused...
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ED, he's wondering if he needs just four pins or all eight.
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8 it is then.
I'm gonna make a memtest bootable USB, lower my tCL and tRP by one, run memtest and lower the others by one.
Following this guide : http://www.masterslair.com/tightening-your-memory-ram-timings
I'm not sure how (other than RAM dividers in the BIOS) to OC the memory, so I might as well keep it at 680.5 Mhz (dual) and tighten them timings.
I'm gonna make a memtest bootable USB, lower my tCL and tRP by one, run memtest and lower the others by one.
Following this guide : http://www.masterslair.com/tightening-your-memory-ram-timings
I'm not sure how (other than RAM dividers in the BIOS) to OC the memory, so I might as well keep it at 680.5 Mhz (dual) and tighten them timings.
For tweaking, sure why not, but do not expect performance gains with it (so, for me, I don't waste my time) for how you are using it. It can only lead to instability honestly. Id leave it at stock, especially if this is your miner...
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In some situations it does, but not in most games. Synthetic benchmarks, it will. But realworld, there is not much that responds to memory speed and timings.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/...333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/...333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill
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Really? I thought the timings really affected performance?
It's pretty minimal to be honest.
I can change my CL7 DDR3-1600 from the stock 7-8-7-24 at 1600MHz to 6-8-6-24 at 1600MHz.
But, I really didn't notice any performance difference as far as being able to "feel" a difference in normal daily tasks. I only saw some minimal differences in benchmarks.
Changing the Command Rate from 2T to 1T can potentially improve performance (primarily in benchmarks), but not by much for average daily usage.
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Oh.
What if I run them at 1666 Mhz? (If it can anyway)
Or same thing, no real gains?
What if I run them at 1666 Mhz? (If it can anyway)
Or same thing, no real gains?
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Interesting read.
I glanced over it rather quick, but I was very surprised to see DDR-2000 9-9-9 lose to a DDR-1666 7-7-7 in random read.
I'll continue to read up in that article.
But a status report: Memtest passed at 8-9-8-24, so I'm running Memtest with 8-8-8-24 right now.
I'm aiming for 7-7-7 or something, but I'll play with it all night. Gonna try higher speeds too.
(Hehehe! I love having the freedom of a Z77 chipset )
I glanced over it rather quick, but I was very surprised to see DDR-2000 9-9-9 lose to a DDR-1666 7-7-7 in random read.
I'll continue to read up in that article.
But a status report: Memtest passed at 8-9-8-24, so I'm running Memtest with 8-8-8-24 right now.
I'm aiming for 7-7-7 or something, but I'll play with it all night. Gonna try higher speeds too.
(Hehehe! I love having the freedom of a Z77 chipset
)
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Hmmm! Okay I have more reading to do it seems!
Noticed your sig memory, looks like stock timings to me.
Did you ever tighten them to see if there is a real difference?
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Hmmm! Okay I have more reading to do it seems!
Noticed your sig memory, looks like stock timings to me.
Did you ever tighten them to see if there is a real difference?
No need to, gains from 1600 CL9 9-9-24 2T are negligible. Especially considering the time spent and stability that could be lost.
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Okay so it seems OCing the memory is kind of a waste of time then for the average joe.
Well why do they make DDR3 2300 RAM and such? Just for the benchers?
Or some marketing gimmick?
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