Same old same old

no issue at all.

and yea. Surprising enough. I took the case apart, undone cable management and everything, put it back together with 1 DIMM and the Celeron with stock cooler and it booted right up. Then powered off and put the 2600k and 212 in there and it still booted up. Don't know what the heck was causing the no boot before, but apparently it was not the board itself. May have shorted against the case or something. Funky stuff here.
 
Probably shorting on something then, or maybe just wasn't installed correctly? Are you still going to go ahead and get the Sniper now then?
 
Probably. But it will go farther down the list since this one has 8/8 SLI.

not really sure about it. Holding hope, but not expecting anything from this board.

Think what I will do is just get the speakers and save the rest this month now, that way i can get the case, extra 480, and PSU all at the same time.
 
Ill still say they could have laid out the CMOS/BIOS/UEFI better than they did. There was nothing wrong with the simple blue screen that had been around for years. I think it is up and running @ 4GHz on 1.250V with turbo off. That is all fine.

Support system needs work seriously.
 
Hmm the UEFI BIOS on my ASUS looks nice and is easy to navigate. I do agree though there wasn't anything wrong with the older style BIOSes.
 
Well, there is nothing wrong with looking nice. but it looks all in the world like they were trying to maxx the looks without even putting 10 seconds into how it functions.
I guess Im in the few that believe in function over ascetics.

Bad news is that it is maxed at 4GHz even on all cores. Powerful, yes. Intel burn test on "very high" netted a top temp of 97*C on core 3. Feels a bit high. but at least stable.
 
97C is too hot really. What temps are the other cores running at and what software are you using to monitor the temps?
 
85-92 and coretemp. Has never led me astray before. Should I try the extreme tuner app built for this board to see the temps and rerun it?
 
Something's not right if you're getting temps that high with a 212 and a 2600K @ 4.0GHz. Could try running that Extreme Tuner thing, worth a try.
 
Could it be that the cooler is pulling air from off the GPU? I can shut it down and turn it to pull from the front and thus blow out the back.

Extreme tuner is showing 94* with FAH running. Shut down FAH and its running ~50* currently. Seems off though, as that is only 10* 100% use at stock.
 
Yes, those 480s aren't known to be the coolest of cards, so I would try rotating your cooler to make sure it isn't pulling from your 480 or anything else which runs out and then see if the temps are any better.
 
Pulling heat from the GPU is one of the 2 reasons I rotated mine to flow from front to rear.
The second reason was my PS being mounted up top.

50c does seem to be extremely high at idle.
And if you aren't folding I wouldn't think you would pull much heat from the 480.
Before my FX MB died it idled around 11-13c.
 
Have you moved it yet? Temps should be quite a bit lower if it's not pulling heat off your GPU.
 
on run 5 of 10 with burn test. I like what it is doing currently. 62 on core 1, 64 on core 2, 70 on core 3 and 64 on core 4, and the HT threads reading the same temps as th parent core naturally.

Rock solid stable. 45* on the 480 now too.

Should I try 4.2 or 4.4 maybe? or leave it well enough be.

And note I lowered the vCore to 1.210V.
 
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