Recent content by ian.egerton

There is definitely something up with the sata on this board. The ASMedia ports are very flaky. They randomly just don't recognise drives. It's not an issue with the drives either as I have tried multiple different drives that always work in the standard sata ports but then have issues with the...

So I purchased a new PSU (Corsair TX550M). Initially I though all was fine but first of all no drives on the Asmedia ports SATA3_A2 & A2. I swapped drives around ports etc and they will always appear on the non "A" ports. So it's not a cable issue. Disabling XMP consistently fixes the issue...

Further to this. If I reduce the number of drives connected to the MB, the rest of the drives appear again in the BIOS even with XMP enabled. Does this point more evidence towards the issue being the PSU?

I'm on BIOS version 4.10 dated June 2019. There is only 1 newer version with not much details about what's in the release. My PSU is a Corsair Builder series V2 500W 80+. It is 9 years old now, so perhaps getting on a bit.

Hi, I have an ASRock Z370 extreme4 MB and have been using it for the past 6 months as an UNRAID server. I have 7 HDD's attached and up until last night everything was fine. I needed to reboot UNRAID and when I did it came back up with a drive missing. I hooked it up to a keyboard and monitor...

Hi, My current setup is as follows. PC: Intel i7 8700K @ 4.8Ghz overclock 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz WD Black WDS250G2X0C NVMe 1TB Samsung Evo Plus 1TB WD Black SN750 3 x 4TB HDD 2 x 12TB HDD NAS: Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 3 x 4TB HDD 1 x 12 TB HDD All in JBOD Requirement : I want a more...

Cheers again. I'm in Ireland, so we are in summer (of what we call summer, as it's so crap still :ROFLMAO:). Room temps will rarely get above the 19 - 22 degrees mark.

Sorry one more question. Do you think it would be wise to upgrade my cooling solution to something higher rated? Something like: Dark Rock 4 Noctua NH-U14S Noctua NH-D15

Thanks for the reply and all the help. I'll have a play around to see if I can get it to stabilise more. I don't stress it that often so as long as it is stable for handbrake sessions that's all I need for now. Thanks again.

I just ran it for a few minutes (making sure I reset everything in HWiNFO). The min is 1.184V and max is 1.248V.

So, I ran some longer tests on prime95 and had instability (BSOD). So I changed the offsets and repeated until I got to an offset of +10 without BSOD. The results are as follows: Prime95 VCore - Min - 1.184V Max - 1.248V Avg - 1.192V 80 degrees 167W Handbrake VCore - Min - 1.216V Max -...

Hi, I disabled AVX and now prime95 is rock solid with temps holding at an average of 77 degrees with a power draw or just under 160W. This is with an OC of 4.8GHz and an offset of -30 producing a VCore of 1.164V.

Update. So I removed the heat sync and cleaned everything off and re-applied thermal paste. There has been an improvement of about 10 degrees in both idle and under load. I can run handbrake at 4.8Ghz with a VCore of 1.23v holding steady at floating between 72-74 degrees. Idle temps are down...

Hi, Thanks for the reply. My room temperature ranges between 19 and 22 degrees. Based on what most have been saying here I might look into getting a better cooling solution (like the Noctua NH-D15) for the CPU and see where that takes me. I have run memtest and everything was normal also.

Yeah, even my idle temps even at stock are too high I think (between 35 and 42), whereas these were never an issue previously (or the last time I checked) that's why i think it's the cooler and/or paste.