Question ga-z77x-up4 th 3770k last stand

[Icyvisor]

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Realizing that Turbo multipliers set in ga-z77x-up4 TH BIOS for (Gigabyte revision F10b, last available, beta) are (for reasons not really understood) not being respected past 4.1 GHz, somehow I've been able to install and launch Intel Extremal Tuning Utility 7.4.1.3, attempting multiple older versions that preserved Ivy Bridge support (though multiple reboots and second guessing event log errors). Eventually it worked, and takes Turbo past 4.1 just fine. I know I have control over Turbo peaks now.

What else can be done to make this revenant hit even harder?

Any ideas on modern manufacture graphics cards not recognized/no output? The now-in-place GTX 1080 TI is from 2017, from E-bay, also EVGA, blower-type as the 660 TI there originally. I was more-or-less certain this would work, however, prior, three recently made manufactured cards, one from AMD, and including a recent-manufacture 1080 version, gave no output and were returned. BIOS graphics adaptor line is explicitly set to PEG (gen 3 I believe), Intel IGP disabled.

RAM? I have a feeling that the Hynix 32 Gb 1600 CL11 kit is a solid set and a very good purchase:

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Recognized as 1600 RAM in BIOS and Windows without any changes. Any sure-fire way to get another kit that would push the speeds and effective performance further?

Thank you!

 

[punkncat]

Yes.

A new build with anything of or better than an i3 10100.

 

[stonecarver]

RAM? I have a feeling that the Hynix 32 Gb 1600 CL11 kit is a solid set and very good purchase:

Well being this is for your 10 year old son you could just stay at the 16 Gb of memory 32 won't hurt but in less he will have 15-20 google pages opened at the same time the 16 should be fine. Stay with the GPU you have If your all up and working 1080Ti 's still have some kick.

If he wants to play AAA Starfield know you will have to go low settings. But he will be able to play over 989 on high out of the top 1000 games out there. Cool Dad 😀

 

[Icyvisor]

Well being this is for your 10 year old son you could just stay at the 16 Gb of memory 32 won't hurt but in less he will have 15-20 google pages opened at the same time the 16 should be fine. Stay with the GPU you have If your all up and working 1080Ti 's still have some kick.

If he wants to play AAA Starfield know you will have to go low settings. But he will be able to play over 989 on high out of the top 1000 games out there. Cool Dad 😀

This is for me to play with him. So far my old enthusiast platform is performing way past his current consumer laptop. My grass is moving with the wind & all else, visual orgy. He can't have that with the laptop

 

[Icyvisor]

A new build with anything of or better than an i3 10100.

Yes, most likely, yes. However, I think I'll be extracting all that this 3770k can give, stable, on this Gigabyte MB and BIOS, as something I haven't had a chance to touch at the time when it was relevant - yes, a long time ago. Seriously, the way it feels now - not bad at all by any means, no complaints at all, and I know when things are failry fast - and they are... But, as written, accepting any video and RAM advice to push further...

 

[Icyvisor]

Results after finding of an eBay a set of G. Skill Ares PC1700 (2133 MHz) 16 Gb DDR3 set:

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this is most likely it for the old setup. What more could be asked of it? I am proud. The XMP profile settings in BIOS did not come to fruition, memory remained at 1333 MHz, After manually setting the on-label 10-12-12-31 timings and voltage to 1.6, I had to explicitly enable rank and channel interleaving to suddenly see the higher frequencies promised.

The old dog had learned it's old tricks. Oh, boy. This thing is 10+ years old.