ASrock Z77 Extreme4 - GS Ripjaws Questions

[Tradesman]

I'm not a big fan of liquid cooling and try and stay away from building with them, from what I've run into, there are a number of reasonable priced fan based heatsinks that do just as well or better in a non extreme setting. At the lower end the CoolerMaster 212 EVO is a great one ($35) the Zalman 9000 series is more mid to upper and then I lean towards Noctua on the higher end...Liquid helps keep the extreme higher end temps down a few degrees, but even with a 212 EVO and single fan I seldom go over 80F and I am often really pushing the system, i.e. bringing up Win8 in a VM and running BM programs in both 7 and 8 at the same time.

[tonester]

New Observer Comments

Folks, Tradesmen/DonMilagro and others,

I have been studying this thread and wanted to thank you all for your the quality of info and details provided.

Recently I ordered a custom made pc and in hindsight realized that I am not particularly happy about Ram provided which prompted me to find the G.Skill product. Anyway, just wanted to jump in and say hello. I should receive my pc in mail on Thursday and begin setting it up.

I am trying to be careful to not derail this thread off topic. But it appears that my PC is equipped with same MB as this thread and I am interested in upgrading the Ram to F3-1866C8D-16GTX that was discussed in this thread. So it appears that this thread may be a good starting point to dial in some of the settings to tune PC for set up of the mem sticks that I referenced.

So for now I say hello and am very happy that I have found this G.Skill product and quality of forum. Will be checking back soon to offer specs and see where discussion goes.

Take Care all
.....the new guy

[Tradesman]

From one Tman to another T-man, we'll be around, I've had this mobo since about the time it came out, and there's been BIOS problems here and there, but it's been great, I currently am running a 3570K on it at 4.7 and 32GB of the 2400 Tridents

[Britton30]

Welcome T-man, you'll find lots of quality help here with GSkill RAM and SSDs.
(Boy, this will get confusing.)

[tonester]

Sorry about Screen Name

Hey Guys,

thanks for the welcome. By the way tradesman, did not pick up till recently that you go by name tman as I had not seen tman in threads which I reviewed. Purely coincidence that I picked T-man. I actually sent administrator a note asking him if he could change my screen name to tonester. Perhaps you can now guess my first name.

Anyway, just setting up pc now / this weekend. I think I will see if I can fix my ac in this room before working the OC. I live in Hawaii so ambient air needs some improving in this room.

Take Care...

[GSKILL TECH]

We can make that change, so keep in mind if the next time you try to sign on but can't, try tonester.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[Tradesman]

No worries, as far as I'm concerned

[tonester]

Hi,

just wanted to leave feedback that I am running a steady and reliable 4.4 OC on the i5-3570 cpu with voltage at 1.272.

ASRock extreme 6
Thermaltake Case Chaser 41
Asetek Cooler labeld for Intel
etc. more to follow

Was wondering if you could point me to an ASRock download where I can keep track of system temps that can be viewed outside of the Bios. Essentially, looking for system moniter tool kit if available.

This is all I could find and does not seem that anything here is a good fit for system monitoring?
http://www.asrock.com/feature/index.asp


Thanks

[Tradesman]

Should have a utility program w/ the mobo - ASRock eXtreme Tuner - there's also a number of 3rd party apps like Core Temp

[tonester]

Tman,

thanks for the direction. I was able to find it in the downloads section related to that particualr motherboard instead of in the general rescources were I was looking.

Next, wish to keep an eye on the temps under load and also see about the fans.

Thanks Again...

[tonester]

HI,

ok. So in the interest in offering settings here you go:

Performance:
http://www.screencast.com/t/1mVFgXxip4Ed

Settings:
http://www.screencast.com/t/4d1Mm2Sb

Hardware:
http://www.screencast.com/t/zIaZjeV3EaH4

So as you can see I am using the voltage offset and also have Turbo boost enabled at +.02.

So I would appreciate any comments on how robust these settings are in support of [ TridentX ] F3-1866C8D-16GTX. I am not looking for any crazy OC on the ram. But would enjoy some improvement if possible.

My intent is to dial in everthing on CPU settings before doing anything elese. I am actually pleased with current settings but look forward to hearing what others may think?

Thanks..

[GSKILL TECH]

The CPU configuration looks fine, now you just need to work on memory.

Manually input settings for the memory to achieve rated specifications.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[tonester]

Selection of Ram

GSkill Tech,

thank you for the confirming remarks on settings.

Ok, so now the next piece is the selection of Ram. I read in your forums that the Tridant is very well suited for the Ivy Bridge. It also appears that this is your performance line which I want.

I am reasonably confident that 16 gigs of ram is sufficient size for my needs. So it looks like the F3-1866C8D-16GTX is a very good fit for me on the size and performance for an i5-3570. Please confirm that is ram is suitable as high performance for this processor.

Last question for now: if for some crazy reason I wanted to add in another 16 gigs later is this possible to add in additional same sticks if necessary.

Thank You for all your time.

[tonester]

Gskill,
I see you have not updated my screen name. Ok, so we now have all rights reserved for T-man back to tman.

Thanks.

[tonester]

Oops on my last, not = now.