[Success] GIGABYTE Z370 Gaming 7 + Intel Core i7-8700K + RX 580 + (2x) Dell P2715Q 4k @ 60Hz

[jb007]

Oh MagGoo, you've done it again...

This was driving me nuts. I worked out that if a USB stick was plugged in, sleep worked, if not it rebooted.
I was thinking to myself, what was different from this morning till now? I unplugged the USB drive!

Deleted those plists, and sleep now works without USB in.

It's interesting in Mojave how there is no slider for computer sleep (why I wonder?), so I set it via the terminal.

With the recovery partition, I think CCC failed on that part of it. I decided to ignore it.
Is the recovery partition important enough to worry about? If it is, am I stuffed now because I've used the whole drive for the OS?

No, a Recovery Partition is not required, but it can help if things go 'Pear Shaped'.

See this section in CCC's help for info: Cloning Apple's Recovery HD partition

Jim

 

[serega.sv]

Good day! I have a Samsung 970 EVO 250 GB installed on my system High Sierra 10.13.6 .
The system identifies it as an external drive, the disk icon is orange.
This drive is installed in the motherboard ASRock Extreme 4 via PCIe card adapter.
How is your NVME drive displayed?
Thanks for the help in this matter.

 

[jiffyslot]

Good day! I have a Samsung 970 EVO 250 GB installed on my system High Sierra 10.13.6 .
The system identifies it as an external drive, the disk icon is orange.
This drive is installed in the motherboard ASRock Extreme 4 via PCIe card adapter.
How is your NVME drive displayed?
Thanks for the help in this matter.

I've seen something a few months back about this on some other topic/thread -something about the M2 slot vs PCIe SSD scenario. The orange indicates that it's seen as an external USB drive. I think there's a patch out there.

 

[jb007]

Good day! I have a Samsung 970 EVO 250 GB installed on my system High Sierra 10.13.6 .
The system identifies it as an external drive, the disk icon is orange.
This drive is installed in the motherboard ASRock Extreme 4 via PCIe card adapter.
How is your NVME drive displayed?
Thanks for the help in this matter.

I've seen something a few months back about this on some other topic/thread -something about the M2 slot vs PCIe SSD scenario. The orange indicates that it's seen as an external USB drive. I think there's a patch out there.

Good day @serega.sv. Our Mobo build natively supports M.2 NVME drives and they display as internal.

As there are ASRock Mobo's that do and others that don't support M.2's, and I can't tell what you have i.e. Z77, Z170, Z370...
Plus your problem is your M.2 is in a PCIe adaptor which I believe is the cause of your problem.

@jiffyslot is right, there is a patch documented by @RehabMan in this post. It's a very long thread but I believe is still relevant.

I suggest that you update your profile ASAP so readers know what hardware you do have, plus the Moderators do strictly enforce the rules of this forum.

 

[serega.sv]

Thank you for the help provided, I will follow this topic. Have a great mood.

 

[jiffyslot]

Welcome back @jiffyslot! Yep, I broke that rule a long time ago, say no more.
Sure you don't mean OC-ing @5.2GHz?
A few things have changed on my build since I last posted to you, I guess you have read my long rambling posts?

Edit: @jiffyslot, update your signature BIOS (under your avatar) from F5 to F7 before you cop it again.

Jim

The various sig/build/profile pages were a little confusing. I was trying to be really specific with my build components. Q: Did anyone's CPU temps start jumping up with Gigabyte's F7 BIOS with an 8700K? I'm trying to take it easy with the OC. I'm more concerned with over-voltage to my CPU than heat. I'm OC'ing at ~4.5GHz, I've diabled Intel Speed Shift, and temps are around 38-45°C: Can I share some Cinebench and Geekbench info here since I've got the same build?

 

[jb007]

The various sig/build/profile pages were a little confusing. I was trying to be really specific with my build components. Q: Did anyone's CPU temps start jumping up with Gigabyte's F7 BIOS with an 8700K? I'm trying to take it easy with the OC. I'm more concerned with over-voltage to my CPU than heat. I'm OC'ing at ~4.5GHz, I've diabled Intel Speed Shift, and temps are around 38-45°C: Can I share some Cinebench and Geekbench info here since I've got the same build?

Whoops, posted with nothing in it, just like my brain ATM!

Um, I don't see why you can't post your benchmarks, others have in the earlier days of this thread.

I'm not an authority on OC'ing, but your temps look OK for an air-cooled setup mine is OC'ed to 4.9GHz and being water cooled by an AIO unit, my temps hover ~8C above ambient. Today is a slightly warmer day and its around 25C in my small study and the CPU package is hovering around 33-34C. So I guess yours is OK. The main thing is to make sure it doesn't go into CPU throttling because of max temps going ballistic!

From memory, the max I've seen on mine is around 85C running Prime95 torture test with an ambient of around 20C.

Edit: Also I only noticed a change in temp because of the F10 BIOS. I'm back on F7 ATM until I can play around with the voltage settings that Gigabyte have increased in the F10 BIOS. Might also de-lid it as I have the tool and a 15% bigger IHS. (Bigger is always better right?).

I'm curious as to why you have disabled Speedshift though?

Jim

 

[jiffyslot]

I've disabled SpeedShift because it yanks the core frequency around too quickly for Pro Tools, and I'm all about keeping Pro Tools from randomly spiking the CPU. It's an Avid problem. If I were to run Pro Tools on Windows 10, I'm supposed to disable Hyper-Threading and set a "high affinity" to background processes. They need to rewrite their code, but they don't want to pay anyone to do it. So sacrifices (like electricity and special setups) have to be made. Here are my latest Geekbench and Cinebench Scores:

 

[jb007]

I've disabled SpeedShift because it yanks the core frequency around too quickly for Pro Tools, and I'm all about keeping Pro Tools from randomly spiking the CPU. It's an Avid problem. If I were to run Pro Tools on Windows 10, I'm supposed to disable Hyper-Threading and set a "high affinity" to background processes. They need to rewrite their code, but they don't want to pay anyone to do it. So sacrifices (like electricity and special setups) have to be made. Here are my latest Geekbench and Cinebench Scores:View attachment 358871 View attachment 358872 View attachment 358873

Ah, I see. You are after the lowest latency because of audio work etc. My brother used to do a lot of recordings on Windows of Jazz concerts etc. He was always disabling various background process to reduce the 'Latency'... a 'holy grail' he occasionally found!

 

[benoithock]

Are you using it for video editing with Premiere CC ? I have big issue with hardware acceleration rendering crashing the system.
Some experience with that?