i7-4930K - Asus Rampage IV Extreme - 32GB RAM - GTX 770 4GB [Success!!]

[geminii]

ahh yeah sorry, I failed to realize the 760 was not part of the web driver list and that the 980 was, in fact, a TI so the non TI 10 series cards have less cuda cores, however the 1080 TI will have 3328 cores vs the Titan X Pascall having 3584 so you might actually be better off with two 980 ti's for the price of a 1080 ti when they are available and if nvidia ever puts the support in the web drivers.

in order to get your ram to run at its stated speed you may have to enable X.M.P profile in your Asus BIOS, mine runs at 1333 until I enable X.M.P then i get 2400, This IS over clocking your memory even though thats the speed the RAM was sold as having (think of it like the base clock and turbo clock of the CPU, same idea) and it will effect any overclock you have on your CPU but if you do it right you can have both, my memory is at 2400 and my 3930k CPU is at 4.8ghz

Pop your memory out and switch the dimms around and blow out the sockets on the motherboard just to make sure they are fully seated, i had a couple issues like that too

Thanks. Yup, XMP did the trick. My memory is now reporting as 1600mhz in bios and in MacOS. Hopefully this will help with some of the weird problems I have been experiencing lately. I currently don't have my CPU overclocked. I might try but I am worried that this ram isn't good enough to begin with. From what I read at ROG, people seem to notoriously have problems with Corsair and the RIVE. I read on another site that G.Skill 2400mhz seems to be way to go if I want to OC this particular CPU (3970x).

I just don't know what is going to give me biggest bang for the buck right now. Cheaper to replace all my RAM and put in 64Gb of G.Skill then to replace both of my GPUs for sure. Adobe seems to love the added and faster RAM, but DAZ seems to really want more Cuda and better GPUs. Faster rendering in FCPx is a no go for me entirely unless I throw in AMDs.

 

[shilohh]

with and without CSM enabled,
curiously this time with CSM off HDMI was in my settings sound output device but I still get no audio at all,
maybe I just thought it didn't appear the last time I turned CSM off

Just as a side note, your December update files have achieved much better speedStep than i had before and my wattage is down dramatically, this is a 3930k over clocked to 4.8ghz with X.M.P profile 1 with the G.Skill at 2400 but i get drastically lower geekbench scores that your 3930k, 21,773 in GB 4

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. Based on your IORegs everything is loaded right in both instances. I'd have to guess that it is a bug in the 780's vbios that only rears it's head in OS X.

Most all the geekbench scores i've posted are from my 4930K on geekbench 3 but 22k is low for 4.8Ghz. Are you using the free 32bit mode?

 

[shilohh]

Thanks. Yup, XMP did the trick. My memory is now reporting as 1600mhz in bios and in MacOS. Hopefully this will help with some of the weird problems I have been experiencing lately. I currently don't have my CPU overclocked. I might try but I am worried that this ram isn't good enough to begin with. From what I read at ROG, people seem to notoriously have problems with Corsair and the RIVE. I read on another site that G.Skill 2400mhz seems to be way to go if I want to OC this particular CPU (3970x).

I just don't know what is going to give me biggest bang for the buck right now. Cheaper to replace all my RAM and put in 64Gb of G.Skill then to replace both of my GPUs for sure. Adobe seems to love the added and faster RAM, but DAZ seems to really want more Cuda and better GPUs. Faster rendering in FCPx is a no go for me entirely unless I throw in AMDs.

Now that youve enabled XMP, see if your system is stable.

 

[PhantomHelix]

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. Based on your IORegs everything is loaded right in both instances. I'd have to guess that it is a bug in the 780's vbios that only rears it's head in OS X.

Most all the geekbench scores I've posted are from my 4930K on geekbench 3 but 22k is low for 4.8Ghz. Are you using the free 32bit mode?

I'm using the paid 64bit of version 4, I also have version 2 from the MAS but I missed ver3, and I get 20,915 now in 4 guess the update changed it, looks like it's upgrade time for me too, anyone wants to buy two 780 lightnings? lol

 

[shilohh]

Incase anyone has the same issue, I finally managed to get the onboard wifi to work by installing RehabMan's FakePCIID.kext and FakePCIID_Broadcom_WiFi-kext

For the first time since I bought this motherboard (R4BE) almost 3 years ago, I can now use the onboard wifi and put my TP-Link to rest.

Thanks for the heads up and sorry I haven't addressed it till now. I finally installed Sierra on my R4BE system and found I had no WiFi as well. The kext in 10.12+ wouldn't load without binary patches. It should now be safe to update to 10.12.3 and remove FakePCIID and the WiFi kexts you installed. See credits at the bottom of the OP if you'd like to know who is responsible for the patches.

 

[shilohh]

I'm using the paid 64bit of version 4, I also have version 2 from the MAS but I missed ver3, and I get 20,915 now in 4 guess the update changed it, looks like it's upgrade time for me too, anyone wants to buy two 780 lightnings? lol

So GB 4 barely stresses my system compared to 3. I just ran both in 10.10.5 and the strange thing is that 4 gives me higher single core but lower multicore scores.
64bit:

32bit:

 

[geminii]

My score in GB3 seems pretty low compared to your setup. I haven't OC'd the CPU though. I am hesitant to do so because I don't think my ram is all that good (thinking I might need to replace with G.Skill at some point) and I am also worried I will just mess something up.

 

[geminii]

Now that youve enabled XMP, see if your system is stable.

Thanks. I do think things seem to be working better. I did notice that when using mail that my system did that freeze problem once. But so far no BSOD anymore on reboots. Yet.

 

[shilohh]

Thanks. I do think things seem to be working better. I did notice that when using mail that my system did that freeze problem once. But so far no BSOD anymore on reboots. Yet.

Id do a couple passes with memtest overnight.
http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

 

[geminii]

Id do a couple passes with memtest overnight.
http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

Thanks. I will try that out.