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Re: DX79SI and DX79TO experiences

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:46:41 GMT

i can't confirm those issues.

i bought the dx79si because of stability reasons.this board is going on stage for live music use and it must be rock solid.

there are minor quirks for me like a memory profile-bios preset which is giving a wrong number of mhz and voltage by default but other than that the dx79si is the perfect board.

i did not tweak anything manually in the bios,i selected a overclocking preset and i'm good to go.

memory wise i went the conservative way and bought kingston.

i know intel is a bit nit picking with ram so take care before you purchase.

other than that i have no freezing either with blender 3d or products from adobe with heavy ram and cpu use.

something else must be wrong, or those boards are simply defective.

hey, you got a warranty and intel is providing a good service (maybe a bit slow sometimes) ,use it.

Re: DX79SI - Poor USB3.0 & LAN driver support

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:36:27 GMT

i think or hope intel is aware of this,as soon i went to the bios the randomly wake from sleep came back.

and

when selecting a automatic ram profile in the bios the values are completely wrong.

for example,the default value of my 2133 kingston ram is shown as 800 mhz in the desktop utilities and the 1667 mhz profile is shown as 1333 mhz but the voltage is raising from 1.5v to 1.65.

best regards,

Re: DX79SI - Poor USB3.0 & LAN driver support

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:16:26 GMT

just let you know that my issues seems solved so far,

did i mentioned it already?

i'm not sure if the boot failure with windows is completely gone,i'll see it in the next days but the randomly wake from sleep definitively seems to be gone with the latest lan driver installation.

hey,this board has "felt" my light switch...

there isn't any changelog that would let my know what is fixed or not so i recommend to install the latest updates and see it yourself,haha.

i love this board and definitely recommend it!

best regards,

Re: DX79SI and DX79TO experiences

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:38:13 GMT

just an update because i wrote this in another thread.

http://communities.intel.com/thread/27493?start=60&tstart=0

Re: DX79SI - Poor USB3.0 & LAN driver support

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:38:07 GMT

after a couple of hours the computer unexpected woke up from sleep.

so this issue is not solved but i ask myself why the computer even turn on when i switch on a light.

seems that the psu is oversensitive but how can it be? i'm living in a new house.

Re: DX79SI - Poor USB3.0 & LAN driver support

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:01:12 GMT

just an update from my side.

my rme soundcard is recognized when i turn off aspm in the bios.

well,it did work with the previous bios without turning it off but even rme recommend it to turn it off.

with bios 494 my usb 3 question marks are gone and the board runs smoothly.

just sometimes i'm getting a canceled boot.

the only issue now, the computer wakes up from sleep after 20 minutes without touching anything.

edit:no wake from sleep at the moment...

oh,dear,live can be complicated.

best regards,

Re: DX79SI and DX79TO experiences

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:43:52 GMT

there is a new bug.

my soundcard isn't recognised in windows.

slot 1 pcie 1x

it is recognised in the bios,though.

i need to go to the bios exit without saving and only then it is recognised in windows.

pleease fix it fast.

Re: DX79SI and DX79TO experiences

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:16:45 GMT

@CloudHopper

about my pointers for win 7.

i think i'm happy with the automatic overclocking feature since it seems the board can handle the overclocking just perfect.(lets see )

i much appreciate the turbomode since this is much better for the board/heat and to save power and for reliability,i was just astonished that it is working this well.

honestly one year ago i wasn't that exited about turbo and this stuff because at this time i got a lot of crackles with all the energy savers enabled in the bios and i turned everything related off but then then my old board was running always at full speed.

when i bought this board in december 2011 there weren't a lot of reviews, so idecided to buy a fast ram because of the idea of manually overclocking.

i think there is only a very slight difference (if at all) when using my ram with 1667 or 2000 mhz in perfomance, since sandy bridges are 1333 mhz per default and anything above is a overclocked dimm.

everybody makes his own decision but i'm not shure if i ever can get my ram work with exactly 2133 mhz,maybe a bit above or a bit lower.

it involves a knowledge and not just a more or less guessing the numbers.

this of course depends on the cpu and board itself and there it really gets complicated since every cpu is simply slightly different and the ram need probably slightly different values even when it is the same configuration.

best regards,

Re: DX79SI and DX79TO experiences

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:39:52 GMT

hello,

i'll share my experiences with the latest bios and usb 3 driver update,

using win 7 x64/ i7 3930k and the new kingston hyperx genesis 8gb 2133 ram.

two days ago i tried to manually overclock but i only got failed clockings,i guess i don't know nothing about dimm timings.

yesterday i tried the 1.25x automatic profile and choose a higher automatic memory speed (1667) as well,two clicks and a restart.

(did not try the 2000 mhz memory speed yet)

the cpu on the dx79si is currently working with 4ghz @1.2 v.

i did a test with higher clockings using the processor speed menu and it seems it is working out of the box without doing anything.

is it that easy?

never got the board working so smooth and great with higher clocks.

so,a big thank you to chris and the team from my side!

i'm working with low latency audio and my concern is to have a stable board because this one goes on stage.

if there is a suggestion that could improve the board it would be,

please optimize linux kernel usage (according to CloudHopper it is still not fixed ) and please take a look if the bios can be further optimized for low latency audio,the dpc latency is very low anyway.

it also took a while for my old motherboards to enhance the perfomance (bios updates) to let not have the crackles (using a rme soundcard with the best drivers) starting at rather low cpu consumption.

if you know what i mean.

best regards,

Re: dx79si usb 3 bsod

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:53:13 GMT

hi fcma,

it seems my issues are solved with the latest bios and renesas usb 3 driver.

still there is a quirk according to this thread,

http://communities.intel.com/message/155429#155429

i need to test linux as well but,

good job chris and victor!

thanks a lot,