ASrock X79 Extreme 6 XMP problems?

[captkirk]

Decided to go with ASrock X79 Extreme 6 and paired it with i7 3930k.....Having issues getting Ram to run over 1600Mhz, tried XMP 1.2 and PC won't boot, tried setting manually 1866 and 2133 still no post. Only runs at 1600, installed sticks in correct slots as per ASrock, A1,B1,C1,D1? Did not bother to flash bios because i have version 2.20 which is latest at ASrock website......Right now sticks are running at a stable 1600Mhz with timings of 8-8-8-24-1T but was informed that my Gskill Model (F3-17000CL11Q-16GBXL) should have no problems being recognized by board and run at rated speed of 2133Mhz. Never had a problem running these on my Gigabyte Z68 using XMP. What could be the issue here?

Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz LGA 2011 6-Core CPU

ASRock X79 Extreme6 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL11Q-16GBXL

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal (SSD)

MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit 1150Mhz (OC)

CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX850M 850W ATX12V High Performance PSU

Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 Dual Tuner Digital CableCARD Receiver

COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212 Push/Pull

Corsair Carbide Series 400R Graphite ATX Mid Tower Gaming Case

ASUS 24” HDMI 2ms Monitor

Logitech 7.1 Surround Sound 6 Speaker System

SONY Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive

Seagate 160 Gb External Hard Drive

COOLER MASTER R4-L2S-122B-GP 120mm 4 Blue LED x 3 Fans

[captkirk]

Anybody having same issues with XMP and ASrock Extreme 6 board?

[hok4711]

Anybody having same issues with XMP and ASrock Extreme 6 board?

Yes! I had a comparable problem. Really very often BSOD! Alter the update to Bios-Beta-Version L2.24 the Memory problem can be solved.

regards,
Holger

[captkirk]

Updated to bios version L2.24 beta but still did not fix my memory problem? Still can only post at default 1600Mhz....starting to really wonder about this ASrock board?

[- wardog -]

Are you able to post grabs of the Memory and SPD tabs of CPU-z?

[captkirk]

Not sure exactly what you mean but only posts or boots at 1600Mhz speed.......I can manually lower my timings to 8-8-8-24-1T and it will show up in CPU-Z correctly.

[profJim]

CPU-z has several different windows that you can display:

CPU, Caches, Mainboard, Memory, SPD, and Graphics

wardog wants you to post a single screen-shot of the Memory and SPD windows from CPU-z.

You can run several instances of CPU-z at one time.
Crop the screen-shot so that the remainder of the desktop is eliminated and the CPU-z information will be legible.

This is a sample CPU-z screen-shot from the web showing the SPD and Memory windows:

[captkirk]

Here you go

[captkirk]

Again

[- wardog -]

Did you manually enter the timings 8-8-8-24 1T ?

And are you overclocking the CPU?