Hi all,
The core bits arrived in a single Amazon order (as you may have seen in my recent vlogs) and so my first task was to get a ‘smoke’ test (as I like to call it) done.
Couple interesting points to note -
- With the TR4-SP3 Noctua cooler (NHU-14S), I had it installed at
offset 0; even if I had moved it tooffset +6, it would make no difference in terms of blocking the top-most PCIe slot. This is a total PITA as that top slot is a 16x slot. Ugh. - The EVGA GTX1080Ti FTW3 - incredible over-the-top cooler for sure. At idle, all three-fans are basically off. Sure, in Fedora, it doesn’t draw much in idle… just 13W
This is with the box sitting at the Fedora 26 (gnome) login-screen. I’m basically tmuxed in until a long Display Port cable arrives.
[root@ballinripper opt]# nvidia-smi
Wed Nov 8 12:15:34 2017
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.69 Driver Version: 384.69 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 108... Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 36C P8 13W / 280W | 281MiB / 11167MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1464 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 19MiB |
| 0 1550 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 49MiB |
| 0 2522 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 82MiB |
| 0 2651 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 123MiB |
| 0 3800 G nvidia-settings 3MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- On the ROG board, there aren’t too many fan headers towards the top of the board.
- I’ve resorted to using the 3rd (longer) PCIe slot as this is the only other 16x slot.
The Corsair Dominator Plat. 32GB DDR4 3200MT/s RAM I’m using is the same identical kit and item off Amazon, however, this time I received 2x 16GB of v4.31 instead of the v4.24 variant that I got with the Gigabyte 1950X build.
I followed the same process this time around, on the stock UEFI (I haven’t updated it yet), which is 0401 on the ROG board with the following config-
CPU VCore 1.4vdc
VCore SOC 1.1vdc
DRAM Channel 1.48vdc
XMP - disabled
Memory manually set to 3200 MT/s
Timings manually set to 16-18-18-18-36
I first tried 1.45vdc on the DIMMs, but later increased this to 1.48vdc. It was far easier to get this kit to boot at 3200MT/s. I also disabled Asus’ Overclocking Enhancement, as I didn’t want all the cores being pushed to 4GHz+ in no-load conditions.
Today, I moved all the hardware into a second Corsair 570X Tempered Glass case, which isn’t meant to support E-ATX. There’s a wee-bit of flex on the mainboard PCB, and I haven’t fully tightened the screws on the very right side. The middle screw on the very-right side has also not been added. It’s mainly held but the same spots one would find on a normal ATX board, but with a few turns for the top/bottom E-ATX spots. I was way gentle here, as I didn’t want to fracture traces etc.
As you can imagine, that first boot was wee bit stressful. I either flexed it just right, or just blew $500+ Couple video-clips of quick-n-dirty reactions… that first POST haha, I was relieved for sure… 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbD4qybBAVG/?taken-by=peartickle
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbOGcCwBStA/?taken-by=peartickle
…and you’re all caught up now.
I’ve also shared IOMMU details of this board here.