Were you able to hook up flow-sensors into the various headers as well?
Temps work great. Flow worked on original board on 0501 BIOS and lower. I have been unsuccessful to get flow to work on second MB with 0701 Beta or 0801 Beta. I have two and the MB only supports one anyway. Both are visual as well so you can physically look. My pumps are PWM so I can set and monitor them in Fan Xpert.
I can also see my water temps in Fan Xpert.
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Honestly I am quite pleased with ryzen 7 1700x Like its a really good chip… I hit 4 with somewhat ease and 3600 mhz on the ddr4. I did however spend a little extra money to get a cherry picked chip 
as well as a cherry picked motherboard in the ROG series but thats besides the point. Part of me would love TR4 but the other part of me is like… thats way overkill haha
I do a lot of virtualization work though, so the extra cores and PCIe lanes are needed for me. I might not need 16 cores, but I haven’t made up my mind.
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Same here 
All aluminum loops don’t do as well as all copper, radiator wise it doesn’t make much odds, but in terms of cold plates the slight differences in thermal conductivity and grain size means its a noticeable bit worse. For this reason even most of the non-expandable AIO loops are copper, and will be for the conceivable future. Not to mention copper is only worth <$8000 per ton, so the kilo or two that may make up a complete open loop is honestly a tiny amount of the price.
I support your choice there. If you didn’t get that board for yourself, no one ever would. This is the pursuit of happiness and all that. You saved the cash and bought what I consider the finest Halo product that exist for us enthusiast.
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Hey mate where can I find the 0801 Beta UEFI or the latest beta? Their main site only shows 0701 and that looks like an old AGESA update?
EDIT- spoke too soon, https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?95413-Zenith-Extreme-Beta-UEFI-0801/page4
I’m getting an error though when extracting the 0801 RAR provided -
UNRAR 3.60 beta 6 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal
~/Downloads/beta/ROG-ZENITH-EXTREME-ASUS-0801.rar is not RAR archive
No files to extracthttps://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?95413-Zenith-Extreme-Beta-UEFI-0801
There are also some settings I would recommend changing. We should do that once you are ready. One change everyone should do, especially on air and OC if you want.
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Weirdly the RAR download cannot be extracted hmm…
Use WinZip or equivilent…
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Hi all,
I talk about all the mechanical keyboards I’ve amassed, plans for the first Threadripper build, a look at the pfSense router (on the table) and some other bits about going 10G.
Core components have started to arrive for the Ballin’ AF Workstation build…
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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… 
…and you’re all caught up now.
I’ve also shared IOMMU details of this board here.
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Oh, a rather fabulous 4K 42.5" monitor from Dell arrived as well, which only got on my radar after a fantastic review by @wendell and the crew…
PS - What is Ryan’s forum handle and twitter? Same for Krista?
Thanks!
For some reason, every time I see you post a reference smoke test it makes me think you’re hoping for smoke.
Even a 1080 Ti shouldn’t need 16 PCIe lanes. Your choice obviously, but x8 should be perfectly fine for to saturate the card.
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Haha… think it goes back to my bench testing of electronics, just expecting a transistor or cap to pop…!!
Actually that’s a good point, but what’s worse - x16 slot vs covering that RGB ROG logo in the x8 slot 
Oh, I’m sure. Plus, it’s exciting to frantically try to put the smoke back in.
Please surrender your threadripper system. 
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Disabled or auto is fine, if you enable it though it will not read temps correctly as it put somewhere around 20c offset, cooler. I enabled it and the MB reported my CPU temp to be 11c. I had an argument with a guy on the ROG forums that claimed his CPU temp was 18c with Enermax AIO, problem is his room temperature is 23c.
What you do want to disable is ‘core enhancement’. This will auto overclock your CPU to turbo speeds, 24/7. That in itself is not necessarily bad, but your voltages will be all over the place and too high. Much higher than needed. That will have a very adverse effect to anyone air cooling.
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