Question How do I enable and set up RAID with this mobo?

[Turbonium]

I ended up installing the Asus-provided drivers, and it works now.

Still, I don't understand it. Perhaps in time.

Thank you for the help, all.

 

[Tech Junky]

I ended up installing the Asus-provided drivers, and it works now.

Well, it's because the disks are being bonded by the UEFI >> OS needs a way to talk to the pseudo HW device created by the board / RST.

It's kind of like Windows can't see EXT3/4 partitions from Linux but the opposite works just fine to view Windows partitions w/o any security prompts.

Or NAT on your router. W/O it you wouldn't get outside of your LAN.

 

[igor_kavinski]

And now just to worry you a bit, monitor your CPU/IMC voltages for a while in HWiNFO during workloads or while idle to see what the max voltages being pumped into your CPU are. Just to be on the safe side coz ASUS has been guilty of killing a few CPUs lately 😀

 

[Turbonium]

And now just to worry you a bit, monitor your CPU/IMC voltages for a while in HWiNFO during workloads or while idle to see what the max voltages being pumped into your CPU are. Just to be on the safe side coz ASUS has been guilty of killing a few CPUs lately 😀

In all seriousness, do you think it would be an issue with my board? It's corporate-tier, and I'm not even currently running the memory at anywhere near Raptor Lake speeds (4800 MHz at the moment).

 

[igor_kavinski]

In all seriousness, do you think it would be an issue with my board? It's corporate-tier, and I'm not even currently running the memory at anywhere near Raptor Lake speeds (4800 MHz at the moment).

Their enthusiast boards had their best monkeys doing the UEFI coding and they might have passed their knowledge onto the lesser UEFI monkey coders there. Personally, I would just double check the voltages for additional peace of mind.

 

[Turbonium]

Their enthusiast boards had their best monkeys doing the UEFI coding and they might have passed their knowledge onto the lesser UEFI monkey coders there. Personally, I would just double check the voltages for additional peace of mind.

Do I need HWMonitor Pro to check things properly?

EDIT: nm, the regular version seems to be just fine, though I think it's limited in some way, correct?

 

[Turbonium]

Testing it now while gaming for a few minutes. I'll report back I suppose.

I'm keeping tabs on CPU voltages mainly, right?

 

[Turbonium]

Gaming with High performance power option set in Windows, with some stuff running on the side. Around 25% CPU usage overall, for 15 minutes or so:

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'm keeping tabs on CPU voltages mainly, right?

Yes. Just check the max voltage value over a period of running different workloads.

For reference:

5 Minute Overclock: Intel Core i5-13600K to 6100 MHz - 5 Minute Overclock

We’re overclocking the Core i5-13600K CPU up to 6100 MHz in 5 minutes or less using the ASUS ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi D4 motherboard

5minuteoverclock.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/10zlzxe

Core voltage should not exceed 1.475V

VCC_SA (system agent) should be max 1.3V

VCC_IMC (VDDQ?) max 1.45V

 

[igor_kavinski]

The voltages check out. You seem to be within the safe zone 🙂

 

[Turbonium]

Core voltage should not exceed 1.475V

VCC_SA (system agent) should be max 1.3V

VCC_IMC (VDDQ?) max 1.45V

I'm not seeing these labels in the HWMonitor menu for CPU voltages specifically.

 

[igor_kavinski]

What about a 100% CPU utilization workload? Do you have any of those that you need to do?

 

[Turbonium]

What about a 100% CPU utilization workload? Do you have any of those that you need to do?

I'm unsure as to what to use as a test workload.

Also: I started a thread in CPU forum, you should probably post there.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'm not seeing these labels in the HWMonitor menu for CPU voltages specifically.

VID are the CPU core voltages.
VDDQ is there too.

System Agent voltage I can't see but I don't see why that would be boosted considering everything else is within normal range.

 

[Tech Junky]

I'm unsure as to what to use as a test workload.

Just do a synthetic benchmark to put it under max load.

 

[Turbonium]

Just do a synthetic benchmark to put it under max load.

Question - How are my CPU and other voltages? (13600KF + Asus mobo)

Power option in windows: High performance Overall CPU load average: 25% Duration: ~15 minutes Do these voltages look OK? Someone in another thread said I should double-check them because of the problems Asus has been having with overvolting CPUs or whatnot.

forums.anandtech.com

 

[Fernando 1]

When I go into the RAID (Intel Rapid Storage Technology) menu in the BIOS, it says no disks are detected. Is this because I still have the striped (RAID-0) data on the 2 disks from my previous rig?

Yes, before you can create a new RAID array, you have either to break the old one (the related information are within the hidden track0 of both SSDs) or to do a secure erasure of all data (inclusive the hidden ones).