Biostar Tpower I45 Reached 675mhz FSB and gave me E8400 WR

[Pt1t]

After all test in aircooling , it was time to test this Tpower I45 under my 2 stages cascade (-105°).

Rig was :

E8400 es
2*1go Crucial ballistix tracer PC8500 @ 2.4v
VGA Matrox millenium II PCI
PSU Gigabyte Odin 1200w
Tpower I45 Bios 06/03
vNB/SB +0.5v
vFSB +0.3v
Vpll 1.5v

NB was cooled by 120mm fan.

Screened to 675mhz fsb
http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/tpowerI45_675.PNG

+6ghz 1core
http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/tpowerI45_6008.PNG

~5.9ghz 2cores
http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/tpowerI45_5895.PNG

and a quick super pi 1M (PL11)
http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/pi-dual.PNG
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=376002

Pictures of rig will arrive after ... my wife is sleeping and the camera is in my bedroom ... . I stopped PI test because my son is awake :( a little too early :ROTF:

I forgot , 100% oc on a E8400 :D

[boblemagnifique]

Congratz my killer belgian prefer !!! :clap:
impressive E8400 E0 with 1 core !!! :up:

[marmott]

what a huge fsb !! congrats and very good mobo / cpu

the P45 realy seems to be able to replace the P965, good news

[mrlobber]

sick :shocked: :eek: :help: :eek2: :shock2:

[M.Beier]

Sweet FSB :)

[Jip]

very nice E8400... And very nice Bisotar too...

Congratulations Mr Pt1t

[TheKarmakazi]

one word..... WOW!!!!!!!!!!:clap::clap::clap:

[before]

Congrats Thomas :toast:

[natedog420]

wow congrats on that fsb:up:. well i guess im going back to biostar goodbye pos dfi blood iron:down:.

[gandalfone]

Impressive:clap:

Good for 1m but I love spi32m...what PL at 638Mhz?...Ops I see now, PL11..

[Ming@s]

Congrats

:clap:

[SeLecT]

Bääääm!

Very sick and awesome! :D

[Harshal]

Very very impressive, Congrats :up:

[redratamd]

Good combo you've got here. :shocked:
I want the same :D
About your WR ,good job one more time

[Benny Lodewijk]

Congrats Thomas !!!!

[Sadhiq]

Really nice ! Congratulations :)

[nachthymnen]

Wow:eek:
Really amazing FSB:shocked:
Congratz M8:clap:

[Pt1t]

Thanks all :D

here are some pictures ... taken after test when my wife was awake !

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/tpower_E8400_1.jpg

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/tpower_E8400_2.jpg

[quintus]

Congratulations!!!

[xwards]

wow nice FSB :shocked:

[Superfrag]

i want to ask one thing..
does using a pci video card make any difference when compared to using a pci-e card?

[subaruwrc]

Amazing!:shocked:
this board looks awesome,:clap:

[Oliver]

Sweet work and shows the pwr of TPower I45 combined with sweet e84 e0...

Keep tearing it up...

[c1rcu1tburn3r]

:clap::clap::clap::shocked:

[Traxman]

Really really nice Thomas :up:

My 660Mhz made this morning with the Maximus 2 (screens soon) is poor in front of this amazing 675 !!

[Jip]

Really really nice Thomas :up:

My 660Mhz made this morning with the Maximus 2 (screens soon) is poor in front of this amazing 675 !!

"Poor" it's a big word ^^

[NeverMore]

More sick FSBs.

Congratulations. :clap:

[marcolecorse]

Congrats Thomas
http://i49.servimg.com/u/f49/12/09/36/55/puntig10.jpg

[Misko]

congratz! :up: awesome fsb.

[N3RO]

Amazing mobo...

But can I say handpicked sample? I would like to see some more tests but with some other retail boards :)

[philbrown23]

wait, a single core E8400?? is that the new stepping or original stepping?? Either way thats an awesome bench man, congrats!

[kiwi]

lol, stock pll and a slight voltage bump on NB. I dont see cpu V though


Phil,
He disabled 1 core in msconfig or bios ;)

[Sadhiq]

"Poor" it's a big word ^^

That's just what I wanted to say, 660mhz is quite honnest :yepp:

[Bullet92]

Today is the "huge FSB" day :D
Another insane and awesome result... This mobo seems to be new Commando/P5B Dlx :)

Congrats one more time Thomas ;)

[Miravo]

Sick FSB, I must have this mobo.... :banana:

[dinos22]

amazing stuff guys

where did you get E8400 E0 :eek:

[LardArse]

wow.... this is too crazy... congrats :yepp:

[youngpro]

great thomas!

got the board here, arrived today, going to have a play this weekend hopefully =)

[chispy]

Amazing FSB :eek:

[Pt1t]

lol, stock pll and a slight voltage bump on NB. I dont see cpu V though


Phil,
He disabled 1 core in msconfig or bios ;)

CPU voltage is 1.8v

great thomas!

got the board here, arrived today, going to have a play this weekend hopefully =)

Thank you , i wish you great results too :D

wow.... this is too crazy... congrats :yepp:


Thanks , I hope to get retail BlackOPS soon , to test FSB on it :)

amazing stuff guys

where did you get E8400 E0 :eek:

It s a secret dino :rofl:

[nut311]

wow amazing , 675MHz...really near to 700MHz:up:

[dinos22]

It s a secret dino :rofl:

secret
from me
EEEEEEK
pulls out the black book on Thomas :D

[redratamd]

It s a secret dino :rofl:

secret
from me
EEEEEEK
pulls out the black book on Thomas :D

:ROTF:

I like this friendly ambiance .

[zsamz_]

congrats truly amazing fsb:up: nice cpu you got there:)

[dinos22]

btw does anyone remember E6850 E0 and why they were really special :D
they never made it retail as G0 was final spec but my god did they OC FSB good :D hehehe

[ZoLKoRn]

Very nice Thomas, Congratulation :up:

[kiwi]

secret
from me
EEEEEEK
pulls out the black book on Thomas :D

Actually WR dont count with unreleased hardware :p::D So you can write this in that book :rofl:

[scooter.jay]

Amazing fsb well done P45's are really getting some high numbers:shocked:

[makaka]

Congrats men this is a very good result

[iam980]

Anyone know how to disable the onboard sound card on Bios, my model is ~ Biostar P45 HP? Thx for your help

[dinos22]

Actually WR dont count with unreleased hardware :p::D So you can write this in that book :rofl:

that's true lol heheh

[BlueAqua]

Damn nice! Congrats on the WR, looks like you knocked my score off the top. I guess it's time to buy some new hardware as mine is slow now.

This P45 just looks amazing. Anything you don't like about the Biostar?

[Pt1t]

678mhz validation

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/TpowerI45_678mhz.png

681mhz picture :up:

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/TpowerI45_681mhz.jpg

Keep pushing :D

[boblemagnifique]

678mhz validation

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/TpowerI45_678mhz.png

681mhz picture :up:

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/TpowerI45_681mhz.jpg

Keep pushing :D


Yeah ready for the battle my little babe :D:D

[Superfrag]

wow.. insane fsb..

[alisan]

all p45 board look well how much this board biostar p45

[Vivi]

Seems to be around $130-150 :)

[daeminium]

nicee fsb, nice e8400, nicee board ;-)

[Gouhan]

Nice clocks there I can't help but wonder what BIOS? I have the board (5.0), but there's no 400 Strap so I can't even post 540MHz :(
What version BIOS you using?

[blind_ripper]

thomas any where in belgium we can find these ?

[Pt1t]

Nice clocks there I can't help but wonder what BIOS? I have the board (5.0), but there's no 400 Strap so I can't even post 540MHz :(
What version BIOS you using?

400fsb strap is a good joke :) i uses 530 and 603 bios and i will test asap 618 Bios.

Biostar added all memset timming to 618 bios ^^ and fsb compensation fine tune option.

[Pt1t]

thomas any where in belgium we can find these ?

There :

http://www.compumsa.be/article/747-design-Biostar_TpowerI45.html

[ZoLKoRn]

hewww... a little more about 19MHz fsb to go on 700FSB :eek:

Keep pushing it :D

[toddm27]

insane results Thomas :yepp:

[over@locker886]

Yeah ready for the battle my little babe :D:D

Great Work Aurél!:up:

[Gouhan]

Guess its either my CPU or this particular board though :/ Thanks will try 603 bios
Update: My apologies, there's nothing wrong with the board, can validate 600MHz FSB using same BIOS.

Thanks

[hey]

wow :D , very nice going with biostar Thomas, congrats for %100 oc with 8400 :)

[Pt1t]

Bios 618 is out ... and it comes with more RAM timmings (like memset) :D

[Gouhan]

:o 618 is out, where? Looked on Biostar site they still have 530? Maybe I' not looking properly or something would really like those memset timings

[redratamd]

Pt1t knows some people of the manufacturer for test beta bios and others settings .
Wait stable bios ;)

[slebor]

awesome result there :D

[Pt1t]

Bios 0618 (http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/P45AA618.rar)

But flash to your own risk, bios is still beta.

[Horus´]

What about quad and fsb... can it do 500fsb 3D stable? serious question.

[Kean]

It's depend on CPU.

[dinos22]

thomas i need an OVP mod ASAP can you get one in a few hours?
i know james is saying he will get an update on monday but i am going to bench a board in a few hours on LN2 just for kicks and OVP james reported is just not good enough for what i want do do

[dinos22]

ok i flashed to latest bios >> 618

i can do around 600MHz FSB on air
it can be tuned to perform well but i don't think from what i've seen so far that it will really challenge Asus boards for efficiency
but it's not too bad

one thing that does concern me is the fact that NB voltage is directly linked with vFSB voltage and upping NB will also increase vFSB by the same amount

so when you add +0.5 you are getting 1.52v on vFSB..............if anandtech is right about vFSB killing CPUs your chips won't last very long at all if you put more than +0.5 into NB

[Pt1t]

My new E8500 E0 on the same mobo, not too bad in fsb but this chip does max 5800mhz under cascade and 1.84v :(

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=380036

http://valid.x86-secret.com/ccpuz.php?id=380036&nocache=1

Tomorow i will test on an other mobo.

[Pt1t]

Update to 700mhz FSB, Chipset under 4° watercooling :D

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/Pt1t_FSB700mhz_E8400_valid.PNG

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/Tpower_E8400_1_.jpg

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/Tpower_E8400_2_.jpg

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/Tpower_E8400_3_.jpg

And super pi 1M quickly done :D

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/Pt1t_1M_E8400_.PNG

[redratamd]

:up:
Great job Thomas . :clap:

[Maduk]

Matos de maboul

Crazy motherboard ;)

Great men

[[XC] gomeler]

Fantastic work Thomas, I need to pick up one of these boards :up:

[youngpro]

nice work thomas, efficiency looks not too bad there mate ;)
we just gotta work on mch for system bandwidth a little more..

[dinos22]

haha great photo there dude

[Pt1t]

haha great photo there dude

Before to get new bios , If you want to assynch vNB and vFSB :

you can use tpower II software, decrease vFSB and increase vNB, that works fine ! :cool:

[dinos22]

i only have the board
actually i'll probably have to send it back to josh soon so this will all have to wait for another occasion

[DonBanana]

Which Timings did you use for that 1M run?

[Pt1t]

Which Timings did you use for that 1M run?

5-5-5-15 ... i ll do it again with 2cores.

[DonBanana]

Cas4 isn´t possible? :(

[Pt1t]

Cas4 isn´t possible? :(

Maybe , i havent try. It s my last DDR2 KIT + 750mhz CL5 capable ... i dont want to burn it playing C4 @ 650mhz and high vDimm

[gugle]

the review of newegg, say that the plate bend easily even with the stock cooler, is this true?

[dinos22]

Cas4 isn´t possible? :(

biostar bios doesn't allow you to select RAM timings if you want high FSB so you can pretty much forget running CAS4 at high FSB

i did somehow (ONLY once) manage to boot at 4-4-4-9 timings at 570MHz FSB but could not repeat it with same settings later on for the life of me
very odd board when it comes to RAM................

[Vivi]

hmm. How high can you set your NB with the linked vFSB? is it 1:1, like 1.5Nb = 1.5Vfsb?

[Eldonko]

700FSB!! Woooooo, congrats !

[DonBanana]

biostar bios doesn't allow you to select RAM timings if you want high FSB so you can pretty much forget running CAS4 at high FSB

i did somehow (ONLY once) manage to boot at 4-4-4-9 timings at 570MHz FSB but could not repeat it with same settings later on for the life of me
very odd board when it comes to RAM................

This is really strange. My RAM will be bored with CAS5 :rolleyes:

Is there an OVP/Droop Mod out, yet? I´m waiting for this board to be available in Germany but that somehow takes very long...:(

[dinos22]

maybe Thomas can update everyone on OVP mod
i don't have it handy any more...lost the image :shrug:

[Pt1t]

Here you have ovp mod , but with this mod minimal vcore will be 1.42v.

http://www.overclex.net/data/images/news//TpowerI45/20080623-increase%20vcore.JPG

[sofarfrome]

there are more bios' here (http://www.lejabeach.com/Biostar/TPI45/)

The 620 saved me from sending the board back to newegg as my pny 9800GTX would not work with the shipped bios. Now it works like a charm.

[Vivi]

Great! thanks for the OVP mod.

Sorry for this dumb Q, but i just solder 1 wire to all 3 to ground? no resistors included?

Thanks and soz lol

[punx223]

Great! thanks for the OVP mod.

Sorry for this dumb Q, but i just solder 1 wire to all 3 to ground? no resistors included?

Thanks and soz lol

same question

[WaterFlex]

good job, nice pics :D

[expect91]

Sweet!

Good job, amazing FSB you've got there

[acitmiyicam]

very good overclock