anyone else have a good experience with this bios besides me? It seems that everyone is having issues...
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anyone else have a good experience with this bios besides me? It seems that everyone is having issues...
what's the max fsb with new bios ?
Looks like DFI pulled yet another bios off their download site. I love that they are still working on it, but it would be real nice if they would do some more testing before releasing the bios. I think 4 of 12 people I have seen try it on here and dfi-street have gotten it to work, and 2 needed Raju's method.
Okay I'm all done with the 7/31 bios that shipped with my board. Thanks to Dumo and others who trailed blazed enough that I didn't find the experience completely frustrating. I purchased the board knowing that it was a work in progress and I'm still hopeful that bios revisions will help break the FSB barriers on each of the dividers. Here's where those walls came up for me.
1:1 533 divider fsb wall came up at about 339. Just enough to get my Conroe over 3ghz :( Tried a lot of volts to and funky timings to push past but no go.
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6...3321ez1.th.jpg
So of course I wanted to jump on the big 2:3 800 divider and watch my memory soar, but even loosing the memory to C5 didn't push the FSB past 323 with that divider selection. The mobo is not exactly the memory showcase I was hoping for.
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9...4312fj2.th.png
The 4:5 667 divider gave me a little more FSB but stalled out at 367. Still well short of my goal of 400.
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5...4310lb2.th.png
Going with the 4:3 400 divider choked off my memory performance but with a 388 Fsb wall it was enough to push my CPU to the 3.5ghz mark. Performance on SPi 32m is a push compared with the cpu at 3.3ghz on the 667 divider though. :mad:
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/678...3228hu3.th.png
The new bios isn't exactly setting the world on fiire so I think I'll take a small break from this mobo before I flash it. Maybe work on rigging up some water for the CPU and northbridge. Maybe try to get in on some of the x1900 deals going on right now.
Just so I don't leave the wrong impression, I should say that working with the board has been a fun introduction to the Conroe and the 975x chipset. It does have a nice "seat of the pants" speedy and powerful feel to it. I'm looking forward to getting it into a game rig. :D
BTW - I'm might jump on another board just so the Gskill and Team Group get a better chance to shine.
i look forward to seeing your comparison results with the 8/23 bios. Nice work.
Nive work Gun!
That 4:5 667 seems to be the best balance on the 7/31. Might I ask what you have the VID and VTT set to in your bios for that one? 0.050 and 1.325 maybe? (I'm still wondering how exactly those two work, nobody seems to give a straight answer)
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Originally Posted by gundamit
you'll be able to run 4:5 right upto 370 with 0823, if it works with your ram. The ram speed gets a nice boost.
regards
Raja
You guys heard anything about downward unlocking in the new bios?
Asus have done it in a lot of their boards i was just wondering if DFI was going to follow suit.
Got my board and CPU yesterday. Havent really had time to tinker but booted it into windows at 400fsb with 400 mem divider. Didnt try and go any higher as my 6600 was getting bloody hot with only stock cooler.
Since i havent yet touched the NB voltage its looking good.
Going to watercool the CPU then see what i can do.
This is all on the 731 bios.
I)ickie
Am I on the bloody pay no mind list or forget about it? Or is it just that people don't know? Nobody answers the question here or DFI-street or in the manual...
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Originally Posted by Btrice
you have to experiment, it's board specific. VTT only has a few options anyway, for high fsb you'll want 1.35 at the very least to ensure stability, try that, then lower it if you can..
wth are you talking about, i dont even know what you asking.. make more sense please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Btrice
I figured my voltage needs would be specific to my board, experimentation is not a problem. My question was more in the realm of what I am supposed to do with VTT and VID. Is VTT like a base number then just VID gets added to it (or is VID added to the 1.325 listed in the greyed out row right between the two?)Quote:
Originally Posted by raju
So I guess an example: lets say I wanted 1.4 V. Do I just change VID to +0.075, or do I change VTT to 1.325 and then change VID to +0.075.
Evilsizer, if you bother to read about four posts above you'll see.
Well I decided to give it a try. I just upped the VID by 100mV to get 1.39 total (I left VTT at 1.20). I was able to run 9x360 with the 4:5 divider (I'm on 7/31 still) and it ran well in windows, ran a bunch of tests it was going well. Unfortunately it won't survive a cold boot. On the cold boot it takes like 45 seconds after I push the power button for the post beep and when it does it pushes back down to 266x9.
I am going to fall back to 366x9 on the 4:3 for now but I will leave the upped Vcore, maybe try and draw it back one step at a time.
i get em mixed up. But the one that goes to 1.35v ( i think its VTT) is the base Vcore. The other option that goes by Mlvt or something weird adds on top of that by smaller increments for fine tuning. I wish they would have used plain .0125v increments instead of that confusing crap.
I have tested the 8/23 bios.. these are my results.. I think its a promising bios.. thanks Oskar Wu.. were looking forward to your works.. :toast:
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/1331/myochb4.jpg
I'll post some benches later.. any specific benches you want to see?? so that we can compare?
I hope DFI can also unlock multiplier just like asus on there board.. hope to see it in the bios.. still waiting for the modded bios.. :)
Sir Oskar Wu.. tnxs so much.. but if I have a request.. please give us more.. ^_^ ..I know this board is one of the best.. slowly its showing its true color.. ;)
Hey guys got my board and cpu :woot:
I think i got a good one! 400FSB 1:1
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=117096
Havent yet tried higher as i have an exam tommorow but this one just came. Didnt have to tweak or touch NB voltage or ram settings.
This is my previous max ram clock so I cant really try much higher plus im stuck on sucky stock cooler. When my WC gear and new Ram arrives ill post some more.
Now all I need is this new bios!
I)ickie
p.s. this was all done on bios 731
Hmmm ... I hadn't thought of running a single 1gig stick of ram to see if it made a difference. We already know that 2x1gigs aren't clocking as well as 2x512mb configurations, so why not higher fsb with single channel? Makes sense no? Do you have another matching stick to run on that rig? Some SuperPi and either Sandra or Everrest bandwidth shots would be welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by I)ickie
Me too. Well anyways, it turns out that my 365x9 4:3 wasn't exactly cold-boot safe either even with the extra juice. Its weird, I'll power on the machine and it will either just sit there and do nothing or post after 45-60 seconds with the clock (only, all other settings still intact) set back to 266. If it does nothing and I hit reset it will post with the overclock enabled and will be fine until it hits windows. But, if I power up the machine with a previously solid overclock and then put it to one of the ones that won't cold-boot (like 360x9 4:5div +100mV) it will work like a champ, fire up into windows and run all my little stress tests. It will work for awhile too, until I shut it down completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Budwise
Anyways, its 4AM and I have to go to work today at some point so I am going to go back to 320x9 2:3div +0mV which I know works no matter what. Thanks to those of you guys that helped a brother out. :toast:
@I)ickie
nice board.. ^_^
is it on stock VCore? or Vmch?
Original 400fsb with one stick was at stock Vmch.
Ok put a matching stick in my board. Didn't spend a lot of time playing but did manage to get it into windows at 390fsb.
The funny thing was that adjusting the NB voltage didnt really seem to help the OC.
This is using the non beta bios so hopefully ill see an improvement when they finnnaly release this thing.
You guys know anything about a release that includes downwards unlocked multipliers or memtest?
Thanks
I)ickie
It would be nice to have the memtest built in but I doubt that's on DFI's to do list. The downward multi should be, but I haven't heard even a rumor.
I just just burned the ISO images of memtest to CD (using Deepburner) and boot off of it to test for stability before going into windows so I don't bork windows and have to reinstall or repair.
hey I)ickie is that a batch 26 e66 you got there? nice oc man! whats the vcore on that thing?
ok so how many of you are running you mem in dual channle? why not put the mem in ie both 1gig sticks in single channle. Its not going to hit that much its only 5% in mem bandwidth.
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Originally Posted by RebelsHaven
I've only had 1 spontaneous shutdown/reboot(not counting the failed windows loads) since I first started overclocking it and that was when I tried 375 4:5 on stock volts. Didn't like it of course.
Looks like you are on the newer bios too, which I'm not, so there goes my hopes that this problem would go away :( I guess I am just a lot more used to a failed overclock failing miserably, not performing great and under stress for hours then only not coming back after a cold boot.