About flashing, just download the Award winflash tool or whatever they call it. Couldn't be simpler, and it doesn't even look like :banana::banana::banana::banana: like some other software I could name.
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About flashing, just download the Award winflash tool or whatever they call it. Couldn't be simpler, and it doesn't even look like :banana::banana::banana::banana: like some other software I could name.
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Originally Posted by vocch
1.425v selected in bios, ds3 F8 - but had cold boot issues...
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/GB%20DS3/3611-1.425v.jpg
Still holding my OC, but have noticed an oddity which i hope others have experienced. It's a bootup lag, like a slight delay when POSTing...this is a new thing that has creeped in with F8....anyone else experienced this?
Also, using QFlash 2.03 can people confirm that it is possible to flash bios using a USB flash drive?
Also, what are these new options in "Advanced Chipset Features"?, what do they do and what are they aimed at?
So far F8 seems to be *ok*, but annoyed i've had to increase voltage the FSB and MCH.
Well impressive dnottis....shame about the cold boot issue.:(
:D want see F9 bios to DQ6 now :)
You've got F9?...hit me up brotha.
So even if my rig has running all day with 9x399 and then i reboot and set 9x400, it still resets it to 9x266..so can that be still call as "cold boot" problem.:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
Setting in windows with clockgen is only way to get 400mhz+ fbs, but it's really frustrating always to set 9x445mhz manually, althought it takes only couple seconds. Clockgen has some attributes set bus when starting, but it doesn't work. But using Clockgen gives another problem..it gives speedhack feature, which "disables" internet gaming :(
If GB don't fix that problem(and they probably don't), dam sure will be my first and last gb motherboard.
well tanx for serial its micron like me and I'm glad when I saw that my method is effective for you but for cold boot issue I call my friends in GBQuote:
burn what?
someone else asked me that a while back and it's LL i guess? it's rated at 44412 i believe. here is the part # PDC22G6400LLK, i got it from the egg. i did see that post, and i have hit 1000 and over in the past doing your bumping method, the problem has always been cold boots. once i shut down, the next restart it either loops endlessly, which i call loop and poop cause it shiiites all over itself, or just sets the cpu host control back to disabled and boots at 266fsb. that's the cold boot issue. tell your friends at gb to turn their computer off after they get over 1000 with their awesome method and maybe they'll see what the f we're talking about. you have a ds4, so maybe yours holds it's oc better than the ds3, or you got a lucky board of the lot
for now best way is :
believe EasyTune5!! Find your Stable OC and everytime you need it Use EasyTune5 Auto load OC setting on Windows or even at Windows Startup
and Remember when you found your stable OC save it on profile in BIOS
Important Note from GB* : if PSU could not make all power that your OC want for start (like 3.6GHz + 1000MHz 2.3v + etc!!!) then CMOS automatically become Clear for booting and this is cold boot issue that guys told here
we would have new BIOS for next month GB BIOS teem working hard everyday with connection with Intel to solve 965 BIOS problems but they told me that writing complete issue-free BIOS for Core 2 duo its really very hard work always new generation come with a lot problems
I would think you'd get better benchmarks all around with a higher FSB like 7x469 (same Ghz as 8x410). Check memory bandwidth and some real world benchmarks. I know you want the magic # of 1Ghz+ ram, but I think your system would be more stable at 2:1 (1:1).Quote:
Originally Posted by OnLine
Tons of memory bandwidth doesn't really do too much for modern processors with large L2 caches and good prefetching systems after a certain point. Look at the move from 939 to AM2, a lot more bandwidth, nearly zero improvement! Conroe already has enough memory bandwidth.
I recently bought a 965-dq6 i flashed it to the f8bios was wondering how high fsb can i take it to and with what voltages and changes do i need to make. highest i can get so far is 405fsb i using e6400 with g-skill6400hz any help would be nice :)
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Originally Posted by t800
Yeah, the the board occaisionally resets to mult x 266 on a cold start - that is the cold boot issue we are talking about. Basically it loses the overclock on a cold start.
Well, if this is some sort of semi-official stance on the problem of issuing unsafe (final) BIOSes for 4 mobos without any decent quality control and at least some superficial checking, I am afraid that merger with Asus and all the implications (fight for positions, technology, etc) is not going to fare well with intended customer base. Makes me wonder what was the RMA rate during last few days?Quote:
Originally Posted by HamidFULL
It starts to look like DFI situation from NF2 days (and later, brilliant motherboards with terrible support or design flaws), and the end result was not a happy one (disaster in progress).
Your friends comment about PSUs is nice, but completely out of context in this case, as all the mboards on this and other forums worked quite nicely before (ok, more or less:p: )...
Overclock still holding guys, i dropped the (G)MCH and FSB voltsages down to normal...she's booted. Now the test is to shut down and see if it will then boot.
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Originally Posted by chrisf6969
You are sooo correct. :p:
Yep, when I couldn't get 8x410 4:5 stable without +0.3V (g)mch I tried 7x469 1:1 instead. It was stable with only +0.1V (g)mch and ... it was faster too.
Boooring, buuuu but it was still faster overall.
Only in WinRAR 8x410 4:5 can win ( and maybe in 3DMark2001 too ), else it's clean sweep for 7x469 1:1.
:toast:
Agreed, I was using F6 for S3 and never had any cold boots or resets with the same overclock. With F7 have already had a cold boot and some resets. Nothing since increasing vdimm +0.1 but that might just be coincidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by tromoto
i have 2 builds, 1 with C1 and 1 with C2. i don't have time to read back in thread so may be redundant here but .5 day of playing i've found these differences:
C1 won't hold oc over 420. stable on 420 all day.
C2 has held 450, only moderate amounts of power downs so far though but has held everything from 420 to 450 no prob in .5 day of testing
hardware differences:
C1 has 4x 1 GB patriot ddr 800, bfg 7950 gt video, and xclio 500w greatpower psu
C2 has 2x 1 GB patriot ddr 800, crappy video card, and rosewill 600w psu.
other than that they have same case, fan setup, raid array, etc. and both are on f5 bios. same temps are reported in coretemp. difference could just be chip itself, but could C2 hold the oc better? psu is better? i'm gonna try to even out the variables as best i can and do some side by side testing in the next couple days. let me know if this has been determined already.
I experienced the same while using the F8 - no more than FSB405 MHz. Came back to F7 and now everything is fine - more than FSB450 MHz. F8 was not good in my case.Quote:
Originally Posted by 0oDeuzo0
Guys, i got my DQ6 rev 2.0 this morning!...sooo damn sexy, i'll note differences in more details later. As for my rev. 1.0 with F8....still holding strong at 425x8, but when i tried to drop the (G)MCH and FSB voltages back to normal it disabled my OC.
So i then tried bumping the voltage from 0.10V to 0.05V...it works, obviously the less voltage increase possible is always a good thing. So far things seem real nice at these settings.
I may tried going much higher on the FSB to see where i crap out, 500x7 would be cool.
burn what? : Please test your rosewill 600w psu with your C1 and tell us result
Richard Dower : I'm waiting for your Rev2.0 result
Can anybody answer why something as simple as maintaining FSB BIOS settings on a cold boot has baffled Gigabyte for weeks?
its more than simple thing ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by aldamon
I have never had a board that did this. WTG Gigabyte!! :banana: :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by HamidFULL
:mad: :slapass:
F8 bios for DQ6 is great...
Dividers work
vdimm works
vcore works
no cold boots (so far)
nice fsb overclocking
Memory did 1100Mhz 4-4-4-12 DC completly stable (after it was just a cpuz valid)
Going great ;)
C2 board with 600w psu has not cold boot issued yet. over day of testing. max so far is 458x8. can't get 460 stable yet but might try cpu volts. to get to 458 i set cpu volts manual to 1.425, and no go. i lowered it to 1.38 and booted fine. weird, maybe more voltage isn't always the answer. anyway cupz shows voltage at 1.125 even though i set at 1.38. is it know to not report right voltage, or is my board crazy? here is screenie..
burn what? Nice OC if you can test 600w psu with your C1