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02-28-2007, 06:50 AM
fhpchris

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Originally Posted by Evanesco

Quad cpu, and according to this thread, QuadGT has very stable vdroop

QuadGT has just as bad vdroop as P5b, it isnt good at all.

You might also need to do some bios flashes to fix things, this board has quite a few bugs...
02-28-2007, 07:29 AM
Ajfina

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Originally Posted by Evanesco

OK, Im so close to putting back in my P5B-D!

This board is not working as advertized, AT ALL!!

Vista ready? Quad CPU ready, Highly Overclockability, YEAH RIGHT!

I updated to Bios B06, and finally succesfully installed Vista.

Then I tried some OCing.

1. Set the FSB to 400 and 1:1 to on the mem ( DDR800), which my P5B did without any problems!
QaudGT reboots as soon as Vista start.
OK, then I set the FSB to 366, and set the mem to DDR¨1050 ( My mem can do 1150 on the P5B, but the QuadGT restarts. Then I put it back on to 1:1. Ok now Vista boots. I started som Orthos, and was getting excited! temps where good, stability perfect. BUT, then I fired up CPU-Z, and to my horrible surprise:

2. The multiplier is set to 6x no matter what setting I use in bios . Yes I disabled thermal Control and EIST, so the CPU is only running 2196Mhz. No wonder I had those great temps!

I was able to go as high as 450FSB with my P5B-D, but why change it to QuadGT, you might ask. Well, the P5B-D suffer from a tremdeous vdroop with a Quad cpu, and according to this thread, QuadGT has very stable vdroop. Thats why I decided for the QuadGT. The FSB performance should by no means be worse than P5B-D, with the C2 chip, right!?

mine does everything that doesnt do for you :) to tell the truth this is the most stable board i ever own after the BX2 i even found this one to be more stable than the BX2 (and they still working on tunning) so watch out later on this coming months
what are your settings?
02-28-2007, 07:32 AM
fhpchris

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ajfina

mine does everything that doesnt do for you :) to tell the truth this is the most stable board i ever own after the BX2 i even found this one to be more stable than the BX2 (and they still working on tunning) so watch out later on this coming months
what are your settings?

You run 401*9 daily, woah thats stressful.
02-28-2007, 07:32 AM
Ajfina

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Originally Posted by situman

Yea its the reading from uGuru. Didn't want to mess with it until I know its stable. This is the board I receive back from RMA. Runs like a dream so far. I think I can get to 4ghz if I can get the temps down on those PWMs. So the stock heatpipe actually works pretty well?

maybe u want to remove the heatsink and apply some zalman thrmal paste or other good TP, wondering whats the PWM temps on the other guys?
mine is below 50 at 401x9 1005 4-4-4-8
02-28-2007, 07:34 AM
Ajfina

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Originally Posted by fhpchris

You run 401*9 daily, woah thats stressful.

stressfull? why u said that? my temps are very good see nothing wrong :)
cpu temps are below 41
02-28-2007, 07:53 AM
Evanesco

well, I think its the most crappy, and unstable board i've ever had inside my case. Just returned it! I guess it wasnt compatible with my Corsair pc8500 memory. But I don't have time to wait for Abit to put their acts together, and release the first bios in 3 month since the initial release. Its pretty low! The Chineese New Year isnt an excuse!
02-28-2007, 08:07 AM
eva2000

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ajfina

stressfull? why u said that? my temps are very good see nothing wrong :)
cpu temps are below 41

nice just setup quadgt last night

for starters

http://fileshosts.com/intel/Abit/Abi...rthos_load.png

coretemp
idle = 41C
load = 59-63C

room ambient 30+ C
02-28-2007, 08:21 AM
RLM

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You run 401*9 daily, woah thats stressful.

Ajfina, he was being sarcastic.
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It's luck of the draw isn't it. You look at the various results and feedback for a lot of these boards, and it's pretty hard to generalise. You either get a good one or you don't.

Personally the Quad Gt has been a surprisingly good board for me. A pretty solid performer. More so than my commando.

That said will be going for a QX6700 + Raid+ Vista 64 combo next week, so will see how I feel about the Quad Gt then. Hopefully I'm lucky.

RLM
02-28-2007, 08:26 AM
Ajfina

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evanesco

The Chineese New Year isnt an excuse!

LOL yes

thats sucks bro sorry about that, i also have a pair of pc2 8500 and they work fine too , no go higher than 1075mhz on the beta bios but they did work and sstable at 1050
02-28-2007, 08:27 AM
Ajfina

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Originally Posted by RLM

Ajfina, he was being sarcastic.
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It's luck of the draw isn't it. You look at the various results and feedback for a lot of these boards, and it's pretty hard to generalise. You either get a good one or you don't.

Personally the Quad Gt has been a surprisingly good board for me. A pretty solid performer. More so than my commando.

That said will be going for a QX6700 + Raid+ Vista 64 combo next week, so will see how I feel about the Quad Gt then. Hopefully I'm lucky.

RLM

didnt catch that :) sorry :)
02-28-2007, 08:32 AM
situman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evanesco

well, I think its the most crappy, and unstable board i've ever had inside my case. Just returned it! I guess it wasnt compatible with my Corsair pc8500 memory. But I don't have time to wait for Abit to put their acts together, and release the first bios in 3 month since the initial release. Its pretty low! The Chineese New Year isnt an excuse!

Pretty satisfied even with the beta bios. I think your problem stems from Vista.
02-28-2007, 08:37 AM
fhpchris

Quote:

Originally Posted by eva2000

nice just setup quadgt last night

for starters

52C @ 1.39? LOL? Isnt that a little high for water?
02-28-2007, 08:43 AM
eva2000

Quote:

Originally Posted by fhpchris

52C @ 1.39? LOL? Isnt that a little high for water?

nah it's normal for Orthos small ffts load ;)

1. for E6600 B1 ES which is hotter than retail cpus
2. Corsair Hydrocool 200EX is 1/4" OD tubed - puny water block (see below compare tube size to heatpipe width lol)
3. in 30+ C room ambients

http://i4memory.com/reviewimages/mot..._QuadGT_32.JPG

this E6600 B1 has always been around 59-66C coretemp loaded around 3.6ghz at 1.36-1.42v on Intel D975XBX, P5B DX, P5W DH, Asus 680i striker etc :)
02-28-2007, 08:47 AM
Depraved.Prince

Nice job I hope so much to get in My mother country.
02-28-2007, 08:55 AM
Pillo-kun

Whoa, people are complaing about the vdrops of the abit quad gt board now. As soon as i got it for a month ago the first thing i noticed was that the vdrop was about 0.02v to about 1.5- maybe 1.6 vcore. Then like someone already said earlier it just drops insanelie(sp). I dont remember but i think that when i selected 1.7 in bios it showed 1.62 or 1.65. it was just a short test but this board undervolts quite bad at the higher values or when its stressed.
02-28-2007, 10:31 AM
fhpchris

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Originally Posted by eva2000

nah it's normal for Orthos small ffts load ;)

1. for E6600 B1 ES which is hotter than retail cpus
2. Corsair Hydrocool 200EX is 1/4" OD tubed - puny water block (see below compare tube size to heatpipe width lol)
3. in 30+ C room ambients

this E6600 B1 has always been around 59-66C coretemp loaded around 3.6ghz at 1.36-1.42v on Intel D975XBX, P5B DX, P5W DH, Asus 680i striker etc :)

You might have skipped over my "low voltage" orthos small FFT.

http://www.sspmustang.com/OT/x3060/3...os-runlow2.JPG

1) This is L628B, hotter than any B1!
2) not commenting on ambients, but I live in South Carolina...

I guess the corsair isnt half bad, if you have 30+c ambients during your testing :)
02-28-2007, 10:45 AM
boblemagnifique

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Originally Posted by GuruxXx

Eva do you test Abit GT with Q6600, and is it beter of P5B DLX or commando, I think is this Mb can do beter FSB.
Thanks in advance:)

Aster by OCM :

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/9255/3600bn1.png
02-28-2007, 12:05 PM
momomo6789

i did some tests last night 3.3.3.8 @ 460 fsb is only .3 faster then 4.4.4.12 @ same speed i got 12.19 @ 4.4.4.12 and 12.187 with timeing @ 3.3.3.8 .... i guess it had really lose sub timeing which i didnt change just seems a lil odd even that cas 3-4 is same speed ... =/
02-28-2007, 03:56 PM
dis169

Hmmmmm, i've been able to run @ 3.26GHz stable with the stock cooler, anything much more and the CPU craps out since it's running at 70degrees+. Anyway, i got a replacement waterblock today and sitting a nice 40degrees under Orthos but it won't go past around 3.55GHz (1.45 volts) stable but i think i might have found the reason. The PWM heat sensors are all reporting 90 degrees+. Not good, not good at all.

Anyone noticed if replacing the stock paste / frag tape has much affect on the temps? I'm going to have to do something about it.
02-28-2007, 04:19 PM
Ajfina

Quote:

Originally Posted by dis169

Hmmmmm, i've been able to run @ 3.26GHz stable with the stock cooler, anything much more and the CPU craps out since it's running at 70degrees+. Anyway, i got a replacement waterblock today and sitting a nice 40degrees under Orthos but it won't go past around 3.55GHz (1.45 volts) stable but i think i might have found the reason. The PWM heat sensors are all reporting 90 degrees+. Not good, not good at all.

Anyone noticed if replacing the stock paste / frag tape has much affect on the temps? I'm going to have to do something about it.

the same day i got the board i replaced the stock cooling for zalman thermal paste , i was going to put AS instead of thermal paste but i was afraid of the AS spreading around to much and create damage. my temps are below 50 at 3.6
02-28-2007, 04:20 PM
eva2000

Quote:

Originally Posted by momomo6789

i did some tests last night 3.3.3.8 @ 460 fsb is only .3 faster then 4.4.4.12 @ same speed i got 12.19 @ 4.4.4.12 and 12.187 with timeing @ 3.3.3.8 .... i guess it had really lose sub timeing which i didnt change just seems a lil odd even that cas 3-4 is same speed ... =/

like P5B Deluxe tRCD = 4 is faster than tRCD = 3 on QuadGT.

And .3 seconds difference is ALOT for 1M - run 32M and you'll see
02-28-2007, 05:22 PM
dis169

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ajfina

the same day i got the board i replaced the stock cooling for zalman thermal paste , i was going to put AS instead of thermal paste but i was afraid of the AS spreading around to much and create damage. my temps are below 50 at 3.6

Excellent, i'll give it a go. Finger tip test suggests the thermal transfer isn't too bad at the moment but still... i didn't loose any skin so obviously the heat isn't transfering well enough. I'll have a look at the weekend, i need to rip out the motherboard while i mess about with the watercooling anyway.
02-28-2007, 05:23 PM
fgw

Quote:

Originally Posted by dis169

Hmmmmm, i've been able to run @ 3.26GHz stable with the stock cooler, anything much more and the CPU craps out since it's running at 70degrees+. Anyway, i got a replacement waterblock today and sitting a nice 40degrees under Orthos but it won't go past around 3.55GHz (1.45 volts) stable but i think i might have found the reason. The PWM heat sensors are all reporting 90 degrees+. Not good, not good at all.

Anyone noticed if replacing the stock paste / frag tape has much affect on the temps? I'm going to have to do something about it.

first, i don't think 90c is a problem for pwm! pwm's used to get quite hot.
let a small fan blow at the pwm heatsink, this helped a lot on my quad. pwm temps around 70c during load (75ampere)
02-28-2007, 06:21 PM
fhpchris

Quote:

Originally Posted by fgw

first, i don't think 90c is a problem for pwm! pwm's used to get quite hot.
let a small fan blow at the pwm heatsink, this helped a lot on my quad. pwm temps around 70c during load (75ampere)

My PWM temps got rather crazy...

Xeon3060 pulling... 110A... and the temps got rather out of control...
02-28-2007, 06:32 PM
RLM

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Excellent, i'll give it a go. Finger tip test suggests the thermal transfer isn't too bad at the moment but still... i didn't loose any skin so obviously the heat isn't transfering well enough. I'll have a look at the weekend, i need to rip out the motherboard while i mess about with the watercooling anyway.

You should check out this tutorial if you haven't already. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=106563

It's for the P5WDH, but still useful:)

RLM

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