lower the multi and raise your FSB...that should increase your memory performance.
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lower the multi and raise your FSB...that should increase your memory performance.
Hi all!
I'd ask how a q6600 behaves in x38 quadGT? I could buy such board on low price, but I dont know:shrug:...is there a chance for a good overclocking with a q6600? I mean, I didnt tried this digital pwm stuff, I've got a p5k-e wifi now, and it has a 8 phase pwm, and can oc quads up to 3,6-3,7Ghz preety well, some go around 3,8Ghz, but over this frequency the overclocking gets very hard. My best result is 3,85Ghz 2h prime stable with aircooling. And I wonder what maximum fsb I could reach whith these CPU-s in this mobo.
i doubt you will do any better on the IX38!
agree, the cpu and its heatoutput are limiting there, the q6600 maxes out before the boards do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue
I understand that, but I suggest not every mobo is the same. I mean in general...that there are different pwm controllers on most of the boards, and on this type, there is a digital pwm stuff. I aint have a smattering of that, so I thought that with this would be the cpu cooler, or less voltage could be enough for the same clock.Quote:
Originally Posted by naokaji
nope...doesn't work that way with this board...i think anything less than 8 phase digital PWM is not doing it correctly for powering the CPU...less PWM digital circuits means more heat produced in the current circuits...think about it...8 circuits on one board and 5 on this board.
Hello guys!
I just bought an e8400 to pair with this board and everytime i enter the bios, settings under uGuru are reset to default. Before when i had an e6850 i did not have this problem. I am using the 12.B09 bios.
Help me out on this one please.
EDIT: Nevermind. Installed official 1.2 bios and i get no reset issue.
if you ever experience that again always clear cmos with the battery out for about 5 minutes...usually, that corrects the situation.
8400 here to in bios it sais I have a 9.5x multiplier (like the E8500). At boot it calculate the speed with 9,5x but when i enter WIN it is 9x.....Strange
Second bugest prob is that in Winrar bench I only achive 1,078 kb/s and my colegue wint e8400@3,7Ghz has 1,556 kb/s . I saw when I start prime it gose to 1,200kb/s @me. Tryed disabling all cpu fetures in bios none helped. Any sugestions ?
Another thing : The bord lowers my multi to 6x in idle, but the voltage stays the same.....
C1E and EIST are disabled?...if so, you need to clear CMOS with the battery out...don't forget to unplug your PSU power cord.
did a clear bios (the button from the back) after swaping E6600 with this e8400. C1 and eist are enabled. If I disable them no change
Which is the latest working beta bios for this board? Any link maybe :)
It's the one dated 03/06/2009 - v1.3 Beta 01
Abit NL sent me this one, when I contacted them about some problems with E8400.
Download
Thanks !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Razer
Have you tried it ? Any improvments ? And what method for biosupgrade is the safest?
Yes, I tried it. DRAM dividers are shown a little bit different, that's all noticeable diferences...
Didn't have time for something else, because I've sold the board.
And, I tried the max FSB on the board with E8400. A reached around 550MHz on stock cooling.
New Final Bios ID:13 out
BIOS release V13 for IX38 QuadGT
Release information:
[ENGLISH]
1. Fixed PS2 keyboard not wake up when S1 status.
2. Fixed the cause system hang that PS2 keyboard press Del to enter BIOS.
3. Fixed Wake up by WAKE# of PCIe function abnormality.
4. Fixed CPU temperature abnormality when S3 return.
5. Support CPU half multiplier.
6. Fixed QX9650 multiplier abnormality.
7. Fixed display of DRAM speed abnormality in BIOS.
8. Fixed C1E and EIST function.
9. BIOS compiled date: 05/09/2008.
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/b...gt/m704d13.zip
try the newest retail bios, it did help with my cpu :DQuote:
Originally Posted by brinco218
slow bios updates, at least the updates make things better :p:
Would anyone recommend this board? There have been some bad things said about it in this thread but some great reviews...
I put together a new system with this board and had many hours of problems with it. Tried many things to resolve it, read the entire thread. And finally I got the board to work.
Problem was similar to another poster on page 8-11 (can't remember). The board would start, fan spins, then stop and reboot and then nothing. Tried a variety of ways to clear CMOS, total power off, pulled out power plugs to board/battery waited hours etc... Even tried different power supply as the solution found by a posted that had similar problems to me. Sometimes I get to the BIOS, usually, I get nothing at all, or the boot/reboot scenario.
The solution I found. The board didn't like my Asus 8600GTS on the first X16 slot. It didn't like it on the second slot either. But when I substituted it with an ECS 9600GT on first x16 slot, thing just worked like normal. The board now is working fine with 9600GT on first x16 slot and 8600GTS on the second x16 slot. strange huh.
Anyway, I'm down to the last problem, and that is 'Sleep' mode. The computer will power down. But when it powers back up, fan spins etc.. but I get nothign on my screen, and when I push the power button to turn it off, it does nothing (I assume it must be hanging.) I was on the v12 bios, will try upgrading to 13 and see if that's the problem. (The computer will work fine out of sleep mode if I set the BIOS with the other suspend mode (S3?) whereby your computer stays running but the HD turns off.)
Q6600
9600GT
8600GTS
4x2GB DDR2 800 RAM
Enermax Modu 425w
Vista 64
For those that are using Abit Airpace on Vista 64 bit machines, there is an additional step to installing the driver. You have to manually direct your drivr search to the system32 folder under you c drive (after installing driver.)
Recieved my new board yesterday from RMA. Was planing to run with my Crucial PC5300 D9 memorys but i only got C1 all the time. So i decided to try with my transcend and woohoo it booted. Installed xp and update to the latest driver in hope that my crucial would work. But no go , tried to set the voltage to 2v with my transcend and then shift memorys to crucial but it didn´t worked either. Have tried single crucial i every slot. So does Abit really hate Crucial ??
I had the same combination.
Abit and Ballistix 5300.
So, as you said, the board wont boot, so I tried different memory, same Transcend (but not D9Gxx)
So, I'd always put a voltage at somewhat 2.3v, then let the board boot, till the Win boot screen, then turned it off.
Put out Trand, and put in both sticks of Ballistixe, and it always worked.
I've had that situation every time I cleared CMOS.
So I've saved a profile and had that stick for emergency.
Hope you'll get it working with Ballistix.
Okey i will try to uppon the voltage a little bit more. Have just tried to 1.95v in bios. Dont have the ballistix, think it´s valueram without spreaders. But still D9 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Razer
EDIT: Raised the voltage to 2.25v and now my crucial boots fine. Thanks for the tip :)
it's a solid board, sure it has some problems but for me it has the best bang/buck ratio.Quote:
Originally Posted by conzymaher
only major problems are pwm temps but a fan over the pwm takes care of it and problems with sticks which don't have jedec timings in their SPD...
The thing with the memory needing 2.4v to boot, as my ocz sli kit, is a no no. IF i go and OC the :banana::banana::banana::banana: out of it, and it doesnt boot, i have to remove the ram, switch it to another stick, change the bios settings, turn off, swap ram, and pray that it boots....this is ridiculous. I testing some more ram, but i think its going to be the same thing. Does the latest bios fix this?
Tried the board under vapochill this weekend. I strange thing is that everytime i enter the bios for changing fsb & voltage " No super settings " and save and exit. The board shuts down and the boots and shut down again. Then i have to turn it on again with the powerbutton and all settings are restored to original :(
Can only like overclock in Uguru and thatīs not the best everytime. But manage to do 562x9 with my E8400 one time.