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pangingIII,thanks again for your quick response.i just installed the ram.booted up fine.now im going to test them for errors,then i'll start the fun(overclocking)thanks for the info.i'll post back with results.

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Originally Posted by LoneWolf

I've got my rig all set and running at stock speeds, and I'll continue to look over everyone's settings here (I'm planning to do a modest overclock to take my G0-step Q6600 up to 1333FSB). Before I do it though, I've got a question.

Most of my overclocking experience is old-school, and it used to sometimes affect the spec for HDD controllers, risking data corruption issues. This wouldn't concern me much if I was running in legacy or AHCI mode like most are here, but I have two of my drives in a RAID-1. Does anyone have any experience with overclocking in this setup, and are there any special BIOS settings I should keep in mind?

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If you are worried about losing your raid/data, run bootable memtest (CD) before loading windows. If you can pass test 5 five times and test 7 five times and do a couple of full runs (all tests) you should be fine to boot into windows and test further.

Alright for the MCH GTL ref, do you recommend .63x or .65x when calculating what to set it to? I've been using .63x but I've seen some people recommend .65x? Also is .63x the right one to use for the CPU on a 45nm quad?

Just wondering if anyone else, had issues making POST with older GPU's on these mobo's... when trying to use a perfectly fine, non-molested X1950pro... i cannot OC, and have to reset CMOS every shutdown, to successfully load windows..

...sound weird to anyone else? I have swapped all other hardware to determine, it was the GPU.. swapping GPU to a PCI-e 2.0 card, fixed the issues.

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Originally Posted by LoneWolf

I've got my rig all set and running at stock speeds, and I'll continue to look over everyone's settings here (I'm planning to do a modest overclock to take my G0-step Q6600 up to 1333FSB). Before I do it though, I've got a question.

Most of my overclocking experience is old-school, and it used to sometimes affect the spec for HDD controllers, risking data corruption issues. This wouldn't concern me much if I was running in legacy or AHCI mode like most are here, but I have two of my drives in a RAID-1. Does anyone have any experience with overclocking in this setup, and are there any special BIOS settings I should keep in mind?

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i always use the ICH controller in raid mode, all of my drives that i use in my overclocking test on this board, are either raid drive(s) or a single drive with raid ready,
and i have never killed a single Windows installed. i don't be so careful either. however, all my overclocking test are not that very high.

i think the board's BIOS (include its IMSM OROM) that i've been using are pretty solid, however, if you are not familiar with this new board and ram (either its voltage or timing setting and what not) , like mention before, you may want to test your ram each time you make an overclock attempt before you attempt to boot into Windows.
other than that i don't know what more to suggest.

heres a quick run.used my same volt settings,then ran linX good thing i only ran 3 test,each one took 6 1/2 minutes. http://i40.tinypic.com/nnqxwk.jpg

radaja, that looks good to me.
once you settle with an overclock that you like to use the most then test it more thoroughly, otherwise you will spend too much time waiting.
since 8GB ram system there may be more chance for a ram soft error, so if your file and data are the most important thing for you, you should check your overclock setting again and again and mostly check the system memory more with both DOS and Windows based memtest program.

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Originally Posted by BuGjAE

@bluestang , try this setting should able boot up at 533 FSB but not guarantee to stable:)

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MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) 
Robust Graphics Booster .................: [Turbo]
CPU Clock Ratio .........................:  8
Fine CPU Clock Ratio.....................: [+0.0]
CPU Frequency ...........................: 4264MHz 
Clock Chip Control  
Standard Clock Control 
CPU Host Clock Control..................: [Enabled] [Disabled] 
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ............: 533Mhz 
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) .........: [101] 
C.I.A. 2.............................: [Disabled] 
Advanced Clock Control [Press Enter] 
CPU Clock Drive...........................: 800mv 
PCI Express Clock Drive...................: 900mv 
CPU Clock Skew (ps).......................: 0ps
MCH Clock Skew (ps).......................: 0ps
Performance Enhance....................: [Turbo] 
(G)MCH Frequency Latch.................: [Auto] 
System Memory Multiplier ..............: 2.00D
Memory Frequency (Mhz) ................: 1066Mhz 
DRAM Timing Selectable ................: [Manual]
Standard Timing Control
CAS Latency Time...............................: [5]
tRCD ..........................................: [5]
tRP'...........................................: [5]
tRAS...........................................: [15]  <--- all of the rest is auto up to yr RAM stability
Motherboard Voltage Control 
Load-Line Calibration....................: [Enabled]
CPU Vcore….……….........1.22500V*.........: 1.35000 <---up to yr CPU
CPU Termination…...... 1.200V*...........: 1.26 
CPU PLL………………….........1.500V*...........: 1.50
CPU Reference..........0.760V............: [Normal]
MCH/ICH 
MCH Core……………..........1.100V............: 1.30
MCH Reference..…...….….0.760V............: [Make Value to 0.68-0.70 in ET6]**this is very important to get boot up
MCH/DRAM Reference.....0.900V............: [Normal]
ICH I/O…………....……......1.50V............: [auto]
ICH Core...............1.100V............: [auto]
DRAM 
DRAM Voltage ……........1.800V............: 2.0-2.1 up to yr RAM requirement
DRAM Termination ...…..0.900V............: [Normal]
Channel A Address Vref 0.900V............: [Normal]
Channel B Address Vref 0.900V............: [Normal] 


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BuGjAE, no boot at these settings. Tried a higher vcore also no boot. Just tries once to boot, then reboots to safe/backup BIOS settings. Any ideas? Think its RAM settings or most likely CPU & MCH Refs?

PangingIII or Zodden, you have ran 8x533 with Dominator ram right? What am I missing?

thanks for the info, pangingIII. i'll do what you suggest,even though i have nothing important to save or worry about.i just use my computer for overclocking and surfing the web.anyways heres my next one.same voltage settings.http://i42.tinypic.com/9u5k4n.jpg

nice overclock radaja, run a intelburn test on it at max stress :)

bluestang,

i've never tried 2x2GB Dominator, but anyway, can you boot in to bios with anything below the 533fsb? can you boot into Windows at 520fsb and with ram 1:1?

hollaback04,here you go.it took awhile,each test was about 22 1/2 minutes long. at maximum stress level, in task manager it showed it was using 7.35 gigs of ram to start.by the fifth run it was 7.13 gigs.as you can see,it took about 1hr 47minutes to complete 5 runs. http://i39.tinypic.com/1zg6m9s.jpg

PangingIII, BuGjAE and all others...thanks for the info. It looks like I'm on my way to getiing this. I little more tweaking and testing still needed though. Is 333 or 400 strap better at 500+ FSB? I would like get to 533 FSB with ram 1:1 for my setup. That or what I have now should be fine for 24/7 right? Thanks again guys and I'll keep ya posted on my results. On top of Orthos I also ran SuperPi 32M @ 12m04.937s.
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4...1050pl9db1.jpg

Could someone please tell me how to set the memory performance level through the BIOS?

Cause when I run a FSB over 475 memset doesn't show me the performance level and I can't change it, therefore I get ultra bad memory bandwidth.

Thanks

fatguy1992,go into the advance timing control section,then in channel A advance timings its called static t-read value.do the same for channel B.

Thanks radaja :)

I'll give it a go :D

Does anyone know why I can't get my UD3P to post if I use a PL lower then 10?

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Originally Posted by fatguy1992

Does anyone know why I can't get my UD3P to post if I use a PL lower then 10?

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Please show a bios template.

Heres my settings.

Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ]
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8 ]
CPU Frequency ...........................[ 400 x 8 ]

******Clock Chip Control******

CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 400 ]
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ]
C.I.A 2 [Disabled]

******Advanced Clock Control******

CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv ]
PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv ]
CPU Clock Skew..................................[ Auto ]
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ Auto ]

******DRAM Performance Control******

Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ]
Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)....................[ Disabled ]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333MHz ]
System Memory Multipler.........................[ I can't remember the exact multi ]
Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 1066 ]
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ]

CAS Latency Time................................[ 5 ]
tRCD............................................[ 5 ]
tRP.............................................[ 5 ]
tRAS............................................[ 15 ]

******Advanced Timing Control******

tRRD............................................[ Auto ]
tWTR............................................[ Auto ]
tWR.............................................[ Auto ]
tRFC............................................[ Auto ]
tRTP............................................[ Auto ]
Command Rate (cmd)..............................[ Auto ]

******Channel A Timing Settings******

Static tRead Value [ 11 ] ................[ 10 ] - Any lower doesn't work
tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 1 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ]

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ]

******Channel A Driving Settings******

Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ]
Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]

Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]

******Channel B Timing Settings******

Static tRead Value [ 11 ] ................[ 10 ] - Any lower doesn't work
tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]

tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ]

Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ]

******Channel B Driving Settings******

Drive Strength Profile..........................[ 1066 ]
Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]

Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]

******Motherboard Voltage Control******

Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Disabled ]
CPU Vcore [ 1.25000 ]...................[ 1.325v ]
CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.3 ]
CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.5000 ]
CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.863 ]

MCH Core [1.100 ]...................[ 1.3 ]
MCH Reference [0.760 ]...................[ 0.803 ]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
ICH I/O [1.500 ]...................[ 1.45 ]
ICH Core [1.100 ]...................[ 1.100 ]

DRAM Voltage [1.800 ]...................[ 2.0 ] - I tired up to 2.3v and it didn't help
DRAM Termination [0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
Channel A Ref [0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
Channel B Ref [0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]

Sorry I don't know how to do one of those list thingys everyone else does :(.

You need to not leave your memory subtimings on auto, you need to set them manually.

anyone using f7a or f7b bios yet?

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Originally Posted by neo mike

You need to not leave your memory subtimings on auto, you need to set them manually.

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Could U give me an idea of what I should set them to?

Thanks

@fatguy1992, you should use any other strap than 333 may try 400 strap ,because strap 333 is more tighten timing RAM if you gonna use PL 9, or u may try FSB:DRAM 1:1 with 400 strap and muti 2.00 D basiclly, anyway increase a littlebit bit MCH core to get boot more easier.

OK i'll give it a go.

I've just been sent Bios: ep45ud3p.F7c

I've got to goto work now but I'll upload it for download in around 5 hours.