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Originally Posted by mascaras
Yeah how is the final f6 bios doing for e6300/e6400 OCing. Are we getting 500+ FSB now?
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Originally Posted by mascaras
Yeah how is the final f6 bios doing for e6300/e6400 OCing. Are we getting 500+ FSB now?
I haven't had any luck with the F5 final, it's worse than the F5 beta/F4 final. 470MHz is no longer stable with the same settings.
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Originally Posted by FirePhoenixCtk
I can't even get the bios stable at 320FSB with my OCZ's at 4-4-4-12. I also can't get F5 to get stable at 379fsb (all on stock voitages) which I can easily do with bios F3.
weird i'm running fsb440x7 with mem 4-4-4-10 all voltage at auto plus cold boot stable with 10hrs dual prime. btw i'm using mushkin em2 ram 2x1gbQuote:
Originally Posted by ccl2006
The F5 bios may fix a few things for some People.But they screwed up the system fan control.I can no longer control it from the bios.It just runs at full speed which I don't want.Why didn't they just leave it alone?So anyway I went back to F4 bios and all is well again.Rectal Prolapse the System Fan Header is down at the bottom edge of the board.The other one you mentioned is the 3 pin Power Fan Header.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rectal Prolapse
:)
F5 for my DS4 is crappy too. vant boot in the same OC settings and no more easytune fan adjustments.
went back after 10 minutes to F5c , the best so far
Guess ppl who got zalman cooler don't have problem with it... anyways my fan mate2 is 100% full all the time except when i'm away from my pc :D
Thanks for the geographical advice, WarpCore. :)
I've got a ton of wires coming from the PSU down near the system fan header (Antec P180 case) - no wonder I didn't see it. Now I need to rearrange my case fan power cables - they're all attached to my CPU fan header, controlled by Speedfan!
But - I think I'll avoid F5 Final. I have F5d now and I hope I can still control the system fan speed.
System info:
E6600 cooled by Scythe Mine with Silverstone high cfm fan
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (F5 bios)
2x1gb OCZ PC8000 (4-3-3-12)
OCZ GamerXtreme 700w PSU
Powercolor x800gto2 flashed to 850 xt pe for 16 pipes (405/530)
etc.
One thing I have found on this board in comparison to my P5W DH that I fried, is that it's really finicky with Windows. Fresh install is a must otherwise 3d just bugs out.
Also, I can boot 8x475 and 9x415 with this new bios. I found out the board is just so tricky when it comes to ram it'll let it work incorrectly and it'll not let it work properly at times.
Before this bios my pc8000 wouldn't even post, now it does. My 3dmark score at 9x400 with p5wdh was 38,265 and now with 9x400 on the 965p-s3 i'm scoring 39,452. With any previous bios on the s3 3dmark would just lock up for me. When I finally did get it to run it scored 34,xxx .
Ram is everything with this board. These gigabyte boards are rockets when configured correctly but just 1 timing off will set them in a tailspin. Eventually they'll get them figured out and they will be the best available imho.
The only timings I set in bios are the first 3 and rest are auto.
Any questions just ask, I've pretty much got the bugs and settings figured out now and I'm sure I can diagnose and resolve issues with these boards when asked.
is your ram D9 based Radelon ? and if so what timings are you using in the bios ? 4-3-3-12 for what ram speed ? 800 ? or higher ?
and your comments here is another reason why i have said and continue to say pound for pound this is the best conroe board to have why spend 100 to 150 more when you can get the same overclocking with this board. or almost the same. sure its picky about ram and psu but buy good stuff and its fine.
and for those thinking of going with the new ABIT look at your clocks here vs what they are gettings.
i have yet to see the new abit get any better clocks than what i am getting at a 9x multi. it does boot at a slightly higher clock but not enough to warranty another 80 bucks. and losing pci slots.
but then again. it is a good board. so.. its all about what you want and how much you wanna spend i guess.
I will not upgrade my BIOS as I'm very happy with where I am at :)
yeah i havent gained anything since F4 either.
infact i think F3 is the same for me also..
i'll have to do some testing.
Ever since I installed the F5 on my DQ6 I was able to lower my vcore to 1.3 everything else is on normal and my mem is +0.1 (1.9) and it seems stable so far ill make it run for 12+ hours and then update to see if it is still running. Can everyone run on voiltage this low or is it just me? my previous temp was 57 with my ac on it the room now the AC is off so it is about 10 degrees warmer in the room and my cpu is running 3 degrees cooler. This is soo cool. I think my OC adventure is done and im going to stick with this bios and settings :toast:
http://justoverclockit.com/pics/Voltage.jpg
1.3v is stock voltage for ALLLLL conroes.
this isnt anything special its just that recently gigabyte finally got of their arses and fixed it.
The X-FI issue is back on the DQ6 with F5 bios...has not been fixed.
1.325 is stock :) 1.3 is a tad lower but try going even lower.. I have mine at 1.264 :) some reports have e6600's @ 3GHz on 1.125 volts... now that is a cool running chip :)
id love to see a 6600 at 3ghz at that low.. id have to see it with my own eyes.
1.3v is intel spec stock voltage. period they use 1.3v for defualt until you start raising the fsb then it lifts the vcore.
and they didnt use to run 1.3v they used to run 1.2375 until F4 when they fixed it. (now im talking DS3 not DQ6)
drop it to default and see how low you can go on the voltage. mine hold nice and steady at 2.4ghz @ 0.975v thats before droop but at such a low voltage there is almost no droop. the higher the vcore thats used the more droop the DS3 has.
also try measuring vcore on your motherboard.... see what it really is
There isn't anything as the same stock voltage for all intel conroe and allendale CPUs. Some of them have the default vcore of 1.325V and some 1.3V. So far I've seen just 2 CPUs that would have the default vcore of 1.3V and more with 1.325V.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
Not sure if its D9 or Elpida, Regardless 4-3-3-x will go up to about 900, then it's 4-4-3-x. I have some other OCZ sticks (unreleased) that you match timings to the pc8000 it'll go into windows, everything will work, but superpi is 1.5 seconds slower and everything just isn't right.
On the P5W DH the ram kicks tail, so there's still some work to do.
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Originally Posted by Lestat
Hello guys, this is my first post here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruslan
I've tried to undervolt the vcore from 1.325 to 1.3. But after undervolting, temps have become higher rather than lower. CoreTemp reports 47C both cores as opposed to 41C & 42C before undervolting. I have bios F5 on DQ6 mobo.
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Originally Posted by Radelon
i have seen the same issue on my DS3 certain timings you change to run tighter,,,, or certain overclocks that are higher.. actually produce a slower Pi time.
i believe the simple answer is that the chipset is changing its timings to a looser timing to accomodate for the tighter higher clocking we are doing and in the end it just slows you down.
4-4-4 is still the best for the board that i have seen.
hold the voltage for cpu on 1.325 and dont worry.Quote:
Originally Posted by < < L a w > >
Mine is on 1.325Vcore, 8x375=3ghz.Works fine for me.I dont like overkclock with voltage rise...
Yes but OCing with undervolting is nice, all the benifits of an OC with much lower temps!
IMO the tighter timings aren't entirely stable, that why the score is lower, the memory may be throwing out errors, slowing it down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
I'm back on F3 Lestat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lestat
It's been two months and I can't remember why I stopped using F3. All of the others have given me nothing but grief.
Also, when using F3 my Raptor 150GB is detected on every cold boot, my X-Fi is always detected, and my stable overclock from this summer is still stable. That's more than I can say for the POS F4, F5, and F6.
:cussing: :cussing: :cussing:
WTF has Gigabyte been doing with these BIOSs?