I'm having plenty of fun for now with the 790i so I can be patient ;)
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I'm having plenty of fun for now with the 790i so I can be patient ;)
790...nice...what's your highest overclock on air or are you doing water?
I had a couple good e8400 runs ;) TRUE/panaflo
8mhttp://images6.theimagehosting.com/spi8.th.jpg 32mhttp://images6.theimagehosting.com/pi32.th.jpg
those are good, but not good enough to out do my Biostar TPower I45.
It's very ram fussy but still fun with the right kit. That biostar is one I've been watching since it first appeared. Crazy clocker :up:
it does VERY well!...and..you don't need huge voltages unless you are trying for a record.
my interest really peaked for the biostar when i read several of abit's engineers were hired by biostar upon abit laying staff off across the board.
Sorry I didn't get back with the link sooner, glad you found it. Nice oc on the e8400 loonym. Just curious have you ever personally seen a Q6600 run at 4Ghz stable?
what is your definition of "stable?"...many of us have different takes on stable!
I can bench q6600 4ghz air but not even close to what I'd call stable. With water people do it, though you need a pretty good cpu I think.
Hey Guys, back again! I followed on the two study that Ace posted, but I having trouble getting 100% stable. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Anri
Occasionally when I start up my computer or when I put it to heavy stress, the computer cases starts making a clicking sound, and then suddenly restarts my computer or goes overload blank, and it seems like it coming directly from the CPU. Anyway to diagnose what that is?
My rma is so slow I think I forgot what x48t is.
post your voltages, what mhz and what memory speed you trying to run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anri
tell us about the specs of your memory sticks..size and design specs.
Thanks for the replies, to me stable means you can run everything as though you were at stock.
"suddenly restarts my computer or goes overload blank".......have you ovevolted the MCH?
if you can write out your FSB, Multi (cpu using), memory speed and voltages, we might be able to give you recommended settings....OR...you can go over to Supershanks forum where he did a full blown review to get excellent information: http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/revie...ng-review.html
I want to hear more about your hard drives Anri. That clicking has my interest.
Got the X48T back from gigabyte today. :woot: Still haven't had a chance to hook it up to test but I will after my daughter goes to bed. I have a x3360 ready to drop in.
They still have the p35-ds3l even though I sent them at the same time. :shakes:
edit: zoolio, if you read this, I still haven't gotten that f6a from the gigabyte guy I emailed. Would you send it to me??...
edit on my edit :D : Got it, thanks unstable_hero
Just wanted to drop in really quick. I love reading these forums to see how I can squeeze everything I can out of my hardware, but I unfortunately had the same corrupt F5 bios problems (I shouldn't have flashed but I thought it would help with issues I am having with my QX9770) and had to RMA it, I recieved it back from repair last friday(8/8) just 2 weeks after sending it off.
They gave me a lil scare because they packed it in a AMD mobo box. I almost had a heart attack seeing that logo when I unpacked it, but everything is working right and they even flashed me to the new (non broken) F5 and things are running smooth.
I still am having the same issues I was having before, but I think it may be my memory, but I'll fight that battle a different day. Anyways just wanted to give you guys a quick update, and to say keep up the good work. Also, it was kinda weird but they never emailed me to say they received, repaired, or were shipping my board.
Yeah same here Joey, NF2 box :ROTF:
ALL-RIGHTY-THEN!:up:Quote:
Originally Posted by loonym
let the fun begin, AGAIN!;)
Got my board back today, will have to wait until this weekend or early next week to drop my 8400 in it.
I've been patiently waiting since 7/25 to post here. Finally got approved!
Anyway, I was one of the victims of the f5 bios. It bricked my GA-X48t-DQ6. Since I had only had the board for 4 hours before I bricked it I sent it back to Newegg same day I got it and had a replacment in 6 days. Great service. Bad luck that a crappy bios is released the day I get my board.
So the board comes with f4 bios and I fear ever upgrading the bios on this board again (can anyone say "dual redundant failover bios BS?"). Is the current bios on Gigabyte's web site stable or will I brick another board?
Howdy all. First post here at XS, but it's been a good source of info for me for quite a long time. Cheers!
Most of my forum time is spent over at OCF (baditude_df), but I figured I'd sign up here and give you all the benefit of my knowledge.
"lol -> right"
Actually, this is pretty much the best x48t thread out there, and I wanted to pick your brains. Hence, here I am.
Ace, I chatted a bit with you via PM when you had that board and RAM on the classifieds. Glad to see it found a new home.
Anyhow, I've been at it for a while on this x48t and it's been a pretty good experience so far. It's paired with Gskill 1600 7-7-7-18, and a Q6600(which has reached 4.0GHz on my 680i). I'm sitting at a nice stable 3.6GHz with the RAM truckin along nicely at rated 1600 and 7-7-7-18 @ 1.9v. I am on the f5a BIOS and it seems to be alright, although any suggestions as to a better version would be much appreciated.
As you guys can imagine moving from an Nvidia 680i bios to a Intel Gigabyte Bios is quite a shock, but with the help of this thread I've taken a pretty good run at it. Thank you.
Can I please have some info on the following M.I.T settings(ie: what the heck do they actually do???):
Performance Enhance - Standard, Turbo, Extreme. I leave this one at standard, but have seen some of you guys use turbo. It tends to make my OC unstable.
CPU/PCIEX Clock Driving Control - 800,900,1000. - This one confuses me. I can't figure which setting would help more.
CPU Clock Skew Control............: Normal - I leave this to normal all the time, don't know about you guys.
(G)MCH Clock Skew Control.........: Normal - Same with this one.
CPU GTLREF1 Voltage*.......(67%)..: Auto - These stay at default as well.
CPU GTLREF2 Voltage*.......(61%)..: Normal
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Looks like my sig. didn't come through for the last post. Anyhow, rig as shown below.
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/698/img0679mw2.jpg
"So the board comes with f4 bios and I fear ever upgrading the bios on this board again (can anyone say "dual redundant failover bios BS?"). Is the current bios on Gigabyte's web site stable or will I brick another board?"
The current bios on Gigabytes Taiwan site is ok, I flashed my mobo with it. There are also plenty of flashing tips (use Qflash) etc on tweaktown's official gigabyte forum.
As for the setting in MIT, anandtech's review of the GA-X48T-DQ6 explained alot and also has submissions for a 400 and 450Mhz FSB bios set.
Good luck, nice to know the F5 bios drama's have been resolved and that gigabyte is honouring it's comitment to it's customers.
always use the AFUDOS.exe program...get the latest one and it will do quality checks; one on the bios file and then check your bios to make sure you have the correct file ID.
that looks great!...where did you get that stand?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
WELCOME!:up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
that is surprising!...i would thought that your previous forum would of had a decent X48T or just X48 thread.Quote:
Actually, this is pretty much the best x48t thread out there, and I wanted to pick your brains. Hence, here I am.
yeah!..the guy from OCF, who bought it, gave me a nice heatware evaluation without even asking him.:)Quote:
Ace, I chatted a bit with you via PM when you had that board and RAM on the classifieds. Glad to see it found a new home.
you can try the F5D bios, it is a good one.Quote:
Anyhow, I've been at it for a while on this x48t and it's been a pretty good experience so far. It's paired with Gskill 1600 7-7-7-18, and a Q6600(which has reached 4.0GHz on my 680i). I'm sitting at a nice stable 3.6GHz with the RAM truckin along nicely at rated 1600 and 7-7-7-18 @ 1.9v. I am on the f5a BIOS and it seems to be alright, although any suggestions as to a better version would be much appreciated.
as for the memory timings, you will need to loosen them up to go to 4.0 ghz with that Q6600...i got to about 3960 on my Q6600 on this board using 9x @ 440 FSB.
also, think about raising your PL (performance level) to around 9.
if you use turbo, you might have to relax the memory timingsQuote:
Can I please have some info on the following M.I.T settings(ie: what the heck do they actually do???):
Performance Enhance - Standard, Turbo, Extreme. I leave this one at standard, but have seen some of you guys use turbo. It tends to make my OC unstable.
i tried 800 or 900...1000 would make it not post for meQuote:
CPU/PCIEX Clock Driving Control - 800,900,1000. - This one confuses me. I can't figure which setting would help more.
for now, that is good.Quote:
CPU Clock Skew Control............: Normal - I leave this to normal all the time, don't know about you guys.
(G)MCH Clock Skew Control.........: Normal - Same with this one.
a 65nm cpu should be close to 67%...i can not remember what settings you have for that 2nd cpu gtlref.Quote:
CPU GTLREF1 Voltage*.......(67%)..: Auto - These stay at default as well.
CPU GTLREF2 Voltage*.......(61%)..: Normal
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
I flashed f6a using qflash and usb thumb drive with no issue. Just setting up, more to follow.
Ace, Loonym, thank you very much. We'll get this sucker hummin. Bet on it. I'm sitting at 3.6GHz stable with this machine right now, and I gotta tell ya my gaming experience has never been better. The OC'd 4870 is a killer too! I averaged ~180 net_graph fps all night last night on DODsource.
Any links to that f6a bios? Look forward to seeing how it performs. And I'll thy the f5d after I exhaust all my options with the f5a Ace. Thanks,
And Ace, suprisingly there is no decent thread over at OCF on this subject. Just a months old BIOS thread with one post that I tried to revive a few days ago. Too Bad.
you have a large crowd of enthusiasts over here, that's for sure!
Thus far I'm finding I can still do my best clocks with my setup with f5d. This isn't to say the f6a is terrible, works fine, very stable, just wouldn't seem to let me push as hard. Who knows, if I put the other ram in maybe I'd get different results. The thing is my 790i pukes on the ocz flex xlc so it looks like those stay in the x48t. Uploaded for anyone who'd like to give it a shot. http://lakesidepc.com/X48TDQ6.F6A
it kind of s*cks when you find a ram set is no good or so, so with a certain chipset...but...it might mean the bios engineer is not being nice,nice with the settings to make that ram compatible.
Cheers, I just flashed to the f5d from f5a tonight. I'll be goin for 4GHz tomorrow depending on the weather(no AC). I'll post back with results.Quote:
Originally Posted by loonym
btw looney, have you tried the patriot Vipers at all on the 790? I only ask because the DDR2 clocked to 1200 for me on the 680 and 780 no prob. In the right hands they most likely would have went farther. I haven't tried their DDR3 yet though.
btw guys. One thing I'm definitely noticing is that it's taking more volts to get to the same freq with this board than with my 680i. For example, 3.0(333x9) took 1.2/1.176v on the 680i and 25hrs prime stable. On this board it takes 1.25v. 3.6GHz took 1.375v on the 680i and 1.4125v on this board. Any particular reason you could think of why that might be?
I'm thinking my bios settings may not be quite optimized yet, or the bios isn't as mature as it could be, etc. etc. But I can't really be sure.
That's a Danger Den Torture Rack. It kind of caught my eye while I was browsing through their site. I'm very happy with it. They did a great job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue
I only have a gskill 4gb kit and the ocz. That 790i is very ram fussy and I got sick of restoring the drive so it gets the gskills. I like the vipers but right now I can't justify buying more ddr3. I think you're not far off when you say maybe this x48t needs a little more vcore than some other setups but also how high are you running the fsb voltage?
I've tried 1.3 and 1.4 on the FSB Voltage. It's only running at 400MHz, so I didn't think the FSB would need the juice too bad yet. But that line of thinking comes from Nvidia Chipest Overclocking and from looking through this post at what you guys have been using.
link please..thanks:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
This is the same setup I have. The UV Blue Mobo Tray really sets it off, but adds a bit to the price.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/D...n/Torture_rack
Here is the Product Page
http://dangerden.com/store/product.p...=1&page=1#tabs
And here's a few of mine b4 it totally went together.
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6663/img0654qx1.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9342/img0667ru8.jpg
A couple of comments:
The build quality is excellent, and the assembly was easy. The only place I ran into trouble as with my 4870's PCIx expansion slot height. Without another GFX card it's kind of hard to tell if it's the case that's off spec or the 4870. My guess is the 4870 since everything else is perfectly in spec, plus the GFX PCB seems to be warped a bit. Nothing 2 1mm spacers between the standoff and tray couldn't fix.
The mounting holes for the PSU lined up perfectly with my Coolmax 1350w GreenPower, but not with my Silverstone St60F. It's kind of hit or miss there I think, not DD's fault.
The packaging was superb. Everything is packaged flat (think Ikea). lol.
This is by far the best case I've ever owned, but if you want it enclosed you'll need to shell out and grab the top and front. Price for that will range from ~$190 - $235.
Cool thing is, they can laser etch graphics for you on request if you want.
this looks GREAT!...i might buy one and get the UV Yellow!
That is really good , only thing that put me off isI still have nightmares about some wardrobes I had to put up :confused::ROTF:Quote:
Everything is packaged flat (think Ikea). lol.
ROFL! It's so true! I feel your Pain. Bed Frame, 2xDressers, Computer Table, Kitchen Table and Chairs. I'll never go there again dammit!
But it's solid pack job is what I'm saying.
While you're here Shanks, do you have anything to add to my previous questions in this thread? I noticed that you were a rather significant contributor earlier on.
Cheers,
SS's knowledge and input has been huge. I still use the tips he gave me and the info about the default voltage values is awesome. Using turbo helps me up until about ddr3-1700 because it tightens up a lot of the sub-timings that I'm not real comfortable messing with (that tip came from dinos), above that speed I drop it back to normal. My understanding of what the driving and skew settings actually do is zero but I set driving at 900 and cpu skew at 100 while mch skew is normal. I use -3 on first gtl and second is left at normal however I have the 45nm quad in here so a q6600 will likely react completely different. In case you overlooked it here's a link to Supershanks' post about the stock voltage defaults... http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/12926-post19.html
Oh Crap, In fact I did overlook that thread. That's golden! Thanks alot loony. I'm somewhat new to these forums and am still finding new and interesting things every time I sign on. I've previously only used the search function to find info on my old systems. This new x48, while not quite out of my league, takes alot of getting used to.
And yes, I think Ace mentioned something about the performance level and RAM timings in a previous thread. I'm grateful for all the help and sharing of experience with this board. It's really helped make the learning curve less steep.
Well, Imma put in a bid on these. I've had really good luck with used parts from Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=110278503033
I know one of you guys has used the Cellshock. In case I kill them, do we know what the RMA is like?
it has to make you wonder why he is selling them if he has gotten good overclocking out of them...
i would be dubious about any warranty carried over unless he can give you the receipt to show when/where he purchased them...most companies want to see/have the receipt.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
that is what i am into these days, to share my experiences with new overclockers...i remember when i got into this ball game of overclocking; i read everything about overclocking until i got the basic fundamentals down...still do read the threads for some of the big time overclockers but that is a league of few people...i am not even close to them...i am down here with the 'common' folks!:D
Might want to look at the GSkill DDR3-1600s. Mine are running very well on this board.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
Thank you sofa, but that is the RAM I currently have, only in the 2x2GB. They are fine and I don't really need new RAM, just on the lookout for good deals on 2x1GB sets.
I already PM'd him about that, we should be good to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue
I mean, If I can pick these up for $120 or less, it's not going to be too bad a loss even if I do have to RMA. I still have the GSkill here to pop in.
some companies won't honor a subsequent transfer of a warranty to a second person...better make sure CellShock will allow that...i would go to their website to read up on their warranty guarantee.
EDIT...here is their warranty page...ugh, you have to send the ram to Germany for RMA: http://cellshock.flagbit.com/en/service/guarantee.html
Yup. That's why I'm not going to sell the Gskill. That and I may not like 2GB with vista and switch back to 4. We'll see.
Thx Ace.
I'm currently on vista with 2 gb and I don't like it. I think I'm going to put xp on a raid0 tomorrow and can this install.
nothing like XP...it is a comfort zone..huh!:up:
I only installed the vista to run some vantage and I was foolish to think that I could actually enjoy using it daily with only 2gb ram :down:
Maybe next month I'll get a new 4gb kit and give vista64 a try.
Looks like for now I'll stick with f5d. Really no reason to mess with success.
http://lakesidepc.com/336x48t.jpg
and MIT settings
http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3433.372.th.jpg http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3435.th.jpg
Timings are kind of loose but I'll take it for this kind of stability with these temps, really doesn't seem noticeable to me when I game or work on vids. Much more noticeable is the lag from only running 2gb. It was failing agentgod's linpack util until I changed the MCH skew from auto to 100 and bumped MCH overvoltage to +.575v. I use LLC on and while there's still a pretty good drop, it keeps droop to about .03v or less which is good enough for me.
Thx for sharing loony. I did some testing last night, with LLC on and off. Personally I don't see much difference, but then I only did one test on each.
LLC Enabled 3.2GHz - 1.325v BIOS -> 1.292 idle - .029v droop
1.264 load - .061v droop
LLC Enabled 3.2GHz - 1.300v BIOS -> 1.280 idle - .020v droop
1.248 load - .052v droop
Now, the first thing I notice here is the disgusting amount of voltage I need to keep 3.2GHz stable on this board. If you'll look at this cap
3.0GHz previously only took 1.2000v BIOS / 1.176v reported:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1...000v25hja6.png
3.2GHz ran at that voltage, but prime stability only took a pinch more at 1.2125v.
What I did last night was screw around with different combinations of values for GTLREF1/2. After trying the first combination -3/-3 I found I could come down from 1.35 to 1.3Vcore and remain stable. Whereas b4 prime would blow up after a few seconds at 1.3000v. I really don't know enough about these settings to know if they would effect how much Vcore could be used stably. But after reading a few articles on the subject I think it may.
For now, this has to be my main focus. I need to know how to get this board to undervolt or lowvolt b4 I go for the big clocks. I've had this chip up to 4.0GHz b4 and lets just say it didn't scale as well as I'd like. So far with this board I really don't think it will do it.
So, Ace, looney, shanks et al. In your experience, what might be the best chance for me to get this board to give me better clocks per voltage on a 65nm Quad? Is it even possible? I think I may already be on the way, but I haven't really done enough testing yet.
Perhaps I need to try a 45nm chip?
First of all I know it's nice to try and keep voltages low but there's really no need to be overly conservative with the kent quads. I have some and they seem to love abuse. I see the same question all the time "how can I get better clocks" and 99% of the time the answer is voltage. :D Try playing with those skews too. One setting at a time and also one increment at a time. I don't know if it'll help but it never hurts to try.
As a side note I finally got the ds3l back that I sent for rma at the same time as my x48t. Not sure why this took so long since it was a cut and dried replacement. I'll definitely be putting some small sinks and a fan on the mosfets on this one. ;) Great budget board but not really built to take the strain of crunching an oc quad 24/7.
Oh I'm no stranger to punishing my poor little quad with abusive amounts of voltage, believe me.
I'm just a tad bit disappointed that my $375 x48 board won't clock as high with the same voltage out of the box as my $150 680i. It's silly tbh.
I'll do some research on the skews, they are the only thing I haven't messed with.
Also, when you say crunching, what does that mean exactly? I've been folding for quite some time, but not to familiar with crunching.
Cheers,
I run boinc WCG. We have a subforum in the teams section. Check it out some time if you're curious. We have a blast and my opinion is there's no better cause. Lot's of people bash the nvidia chipset boards but I really like 'em and I think sli is lots of fun. For a high end board, I think gigabyte's bios is sadly lacking. This isn't to say that it's not sufficient because it is but it's not really more than sufficient. They should have gone further with fine tuning and voltage options for their top models.
Biostar's TPower I45 for $150 USD is the best bang for the buck right now...they supplanted Abit's IP35 Pro, IMHO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
the biostar is out performing or even with giga's X48T and it is a DDR2 board.
Ok guys, a bit of news. I spent the night playing around with the GLTREF values from the hidden settings menu. I tried every combination with an overclock of 3.2GHz and 1.2500 Vcore. It turns out that -3, -3 worked out the best and allowed a prime stable overclock. At least for an hour, but that's miles better than the instant blue screen I was getting with the default GTLREF values. So, as it stands I'm sittin pretty with a nice low voltage overclock, and I'll continue the Prime test over the next 24hrs. Hopefully there are no adverse long term effects of changing these values.
Btw. did I mention I got my new 1.2000 VID Q66 today???? $160 over at OCF. Sweet 65nm goodness. It's a peach so far.
If my temps seem a bit high, it's because the ambient in here is still 30degC. It was a muggy sh*tty day here.
IDLE:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/2...w32idlelh5.png
LOAD:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/4...w32loadpd7.png
what happen to your images???
Dunno, they were there last night. Hmm. Anyhow.
good overclock for a low VcoreQuote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
Yea, Thx. I've since had the opportunity to do a decent idle calibration. Hehe.
Also, I've since bumped it up to 4.14GHz, but she BSD'd about 5mins after I started Prime95. It also BSD'd about halfway through 3Dmark06. Too bad.
Any Tips guys??? FSB at that point is 460. Vcore is 1.65, then tried 1.7v. With LLC enabled the vcore was shooting up to 1.806-1.9v in CPUID. Yikes, but that being said, I would give it more.
Not sure why some people suggest a 100 PCIe Freq. and some 104 or 105. That's kinda been confusing me. I've locked it in at 100 even though it doesn't seem to make any difference from not doing it.
Those Skews have got to be good for something, whataya think? What the hell do they really do I wonder. I've been doing a bit of research, and can't seem to get a solid answer.
BIOS Settings are as follows.
GIGABYTE GA X48T DQ6 Clock Settings
MB Intelligent Tweaker (MIT)
Robust Graphics Booster...........: Turbo
CPU Clock Ratio...................: 9
CPU Frequency.....................: ?
CPU Host Clock Control............: 3,750
CPU Host Frequency(Mhz)...........: 460
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).......: 100
C.I.A.2...........................: Disabled
Performance Enhance...............: Standard
System Memory Multiplier (SPD)....: 3.2B
Memory Frequency(Mhz).............: 14something
DRAM Timing Selectable ...........: Manual
Standard Timing Control
CAS Latency Time (tCL)............: 7
DRAM RAS# to CAS# (tRCD).........: 7
DRAM RAS# Precharge (tRP).........: 7
Precharge Delay (tRAS)............: 18
Advanced Timing Control
ACT to ACT Delay(tRRD)............: 5
Rank Write to READ Delay (tWTR)...: 5
Write To Precharge Delay (tWR)....: 10
Refresh to ACT Delay (tRFC).......: 60
Read To Precharge Delay (tRTP)....: 5
Static tREAD Value (tRD)..........: 9
Static tREAD Phase Adj............: Auto
Command Rate (CMD)................: 2T
Clock Driving and Skew Control
CPU/PCIEX Clock Driving Control...: 800
CPU Clock Skew Control............: Normal
(G)MCH Clock Skew Control.........: Normal
System Voltage Control () = Base Voltages
DDR3 OverVoltage Control...(1.50v): +0.40v
PCI-E OverVoltage Control.,(1.50v): +0.15v
FSB OverVoltage Control....(1.10v): +0.30v
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control,(1.45v): +0.35v
CPU GTLREF1 Voltage*.......(67%)..: +3%
CPU GTLREF2 Voltage*.......(61%)..: Auto
Loadline Calibration..............: Enabled
CPU Voltage Control...............: 1.7000v
Normal CPU Vcore..................: 1.2000v
Note: * Hidden Features Press [CTRL] + [F1] from main Menu to Access
Advanced Bios Features
Limit CPUID Max to 3..............: Disabled
No-Execute Memory Protect.........: Disabled
CPU Enhanced Halt(CIE)............: Disabled
CPU Thermal Monitor 2.............: Enabled
CPU EIST Function.................: Disabled
Virtuaalization Technology........: Disabled
Idle, Load and quick Benchmark at 23Deg. Ambient
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2...ghzidleps4.png
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/6...ghzloadef2.png
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6...hz3dm06up5.png
that one radeon 4800 really pumps out the 3D2006 score...that is impressive for a single card!:up:
suggestions for 4.1 ghz in red next to your above settings....BUT...4.1 for a Q6600 is going to be real tough to pull off unless you are using water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
Yup, she's all under water. Loop Specifications are in my sig, but with spanky new homemade coolant. Hehehe.
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/2558/img0702pd6.jpg
Thx for the suggestions. I'll tweak some more and post back later.
also, forgot to ask why you do not use "Loadline Calibration?"
Sorry about that Ace. In the text above the settings listing, it says that LLC was enabled. I just neglected to add it in the settings list.
I'd say 460fsb is maxing that q6600 of yours unless it could get more fsb voltage.
Yea, probably. This is the highest FSB I tried with my low multi testing, I honestly don't know where the wall is on this CPU. We shall see.
generally, on quads it works better at 445 fsb...usually the max is 475-480 fsb...i can get higher on my biostar but the chipset latencies have to be really relaxed.
Oh yea, 445x9 is no problem as in the screenshots above. Giver 1.65 and it'll prime until I'm ready to shut it down. Although, honestly I've never felt the need to test 4.0GHz for 24+ hours, since I know I'm not going to be running that 24/7.
Now, when you say chipset latencies, what exactly does that mean. It's a new term. What BIOS parameters are we talking about there.
And what the heck is with that Biostar??? What made you decide to pick that up???
Thx again for all your help Ace and Loony.
lolol... don't thank me, I don't do anything except beat up my stuff :rofl:
edit: i do seem to have found a sweetspot for this particular yorkie at 460fsb
are you familiar with Everest utility program?..that program will show you what "ns" your chipset latencies are set to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ol'Baditude
the biostar is a good, not so expensive board...it will run a dual core relatively high in FSB and a quad at about the same on other boards..actually, i could go above 500 FSB with my 9650, although very relaxed latencies.
I thought I'd come here and ask the experts who are using the same x48T-DQ6 Gigabyte board as I am. I'm planning to get one of the q9550 processors with the E0 stepping when they finally make an appearance and wondering what the best Bios is to run with the q9550?
F5D and F5A are about the same...F5D might win out by a half percent;)
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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue
Thanks for your help, Ace. Appreciate it. :up:
i just updated the links on the first page...gigabyte changed them...looks as if they updated a few things.Quote:
Originally Posted by kronos
glad to help!:up:
Mine are C1 stepping. I use F5D, very good overclocking bios for my gear.
Could someomne supply a link to the F5D Bios. I can't locate it. One last question, the F5D Bios will support the E0 stepping on the q9550 if and when I ever get one?
Here you go... http://lakesidepc.com/x48tdq6f5d.rar
As far as E0 support, someone else would have to verify but I also have f6a I can host up if you want it.
Thanks, loonym. Appreciate it. :up:
How is this board in the memory overclocking department?
I have gone through the thread (...quickly), and I don't think I have seen anyone running much over DDR3-1600.
Supershanks has gotten up to DDR3-17xx...go here to review his thread at Clunk.org: http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/revie...ng-review.html
It won't clock the ram as good as my 790i does but I run the gskill 2x2gb hz kit in here at 1840 around the clock with decent timings. When I was testing an e8400 and my ock flex xlc kit in here I had some good 2000+ runs. I'll see if I can find the screens. Dinos had some killer ram clocks with those special corsairs of his.
anyone got SLI to work on this board?
SLI is for nvidia chipsets, X48 is intel.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7499richard
Yes I know that...Quote:
Originally Posted by loonym
I mean has anyone been able to hack the drivers/bios to make it work. I seem to remember reading that some people got SLI to work on X38 but don't remember for sure.
Just curious :up:
Who needs SLI when you can have two 4870's in xfire. Boo to NVidia.
There was a thread in the driver section but none of what those guys were trying worked.
What is the highest FSB og the Gigabyte X48T-DQ6? I have mine running at 500x9. Can it go much higher?? and how much power can i give the nb write nu it's at 0.475volts
I never really tried running up that high with my quad in here but there were some guys back earlier in the thread benching up around 575. As far as nb volts you should be able go some more, maybe even another .1v as long as you try and keep it cool.
Thanks Loonym :)
@loonym
where is your 3D2006 bench score with your dual video cards on this board?..i was looking for it to show someone else in the biostar thread.
lol... I never posted it and I dunno if I have the screen now. I have 2 3870's I can use later for some tries, I just put my e8400 back in to play with.
MAN, i thought for sure you posted it here in this thread...OR...i'm clairvoyant...LOL:D
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=739149 lol, ok I found this one, pretty weak :D