BlackOps/Avenger: GTL Ref Table

[Vatos_locos]

i/we hope soon

[OdinEidolon]

i/we hope soon

yeah, me too, i love the design and the 5,25" device

[Vatos_locos]

honestly i would like to have it too to see how it works but it seems i have to wait to be available

[ragingclue]

OK I'm trying to wrap my head around this as well. I'm not sure if I'm overcomplicating it in my head or what, but it's pretty confusing.

Let's say, just as an example, I am set to 1.375 in BIOS for VTT (I know it's probably not an option, but it's for the example's sake)

1.375 VTT is actually 1.275

1.275*.667 = .85

So, I find .85 on Saaya's excel spreadsheet after entering the value 1.275 and I see it should be around +11. Would this be true for all four values?

I see many people with quads have had success with the +10, +5, +10, +10 values. Would the same general behavior with GTL's be true for us dualies?

And what about NB GTL?

[Wotcher]

With my E8600 @ 4.0GHz, VTT 1.275 bios (1.175 actual) I run (on Black Ops) -1, -8, -1 -8, dual core cpus will always be a negative value as opposed to the quad positive value.

The -1 is to account for the m/board anomally shown in saaya's "read" values for the E8600 as opposed to the m/boards "default" values

The -8 was arrived at using a combo of saaya's spreadsheet, the GTL calculator by Seban and LinX to graph results with regard to the optimal values.

For a 45nm dual core you need to achieve values as close as possible to .635 as opposed to a quad which utilises .667

LINK

NB GTL is still somewhat of a mystery to me at this stage

[ragingclue]

omg all this GTL stuff is giving me a headache. I spent about four and a half hours reading up on it yesterday, and I still got it wrong....

I'm really regretting not getting the E8600 now. I wish I had that multiplier of 10.... I'm having trouble finding a happy medium where my chip and my RAM are both running as high as I can get stable on air....

Wotcher, what are your CPU PLL, vcore, SB, and NB voltages that work best for you? I understand everyone is going to have different successful settings, but I want to make sure I'm not way off in left field with any of my values.... Also, I read in one of the threads that you want your PLL, VTT, and vcore all in the same general vicinity? Usually my PLL is a good .3 or so above my vcore and VTT. I also read that you want your PLL and NB voltages to be as far away from eachother as possible, but I always end up getting them pretty close to eachother (within about .06 or so)... so this is where using the NB DTL would come in handy, right? Are these true, or just rumors?

Sorry for all the noob questions, but I just want to make sure I have all the little voltage "rules" and guidelines understood before I go ahead and mess something up or pull my hair out of my head for another few hours doing something that's simply wrong.

[Wotcher]

I'm no guru myself but as I understand it my GTL Ref settings are in the right direction. It seems to work OK for me.

I based my settings on this quote from the thread by cryptiK that I linked earlier.

If you have a 45nm cpu, you are aiming for the voltage given by the 0.635x multiplier, so to work out what to put for the the 0.667x GTL Ref (Y) values (it will be a negative number to make the resulting voltage the same as the 0.635x GTL Ref voltage

saaya posted some actual "read" voltages (for Black Ops & E8600) which showed the .635 to be overvolted at .639 which is why I use -1 for that value as it is less 5.875mV which give around the .634 mark with an actual VTT of 1.175.

Did you d/load the calculator by seban from the linked post?

BTW, I'm running 500*8 for 4.0GHz so I don't use the 10 multi option anyway, I used the same for my E3110 which is basically an E8400. My memory is 1333MHz, I'm considering upgrading to 1600MHz but prices have risen quite markedly with the "recession"

I try to keep my voltages as low as possible due to my geographic location giving high ambient air temps (I live in close proximity, within 100km, of the Tropics)

For 4.0GHz (E8600)

CPU PLL is 1.509
vcore is 1.2375
SB is default (will check actual voltage and edit)
NB is 1.25

With regard to the truth or rumour question, I've never seen these "rules" before and certainly don't adhere to them. Apart from raising vcore, nb and dimm voltages I leave most others as low as I can achieve stability with, I'm not an extreme overclocker in any sense of the description so I've never really bothered to go in depth too much as I can usually manage to attain my desired overclocks using this method. I originally started fooling around with GTL Ref voltages in an attempt to run at a lower vcore but never managed any quantifiable result, in fact I had more luck with a different bios to be honest

[InToGraphics]

Ill pass this on to the BIOS engineer and the future BIOSes should have the direct table and no more "+1" or "-4" stuff

I'm using G30 at the moment. Is there a more recent beta BIOS with GTL ref voltages instead of in/decrements ?

Robert