DDR3 is VERY strong > Corsair 4GB DDR3 + E6700 + Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 superpi & 3D tests

[dinos22]

TEST SETUP

• Gigabyte GA-P35T-DQ6 (DDR3 only) Motherboard >> updated to latest F3 bios
• 4GB kit Corsair 1600MHz 7-7-7-20 DDR3 RAM
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 L626Bxxx CPU
• PCI nvidia MX400 GFX card
• Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB PCIe GFX card
• Corsair Nautilus 500 Watercooler
• 80GB SADA MAxtor HDD
• 620W Corsair HX620 PSU
• Windows XP Pro 32-bit

Keep in mind that these superpi results were obtained with 333 strap , no transaction booster control , Performance Level = 8, 2T Command Rate, and not fully tweaked yet >>> and it was still mighty fast close to efficiency of DDR2 600MHz 4-4-4-x

^^^^ incidentally these are the suggestion aside from a couple of others i've asked Gigabyte engineers to implement in a bios







SHOCK AND HORROR >>>> You guys will not believe me if i told you that this is REAL COPPER!!!! zOMG LOL no more aluminium painted crap WOW









3.6GHz SuperPi Tests

1M 823MHz 7-7-7-20 2T 1.93v


tightened timings 1M 823MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v


32M 823MHz 7-7-7-20 2T 1.93v


tightened timings 32M 823MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v


another run bit faster 32M 823MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v





dinos22

[dinos22]

4GHz SuperPi Tests

1M 800MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v 2T 12.594s (with stock timings ~12.625 was slowest run i saw)


bit faster 1M 800MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v 2T 12.578s


500MHz FSB helps a bit 1M 800MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v 2T 12.562s


32M 800MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v 2T 12m 16.485s


32M 800MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v 2T 12m 13.453s


FSB=500MHz helps again wink 32M 800MHz 7-6-5-20 2T 1.93v 2T 12m 03.969s



How does this motherboard fair against the Asus P5B DLX i tested this CPU on last time which was a great CPU OCer

4150MHz 32M SuperPi but with much faster time this time round as Asus was suffering from crappy RAM ratios and this is another massive advantage DDR3 brings >>> YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO STUGGLE WITH RAM RATIOS AND SPEEDS WITH MASSIVE FSB OCs



well it's exactly the same......extremely solid board this gigabyte i am really shocked how much better it is that the old P965 ds3 crap heheh

[dinos22]

3D TESTING with 8800GTS 320MB @649-999

woot my old card is alive again heheh

some lovely 3DMARK Scores
E6700 > 4Ghz
DDR3 > 800MHz 7-6-5-18 1.93v 2T
8800GTS 320MB > 649/999 163.44 driver


3DMARK01 - 69649 points


3DMARK03 - 40423 points


3DMARK05 - 20675 points


3DMARK05 - 11857 points


AQUAMARK03 - 219964 point EEK


PCMARK05 - 9835 points (single drive too wow)



PBs all round for me except for '06 as i've gotten a fair bit more points due to extra 2xcores heh

[dinos22]

LAST RESERVE FOR JUST IN CASE

HELL THERE IS STILL SOME MORE GFX TWEAKING, QUAD CLOCKING

ERRRRRRRRRR AND SOME SUBZERO ACTION TO COME WITH MY BLACKBOX ROTARY

[dogsx2]

Nice benches.

I just hate thinking about springing for the ram when I have so much cheap DDR2 laying around.

[dinos22]

yup cost always plays a role for mainstream but XS is a different story
gains in lots of benchmarks can be seen.......

[dinos22]

got a new bios to test F4a will see how that goes


also spotted an interesting thing while benching

i had a couple of CPUs lying around on the keyboard or whatnot and noticed the difference between them

check it out

left one is celeron 460 and right one quad core Q6600



looks like the PCB is different on the quads

[shimmishim]

holy... these are 2x2GB kits?!

i don't even want to ask how much these would cost right now...

holy = amazing, unbelievable

[3NZ0]

Nice results

DDR3 is VERY strong

And ****ing expensive too

[jugeen]

nice scores dino!

[strange|ife]

nice results man.

that memory looks very nice, 2GB sticks with sub 8 timings..thats pretty damn impressive

now only if the stuff would drop to a sane price

[dinos22]

holy... these are 2x2GB kits?!

i don't even want to ask how much these would cost right now...

holy = amazing, unbelievable

yup 4GB of ddr3 micron IC goodness

Nice results



And ****ing expensive too

thanks

nice scores dino!

thanks man

nice results man.

that memory looks very nice, 2GB sticks with sub 8 timings..thats pretty damn impressive

now only if the stuff would drop to a sane price

yeah that's what i'm thinking

i've tested it now on a couple of boards and even on boards that don't officially support this ram at stock timings and speeds it did them without any pain whatsoever

i even managed to tighten it real nice

i didn't want to bother with CAS8 as it makes no difference to me ...... cas7 is where the performance is at with DDR3 i think....some benchmarks may also benefit from 6-5-5 but i reckon high clocking 7-6-5 is the way to go much like 4-4-4-x on DDR2

next thing i want to check is how low the vdimm will go for stock timings and speed.......

[nachthymnen]

Wow!
I love those ram!!!

[bachus_anonym]

So, Gigabyte's motherboard is pretty good after all, isn't it? Great numbers and fast 32Ms, dinos

As for "Performance Level" as seen in MemSet... Have you tried more aggressive selections under Performance Enhance option in BIOS (can't remember exact name, it's above memory ratios)? Default is "Standard" and then "Turbo" and "Extreme". If not, try it. The same effect as on Asus boards with Transaction Booster...

[ozzy]

Me wants Dinos hand me downs

Nice scores m8

[dinos22]

Wow!
I love those ram!!!

So, Gigabyte's motherboard is pretty good after all, isn't it? Great numbers and fast 32Ms, dinos

As for "Performance Level" as seen in MemSet... Have you tried more aggressive selections under Performance Enhance option in BIOS (can't remember exact name, it's above memory ratios)? Default is "Standard" and then "Turbo" and "Extreme". If not, try it. The same effect as on Asus boards with Transaction Booster...

hi mate yeah they are fast. Can't go wrong with Micron based RAM.... plus Gigabyte is no slouch but you inspired me with your runs to tweak it some more and see how much i can squeeze out. Now we just need Command Rate in bios and it should fly heh

i will take some screenshots of the bios selection as that may help others tweak the RAM

and to answer your questions they were all set to the max

problem with gigabyte board i encountered is the PL cannot be lowered to 7x unless i drop the FSB to ~470 but as you know superpi has enornmous benefit from FSB with P35 chipset which is good and bad news..............good news as there is a gain........bad news is trying to spend loads of money now for a CPU capable of monster FSB >>>

i am prepared to do lap dances people for a highFSB CPU now hahahahhaha

Me wants Dinos hand me downs

Nice scores m8

ok send me your address
j/k

[The_Beast]

very nice

[dinos22]

very nice

thanks