**Official ABIT IX38 QuadGT Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[jcool]

Just throw my Commando away and switch to this board. It's my 2nd day with it now.

This mobo gave me BSOD at the first time I got into Windows on default settings. I just kinda shock about it. But today the problem seems gone.
I think it may be caused by this board that set my Q6600 FSB a little bit higher at 272, so the RAM is also OCed a little too. Also now I'm using BIOS 12B06 which seems working better. And one more thing, I tried it in Windows that still have previous board driver installed, so it may be driver's conflict.
However, I didn't see any problem with this board, such as keyboard freezing or C1 boot error that other members suffer here.

But this board still have some minor problems:
1. DDR voltage and DDR VTT offset are way too high. These make my board "screaming" all the time, so I must set the "beep" alarm to OFF.
2. When I powered on the PC, it always sound a long beep once and the post code stay a bit longer at C1. May be this board was a little slow at detecting my RAM and think that my RAM was error for a while everytime it was booting. And this problem didn't occured when I reboot/ reset my PC. How to fix it then?
Hearing such sound everytime booting up my PC is a little annoying for me.
3. And about that buggy divider 1:1.25, I haven't tried it yet.

Anyhow, I'm still running on the default setting right now. And getting prepared to OC at least to 3.0 Ghz. Any ideas how to start that?
My Q6600 is L724A and VID is 1,2875v with TRUX120.
I have tested that this processor can running at 3.0 Ghz with vcore only at 1,20v full load.
So the questions remain now are vMCH and vFSB, i think... How much "juice" I have to set on vMCH and vFSB to get it running fine with 9 X 333 FSB on this board? Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

More over, how about the settings to run at 3,6 Ghz? What vMCH and vFSB setting should I take then?

Thanks b4 for all your kind reply.

1. Never seen that problem, and have built 3 rigs based on that board by now + my own...
2. Also strange, didn't have that problem either
3. It's not buggy as long as you don't push it too far. You can easily run mem@1000 with the 4:5 divider, it just gets unstable over 1100 or something

Recommended settings for your quad@3Ghz:

- Set Vcore according to your CPU's needs
- Set Memory Divider to 1:1.25
- Set memory Voltage to 2V
- Set FSB to 333
- Leave all the other voltages at stock - worked for me with 3 different boards/Q6600's

--> you should be running stable. If not, come back here

For 3.6 Ghz I'm using VTT 1,3V - MCH 1,35V - ICH 1,20V
Just don't expect to be running 3,6 stable out of the box on air, not all CPUs can do it and also the mobo might need some fine-tuning as well.