Gigabyte MA790FX DQ6

[BertM]

i just tried lowering the drivestrengths, result is even a lower crash frequency.
first i need better cooling before i can go further with higher fsb and higher cpu voltage.
3.07ghz is about the max i get stable with this small air cooled heathsink.

[drunkenmaster]

can anyone tell me exactly what settings the green button(black/yellow/red circle around it) changes?

something to do with errata fix at all? I have a 3870x2 in the system and from stock bios settings with tlb enabled, in the final f3c i think bios(ds5 not the dq6) i get a poop cpu/3dmark score 10-10.5k. from bios i disable the errata fix and i get to windows, basically the same score. If i open up amd overdrive and set green button from black to yellow and apply, i can't actually see a single damn setting change, but after that i run 3dmark and it jumps up 800 points or so on sm2 and sm3, and cpu score from 2900ish to 3100 ish. Is bios option not really disabling the errata fix and AOD is when on a "boost" setting?

Whats the best settings for benching ati cards these days on 3dmark, 06 mostly. I tried the mipmaps to highest performance and it seems to up sm2 score but sm3 score seems to drop a lot, while on the first notch up from highest performance i get a decent boost to sm2, and only a slight drop to sm3.


Seem to have lots of booting issues with this setup with a 9600be when overclocking from bios. i can occasionally get 220 or 230mhz htt from bios but changing other stuff seems to cause it to crap out and need a cmos clearing before it will boot again. where from windows AOD is doing a great job so far, occasional lockup but cpu multi, htt seem to be doing pretty well, aswell as voltage setting changes.

What are people cooling with, i didn't have a spare decent cpu cooler so went with the stock, didnt' want to attach watercooling yet as i was using bits from my last system which had died and wasn't sure what had died, so wanted to be able to switch stuff out/pull it apart quickly. how are people doing with stock cooler, i've got the odd bench done at 2.7-2.75Ghz, cant' get higher, gets warm but not crazy hot. guess i might try it again with watercooling and see how it goes, then on to some real gaming and see how it plays, tbh should be as fast as any intel setup when gpu limited i'd expect, but wondering how stable it will be without the errata fix on, if i need to enable it will real gaming performance drop, if so might look into rma'ing it.

[KTE]

can anyone tell me exactly what settings the green button(black/yellow/red circle around it) changes?

TLB caching/boosting. See here for the button effects + Ganged Vs Unganged DCT mode: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=950

What are people cooling with,

Stock cooler with 1/3 reused paste.

Get decent cooling, it'll clock stable/bench higher MHz better. I've ran out of 2 tubes of paste and don't really want to buy another anymore hence why I've not attached a better cooler yet. Try staying sub 51C/1.39V loaded, I start getting random instability at those parameters at any setting.

[justapost]

TLB caching/boosting. See here for the button effects + Ganged Vs Unganged DCT mode:

A german forum mentioned that it does also enable so called AutoXpress extentions, googled that word and it seems to be pci-express/ht related stuff must do more research.