Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread

[Hornet331]

Richard Dower: Dunno... I guess I got lucky with my sticks. Everybody told me the PC8500 G.SKILL's wouldn't do more than 1140, but here they are doing 1200 with stock timings and voltage. And I play everything I want, work with my 100Mb Photoshop files, etc, etc. They're rock stable so far!

Typhoon: I'm with 2.66D strap. 450 X 2.66 = 1197. BIOS just round it up to 1200 but I don't know why...

Funny enough, my original plan with these sticks was to OC the CPU to 3.8Ghz (475 X 8) with 2.50A strap (1190Mhz). Unfortunately, the RAM wasn't very fond of the 2.50 strap and rejected the stock timings as well. I was trying hard to keep them stable even with 6-6-6-20! So I went back to 450 FSB and tried almost every memory strap available. 2.66D worked the best. The bad news is that now I'm not able to further OC the FSB... The good news is that I can keep my hardware cooler with lower voltages and at the same time get the most juice out of the FSB/CPU/RAM combo. I guess the sweet spot for this CPU is indeed 3600Mhz

i noticed the same thing with my board, the 2.66D is the most stable strap with performance level 7 ( i can boot up to 467mhz), to bad i have a X38T and need the 4.0 strap to fully use my DDR3-1800 memory...

i think i need to raise the performance level to 8 or 9 so that i can get the 4.00 strab bootable.

ok i did a quick try with F6 (havent done much with testing with F6) and now i can use the 4.0B (still cant get 4.0B to work) strap up to ~470mhz but then my raid 10 array craps out. :p

I think i could go higher if i would use a single HDD.