Official Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 Info Thread

[kronos]

bummer!...if you want the best memory, try CellShock at tankguys.com...it is expensive and they do only make 2 x 1gb kits as of yet...SuperShanks has some and from his experience, there is no doubt in my mine that he is getting great performance out of it.

my other recommendation if CellShock is to expensive; buy OCZ...they are reasonable in price and performance should be on par with other makers selling at higher price!

Is Super Talent any good?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Is Super Talent any good?

maybe Dino can weigh in about that...not sure myself since no experience with it.

[Ace-a-Rue]

hi Ace-a-Rue

i looked through the bios settings you suggested there

i would advice again
Performance Enhance…..Standard

it really selects loose timings and it pretty slow
you should use Turbo instead as it normally doesn't affect stability all that much and it much faster performance wise....
Extreme setting can also be used but this setting can cause instability as it really tightens MCH timings really tight

i also found XMP profile unstable during X38 testing
i would manually set timins and speeds and ratio

i believe he wrote standard out as the setting used and i tried it without any problem...i think it is his memory since i have the exact same kind of memory as he...i was able to run in "Profile 1" with the red settings as the only changes and then run Prime 95 with no problem at all...i kind of suspect that he has a bad stick or two.

[dinos22]

yeah probably just faulty RAM if they cannot run factory timings and speed

G.Skill usually make good RAM so just get an RMA done Cronos and be done with it i guess

Gigabyte can be a bit finnicky with their bioses............. and also try raising volts on the NB to +0.3 and bump RAM volts to see what happens

i was testing a rig a couple of days ago and the CPU i had was stable at 350MHz FSB (Celeron 460) on 1:2 RAM RATIO so i tested with 5-5-5-18 1T and did some 32M Superpi runs....i had to have the MCH volts at +0.3 or more can't recall and had to have RAM around 2.05v......

the strangest thing was that i could not bring the volts down and loosen the latecies to say 6-6-6-x or 7-7-7-x and get stability

but the board i have is not a normal production board so probably some weird ass going on with my board

i should have an X48T-DQ6 soon so gotta do those tests..........

[Ace-a-Rue]

I'm afraid that the setting you suggested Ace did not work. I think this G.Skill memory is defective or at least won't run at 1600 mhz speed. As any time I try to get this memory to 1600 mhz I get nothing but BSODs. Maybe it's time to try some other brand of memory and RMA this G.Skill. Any suggestions?

one more time; did you try all those in red print?...those were the primary changes needed to be made to make 1600 mhz work (Profile 1) besides the one you had written in black print.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i should have an X48T-DQ6 soon so gotta do those tests..........

the board is EXCELLENT!

[dinos22]

the board is EXCELLENT!

that's good to hear

[kronos]

one more time; did you try all those in red print?...those were the primary changes needed to be made to make 1600 mhz work (Profile 1) besides the one you had written in black print.

Exactly as you wrote them out, Ace. I couldn't even boot into windows. I double-checked the settings just to make sure I had everything set as you have suggested.


I sent a message to G.Skill tech support today relating the problems I've been having with the DDR3 1600HZ ram and hope to here back from them in a day or two. In the meantime I spent the afternoon installing Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a second HD that I had and put in some G.Skill DDR3 1600 (2x1024) that I have. This booted up and is give me a 1333 memory frequency. The only thing I've done with it sofar is raise the voltage to 1.9v. Not sure if I should play with them or leave well enough alone. Should I get another pair of the 2x2048 DDR3 1600HZs or get some other kind of memory? I would prefer to have two sticks of 2048 than get four sticks of 1024.

[Ace-a-Rue]

if you are beyond the return date with your on-line retailer, i would then suggest RMA'ing them back to Gskill.

once i get burned by a bad set of memory, i am generally a little skiddish about getting the same kind, again.

i suggest you look at OCZ Platnium as a replacement.

EDIT:...here is gigabyte's memory list: http://www.gigabyte.us/FileList/Memo...a-x48t-dq6.pdf

it shows OCZ in there with a 2gig kit...so...a four gig kit like this should work for you:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227286


OCZ SPEC SHEET: http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...dwidth_edition

[Supershanks]

Couple of different ways to get to 4,320
E8400 4,320 8x540@3.33D 1800Mhz 8,7,6,12
E8400 9x480@3.33D 1,600Mhz 6,6,6,12

[Ace-a-Rue]

ok...ordered an E8500....i will have it thursday/friday

[Supershanks]

ok...ordered an E8500....i will have it thursday/friday

yep mine should arrive about same time. fingers crossed we get good 'uns

luck

[Ace-a-Rue]

Couple of different ways to get to 4,320
E8400 4,320 8x540@3.33D 1800Mhz 8,7,6,12
E8400 9x480@3.33D 1,600Mhz 6,6,6,12

darn good@4320 mhz, luck!...is that on water or air?

[Supershanks]

Water mate.

[Ace-a-Rue]

ahhhhhhhhhhh!...still, very nice.

[Ace-a-Rue]

E8500 at 520 FSB...11 minutes of Prime 95...just finding the top end of the FSB.

[Ace-a-Rue]

continuing to climb the FSB ladder...530 is good but i am having a bit of trouble P95 540 FSB...will post that results as soon as i am satisified.

[memory]

Any newer Beta Bios available?

[Ace-a-Rue]

there is a F5C which is crap at least for a quad core...i heard some results before for a dual core and it was the same...i am currently using F5A which appears to be fine.

[Ace-a-Rue]

ok...540 is right on the edge of being ok...i had to do more tweaking in the bios, finessing items in the MIB center.

[Supershanks]

Nice results Ace you got ahead of me while i was sleeping
I just tried 530x8.5 b4 bed , but it wasn't playing

What GTLREF are you using ??
luck

[Ace-a-Rue]

sorry mate, i am all over the map with settings...found out with those above, especially 540 FSB, for P95, would not run any of the video benches....they would freeze almost instantaneously after starting the bench.

i am finally restarted with 500 FSB at 8.5 times...i am now able to do all 3 video benches...i am currently tightening the timings to see if i can complete all 3 benches...i am presently on 7-7-7-20-60 (PL=8)....3d2001 completed and i am working 3d2005 at the moment.

EDIT:...i think my problem was the bios memory setting was set to "Profile 1" while i was manually adjusting the memory...i forgot or overlooked disabling that as i was climbing the FSB ladder...i due believe that was the reason causing the instantaneous failure of the 3D Mark benches...so...i restarted over at 500 FSB with 8.5 times, which is 4250 Mhz.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i am now up to 510 FSB at 8.5X (4335 Mhz)...just completed 3D2001 and i'm into 3D2005 at the moment...i am using 7-7-7-20-60 (PL=8)...after the 3 video benches, i will try P95 (Ha)

[Ace-a-Rue]

P95 would not work at 510 FSB X 8.5 so i am down to 500 FSB....that FSB appears to be steady.

[Ace-a-Rue]

it ran an hour's worth of P95 which i am happy with.