Official Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 Info Thread

[Ace-a-Rue]

i tried 485 FSB with my QX9650 and it was bootable but i had to really loosen the memory timings and increase the MCH voltage...it made me feel a little uncomfortable since i could feel the heat pouring off the heatpipe.

[Supershanks]

A bit warmish :lol;
did you try with gtlref1 & 2 both at -3% ?? might make a difference

I've got Intel® Xeon® 3230 to play with for a bit , interested to see what i can get out of it. Had thought of getting a Q6700 Go as the £ are now down , but saw this which is the Xeon equivalent.

[Ace-a-Rue]

the cpu gtlref had to be +3% and normal to handle 475 to 485 FSB.

do you think that the Xeon will give you better FSB overclocks, like the E8400???

[Supershanks]

do you think that the Xeon will give you better FSB overclocks, like the E8400???

Hell no , hard to beat 550
I sold my Q6600 & thought this would make a decent £/Performance replacement. Really just cashing in on the £ softening. As I say had satrted to see the Q6700 come down to £ where the Q6600 was , though this was a little more thought it worth a go It's success will really lie on what i can get out of it Muhahaha

[Ace-a-Rue]

reasonable logic

[Supershanks]

reasonable logic

Oh we can't agree x2 in the same day

the cpu gtlref had to be +3% and normal to handle 475 to 485 FSB.

That's interesting what was it on your E8500 -3% all round or Auto/Normal

[Ace-a-Rue]

i think i used -3% for both on the E8500

[Ace-a-Rue]

it is amazing how harder the quad is to overclock via the higher FSB...the difference in MCH voltage was like +0.45v for the E8500 at 500 FSB and to hold 485 FSB for the QX9650 was +0.60 for MCH...the heatpipes were very warm to the touch even with fans on the PWM and NB heatsinks.

[Supershanks]

i think i used -3% for both on the E8500

yep seems to be best for 45nm duo

Yep 485 on a quad is a good , if not great clock You got a fan on the NB ??

[Ace-a-Rue]

how about 3 fans

actually, i will take 445-450 FSB as my final overclock...less voltages all around.

[loonym]

I took a slightly different approach to mounting my true... 5/32 bit, 6-32 machine screws, nuts, and washers...

[Ace-a-Rue]

HEY...I LIKE!

does it make any difference for cooling?

[loonym]

Hehe... It's kind of hard to tell with the monster panaflo on it
Seriously though, I'll be able to tell better once it's in the case. It's still on the bench for a couple days.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hehe... It's kind of hard to tell with the monster panaflo on it
Seriously though, I'll be able to tell better once it's in the case. It's still on the bench for a couple days.

...you know, before you put it in the case remove the back plate and use some AS Ceramique on the plate instead of leaving that grey TIM material they use....when i removed my heatpipe after hours and hours of operation at high temps, the grey TIM wasn't even melted or tacky...it just peeled off the base without any undue force.

[loonym]

Yeah, great suggestion. I'll redo all the board sinks. I've really only been playing with this for a couple days, I had a p5e3 premium I had to rma because it was a dogpile. It was a great clocker I guess but very buggy. It would randomly lose all usb ports for a few seconds, sometimes on restart it would spontaneouly clear the cmos, and I think the pci-e lanes went south after about 3 days. So far I can only get my x3360 and a borrowed 9550 to around 3.95ghz on the 48t vs 4.05ghz on the asus but you know something? This board is faster at 3.95 than the p5e3 premium at 4.05 with the quads I tried and I'm sure as I learn how to tune the skews the clocks will go up.

[Ace-a-Rue]

those skew controls can be difficult to set correctly...only move them out of auto once you past 480 FSB for a dual core....quads will be lower...i found 250ps was a workable setting at 445 fsb for my QX9650

[Ace-a-Rue]

CPU COMPATIBILITY LIST: http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Mothe...ProductID=2650

[I34z1k]

This is going to seem like a silly question, but I want to flash my bios now so I downloaded the F5a, but it's extension is .F5a which I guess is wrong :P @Bios saved my current one as .bin... What should I rename the new one to?

Thanks

[X4er0]

This is going to seem like a silly question, but I want to flash my bios now so I downloaded the F5a, but it's extension is .F5a which I guess is wrong :P @Bios saved my current one as .bin... What should I rename the new one to?

Thanks

@bios recognizes the bios with the .f5a extension, no problem.

[Supershanks]

something I'd not even checked , looked at my filenames & can confirm X4er0 , works no problem

[I34z1k]

I can comfirm it too But stuck @ 588fsb :P

Anycase, what's the standard pll? And by changing the skew setting to 150ms, that's an increase of 0.15v right?

[loonym]

I can comfirm it too But stuck @ 588fsb :P

Anycase, what's the standard pll? And by changing the skew setting to 150ms, that's an increase of 0.15v right?

Nice clock
I'm curious about what the standard voltages are too?

[Supershanks]

Default voltages as far as i'm aware, see
MIT Settings
included in Bios Template at no extra charge

luck

[loonym]

Thanks Supershanks... I knew I shoul;d have read that thread

edit: Reading that, I think I could use a little more vtt (fsb voltage) for my bench runs. Even max doesn't seem to be excessive for bench runs. Might allow me to decrease vcore slightly on the yorkfields. Thanks again.

[Supershanks]

loonym,
What GTLRef are you at ?? I've found running -3 on both 1 & 2 help higher clock & give a little more stability.

luck