UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[shaolinchicken]

WOW! I could give you a big old slobbery Dog kiss for finding this! Exactly as you said. My poorly ventilated case no longer smells like I was making coffee in it. Temps across the board have dropped a lot.

What type of ram are you using? I have not tried it again, but before I could not even use my 2g's of Dominator on this board past 400. Perhaps now I'll see something different.

Ace, put this one in the guide book

Glad it worked .
Like you, I found it nightmare to overclock past 449, took a while to get there, this was with trial and error, not easy when you are overclocking your first quad core and threads like this weren't available. Most people seem to be overclocking dual cores and not many quad cores. Also quite a few people were saying the I45 was not good for clocking quads, so i wasn't sure that my board coukld actually get past 449.
I am still new to overclocking noob
I am using gskill PQ PC2-8000C5 memory.

not sure this is for all users...i had my E8500 in auto for MCH GTLREF...i seem to remember trying several of those settings and i couldn't find a manual setting that made it work any better than leaving it in "Auto"...now...the quad cpu might require more finessing and that is where taking it out of Auto helps.

As Ace-a-rue says Auto setting is fine for dual cores, but as ddogg and me have found out , it needs to be tweaked for quad core (i have a q9300)


@mrcape
If adjusting gtls was so obvious, why didn't you offer advice to ddogg, when you could see he was struggling to get past 449.
Not everyone is an expert overclocker like you seem to think you are.


To end on a positive i'm really glad I bought this motherboard and hope other people have some good overclocking adventures on what is a fine motherboard.
Well done Biostar!