UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[Mortis360]

Supershanks: Its perfect to overclock at the winter, but often we have to clock down a bit at the summer because its alot warmer.

Ace-a-Rue: Just like a child?

Still stable!

~ Mortis360

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ace-a-Rue: Just like a child?
~ Mortis360

i miss your humor!...maybe you have a problem expressing it in english.

[Mortis360]

i miss your humor!...maybe you have a problem expressing it in english.

My english aint perfect atm
Think 7 hours and 30mins is enough with Orthos? I wanna do other things like gaming now!

~ Mortis360

[Supershanks]

obviously, i did not do a good job!...the ole body does not respond like it use to!...think i will need to hire a roofer to repair it

:lol; in Uk we talk about DIY (Do It Yourself) , my brother came up with a better one DIY(Don't Involve Yourself) but yes understand what your saying, I usually have a go

[Ace-a-Rue]

i learned my lesson.

good news, i have the biostar back in my hands!

[HousERaT]

i learned my lesson.

good news, i have the biostar back in my hands!

That's good....... hint hint, don't touch the metal parts with a screwdriver while the motherboard is turned on.

[Ace-a-Rue]

no screw driver and no DMM probes!

[Pntgrd]

Ace, i am thinking about picking up one of these boards to replace my P5Q-D. Main gripe about the Asus is I can't use my X-Fi because some enigineer-monkey had his head somewhere else when he layed out the slot design. I have to put the card in the top slot right next to my 4870, squeezed in the sapce between the vid card and the cpu cooler. It's either this or spend 190.00 on a PCie version of my X-Fi. And I also am not coming to grips real fast with the Asus and clocking any of my Duals. I can get a SuperPi at 4700 with the 8600 but cannot get it stable there. Please give me some reasons whuy I should NOT pickup one of these Biostars

[ddogg]

i am going to get my board this afternoon and i will plug my 9650 in to see how much i can beat YOU!

You should be able to kick my ass with that CPU! Looking forward to it

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ace, i am thinking about picking up one of these boards to replace my P5Q-D. Main gripe about the Asus is I can't use my X-Fi because some enigineer-monkey had his head somewhere else when he layed out the slot design. I have to put the card in the top slot right next to my 4870, squeezed in the sapce between the vid card and the cpu cooler. It's either this or spend 190.00 on a PCie version of my X-Fi. And I also am not coming to grips real fast with the Asus and clocking any of my Duals. I can get a SuperPi at 4700 with the 8600 but cannot get it stable there. Please give me some reasons whuy I should NOT pickup one of these Biostars

ok, so the X-FI card that you have is a PCI slot card, right?..if so, then the 2 PCI slots are to the left (bottom of the board if standing) of the 2nd 16X speed slot.

if i understand you correctly then the X-FI sound card should be ok unless you are going to do crossfire.

here is the board; take a look.

[Ace-a-Rue]

You should be able to kick my ass with that CPU! Looking forward to it

oh YEAH!...getting my cowboy boots on NOW!

[Ace-a-Rue]

the board is easy to overclock this 9650 to 4 ghz...a breeze!

will start lowering the multi so i can raise the FSB...have to finish a 32M bench for comparison before i start raising the FSB

usually, this puppy will stop around 475 FSB as a stable overclock...might be able to squeeze more; we'll see.

[breakfromyou]

Alright, i have a new opinion on this board. 500fsb is easy...It was my RAM (single sided ballistix), which I haven't quite figured out yet. Anyone know where i can pick up a nice set of D9? Or at least something that can do DDR2-1200?

I have to reboot anywhere between 5-10 times before i can get into BIOS on this board. Am I doing something wrong?

[Pntgrd]

ok, so the X-FI card that you have is a PCI slot card, right?..if so, then the 2 PCI slots are to the left (bottom of the board if standing) of the 2nd 16X speed slot.

if i understand you correctly then the X-FI sound card should be ok unless you are going to do crossfire.

here is the board; take a look.

That is right. Compare the Biostar to the Asus:


And you cannot talk me out of it now. I already ordered it Now what is the best bios?

[ddogg]

the board is easy to overclock this 9650 to 4 ghz...a breeze!

will start lowering the multi so i can raise the FSB...have to finish a 32M bench for comparison before i start raising the FSB

usually, this puppy will stop around 475 FSB as a stable overclock...might be able to squeeze more; we'll see.

I am soo happy you got your board back. I could feel your pain though I'll admit you faked it pretty well Hey, could you run the WPrime 32M and the 1024M soon as you can? I want to track that number as you change your setup. Could be more valuable than regular prime because we can track all 4 cores. 4ghz a breeze? Dang, I'm jealous!

[Ace-a-Rue]

I am soo happy you got your board back. I could feel your pain though I'll admit you faked it pretty well Hey, could you run the WPrime 32M and the 1024M soon as you can? I want to track that number as you change your setup. Could be more valuable than regular prime because we can track all 4 cores. 4ghz a breeze? Dang, I'm jealous!

well, it looks like i am able to run my 9650 up to 495 FSB with a little tweaking!

currently on 8.5x which is 4216 mhz.

running Wprime at PL=11 since that is the PL number which makes Super PI 32M complete...at PL=9, it won't complete 32M so i jumped right to PL=11...i will eventually try PL=10...i will set that from the bios.

i did have to set MCH GTLREF to 64%...that looks like the Quad magic number once you go above a certain FSB

EDIT:...i am using the same PC6400 memory which i used with the E8500 and the PL was "9"....so it looks like the the dual L2 and 4 cores just puts more stress on working cache and system memory.

[Ace-a-Rue]

That is right. Compare the Biostar to the Asus:


And you cannot talk me out of it now. I already ordered it Now what is the best bios?

if you ordered it from newegg, the board wil come with the 710 bios, which is july 10th bios...that bios is the best, although i never flashed back to verify.

you will really like the board!

[loonym]

well, it looks like i am able to run my 9650 up to 495 FSB with a little tweaking!

Go go go... that other 5 mhz has to be there somewhere Ace

[Ace-a-Rue]

Go go go... that other 5 mhz has to be there somewhere Ace

i have been trying...might do better if i had PC12000000000 type memory!

[Pntgrd]

i have been trying...might do better if i had PC12000000000 type memory!

Maybe you need this set of Reapers I aquired . They will do 1200+.

[shimmishim]

After benching with this board all weekend... I have realized this is a slow board... In order to make it fly you're going to have to use strap tweaks.

If you have everest, run the latency test to see what you get. The best I've been able to squeeze out of this board is around 50ns.

[NormanABates]

i learned my lesson.

good news, i have the biostar back in my hands!

wow, does it really mean a lot to you?
geez, it must be good.

[Supershanks]

wow, does it really mean a lot to you?

Well next to having his wife in his I hands, I guess

[A2C]

THX very much boys because my Biostar wouldn´t like go over 450 FSB
thx for your Bios setup i try it.

[ddogg]

After benching with this board all weekend... I have realized this is a slow board... In order to make it fly you're going to have to use strap tweaks.

If you have everest, run the latency test to see what you get. The best I've been able to squeeze out of this board is around 50ns.

Here is mine at the moment. shimmishim, what is considered good? I've not messed with this stuff in a while so not up on latency issues. Seems fast to me.