UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[ddogg]

I can run PL8 5-5-5 at 600 mhz as well as PL8 4-4-4 at 600 mhz.

Still the latency and pi times are slow without strap tweaks (jp pmem strap tweaks to be exact).

It's a great board again but... a bit on the slower side w/o tweaking the crap out of it! :0

and how 'bout a little "how to" on the strap tweaks on this board. It would be highly appreciated.

/edit: hmm, you sure about your findings?

I tried these with no change in latency - can you suggest those you say you were able to improve with?

FED14034h => 10
FED1403Fh => 24
FED1403Eh => 03
FED14030h => 06
FED14040h => 09

[shimmishim]

and how 'bout a little "how to" on the strap tweaks on this board. It would be highly appreciated.

/edit: hmm, you sure about your findings?

I tried these with no change in latency - can you suggest those you say you were able to improve with?

FED14034h => 10
FED1403Fh => 24
FED1403Eh => 03
FED14030h => 06
FED14040h => 09

I applied the ones you have listed above and went from about 58ns to 52ns IIRC. The file is on my laptop. I'll do some tests later and post my results.

[ddogg]

I applied the ones you have listed above and went from about 58ns to 52ns IIRC. The file is on my laptop. I'll do some tests later and post my results.

ddogg -

My board is dismantled right now, but here is a good start to learn more about the pmem tweaks -

http://i4memory.com/f54/guide-asus-p...p-tweaks-4268/

Also, I know you are a pi hater :P, but check out Monteboy's tool, it has a tab with a little form based strap tweaker -

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=3469

Thanks for the replies, guys - I'm thinking the tweaks might not have much effect while I'm using lazy 5's for ram timing. I've tried to tighten them up with no joy. Always get lockups. Maybe some magic bios setting/ tweak will turn up later so I can have more room to play with the ram timings. As for now, 500 @5-5-5-15 is pretty much it for this RAM, MB, and CPU combination.

I'll reapply the strap tweaks and retest when I get a few minutes. Maybe I did it wrong the first time as I had never used them before. I think I got it right, though.