UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[HousERaT]

I'm also finding that my D9GMH Ballistix aren't as powerful on this board as with others. I seem to have to use more voltage. The board didn't like my Tracers at all. I'd love to know what settings you folks are using to get 600Mhz stable. 1mb superpi is great but that ain't necessarily stable. What's the highest you guys can get on the fsb 32mb superpi stable?

[shimmishim]

I'm also finding that my D9GMH Ballistix aren't as powerful on this board as with others. I seem to have to use more voltage. The board didn't like my Tracers at all. I'd love to know what settings you folks are using to get 600Mhz stable. 1mb superpi is great but that ain't necessarily stable. What's the highest you guys can get on the fsb 32mb superpi stable?

I can do 575 5-5-5 with some ballistix superpi 32M.

I haven't tried 5-5-5 32M at 600 though. Might be interesting to try nonetheless.

[chaos_being]

Wow, this board looks really nice. A few years ago I wouldn't have even considered Biostar, but now I'd love to have one of these! The fact that Biostar has some ex-Abit engineers working for them now just sweetens the deal (I've used Abit boards for a looooong time.)

I think this would be a nice replacement for my AB9 Quad GT...it's a nice board, but it balks at running higher FSB without absolutely frying the NB with voltage. My 4.2ghz overclock isn't stable in Vista (it is with XP,) mainly because of FSB issues I believe. That, along with PCI-Express 2.0 and support for half multipliers, would be a decent upgrade

[HousERaT]

I can do 575 5-5-5 with some ballistix superpi 32M.

I haven't tried 5-5-5 32M at 600 though. Might be interesting to try nonetheless.

Well that's promising. What multi did you use? I'm using 8 thru 9.5. Also has anyone encountered issues with half multis?

Should we be keeping the nb/vtt voltages below 1.4?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Also has anyone encountered issues with half multis?

i had but now i have it stabilized...it was ultra sensitive in saving at 9.5x...i had to work the vcore, nb, and cpu gtlref %...of course, i am using 64% for MCH GTLREF (445 FSB @ 9.5X).

if you haven't tried..try turning off FSB FINE TUNING...see if that makes a difference.

[ddogg]

So we have these 2 settings:
FSB Compensation FineTune <- My machine will not boot or boot crashes if it is on
DDR2 Enhance Mode

Does anybody have the slightest clue what either of these do? If anybody has a contact at Biostar this would be a good question to get an answer on.

[Ace-a-Rue]

What's the highest you guys can get on the fsb 32mb superpi stable?

with my E8500, it was 520 FSB @ 8.5x (4420 Mhz)...i was able to do all the the benches including 32M, which is the most difficult one to complete if anything is out of tolerance.

my 9650 is touchy...it looks like i will be limited to about 4232 mhz with the same memory (GSkill PC6400) that was used with the E8500 bench.

i have been toying with getting some GSkill PC9600 (DDR-1200) but at $300 USD at newegg, i am not to excited about investing that much in memory that is going to be outdated within a year.