Quote Originally Posted by solaxun View Post
So this seems to be the only board on the net with good info on this mobo from my experiences....

So I was able to overclock (Q6600) to 3.0 which is all i really wanted, it took forever and the settings that worked were as follows:

Vcore (default of 1.325)
FSB: (default 1.20)
MCH: (default 1.25)

FSB : 333 X 9 multi
Mem ref freq : 400 fsb
Mem mhz : 1333
C1E or whatever disabled, EIST as well
Watchdog disabled, Enhanced powerslope enabled

This worked after i relaxed my corsair 1333 pc 1066 timings from the default of 7-7-7-20 to 9-9-9-24 and put voltage to 1.70 from default 1.54 (although it may of worked at default voltage but i didn't test it since it was rated at 1.7)

However, i noticed when i wasn't just killing the power by pressing the button (hard boot), and i would actually go through the shutdown process, the reboot would just hang at an empty black screen. If i turned off the power supply and tried again it would go through the normal start/restart once and then be fine.

Why is this only an issue with normal reboot, i would rather not have to hard boot every time since its not the best for the PC. Although i suppose i could just shut off the power supply after every shutdown, but thats not that convenient.

On a side note with my memory settings of FSB 333, mem ref 400 and mem mhz 1333, i only get something like 1100ish clock speed, i tried using the memory calculator to go down to 266 mem ref freq and 1066 clock speed to get 1333 speed, but i had to jump the bios because of constant reboots.

Thanks in advance,
-Mark


I think the reboot problem is that you have the reference frequency set to 400. This also underclocks your memory.

You should be able to run 333/1333 with all your default timings and memory voltage.

Do you have the X38 or X48 board?