UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[philbrown23]

anything over say 475/480 for me is a no go no matter what multi it's all the same. Setting that are working for everyone else are not working on my board. WTF!

[TheGoat Eater]

we need a modded Bios that defaults memory voltage to 2.15 for those with power hungry memory

[thehinge1]

Phil - With the E7200 and Reaper1150's I'm now at 475fsb/1140RAM on the shipping bios and OCCT stable, so I'll give 500 a go here in a bit & report back on my luck. I'm on the 8x multi at 3.808GHz/1.288Vcore(1.0875VID stock)/2.06Vdimm/1.5Vpll/roughly1.2V on both chipset and VTT.

The RAM timings are still pretty loose but this board feels much less 'stiff' than the 'E' did. I'd love to give the E0 8400 a go but the granularity of this board scares me with 'still fresh' chip.

and Goat - Is that terrier possessed or what?

[philbrown23]

I dunno what I'm doing wrong if you hit 500 post up your setting would ya?

[Ace-a-Rue]

I dunno what I'm doing wrong if you hit 500 post up your setting would ya?

what or where do you have your CPU GTLREF and MCH GTLREF set????

if they are auto or other than 63% for both cores and 59% for MCH GTL REF that is where your problem is located.

[ceemic]

I found some other mods for this board on a Japanese site:
http://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ohij2/vcore-mod.jpg
http://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ohij2/vnb-mod.jpg
http://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ohij2/bio-vddr-mod.jpg
http://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ohij2/vfsb-mod.jpg
http://www012.upp.so-net.ne.jp/ohij2/vfsb-measure.jpg

Attention!
Don't use 50k or 100k VR for Vcore mod. Default resistance between FB->GND is ~44,5k ohm, so I recommend 200k or 250k VR!
Read my post in Vmod thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=51

[Ace-a-Rue]

anything over say 475/480 for me is a no go no matter what multi it's all the same. Setting that are working for everyone else are not working on my board. WTF!

i think the problem is also selecting the correct DDR2 reconfigure setting.

i was fine on #3 at 555 FSB at 8x...as soon as i up the FSB to 560 and lower the multi to 7.5x the boot stuck on the windows XP bitmap boot screen with the scrolling bar just moving but never getting to the desktop.

i pushed re-set to enter the bios and then, i changed the the DDR2 reconfigure setting to #4...after doing that, it would boot just fine to windows desktop.

SO...changing multi's will change the dynamics of the memory & chipset latencies, apparently!...try making changes to the DDR2 reconfigure setting when you make changes to the multi and the system will not boot but it will post.

[thehinge1]

Tested stable at 503fsb w/1 to 1 RAM on 7.5x multi. Bsel: Auto. FSB compensation finetune: Enabled. DDR2 Enhance: Disabled. DDR2 RCOMP: Auto Config. tREAD: 9T. DRAM by SPD: Enabled. PCIE Freq: 100MHz. CPU Clk Skew:100ps. MCH Clk Skew: Auto. CPU Driving Control: Auto. Voltages: CPUV: +0.250, DDRV: +0.200, Chipset V: +0.200, FSB V: +0.150, Core1 GTL: 0.63, Core2 GTL: 0.67, MCH GTL: Auto, CPU PLL V: 1.5

Now testing 515fsb at 7.0x, GTLs at Ace's settings and clock skew at 400ps CPU, 200ps on MCH, RComp on #3, & chipset bumped another .05v.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Tested stable at 503fsb w/1 to 1 RAM on 7.5x multi. Bsel: Auto. FSB compensation finetune: Enabled. DDR2 Enhance: Disabled. DDR2 RCOMP: Auto Config. tREAD: 9T. DRAM by SPD: Enabled. PCIE Freq: 100MHz. CPU Clk Skew:100ps. MCH Clk Skew: Auto. CPU Driving Control: Auto. Voltages: CPUV: +0.250, DDRV: +0.200, Chipset V: +0.200, FSB V: +0.150, Core1 GTL: 0.63, Core2 GTL: 0.67, MCH GTL: Auto, CPU PLL V: 1.5

Now testing 515fsb at 7.0x, GTLs at Ace's settings and clock skew at 400ps CPU, 200ps on MCH, RComp on #3, & chipset bumped another .05v.

at some time going above 520 fsb, you will need to take things out of "Auto".

[philbrown23]

Tested stable at 503fsb w/1 to 1 RAM on 7.5x multi. Bsel: Auto. FSB compensation finetune: Enabled. DDR2 Enhance: Disabled. DDR2 RCOMP: Auto Config. tREAD: 9T. DRAM by SPD: Enabled. PCIE Freq: 100MHz. CPU Clk Skew:100ps. MCH Clk Skew: Auto. CPU Driving Control: Auto. Voltages: CPUV: +0.250, DDRV: +0.200, Chipset V: +0.200, FSB V: +0.150, Core1 GTL: 0.63, Core2 GTL: 0.67, MCH GTL: Auto, CPU PLL V: 1.5

Now testing 515fsb at 7.0x, GTLs at Ace's settings and clock skew at 400ps CPU, 200ps on MCH, RComp on #3, & chipset bumped another .05v.

tried these settings, dont work for me, either hangs on D2 or hangs on 81

[philbrown23]

I just went around and printed out all the 500+fsb settings I could and am going to give them a shot, but they look alot like everything I've been trying. I just dont know what the hell is going on, is everyone using the 7/10 bios? I heard some got higher fsb on the 6/XX bios??

[Bellisimo]

phill you have rev 5.1 right?
maybe it is your cpu? fsb wall??

are the rev 5.1 as bad as i hear?

[philbrown23]

not the chip it will hot 550 on my P35. gotta be the board.

[Shrekogre]

any vdroop mod?

edit- ok sorry for not doing a search. can be found here

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/...d.php?t=194136

[Shrekogre]

direct boot from bios

[philbrown23]

w00t got it

[Ace-a-Rue]

good going to both you guys!

[Ace-a-Rue]

i can do up to 550 FSB at 8x using moderate timings and PL=10, that is at DDR-1110; my memory is rated to DDR-1142...if i move the FSB to 555, i have to loosen all the timings and set the 'PL' to 15...it is only way where i can run the 3d benches...currently i am 560 FSB (4485 Mhz on a E8500) running Wprime.

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Just picked this board up yesterday, it's definitely going to take some getting used to with the DRAM RCOMP settings and voltage incrementation method (selecting the amount over/below default rather than the actual value compared to my Asus boards), but it's nice so far not having to mess with VMCH and VTT too much. What do you guys think I can get out of my E6300 and the I45?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Just picked this board up yesterday, it's definitely going to take some getting used to with the DRAM RCOMP settings and voltage incrementation method (selecting the amount over/below default rather than the actual value compared to my Asus boards), but it's nice so far not having to mess with VMCH and VTT too much. What do you guys think I can get out of my E6300 and the I45?

you should get to 3Ghz or higher...use 6x and run that FSB up to 500 to see how that works...of course, you'll need higher voltages.

[Ace-a-Rue]

direct boot from bios

i think your 3DMark 2006 score is out of whack for a single core video card...your memory settings are probably not correct and then the score will show higher since the bench colors and FPS are out of whack...it happened to me the same way...i scored 18K+ with a single 9800 GTX card.

here is what i am talking about:

[Ace-a-Rue]

ok...i settled on 550 FSB...i can go as high as 560 FSB but not every bench runs stable...i use the three 3D video benches and AQM3 bench; plus Super PI

here is the best i can do for 3D2006:

[DiscoTech]

I just went around and printed out all the 500+fsb settings I could and am going to give them a shot, but they look alot like everything I've been trying. I just dont know what the hell is going on, is everyone using the 7/10 bios? I heard some got higher fsb on the 6/XX bios??

check out my post #541, it may help.

Bios is default 7/10.

Which pencil vdroop mod are you guys using?
There are 2 different ones, and the one taken from a japanese website is showing 2 resistors.

[philbrown23]

I used both but just recently after using the pencil mod my droop has increased from .03/5 to .1v thats not good, I suggest the hardmod myself.

[BababooeyHTJ]

My board crapped out today. Ive had my eye on this for a while. I just have a couple of quick questions. How is the onboard raid? Would I see that much of a hit in performance with crossfire with the 8x/8x speeds?