UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[philbrown23]

not much of a hit performance at all actually, maybe like 2-4oo pts. on 3dmark and not even noticable in games, as for the raid it has worked great for me since day one.

[BababooeyHTJ]

not much of a hit performance at all actually, maybe like 2-4oo pts. on 3dmark and not even noticable in games, as for the raid it has worked great for me since day one.

OMG! Crappy Nvidia drivers have cost me a couple thousand point difference with my 3dmark vantage graphics score. Cool this is the board that Im getting. Ive wanted this board for a while. Im sure that I can get a good price for my gtx260s. They clock pretty well. Ill get a couple of 4870s instead. Thanks for the reply. It'll be great to be done with Nvidia.

[Shrekogre]

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:

i should get 20k with that rig but i think 8.9 catalyst is giving problem

[Ace-a-Rue]

i should get 20k with that rig but i think 8.9 catalyst is giving problem

is your card a 2x or just 1x video card?..i could not tell...if it is 2x, then the score would be realistic.

even though my timings looked ok, the bios had something out of whack...when i watched the various sub-benches perform there thing, i saw the color on the monitor just about being non-existent...i let the bench continue and darn i was surprised with the final score.

[Ace-a-Rue]

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?

if you use crossfire i would presume your performance would be great...now, if you are like me where you need to use the 2nd 16x slot for a raid card or something else, the drop in video performacne will be around 5-6%...i measured that against a PCMark 2005 bench run on this board and then from a run on an X48 ddr3 board (at 16x) with the same video card at the same CPU MHZ and FSB.

EDIT:..i presume you could make up for that difference if you overclocked the video card...my card was at stock speed although i had the driver set to "High Performance"

[Shrekogre]

is your card a 2x or just 1x video card?..i could not tell...if it is 2x, then the score would be realistic.

even though my timings looked ok, the bios had something out of whack...when i watched the various sub-benches perform there thing, i saw the color on the monitor just about being non-existent...i let the bench continue and darn i was surprised with the final score.

just 1x. but i saw benches similar to mine @ 20k score. if i'm still into it i will try again later. took me quite a while to get 500fsb on quad

[Ace-a-Rue]

they had to be 2x card or in a crossfire setup.

[Ace-a-Rue]

these will be posted on the first page once i upload to my website.

[Shrekogre]

they had to be 2x card or in a crossfire setup.

maybe you're right. i was hoping a 6.6k cpu score will let me hit 20k. i'll try it again when i have the time.

[Shrekogre]

i got a problem everytime i shutdown or save something in bios. it will not boot and no display on the diagnostic led. i need to press and hold the power button for it to shutdown again then it will boot. using the 7/10 bios.

[philbrown23]

hmm that dont happen with me. maybe try re flashing the 7/11 sounds like a bios corruption issure to me.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i got a problem everytime i shutdown or save something in bios. it will not boot and no display on the diagnostic led. i need to press and hold the power button for it to shutdown again then it will boot. using the 7/10 bios.

your bios settings are not set with the proper values especially if you are high FSB (above 500) with a dual core or some what high 450+ with a quad core.

post up your settings or go to the first page to review my bios settings.

[Ace-a-Rue]

just 1x. but i saw benches similar to mine @ 20k score. if i'm still into it i will try again later. took me quite a while to get 500fsb on quad

if you saw scores that high why don't you ask them if the card is 2X or setup in a crossfire configuration...if they come back with a single card, then i would doubt the authenticity of the bench.

the single 4870 cards are fast but not that fast to get 20K realistically.

i will find a 4870 2x bench on the X48 ddr3 board and i will post up here shortly...i think his score was 17+ or 18+ for 3D2006.

EDIT:..i had to ask the guy who posted it previously...i cannot find it any longer.

DOUBLE EDIT:...after looking at some other threads, i found one which had a 17.9K 3D2006 score...but...i could not determine if it was a X2 card...might have been a single 4800 series...here it is:

[philbrown23]

that was definately a single card and prolly a QX9XX0 cpu to have a cpu score that high. wanna know how I know?? the single 4800 cards read out on 3dmark and gpu-z as 4800 series whereas the 4870X2/4850X2 say either 4870X2 or 4850X2 on both gpu-z and 3dmark 05 and up maybe even o3 and up but I dont think so.

[philbrown23]

Woot check this out!

fsb:464
multi: 9.5
bsel: 1333
mem: 922
mem config: 4
cpu skew: 200ps
cpu driving control: 1000mv
cpu voltage: +550
ddr voltage: + 400
chipset voltage: +600
fsb voltage: + 300
core 1 gtl: 63%
core 2 gtl: 67%
pll: 1.6

[Shrekogre]

your bios settings are not set with the proper values especially if you are high FSB (above 500) with a dual core or some what high 450+ with a quad core.

post up your settings or go to the first page to review my bios settings.

even on stock. first boot after cmos jumper. went in bios save default values, no boot. flash it again with the 7/10 still same.

[Jor3lBR]

your bios settings are not set with the proper values especially if you are high FSB (above 500) with a dual core or some what high 450+ with a quad core.

post up your settings or go to the first page to review my bios settings.

Hi AcE,

This board is really amazing for the price, how do you compare this with your old DFI x38?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Woot check this out!

geez..almost 2ghz above default...NICE!

what are you using to cool it?

[Ace-a-Rue]

even on stock. first boot after cmos jumper. went in bios save default values, no boot. flash it again with the 7/10 still same.

definitely, you have a problem...try it with one stick or a different memory stick.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Hi AcE,

This board is really amazing for the price, how do you compare this with your old DFI x38?

man, that DFI X38 drove me crazy!..the memory settings were overwhelming on that board.

the Biostar is a bit hard to figure out but working with all these guys in this thread, i was better the 2nd time around with my E8500.

[Shrekogre]

definitely, you have a problem...try it with one stick or a different memory stick.

alrready try 1 stick and 4, both different rams. even tried e7200 and q9550.

[Ace-a-Rue]

alrready try 1 stick and 4, both different rams. even tried e7200 and q9550.

did you flash it from DOS and follow my procedure (3rd link) in my signature using the three switches?

[philbrown23]

I'm just using run of the mill water cooling, well ok 2X pa 120.3's swiftech apogee GTZ and Dtek fuzion GPU in the loop also, but still keeps her nice and cool at 49c full load at those speeds never goes over 32C on stock settings.

[Ace-a-Rue]

I'm just using run of the mill water cooling, well ok 2X pa 120.3's swiftech apogee GTZ and Dtek fuzion GPU in the loop also, but still keeps her nice and cool at 49c full load at those speeds never goes over 32C on stock settings.

STILL, a worthy feat!

[Shrekogre]

did you flash it from DOS and follow my procedure (3rd link) in my signature using the three switches?

followed it exactly.