Gigabyte EP45T-Extreme 14K+ across the board

[boostedevo]

those volts make a lot of sense
from what i've seen with 45nm chips it's really good to keep both VTT and VNB very close to maximise stability

I've been playing with both DDR2 and DDR3 boards. i've been using about ~1.4VTT and 1.55VNB on the DDR2 board to bench 640MHz 8M SuperPi >> had some issues with GTX280 past 620MHz FSB which was good for 3D .......

i haven't been able to do the same on this DDR3 board but this is certainly a lot of extremely useful info to try out i've tried up to 1.66vTT and 1.7VNB but it yielded no better results even on LN2.......but i think i am just not hitting the right mix on the DDR3 board just yet

however doing PL8 at such high FSB is not possible with the volts i was trying...particularly vNB so it's good to see you've been getting similar results that Jody(3oh6) has been doing in terms of supertight PLL and high VNB volts

supernice tweaking man supernice

A lot of times I leave VTT/PLL on AUTO. I have played with them lower (1.40-1.44 and 1.60) with decent results, but nothing seems to be quite as good as the high values for duals. I've tried up to 1.66 VTT also, but it actually seemed a lot worse any higher than 1.58, so I stopped messing with it that high I even tried it on F4b with manually playing with the available GTLs and didn't get very far.

The board actually goes pretty high on FSB even with only 1.50 or 1.60 Vmch, the difference with anything higher than that seems to be just how high it will be "benchable" FSB

That's very impressive bandwidth and some nice times & 3D scores. Good work. Someone with a board should work out the vMCH mod so you can really get aggressive, the P5Q-Deluxe and Maximus II Formula have 2v+ settable from bios, 1.8v max is comparatively low especially for a DDR3 board.

I've dug around on the board for an MCH mod and even PMed Hicookie after I didn't have much luck (no response). I've found a couple of hits from the NB chokes, but my DMM leads are so big (or the SMTs/legs are so small), that it's almost impossible for me to hit just one at a time LOL. I don't want to take any chances on a guess, so I'll defer on a MCH vmod til someone confirms one

Yeah, I've asked a couple times if MCH voltage options could be raised in a BIOS update. 1.80V is definitely not "extreme", especially when comparing the other voltage max options that are available. I don't know if I'd run >2.00V to the NB, but would definitely do 1.90-1.95V if possible.

really nice work boostedevo but why you still use F3 bios? you can't reach this brandwith or fsb with F4x bios?

btw, im also improving, my max fsb on air also over 600+ now with crappy E8400 647.51 MHz

That was before the F4b was out. After I installed F4b, I pretty much only played with the quad on it for the GOOC. I will definitely give the latest F4 a shot ASAP.

The 8600 that I used for the above Everest boots from BIOS to the desktop @ 660FSB with WC proc and NB in this board. You have some nice FSB on a C0 Get some WCing going or run a duct from your air conditioning vent

are kidding ??/ 14k is awesome men .. i am still working on 11k stable without luck , congrats .

Thanks. I think I can crack 15K in Write with 700FSB, but the others probably don't stand a chance. I'll keep trying though