Biostar T Power I45 BIOS thread

[dinos22]

didnt realise this was an owners club

the question i asked should not matter whether i do or dont have a board

i of course did test it but as i said that doesnt matter


here is a thread with some OCs i did which includes a bios template that may or may not help in OCing
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=193739

[Ket]

As I said in another thread, CPU-Z is proof of nothing. You can be 99% unstable but still get a CPU-Z "verification" in. Probably the best way to answer your question about the BIOS is to redirect you to my P5Q series mBIOS thread. Lots of examples in there of how a BIOS can be improved far beyond a stock version.

[dinos22]

i posted that shot to show i've tested the board what are you talking about...no one is discussing stability of usefulness of CPUz please dont side track

anyways do you have anything specific you work on in bioses to make them better for overclocking

it's a very simple question



btw i have looked over your thread but i have not found anything substantial apart from memory table changes yet :S
i hope you dont misunderstand my post...i am just curious thats all

[Slovnaft]

The biggest thing I'm looking to this BIOS for are fixing its "issues" with RAM speeds. Like my GEIL 2x1 kit that can't do its stock 1066 CL5, but can do 800 CL4 100% stable.
Others have had similar issues. So anything you can do in that respect would be awesome.

Oh and I heard from someone that Biostar would improve voltage granularity in their next BIOS for this board? Not sure when that's due out, but it might be worth waiting to mod that.

[dinos22]

i think voltage granularity may not necessarily be only bios based fix. You would have to the right mix of hardware to be able to get finer adjustments

[Slovnaft]

i think voltage granularity may not necessarily be only bios based fix. You would have to the right mix of hardware to be able to get finer adjustments

Well, theoretically, i guess yeah. But there is the potential that it is limited purely in BIOS. But that makes this a very hard BIOS mod and definitely something that needs to be done in-house, which is why i suggest that if the next BIOS supports it...

[dinos22]

yeah thats always the first thing i used to ask manufacturers but it wasnt that straight forward

if ket can pull that off and DMM confirms that changes are correct that would be pretty handy for ppl that are not confident volt modding

[Ket]

i posted that shot to show i've tested the board what are you talking about...no one is discussing stability of usefulness of CPUz please dont side track

anyways do you have anything specific you work on in bioses to make them better for overclocking

it's a very simple question



btw i have looked over your thread but i have not found anything substantial apart from memory table changes yet :S
i hope you dont misunderstand my post...i am just curious thats all

I'm not sidetracking in the slightest, more commenting on what was the point in posting the image? People don't need proof of something as trivial as somebody saying they have tested something such as in the context you did. Besides that, its MY thread, if I want to comment on something I will, as will anyone else

I can't remember everything thats gone on in that P5Q thread theres too much of it now but among other things stuff like the pull-ins now function properly where beforehand, they apparently did not according to various people.

[mrcape]

Guys don't butt heads! Dinos22 tested this board and his settings were helpful to a lot of people. I think he can bring a lot to the discussion.

The thing is, there are different needs for different user profiles. I personally could care less about stability other than for sub zero benching with this board. It's sole purpose in my office is high freq and 1m benching.

If Ket can bring more cpu support then I can bench more cpu with it.

Let's all get along!

[dinos22]

ive already told you why i posted the screen
the user before my post asked if i've got this board.....sure i've tested it

CPUz does however show what this board could do already for extreme overclocking purposes (being XS and all) if you want to be anal about it but that was not my intention....

most benchers here dont test for orthos or other forms of stability .... you do know that right.....we only test stability for whatever benchmark we are using whether that is 2D (superPi) or 3d >> futuremark etc

Since you are claiming you can improve the bios for overclocking i am asking you what you are planning to improve. That is the assertion made on your part and i am asking what exactly your plan of action is......is it really that difficult to answer

[philbrown23]

I know that in the p5q bios he did alot with the memory work-ablitity wich imo is a huge issue with this board, I use it to bench but also use it for my daily use, and benching it'll do ok, but running regular apps it has some probs with, im sure this is memory related, as in the unnoficial biostar thread there are hundreds that have th same issue on this board but not on another, same here. My p35 does not have this issue at all, but this board can be much more superior that that when the figgs are worked out of the bios. Stuff like memory passing memtest but figging up all over in the o/s be it vista or xp. im having major probs with that myself i know my ram can do 1150mhz but on this board can not get past xp/vista loading screen. please dont take this or my previous comment the wrong way, im just saying the bios can be improved and KEt has proven he can make a crap bios work.

[philbrown23]

wait i just realized something, was that cpu-z screenie with multi threadiong disabled? no reason just wondering, as maybe that has something to do with my issues, is all.

[Slovnaft]

wait i just realized something, was that cpu-z screenie with multi threadiong disabled? no reason just wondering, as maybe that has something to do with my issues, is all.

THat was just disabling the second core to clock to the chip's limit, for a quick CPUZ or SPi 1M

[dinos22]

wait i just realized something, was that cpu-z screenie with multi threadiong disabled? no reason just wondering, as maybe that has something to do with my issues, is all.

when you bench superpi(1M/8M/32M) or shoot for max frequency you should always disable one core

to be honest this board's bios was fairly decent even though i tested in July (hence) very early release bioses

surely they are better now

i havent tested the P5Q boards but i am a bit surprised that there would be a lot of problems with RAM....asus usually isnt too bad with memory compatibility but its good that that worked however my reason for posting in this thread has nothing to do with general improvements in bios. I was really just interested what he is planning to improve on for overclocking

[philbrown23]

ahhh so will it affect pi 1m if you disable one core? like will it run slower?

[Pcuser]

ahhh so will it affect pi 1m if you disable one core? like will it run slower?

You disable one core for max clock, i dont think will effect spi at all .
For example both cores enabled i can get my E8600 to 5G on air but cant run spi , if i disable one core i can run it no problem .

[dinos22]

thanks Kosta ^^^^ what he says

[Pcuser]

thanks Kosta ^^^^ what he says

NP dino, i learnt from you anyway

[Marcam923]

Dino you do bring up valid questions as to the revisions that will be made. I have yet to work with the bios of this board. It is sitting waiting in line for my 4870x2 to get here and me to finish trying to get this 780i running which is a joke...

But somewhat of a mention of overclock affects of your bios tweaks would be good. Or are you just changing things in bios that help with stability such as ram issues, voltage refining etc...

Either way thats good! But we all know why we bought this board! Not because of the orange sata cables either...

[dinos22]

Either way thats good! But we all know why we bought this board! Not because of the orange sata cables either...

hehehe

i dont often create a thread called Biostar P45 = WOW

Biostar better keep at it for X58 now
no pressure no pressure

[Marcam923]

hehehe

i dont often create a thread called Biostar P45 = WOW

Biostar better keep at it for X58 now
no pressure no pressure

Seriously, I pulled them out and went ORANGE!! Oh well guess it kinda goes with the overall color scheme of the board. But I will have to order some for my case.

Anyone know why the Tpower does not come with a crossfire bridge?

[Marcam923]

Or where I could pick up a cheap cross fire bridge?

[Ket]

My intentions have primarily been to make the BIOS work, not overclocking. Stability takes presidence in my book, and always will. At the same time due to the improvements being made to the P5Q series BIOS it was always kinda inevitable that overclocking would somewhat go through the roof. To date what I know of to be addressed in my mBIOSes are;

- Improved memory compatibility
- Memory pull-ins now work
- Improved CPU support
- Improved OCing
- Improved stability stock & OC'd
- Probably a few things I wasn't looking to fix but got fixed in the process

I never claimed to be any kind of messiah when it came to fixing up a BIOS, I just done my thing after being absolutely disgusted with the crap BIOS the P5Q series had, and to some extent still has. When I first had my P5Q Pro I could not OC on the board for crap, especially with memory, regardless of trying it with 5 different memory kits. After my BIOS modding even in the early conception and testing stages max OC memory frequencies jumped from a rather naff ~960MHz on a kit known to be able to do 1066MHz+ to 1143MHz, hardly a bad return

[philbrown23]

Seriously, I pulled them out and went ORANGE!! Oh well guess it kinda goes with the overall color scheme of the board. But I will have to order some for my case.

Anyone know why the Tpower does not come with a crossfire bridge?

I have yet to get a crossfire bridge with a board, but I do have about 89 and 1/2 crossfire bridges and if you pay shipping (firs class, or priority whatever) I'll gladly donate it for the cause.

[Ket]

A lot of boards don't have crossfire bridges with them these days as you always get one with a ATi card now anyway.