Quote Originally Posted by marcnapier View Post
Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum as far as posting but read it all the time. Lots of good info and people here.

I have been reading over the last couple of days all the pages of this thread. I have tried many of the things I read on here but still having issues trying to OC my E8500 on UD3P board.

Let me just give a short explanation of what is happening: I have used EasyTune 6 only to try and see where it sets voltages on a given OC speed, but do all my OC work in the BIOS. So if I choose the standard OC in easytune of 4.05 (the number 3 button), it works and is prime stable for hours and hours. However after setting that OC and going into to bios to tweak it or change it, I run into a brick wall. If I change anything even slightly it either won't boot or isn't stable. For instance, I tried changing the ram from 2.40B to 2.00D to put the ram at 1:1 and no boot, or boot and then blue screen. I would think that the voltages and timings easytune sets at this 4.05Ghz OC would be close enough for the ram to run at 1:1. Oh I'm sure the voltages need tweaking, but c'mon is this board really that finnicky when it comes to voltages/timings? I have also tried increasing the fsb slightly and get the same results, either no boot or boot and then blue screen. But I have a feeling that the voltages are the problem. There are so many settings that I really don't know what to increase and what to lower. I have tried many user settings and tweaked them up or down and still having issues.

I would like to get an OC of 442 with a 9.5 multi which would put me at 4.2Ghz with ram at 1:1. I can boot into windows with these settings, but it wont even run prime for more that 5 mins without errors. I would be open however to a lower multiplier if I can get around 4.2Ghz or above stable.

I have Corsair Dominator 1066 ram. Running F6 bios, should I flash to F7?

Can anyone give me a template of settings to try, even if they are a starting point to try and reach this OC? I know my E8500 is capable of it because I had it in an SLI board running at 4.2GHz 442fsb and 9.5 multi. I also have another rig with an Asus P5Q Deluxe, and another E8500 running at the exact same OC 4.2 442....etc.

Here are the last settings I tried with no luck:

MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)
Robust Graphics Booster ...............: Auto
CPU Clock Ratio .......................: 9
CPU Frequency .........................: 4.5GHz (500X9)

Clock Chip Control

Standard Clock Control

CPU Host Clock Control.................: [Enabled]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ..............: 500
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) ...........: 100
C.I.A.2 ...............................: [Disabled]

Advanced Clock Control

CPU Clock Drive........................: 700
PCI Express Clock Drive................: 800
CPU Clock Skew (ps)....................: 0ps
MCH Clock Skew (ps)....................: 50ps

DRAM Performance Control

Performance Enhance....................: Turbo
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.)........: Disabled
(G)MCH Frequency Latch.................: 333MHz
System Memory Multiplier ..............: 2.40D
Memory Frequency (Mhz) ................: 1000MHz

DRAM Timing Selectable ................: Manual

Standard Timing Control

CAS Latency Time.......................: 5
tRCD ..................................: 5
tRP'...................................: 5
tRAS...................................: 15

Advanced Timing Control

Everything In Advanced Timing Control on auto.
but tRFC 56 and Drive Strength Profiles OC-1066
DDR Write Training: Disable
Motherboard Voltage Control

CPU

Load-Line Calibration..................: [Disabled]
CPU Vcore..............................: 1.375V
CPU Termination........................: 1.34V
CPU PLL................................: 1.63V
CPU Reference..........................: 0.888

MCH/ICH

MCH Core...............................: 1.34V
Reference..............................: 0.768*
MCH/DRAM Ref...........................: 0.900v
ICH I/O................................: 1.5V
ICH Core...............................: 1.100V

DRAM
DRAM Voltage...........................: 2.22v
DRAM Termination ......................: Auto
Channel A Reference....................: Auto
Channel B Reference ...................: Auto__________________


Please help as I'm pulling my hair out. Thanks in advance for any help, I really appreciate it.

marc


Anyone???

marc