Asus P6T Deluxe Discussion Thread

[TinTin]

[QUOTE=hausner;3708182]That great results TinTin!

Can you share with us your bios settings? ( I cant pass 212 blck on SPi32M)

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For 223X19

CPU Voltage: 1.375V (maybe lesser)
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.88V
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage: 1.5V
IOH Voltage: 1.28V
IOH PCIE Voltage: 1.5V
ICH Voltage: 1.1V
ICH PCIE Voltage: 1.5V
DRAM Bus Voltage: 1.64V


Load Line Calibration:
CPU Differential Amplitude: 0.800mV
CPU Clock Skew: AUTO
CPU Spread Spectrum: DISABLE
IOH Clock Skew : AUTO
PCIE Spread Spectrum: DISABLE


Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting: 19
C1E Suppport: DISABLE
Hardware Prefetcher: ENABLE
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch ENABLE
Intel® Virtualization Tech: DISABLE
CPU TM Function: DISABLE
Execute Disable Bit: ENABLE
Intel (R) HT Techology: ENABLE
Active Processor Cores: ALL
A20M:
Intel (R) SpeedStep (TM) Tech: DISABLE
Intel (R) Turbo Mode Tech: DISABLE
Intel (R) C-STATE Tech: DISABLE

My first 920 can't POST after 213bclk whatever the settings are, but after switch to this batch, it can POST at 228bclk(sometimes 227bclk), so there is bclk wall just like C2D. But my friend told me, these two 920 can POST more than 230bclk on his DFI DK, so also something related to MB when closing to their limit.

[breathemetal]

So i take it this is one of the better boards?

[okorop]

Finally, I got these 2 i7 920 with my P6T Deluxe, a quick test....


http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=524424

still waiting for my 2133F to test the QPI voltage with tighter/higher RAM frequency.......

Batch: Q3842A566

congratulation for the result....great oc

[TinTin]

That great results TinTin!

Can you share with us your bios settings? ( I cant pass 212 blck on SPi32M)

Raise the pci-e to 110~112MHz, add a little voltage to stablize the pci-e and IOH to 1.2V may help~

I got a little higher bclk 224.31X19

[vilacr]

Finally got my P6T vanilla to 4 ghz. Couldn't get there with 20*200 needed to use 19*212. CPU volatge is 1.40000
CPU PLL-2.00
QPI/DRAM-1.38
DRAM Volt-1.58
CPU map-800mv

[hausner]

TinTin;3710508]Raise the pci-e to 110~112MHz, add a little voltage to stablize the pci-e and IOH to 1.2V may help~

I got a little higher bclk 224.31X19

Thanks for advice TinTin i will try this and i will let you know if helps.Maybe its my bad cpu(BCLK), dunno

My first 920 can't POST after 213bclk whatever the settings are, but after switch to this batch, it can POST at 228bclk(sometimes 227bclk), so there is bclk wall just like C2D. But my friend told me, these two 920 can POST more than 230bclk on his DFI DK, so also something related to MB when closing to their limit.

AFAIK Asus p6t-dlx was the first to support new chipset and i7 cpus. So new rev or other brands (DFI,EVGA) can be better for max BCLK.

[p0isonapple]

Ok, I'm 100% stable @ 4Ghz with HT On, at 1.42v (CPU).

Am I going to degrade the life of my CPU like this? Should I go for 3.8Ghz and drop my voltage?

[TinTin]

Ok, I'm 100% stable @ 4Ghz with HT On, at 1.42v (CPU).

Am I going to degrade the life of my CPU like this? Should I go for 3.8Ghz and drop my voltage?

degrade or not, still don't know, but I shall look at the temp.

AT 4GHz @1.28V at priming, will close to 70C, with a water cooling system in my signature, ambient temperature: 19C.

4GHz i7 is a heater!!

[jcniest5]

[QUOTE=TinTin;3709052]

That great results TinTin!

Can you share with us your bios settings? ( I cant pass 212 blck on SPi32M)

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For 223X19

CPU Voltage: 1.375V (maybe lesser)
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.88V
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage: 1.5V
IOH Voltage: 1.28V
IOH PCIE Voltage: 1.5V
ICH Voltage: 1.1V
ICH PCIE Voltage: 1.5V
DRAM Bus Voltage: 1.64V


Load Line Calibration:
CPU Differential Amplitude: 0.800mV
CPU Clock Skew: AUTO
CPU Spread Spectrum: DISABLE
IOH Clock Skew : AUTO
PCIE Spread Spectrum: DISABLE


Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting: 19
C1E Suppport: DISABLE
Hardware Prefetcher: ENABLE
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch ENABLE
Intel® Virtualization Tech: DISABLE
CPU TM Function: DISABLE
Execute Disable Bit: ENABLE
Intel (R) HT Techology: ENABLE
Active Processor Cores: ALL
A20M:
Intel (R) SpeedStep (TM) Tech: DISABLE
Intel (R) Turbo Mode Tech: DISABLE
Intel (R) C-STATE Tech: DISABLE

My first 920 can't POST after 213bclk whatever the settings are, but after switch to this batch, it can POST at 228bclk(sometimes 227bclk), so there is bclk wall just like C2D. But my friend told me, these two 920 can POST more than 230bclk on his DFI DK, so also something related to MB when closing to their limit.

You probably listed your CPU batch in your previous post, but I'm lazy to read everything, can you tell us what is your CPU batch?

[jcniest5]

Raise the pci-e to 110~112MHz, add a little voltage to stablize the pci-e and IOH to 1.2V may help~

I got a little higher bclk 224.31X19

Probably a newbie question, but what does PCI-E speed has anything to do with CPU stabilization? I'm confused...

[TinTin]

[QUOTE=jcniest5;3712507]

You probably listed your CPU batch in your previous post, but I'm lazy to read everything, can you tell us what is your CPU batch?

Poor Batch: Q3839A569, 213blk
Present: Q3842A566 as in my signature

[TinTin]

Probably a newbie question, but what does PCI-E speed has anything to do with CPU stabilization? I'm confused...

By experience, raising pci-e frequency always help FSB/bclk

[Pisklink]

By experience, raising pci-e frequency always help FSB/bclk

Mmmmm, never heard of that as well. Maybe I should give it a try.

[mak1skav]

When you raise your PCI-E frequency you also make the HDD to try transfer data faster between Ram and Hdd and it is possible to create some data corruption.

[Pisklink]

Never knew that before either.

[okorop]

When you raise your PCI-E frequency you also make the HDD to try transfer data faster between Ram and Hdd and it is possible to create some data corruption.

I agree so it is really dangerous....it is better then to use an ide hd so you can't brake your sata hard drives

[okorop]

My 3.8 Setting for gaming 24/7 use.

For 200X19

CPU Voltage: 1.25V
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.9V
DRAM Freq: 1603 Mhz
UCLK Freeq" 3209 Mhz
QPI Link Rate 7218 Mhz
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage: 1.35V
IOH Voltage: 1.20V
IOH PCIE Voltage: Auto
ICH Voltage: 1.20V
ICH PCIE Voltage: Auto
DRAM Bus Voltage: 1.66V


Load Line Calibration:Enabled
CPU Differential Amplitude: 0.800mV
CPU Clock Skew: Delay 100ps
CPU Spread Spectrum: DISABLE
IOH Clock Skew : Delay 100ps
PCIE Spread Spectrum: DISABLE


Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting: 19
C1E Suppport: DISABLE
Hardware Prefetcher: ENABLE
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch ENABLE
Intel® Virtualization Tech: DISABLE
CPU TM Function: DISABLE
Execute Disable Bit: ENABLE
Intel (R) HT Techology: ENABLE
Active Processor Cores: ALL
A20M:
Intel (R) SpeedStep (TM) Tech: DISABLE
Intel (R) Turbo Mode Tech: DISABLE
Intel (R) C-STATE Tech: DISABLE


Love this board! Idle 32c Full Load 53c

nice start

[colt1911]

On the P6T Deluxe does it matter which Pci-e x16 slot that you should use for your GPU ? The reason I ask is that I have a PCI Asus Xonar sound card and if the gpu is in the first slot my sound card will cover the gpu's fan. I'd appreciate any info on this someone might have to share. Thanks

[louiscar]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask for some ideas but since there's a P6T thread I thought this might be the best place to start.

I finally took delivery of my i7 system. Currently on a budget so it's lean at the moment but I was surprised by my first impressions which is that it doesn't seem to run particularly fast. In fact my current Athlon 2800 XP is perkier in many respects.

This is what I've got as a basic setup:

P6T Deluxe rev 1.xx
i7-920
Asus ATI 4850 512MB
Corsair 2GB DDR3 1333
Hitachi 1TB SATA
Pioneer IDE DVD 216
Win XP Pro

Out of the box without loading anything the company that put it together loaded XP Pro, drivers and AVG.

The only thing I've done is test the HDD which appears to be reasonable when tested with HDtach - 100 Sequential and 270 burst. The reason I did this was that there are two areas which bothered me.

1) Clicking back and forward through folders there's about a half second delay often. Instantaneous on my old rig.

2) Emptying the recycle bin takes a LOT longer than my old rig. Too long for what's in there.

apart from this scrolling doesn't seem that smooth again compared to my rig nor does any of the visual updates appear any quicker.

I really expected a big improvement on my old system without overclocking. It should be noticeable but it isn't, it's pretty clunky and unimpressive.

BIOS currently is set up with default settings. I've installed the Asus utils and confirm clock is not running in powersaving mode, although what I'm describing wouldn't happen on a 1GHz system let alone 2.66GHz. No change before or after this step.

I've also re-loaded the drivers in case something got missed out - to no avail.

This is the first time I've felt that a new Winxp install wasn't perky and responsive.

Currently I'm not keen to start transferring my stuff over to this computer until I can be satisfied it's running ok. God knows what it'd be like once the registry grows.

None of the components including having only 2GB ram really explain what's happneing here.

My question would be, is there a feasible reason why this is happening with a bios in it's default setting?

Has anyone experienced a problem when building a similar system? Perhaps there's something about this Motherboard that needs tweaking before it starts to perform?

Is there a particular recommendation for checking this out with a utility that might point to the root of the problem (preferably a free one)?

[buddatech]

Try updating bios if you haven't. Also your not running ram in tri-channel, so probably ddr3 dual channel ram?

[ekky]

My quicktest result on air with:
Asus P6T deluxe
Procie i7 920 Batch Q842A372
HSF Thermolab BARAM with 12" Delta 3A
Kingston KHX16000C9 3 x 1GB
HDD SAS 10K 146GB x 2 (RAID0)
8800GTS 512MB
PSU Silvertsone Olympia 1000W

Stable 3D @4,2GHZ BCLK 200 x 21/Mem 2000 CL 8-8-8-24/Uncore 4000 but needs high Vcore (1.53V)



Quick HDD bench test with HDtach

[Pisklink]

I noticed many people disabling the CPU TM Function. Is there a particular reason for disabling that setting? I have it still enabled with my current OC (see sig) and I can't really tell that enabling CPU TM Function is holding me back to OC my CPU even further.

[Schlotkins]

Hi All-

I haven't had a lot of time to play with my system but I have a _6T Deluxe with an i7 920. I need to reapply my thermal paste (I used some old stuff that's lying around and it seems not to be working well) but I have another problem that seems to be discussed. This machine doesn't get used more than 3 hours a day, but it has some shared files on it so I keep it sleeping with wake up on LAN. When it sleeps, most of the time I can't get it to turn back on properly. The spacebar/mouse doesn't wake it up so I have to hit the power button. The drives spin up and it appears the machine is on but the screen never turns on and I end up hard powering down.

Now, the weird part is most of you say this S3 bug only happens with a BCLK above 170. I'm running everything at stock here so I don't know why I'd be having the problem. Any tips? I'm probably a BIOS or two old so maybe this was fixed in a new BIOS version and I just don't know it.

THanks,
Chris

[DdotRoq]

I believe it was fixed in the new BIOS, which was released last week.

Coincidentally, mine would not boot into ExpressGate, only Windows or BIOS if I overclock. New BIOS and voila! Works flawlessly.

[Schlotkins]

Whelp, unfortunately, the BIOS update didn't do it. I still couldn't come out of sleep. I then unplugged all of my USB devices except my mouse and keyboard. That lets me get out of sleep once, but the second time I'm SOL. I tried to Hibernate instead, but the darn things hibernates and then restarts immediately.

So, I know the Gigabytes have this issue too as do the other Asus boards. Any X58 board that's working properly with sleep mode?