Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Thread

[TiTON]

Hey Chew.

yeah.. I didn't have time to go in depth into the ram timinmg.. just did the typical changes. I will play with the adv ram timing tonight to see if I can get 4+ Ghz on the NB.

Just to confirm.. keeping all other things constants.. you just tweaked the adv ram timing, and were able to gain more Mhz on the NB?

Yeah.. I saw yoru benching last week. You guys have some sick chips. I have played with about (4) 955 chips.. and have not had any that were 6Ghz 3D06 Stable I think I had 3DM05 @ 5.8 stable.

Working on maximizing the other components right now, like mem & video cards. I figure the a Good 955 will show up sooner or later :P

- Ton

[chew*]

Hey Chew.

yeah.. I didn't have time to go in depth into the ram timinmg.. just did the typical changes. I will play with the adv ram timing tonight to see if I can get 4+ Ghz on the NB.

Just to confirm.. keeping all other things constants.. you just tweaked the adv ram timing, and were able to gain more Mhz on the NB?

Yeah.. I saw yoru benching last week. You guys have some sick chips. I have played with about (4) 955 chips.. and have not had any that were 6Ghz 3D06 Stable I think I had 3DM05 @ 5.8 stable.

Working on maximizing the other components right now, like mem & video cards. I figure the a Good 955 will show up sooner or later :P

- Ton

Yah you need to tune ram perfect titon

You probably already have a 6 gig 3d chip......but your not going to get it to 6 gig till you make that IMC happy

My 6.1 3d retail chip unfortunately has a weak NB......my other chips have strong NB and weak cores......Its a tradeoff, most likely not going to get both.

[TiTON]

Yah you need to tune ram perfect titon

You probably already have a 6 gig 3d chip......but your not going to get it to 6 gig till you make that IMC happy

My 6.1 3d retail chip unfortunately has a weak NB......my other chips have strong NB and weak cores......Its a tradeoff, most likely not going to get both.

Chew..

Very intresting on what you wrote there.. let me see if I got this right. To get 6Ghz 3D chip, i need to make IMC Happy.

IMC = NB, So "Happy" IMC = "High" NB.. is that right?

Or a Happy IMC not neccesarily "High" NB?

You also mentioned to get High NB on the GB, I need to tweak Adv Ram Timing.

So does that mean 6Ghz 3D = Happy IMC = Good Adv Ram Timing?

Is that right?

Looks like I am going to be using a lot of LN2 tonight :P

- Ton

[chew*]

No need to waste LN2 tune, tune your ram on phase......

Once the ram is 100% stable lets say 32m stable it will pass all benches.......

A side effect is the cpu will clock higher and the NB will as well requiring less volts to get there.......

Flanker.......I'm guessing people were going by my use of the ddr II board in my review.......but what they don't realize is that was what was on the bench at the time.......

I did not have time to actually use the ddr 3 board again for 955 air results which sort of bothered me......alot of time was spent on those results and If I had had the time I would rather have done them on the ddr III board with the retail bios versus the ddr II and a beta.....

I only used a beta for the air results on ddr II because no bios retail worked properly with the 955's.........I will refrain from using beta's in future reviews but at the time I was pressed for time so I had no choice....

If the ddr II was better you should ask yourself this however......Why am I using the ddr III to crack Wr's

I will say this however......the ddr II has a few better implementations than the ddr III board.......SB is not linked to Htt on the ddr II board.......and the voltage increments for ram are fine adjustments......From what I have been told they can not change this on the ddr III board........hopefully they will implement these changes on future ddr III boards......

[TiTON]

No need to waste LN2 tune, tune your ram on phase......

Once the ram is 100% stable lets say 32m stable it will pass all benches.......

A side effect is the cpu will clock higher and the NB will as well requiring less volts to get there.......

Hmm..

Ok.. i haven't been using SuperPi. I have mainly been using wPrime to test stability of Cpu and RAM.

Right now I can pass wprime 1024 w/ Ram at 6-5-5-15 @ 850mhz, running like 5.3Ghz, NB @ 3.6. I even passed 3DMark06 at the same settings.

I figure my ram is "Happy". But I have not yieled any higher NB or CPU Mhz.

I will see if I can do the adv timing to get faster NB speed. Once I figure that out, maybe the CPU Speed will come along next.

Ton

[chew*]

Hmm..

Ok.. i haven't been using SuperPi. I have mainly been using wPrime to test stability of Cpu and RAM.

Right now I can pass wprime 1024 w/ Ram at 6-5-5-15 @ 850mhz, running like 5.3Ghz, NB @ 3.6. I even passed 3DMark06 at the same settings.

I figure my ram is "Happy". But I have not yieled any higher NB or CPU Mhz.

I will see if I can do the adv timing to get faster NB speed. Once I figure that out, maybe the CPU Speed will come along next.

Ton

I bet you haven't even touched the drive strength's

Use 32mPI for ram, don't bother with Wprime.......get ram stable then get max cpu then bring up NB for ln2 benching.......

For air do memory, then NB then cpu