Abit IX38 Quad GT - Living Review II

[Clunk]

Good going there

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CPU-Z Validation

Prime




Temps

CPU

PWM : Max 72C Idle 41C (Active 60mm Fan Cooling)

Benches
Memory Timings have been set to 24/7 rather than performance 4,5,5,12 which would require a higher voltage, which i don't want to use 24/7. As tested already 2) VDIMM
load adds 0.04v to vdimm.



Bios Settings
Was quite suprised that i manged to get away with such low voltages. Have generally found that 8x450 needs more vcore & MCH than 9x400 but not in this case. Guess my 9x400 settings could be revisited with lower vcore, mch & vtt.

ABIT IX38 QuadGT

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... - 450    MHz 
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 8 
ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... -  3600   MHz 
DRAM SPEED (CPU/DRAM)........... - 1:1.20 DDR2- 1080
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 104 MHz 
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.400 V 
CPU Core Voltage Offset............ - 0.000 V
Target CPU Core Voltage............ - 1.400 V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.175V 
CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.30 V 
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.43 V 
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.12 V 
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.50 V 
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. Default
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 68%
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67%
 
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES:
 
DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE............. - MANUAL 
CAS LATENCY TIME (TCL)............... - 5 
RAS# TO CAS# DELAY (TRCD)......... -  5
RAS# PRECHARGE (TRP)................. -  5
PRECHARGE DELAY (TRAS).............. -  10
REFRESH CYCLE TIME (TRFC).......... -  30
WRITE RECOVERY TIME (TWR)........ -  4
WRITE TO READ DELAY (TWTR)....... - 4
ACT TO ACT TIME (TRRD).............. -  4
READ TO PRECHARGE (TRTP)........... -  12
COMMAND RATE....................... - 2T 
PCIE Root Port Function............ - V1.0A 
PEG FORCE X1....................... - DISABLED 
INIT DISPLAY FIRST................. - PCIEX 
 
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES / CPU FEATURES:
THERMAL CONTROL.................. - ENABLEDl
 C1E FUNCTION....................... - DISABLED 
 EXECUTE DISABLE BIT................ - DISABLED 
 VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY.......... - DISABLED
 EIST FUNCTION...................... - DISABLED

Vdroop
Unverified by MM
Per Guru
Load 1.36v
Idle 1.40v
Droop 0.040v

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Revisited FSB tried 495, unllike earlier attempts i put memory on SPD.

495x8 CPU-Z
Didn't run Pi thinking i'd put memory timings back to 4,4,4,12.

Repeated test with manual timings & no boot again. Think this might be further support for olliewbnn's doubts about the memory controller.

ABIT IX38 QuadGT

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... -  495  MHz 
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 8 
ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... - 3960  MHz 
DRAM SPEED (CPU/DRAM)........... - 1:1 DDR2- 990
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 104MHz 
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.500V 
CPU Core Voltage Offset............ .- 0.060V
Target CPU Core Voltage............ - 1.560V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... ..- 2.175V 
CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.55V 
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE..................- 1.55V 
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.12 V 
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.50V 
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. Default
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 68%
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67%
 
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES:
 
DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE............. - SPD
PCIE Root Port Function............ - V1.0A 
PEG FORCE X1....................... - DISABLED 
INIT DISPLAY FIRST................. - PCIEX 
 
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES / CPU FEATURES:
THERMAL CONTROL.................. - ENABLEDl
 C1E FUNCTION....................... - DISABLED 
 EXECUTE DISABLE BIT................ - DISABLED 
 VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY.......... - DISABLED
 EIST FUNCTION...................... - DISABLED

So if anyone has any ideas to get the last 5 give me a shout

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CPU-Z Validation 9x460
Was quiet plesed with the 32M time

ABIT IX38 QuadGT

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... -   460  MHz 
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 9 
ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... -  4146   MHz 
DRAM SPEED (CPU/DRAM)........... - 1:1 DDR2- 920
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 104 MHz 
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.5875 V Maybe a bit heavy:crazy:
CPU Core Voltage Offset............ - 0 V
Target CPU Core Voltage............ - 1.5875 V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.175 V 
CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.30 V 
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.43 V 
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.12 V 
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.50 V 
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. Default
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 68 %
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67 %
 
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES:
 
DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE............. - MANUAL 
CAS LATENCY TIME (TCL)............... - 4 
RAS TO CAS DELAY (TRCD)............. -   4
RAS PRECHARGE (TRP)......... .......... -  4
PRECHARGE DELAY (TRAS).............. -  12
REFRESH CYCLE TIME (TRFC)........... -  30 
WRITE RECOVERY TIME (TWR)......... -  3 
WRITE TO READ DELAY (TWTR)........ -  3
ACT TO ACT TIME (TRRD)............... -  3
READ TO PRECHARGE (TRTP)............ -  12
COMMAND RATE....................... - 2T 
PCIE Root Port Function............ - V1.0A 
PEG FORCE X1....................... - DISABLED 
INIT DISPLAY FIRST................. - PCIEX

Also 4230 - 470x9

[Clunk]

Quick, give him another medal

If you can get that stable, that would be a tremendous

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Quick, give him another medal

Lasted about 2 minutes into the burn on occt
Decent score though seeing as i didn't particularly push the ram.

Edit:
CPU-Z Validation - 4230 Redel??
Ran 1<M pi but 32M only did about 19 loos before the Not Exact.

[glowball]

Clunk Forums + Abit IX38 + Q6600 GO = Excellent Combination.

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PWM Temps
After pondering the significance of the PWM temps in posts
Posts# 76~80 Thought id do a bit more.
I ran the last couple of hours this am with the PWM fan turned off. Guru Shows Max Pwm of 93C. Case is closed. Below the Guru Box is the Tbalancer software showing the temps from the digital sensors attached to a memory module & a 2nd on the side of the Pwm heatsink. I don't appear to be experiencing any extra heat than when running the Asus p5k or Gigabyte X38 DQ6. It clearly makes sense to actively cool the PWM which brings the Guru tems down to around 72C.





CPU Temps


Bios

ABIT IX38 QuadGT

OC GURU:
 
CPU OPERATING SPEED................ - USER DEFINE
EXTERNAL CLOCK..................... -  465   MHz 
MULTIPLIER FACTOR.................. - x 8 
ESTIMATED NEW CPU CLOCK.......... -  3760   MHz 
DRAM SPEED (CPU/DRAM)........... - 1:1.20 DDR2- 1116
PCI EXPRESS CLOCK.................. - 105MHz 
 
VOLTAGE CONTROL:
 
CPU CORE VOLTAGE................... - 1.450V 
CPU Core Voltage Offset............ - 0V
Target CPU Core Voltage............ - 1.450V
DDR2 VOLTAGE....................... - 2.175V 
CPU VTT VOLTAGE.................... - 1.45V 
MCH 1.25V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.50V 
ICH 1.05V VOLTAGE.................. - 1.12V 
ICHIO 1.5V VOLTAGE................. - 1.50V 
DDR2 REFERENCE VOLTAGE............. Default
CPU GTLREF 0+2..................... - 68%
CPU GTLREF 1+4..................... - 67%
 
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES:
 
DRAM TIMING SELECTABLE............. - MANUAL 
CAS LATENCY TIME (TCL)............... - 5 
RAS TO CAS DELAY (TRCD)............. -  5
RAS PRECHARGE (TRP)......... .......... -  5
PRECHARGE DELAY (TRAS).............. -  12
REFRESH CYCLE TIME (TRFC)........... -  30
WRITE RECOVERY TIME (TWR)......... -  4
WRITE TO READ DELAY (TWTR)........ - 4
ACT TO ACT TIME (TRRD)............... -  4
READ TO PRECHARGE (TRTP)............ -  12
COMMAND RATE....................... - 2T 
PCIE Root Port Function............ - V1.0A 
PEG FORCE X1....................... - DISABLED 
INIT DISPLAY FIRST................. - PCIEX 
 
ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES / CPU FEATURES:
THERMAL CONTROL.................. - ENABLEDl
 C1E FUNCTION....................... - DISABLED 
 EXECUTE DISABLE BIT................ - DISABLED 
 VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY.......... - DISABLED
 EIST FUNCTION...................... - DISABLED

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3DMark06 & PI

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Just saw this
** OFFICIAL ** Intel DX38BT BoneTrail Thread Wonder if I could rig the NB similarly on this