Gigabyte GA X38 DQ6 Blog

[capitolray]

Clunk,

Yup, got the voltages @ 2.2 and another set (of memory) on the way from Newegg, that way I'll feel a little better on my next round.

Thanks, I'll keep you all informed about my findings.

Ray

[supershanks]

I can't thank you enough for your help already. You have saved me and a lot of other ppl. a lot of setup time and on to gaming or benching or whatever we are building for.

Cheers m8, no worries. be interested to see how it goes.

This might be worth a look at The Rules of Working with tRD: What's Allowed and What Isn't Although the TRD values shown on p2 look very tight for the Dq6


luck

[ckirkby3]

f8c bios is out and is receiving great reviews.

[capitolray]

Originally Posted by ckirkby3

f8c bios is out and is receiving great reviews.

Read on the last page (poster papatsonis) says about the vMCH on "normal" and the f8c bios. Doesn't look too great to me.

Official GIGABYTE X38-DQ6/X38T-DQ6 Info/BIOS Thread - Page 67 - XtremeSystems Forums

Ray

[supershanks]

Originally Posted by papatsonis)

All the tests i'd done were at Perfomance Turbo mode, so ill do a try at Standard mode.Assuming the memory isnt the limiting factor here (ive the opportunity to try a pair of team xtreem 1066 for testing) for 9x400 4:5 , TRD 5 or 6 , what will be the required vMCH (estimation) ?

The key here is

9x400 4:5 , TRD 5 or 6

that is way out of line I followed Alcibiades post from 10-27-2007 & soon found

Static tRead Value [7] Performance Level - for 1100Mhz and up

was correct. To see people 2 months later trying to run 4 x1Gb using or 9x400 4:5 , TRD 5 or 6 frankly beggars belief

[Zenoth]

Oh no...

I'm having sudden BSOD's all of a sudden.

It was stable since the past three days, and now, nada. I'm back on stock frequencies.

Could it be the memory? I've read many horror stories about the Crucial Ballistix.

[supershanks]

It might be memory ??
Have you changed any drivers ??
Antivirus etc., is all up to date ??

[lokeey]

I can't seem to find a stable clock at 3.2GHz. I've changed the strap from 3.20B = 1065MHz (or auto) to 888MHz, I've changed timings from 5-5-5-12, 10 and 11 to 4-4-4-12, 10 and 11 as well. I've upped the vcore from 1.3375 to 1.3500. And I also kicked up my fsb overvolt control from +0.25 to +0.30. I upped north bridge as well. still no dice.

got any suggestions?

[Zenoth]

I would appreciate your helps guys, I'm trying to reach a stable 3.6Ghz over-clock.

That's for my E8400, and the memory is Crucial Ballistix 8500.

BIOS F7
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MB Intelligent Tweaker (MIT)
Robust Graphics Booster: Normal
CPU Clock Ratio: 9x
CPU Host Clock Control: Enable
CPU Host Frequency(Mhz) :400
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) : 100
C.I.A.2: Disabled
Performance Enhance : Standard
System Memory Multiplier: (???)
Memory Frequency: (???)
DRAM Timing Selectable : 5
Standard Timing ControlCAS Latency Time: : 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# : 5
DRAM RAS# Precharge : 5
Precharge Delay(tRAS) : 15
Advanced Timing Control
ACT to ACT Delay(tRRD) : 4
Rank Write to READ Delay : 4
Write To Precharge Delay : 4
Refresh to ACT Delay : 52
Read To Precharge Delay :  8
tRD : 8
tRD Phase Adjustment : Auto
Command to #CS Timing: : Auto
Clock Driving and Skew Control
CPU/PCIEX Clock Driving Control : 1000
CPU Clock Skew Control : Normal 
(G)MCH Clock Skew Control : Normal
System Voltage Control 
DDR2 OverVoltage Control : (???)
PCI-E OverVoltage Control : Normal
FSB OverVoltage Control : (???)
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control : (???)
MCH Reference Voltage Control : Normal
DDR Reference Voltage Control : Normal
DDR Termination Voltage Control : Normal
CPU GTLREF1 Voltage* : Normal
CPU GTLREF2 Voltage* : Normal
CPU Voltage Control : (???)
Normal CPU Vcore : 1..22000V

I would appreciate settings suggestions please (perhaps a base reference, from where to start).

Thanks.

[supershanks]

lokeey,

if you run Prime95 25.6

what is it tending to fail on large or small ffts, as we said earlier if it's failing on Large FFts it's probably a memory issue.

What is your trd at ?? Auto or 7 or 8 .??