Gigabyte X48T DQ6 Living Review

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

well, i thought i was on the up-swing with my cold but it appears it took a deviation in course and it is going laterally, and maybe down!

Sounds more like the Flew

[Ace-a-Rue]

might be, but no fever as i can detect...if it was there, it had to be very minor....worse part, i had the flu shot.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i though this was doing very good at 4335 Mhz and 2 hours of Prime 95 doing small FFT's...this E8500 is an attractive chip for the price...i get about the same video performance as i do with my QX9650, ie, all three 3DMark bench completions and also run Prime 95....couldn't really run Prime 95 at 4335 mhz with the QX9650

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That's great Ace, funny enough i went to bed last night running :-


Mine's not stable though yet , what volts are you on ??

i get about the same video performance as i do with my QX9650, ie, all three 3DMark bench completions and also run Prime 95....couldn't really run Prime 95 at 4335 mhz with the QX9650

did that include3dmark06 I found that gives much more weighting for quad cores ??. If that is the case then yorkfield doesn't look that attractive at all

luck

[Ace-a-Rue]

i used a bios set vcore of 1.456v, which is about 1.42 to 1.425 actual vcore on my board at 4335 mhz...under 100% load it drops down by 0.025...in real terms, about 1.39v for vcore to hold Prime 95 at 4335 mhz.

i dropped back to F4H bios since F5A was giving me memory timing fits at 530 and above for FSB...530 puts it about 1696 Mhz on the memory speed (rated for 1600 mhz)...saw over in my thread at XS that BenchZowner says that F4D is the best bios for him.

as far as 3d2006 score...i am off by about 800 points (lower) that the QX9650 score...not a whole lot for only being 1/4th the price of a QX9650....AND, the VC is not overclocked and the driver is only set to max performance...also, i did not increase the PCIe bus speed or touch the video performance mode in the bios.

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yep been trying on a bit lower vcore than that.
Still on F5A myself
certainly seems wolfdale is better bang /$ for sure

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E8500 4,335 8.5x510@3.33D 1,700 7,7,7,12

OCCT Stable
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GIGABYTE GA X48T DQ6 Clock Settings
MB Intelligent Tweaker (MIT)
Robust Graphics Booster...........: Turbo
CPU Clock Ratio...................: 8.50
CPU Frequency.....................: 4,330Mhz
CPU Host Clock Control............: Enabled
CPU Host Frequency(Mhz)...........: 510
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).......: 104
C.I.A.2...........................: Disabled
Performance Enhance...............: Turbo
System Memory Multiplier (SPD)....: 3.33D
Memory Frequency(Mhz).............: 1,700Mhz
DRAM Timing Selectable ...........: Manual
Standard Timing Control
CAS Latency Time (tCL)............: 7
DRAM RAS# to CAS#  (tRCD).........: 7
DRAM RAS# Precharge (tRP).........: 7
Precharge Delay (tRAS)............: 12
Advanced Timing Control
ACT to ACT Delay(tRRD)............: 4
Rank Write to READ Delay (tWTR)...: 4
Write To Precharge Delay (tWR)....: 10
Refresh to ACT Delay (tRFC).......: 55
Read To Precharge Delay (tRTP)....: 4
Static tREAD Value (tRD)..........: 8
Static tREAD Phase Adj............: Auto
Command Rate (CMD)................: 1N
Clock Driving and Skew Control
CPU/PCIEX Clock Driving Control...: 800mv
CPU Clock Skew Control............: Normal
(G)MCH Clock Skew Control.........: Normal
System Voltage Control ()=Base Voltage):  Manual
DDR3 OverVoltage Control...(1.50v): +0.35v
PCI-E OverVoltage Control.,(1.50v): +0.10v
FSB OverVoltage Control....(1.10v): +0.15v
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control,(1.45v): +0.475v
CPU GTLREF1 Voltage*.......(67%)..: -6%
CPU GTLREF2 Voltage*.......(61%)..: -6%
Loadline Calibration..............: Auto
CPU Voltage Control...............: 1.450v
Normal CPU Vcore..................: 1.1125v
Note: * Hidden Features Press [CTRL] + [F1] from main Menu to Access
Advanced Bios Features
Limit CPUID Max to 3..............: Disabled
No-Execute Memory Protect.........: Disabled
CPU Enhanced Halt(CIE)............: Disabled
CPU Thermal Monitor 2.............: Enabled
CPU EIST Function.................: Disabled
Virtuaalization Technology........:  Disabled

[Ace-a-Rue]

trying F4D bios and it is maybe a little bit better in (video) performance at a slightly lower Mhz...right now, i see, for my hardware, 520 Mhz as my max stable FSB...respectable; YES, but i was hoping for 540....i was trying to get there using the 8 multi...now, i've flipped the page and gone to 8.5 multi and i will probably settle on 510 FSB x 8.5= 4335 Mhz unless 520 x 8.5 is a working number.

[Ace-a-Rue]

here is the latest result for 4420 mhz...priming at the moment.

Official Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 Info Thread - Page 9 - XtremeSystems Forums

[Ace-a-Rue]

back to F5A...no real difference between any of them from what i can detect...maybe a point or two in the video benches but seems to be a dead wash!